DR (MRS) ALICE IDIKU ACHI: THE PERSON, THE OFFICE AND HER PEOPLE
By- KINGSLEY OBASE
Topic Paraphrased by -Admin UPDATE CROSSRIVER
The times are dire in our dear state. The once loud voice is drifting into oblivion. The BIG question remains, “HOW DID WE GET HERE AND HOW CAN WE GET OURSELVES OUT OF WHERE WE ARE NOW”?
A few months ago, I was discussing with a top political figure in the state on why the youths are no longer given a place in governance and leadership. His response, to say the least, was most embarrassing and repudiating, but true. His words, “Nobody gives independence to anybody freely. You have to fight for it. Besides, the youths are not ready to take their chances”. Yet another supposed Elder statesman in the state retorted “the youths don’t have what it takes to run for elective positions, money”.
Then a lot of questions kept flooding my mind:
For how long will we the youths continue to mortgage our future to these “money bags” for peanuts that can’t guarantee us the next meal?
If the elders are so gifted in governance and leadership, how comes there is so much “poverty “in the land?
How comes our health systems are not healthy as should be?
Will the youths ever stop and think to make things right?
Have we ever paused for a while to ponder or reflect on why the “elders” wouldn’t want us to have a sense of independence and REAL empowerment?
>>>>>>Because they want us the youths to remain as willing tools in their hands to be used to do their biddings when they will.
Know we not that a bright youth with vibrant ideas is 10 times better than an “opportunistic money bag” with less promising leadership blueprint?
It is only in Cross River State that a sound idea is murdered even before it is laid on the table. Cross River State is where buying of cars for a selected electorates and dishing out peanuts is considered as empowerment, where logic is illogical, wisdom is foolishness and where common sense makes no sense (Femi Aribisila. Emphasis mine). Because in the face of brazen poverty and lack, the youth is filled with trepidation and as such surrenders to his/her whims and caprices. He/she thinks less of the future but more of the now.
Who believes the lies that a youth cannot govern Cross River State?
Why will we allow them to keep deceiving us that money is what it takes to run for an elective office or that youths don’t have the money to run for elections?
Who says with our energy, creativity and ingenuity we cannot outperform previous administrations?
****IT TAKES A RUDE AWAKENING AND A CONSCIOUS DETERMINATION TO PULL OUT FROM THIS GRIP.
How many top entrepreneurs do we have in Cross River State?
How many medium scale businesses are flourishing in our state?
Why do we “disorganizingly” keep exporting raw materials only to end up importing finished products of these materials?
Cross River State produces lots fruits but how many fruit industries do we have in our state?
Cross River State is renowned for agriculture but how many agro-allied industries do we have in the state?
OR
Is Cross River State a forbidden state for sitting small, medium and even large scale industries? Two answers come to mind: either they don’t have the ideas on how to transform out state or they don’t want us empowered for the future. Either way, an end has finally come.
We can expand, rebrand, diversify and in the process create jobs for our teeming youths, women and all.
Cross River State is not poor. The poverty in the state is only to the extent as humanly and/or leadership induced.
Alas! That trend is about to change because I see light at the end of the tunnel, I see GREAT HOPE because one of the standpoints of ALICE ACHI’s development blueprint is diversification of our economy through alternative power generation, industrialization, rebirth of our tourism and agricultural sectors and creating the enabling environment for businesses to grow and thrive. You too can and will be properly empowered.
We can do it together by enthroning a leadership that will make a difference in our lives. A leadership that is people centered and driven by a sense of purpose. A leadership that is bound to remove Cross River State from a civil service state to an industrialized state. A leadership that is geared towards distribution of wealth and not its concentration in a few hands.
Do not shy away from this clarion call because there is GREAT HOPE of a BRIGHT FUTURE for the Cross River State youths.
The time for us to act is now.
SUPPORT CHANGE
SUPPORT THE YOUTH MOVEMENT
SUPPORT ALICE ACHI FOR GOVERNOR 2015
LONG LIVE THE CROSS RIVER STATE YOUTH
LONG LIVE CROSS RIVER STATE
LONG LIVE THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA
…..IN GOD WE TRUST
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