HON WISDOM ONIEKPAR IKULI
There is the common saying that “if your Church does not change or make any positive impacts in your life, change Church.
In the same vein, if your Leader does not change or make positive impacts on your life, change that leader(s).
Since I potted to Gov. Douye Diri, the Bishop of Prosperity, my life and story has changed tremendously. It has been of countless Testimonies.
I have Zero Worries and Anxieties about life especially about what the future holds because I have a Leader who puts himself exactly in my shoes and prioritizes my health, welfare and well being.
Testimonies from my followership of Gov. Douye Diri will take pages if I want to write. It will also take hours if I want to talk about them.
The same applies to Very Distinguished Senator Heineken Lokpobiri Ph.D, the Honourable Minister of State for Petroleum Resources (Oil).
The value and high premium these Leaders places on me is unimaginable. They make me to feel pure and undiluted Love. They make me to feel so important.
The above probes the question and concept about sectional biases in Bayelsa State and beyond.
As someone who has lived in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Abuja for over 13years, I have developed a new mindset about neighbourhood and brotherhood.
I am surrounded by Hausa-Fulani, Yoruba, Igbo and others who have lived with me as a family without any form of segregation or discrimination whatsoever. Some of them are closer to me even more than those with biological, blood ties.
So, they are automatically my brothers and sisters in all ramifications not only when they do good to me.
Gov. Douye Diri is an Ijaw Man from Kolokuma/Opokuma LGA of Bayelsa State.
Senator Heineken Lokpobiri Ph.D is an Ijaw Man from Ekeremor LGA of Bayelsa State.
While I am an Ijaw man from Ogbia LGA.
I can shout to the high heavens that both Leaders have created the greatest and highest positive impacts in my life.
As a matter of fact, God is using them to redefine my life. God is using them to add new meaning to my life.
The both Leaders alongside my foster father, Engr. Olice Kemenanabo and Mr. Joseph Waribagha have created the greatest positive impacts in my life.
Someone now tell me why I should not be detribalized in my day to day life and activities?
So for me, I follow and also support leaders not based on where they come from but my relationship and their positive impacts on society.
©Hon. Wisdom Oniekpar Ikuli