Chief Solomon Ogbonna Aguene, (Udochia)is an administrator per Excellence, a man of wisdom and where he works, his wisdom produces tangible result. His outstanding qualities have added value to the growth of Lagos State Ohanaeze. He was among the guests that featured at the inauguration of Executives Ohanaeze Ndi Igbo Political Forum, Women Wing. He spoke to The Unique Model magazine at the occasion.
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Chief, the inauguration of the Executives today recorded a huge success; can you explain what led to this huge success of the programme?
The Ohanaeze Ndi Igbo Political Forum, has been existing before now, I think the founder is Late Apunawu John Nzewe, the former Ohanaeze president; today we are just trying to put more innovation on the system to ensure that we carry everybody around. And I think we have not got it wrong anywhere, Governor Sanwo-Olu, has been giving us the dividends of democracy in Lagos State. And we just make sure that we will be worming up, so that any time he calls us, we will answer him and give him our updates of politics from Ndi Igbo Lagos State.
Our political forum in Ohanaeze Ndi Igbo is one of its kind because it is the only umbrella, the only platform that you can use to bring Ndi Igbo together, move them forward to the best candidate anytime, any day, in Lagos state and to preach to Ndi Igbo understanding through our dialect that we are strangers in Lagos state and we must respect the government of the day, not only in Lagos anywhere we reside. This is the major point this sub-committee was created in Ohanaeze and people are not really working according to that, as when it was formed. But I have come to bring it to the enviable height.
Executives of different Local Governments were inaugurated today, what is your advice to them?
Well, they have a leader, and a coordinator, who give them the directives of what to do and then we got a good result in any political time. We play politics everyday and that is why we cannot wait for four years before we start coordinating ourselves. We coordinate before the election, so that when we go to any candidate, it will be one that has the interest of Ndi Igbo and all the Lagosians at heart.
Are you satisfied with the performance of the woman leader, Dr. Vivian Obi (Sunshin)?
She has showed something that we expected from her, and that is why we try to continue to nurture her on how she can nurture her followers. I made example that if you don’t coordinate your followers, they will be like a losing team. So, she has to know that what she needs to succeed more is sacrifice and commitment, tolerance and good and bad so that she can achieve what we are pursuing, and get our promise land in Nigeria politics.
Another major key player in the Ohanaeze Ndi Igbo Political Forum is Chief Solomon Chukwu (Solochuks) how do you rate him equally?
He is a leader, and he is a man that has been into the system, yes, a coach is always a coach, and a striker is always a striker, once you mix it up by bringing a striker to a defender, you will get a lot of issues. So, he is a striker and he knows how to strike in the area of leadership especially in the area of politics of Lagos State.