Edo 2024: Ighodalo is the people’s Omoluabi for this Generation
By Chris Ojeikere
Omoluabi is a Yoruba language reference to the concept of a ‘Proper Child’: well bred, a role model, and a delight of parents and community. Omoluabi is a generational Gift!
Even by the high ethical and moral standards our older generations tried to maintain in those days, it was still not common to find an Omoluabi.
Today, it is a very real rarity! The elements that combine to produce an Omoluabi have become so sadly depleted, that seeing one now is just short of seeing a living phenomenon.
This is why Asue Ighodalo is so special! He is Edo State’s own generational _Omoluabi_ The prognosis foretells so. The realities demonstrate so. We observe the consanguineous qualities of empathy, naturalness, warmth, candour, humour, hard work and charisma in one Asuerimen Ighodalo, that, quite frankly, you could not find in a thousand peers of his generation.
This character assets sets him apart in remarkable ways that have drawn admiration from many members of the opposite political divide, and engendered a gale of defections that is making APC reel at the moment.
But then Asuerimen Ighodalo did not stop at character superiority. He also leads his peers in desired and required cognition by a long distance. He is schooled in the best academic traditions of our generation; here and abroad. He has since successfully demonstrated superlative application of his schooling, training and exposure in the world of work, development, and in the different services he has continued to render to Nigeria and Nigerians. All of this with unimpeachable distinctions. And, more importantly, with INTEGRITY, it must be noted!
Asuerimen Ighodalo has lately become the Good News in Edo State political firmament . As inherently typical of his destiny, he is inspiring joy, hope and organic love in the hearts of his Edo people. His public manners is a study in public relations. His inner bonding with Edo citizens everywhere Ighodalo goes has become a graphic poetic tapestry and symmetrical beauty of leader – followers – relationship to behold. Once he sets into the midst of Edo people, organic joy spontaneously erupts with such magnetic pull, that it naturally ignites an inevitable connection between him and the “good people of Edo State;” his favourite term in reference to his loved people.
As said earlier,_Omoluabi_ is a generational Gift! It is God’s own way of telling a generation that He has heard their cry and has come to deliver them! Asuerimen Ighodalo will usher in an Era of Edo’s prosperity! The promptings in his heart to bring about a health – wealth – Prosperity – future in his heart has been discerned by the ‘spirit of man’ in Edo people. Everyone perceives around him an aura of a benevolent sense of Divine mission, even though some may not find verbal expressions to it, they still perceive it is there! Power in the hands of Asuerimen Ighodalo will be a positive energy and agent of generational transformation. His regime will be illuminated by fortuitous light and the results will be awe inspiring!
Therefore for us, Edo people, our minds are made up already. _Omoluabi Asuerimen Ighodalo_ is the Governor we have chosen to lead us in this generation. We are certain, we will end in PROSPERITY!
