By Okonta Emeka Okelum, writing from Asaba.
Issues and concerns around Anioma State Creation are historically not today's agenda, reflecting proactively around its historical emergence, concerns, and reasons that gave impetus to its agitations by our over 100% visionary polical leaders, are serious concepts of contemplation, one must never shy away from or be swept under the carpet, either out of fear, respect or favour.
Today, is a very good and wonderful opportunity for us to begin to ruminate deep down our bowels, drop all empty, mere rhetorical vocal agitations and begin to reason around some core political, administrative, technical processes, vital institutions and organs of a pure democratic statehood.
To a very great extent since this renewed agitations for Anioma State Creation commenced, across all shades, divides, perspectives, opinions and positions canvassed by both key top champion agitators and their foot soldiers, discuses, opinions, insights and intellectual debates around these core political, administrative, technical processes, vital institutions and organs of a democratically governed state had never being on the front burner of issues, discuses or intellectual opinions shared by these agitators, and a clever, most reasonable question is why this reality staring us in the face.
Of the truth, today and now is the only opportunity. We have to commence this special discussion and debate today, and now, as a public hearing on the bill seeking for Anioma State Creation is very close to its maturity, we are no longer a millennium away from its reality.
It is obvious that you, my audience, and the reader, the question in your heart now is what are these above opinioned core political, administrative, technical processes, vital institutions, and organs of a democratically governed state, never worry, I got your back well covered.
Ideally, in every well implemented, governed democratic state, there are the judiciary, legislative, and executive organs of state administration.
Some other vital democratic issues are site of state capital and distribution of local government areas according to historical and cultural uniformity of communities/clans that should constitute such local government area.
Another vital issue and concern to be looked into and carefully discussed are what towns should make up each senitorial district, as well as which town should also constitute the house of representatives and that of the state assembly.
We are all well vested traditionally minded Africans and Nigerians, no matter our diverse borrowed social-cultural inclination towards the Western world's perspectives, it's a common knowledge to all of us that when an inheritance is about to be shared, the share of the first is never and can't be the same of his younger brothers.
The historical origin and emergence of today's agitation for Anioma State Creation was the initial brain child of a visionary political leader, noble son of Asaba, whose fatherland is the state capital of today's Delta State, and by default will be the capital of the anticipated Anioma State.
Looking back since pre-colonia, colonia and independent Nigeria, as well as all ugly trends of ill-fated circumstances Asaba was both forced to endure and those against her will or fault that she swallowed, then, it will never be out of place, during these
core political, administrative, technical processes, vital institutions, and organs of a democratically governed state discusses and debates that her fair, right, modest, and merited place in all scheme of things are honestly alotted to her, but like in all political struggles, nothing is given, they are lobbied, reasoned with superior options, cleverly contested for, as nothing is ever left to chance nor gamling opportunities.
Part one of this essay ends here, part two of this open discus on issues, concerns, and perspectives around
Anioma State Creation will continue soonest. Please stay tuned with this social media platform for part two.
Okonta Emeka Okelum is an online journalist, social analyst, governance activist, sustainable development enthusiast, and grassroot community development champion.
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