06/02/2024
CHIBYKE JONES:
THE POLITICAL ARISTOTLE FROM EGWE, OGUTA LGA;
THE MAN WHOSE TIME HAS COME:
By Hon (Amb) Stanford Arinze Nwokedi
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Character is everything. Consistency is an attribute of the principled. Ideology is pivotal in Politics and every politician guided by ideology is a fervent loyalist of his beliefs. Yes, Ogbonna Chibuike Charles is a devout Hopite from the Garden of Eden. He is a convinced Buharist, a Batist and an APC ideological warhead. Don't even dare to exude any form of bandwagon sentiments around him. You do so to get the requisite dosage of scholarly exorcism from him, based on credible and infallible facts!
Ogbonna Chibuike Charles, A.K.A Chibyke Jones is a full-blown political philosopher. He exemplifies Aristotle in his vehemence and intellectual sagacity. In fact, I call him "the Cicero" who possesses enormous irrepressible political insights and who deserves to be heard, experienced and put to use for the good of our Polity. He is a very politically opinionated young man who bases all his unwavering political convictions on empiricism. That appears plausible because there is an axiom which holds true to the effect that Politics is a Science. This implies that it is guided by known laws and principles.
Chibyke Jones is perhaps a peculiar personality who qualifies to be graded amongst the most enlightened, the most politically conscious and the most vibrant political ideologists in Imo State, nay, around Igboland.
Chibyke Jones hails from a Roman Catholic home. He is the son of Mr Thomas and Ezinne Catherine Ogbonna, of Egwe Autonomous Community in OGUTA Local Government Area of Imo State. He is a political son of his mentor - the immutably humane but dependable icon of selflessness - Rt Hon Goodluck Nanah Opiah. For me, Chibyke Jones crossed seven seas to anchor on his congruent ideological mentor. Yes, he had to cross over the boundaries of his Local Government Area to get his rare choices of values: meekness, humility, truth, reliability and trustworthiness. These virtues are in excess display in Rt Hon Goodluck Nanah Opiah's life even as a topnotch Politician. No wonder, both "god-Father" and "god-Son" have since blended to become almost biological father and son! That's how they roll.
From infancy, Ogbonna Chibuike Charles (Chibyke Jones) began to exhibit rare intelligence and tactfulness. He attended Priscilla Memorial Secondary School Oguta and graduated from there as the best academic Student from JSS 1 - SS3. He showed sparks and signs of leadership quite early in life and was made the Deputy Senior Prefect of his Secondary School - Priscilla Memorial Secondary School, Oguta.
Jones proceeded to Federal University Of Technology, Owerri where he majored in Mechanical Engineering. He graduated from FUTO with a Second Class Upper Grade in Mechanical Engineering. As a young graduate, he had a stint as a banker but for professional exigencies, he quickly reverted back to his Engineering background.
Today, Chibyke Jones is a Principal Rotating Equipment Engineer/Expert with the Dangote Group, having been trained both in Nigeria and in India. He longs to serve his fatherland, Imo State, in whatever capacity he may be deemed appropriate.
Chibyke Jones has had a rich working experience and exposure. He had participated actively in the construction and operation of the famous Dangote Oil Refinery and Petrochemical Complex , Lekki Free Zone, Lagos.
As a versatile scholar, Ogbonna Chibuike Charles, A.K.A Chibyke Jones is a repository of Political and Administrative know-how. The depth of his knowledge reservoir is endless. He churns out politically applicable proposals with local content measures that fit into the political re-engineering efforts of not just our State but Nigeria as a whole.
The dearth of such cutting-edge progressive young intellectuals in our polity suggests that Chibyke Jones deserves truly to effectively contribute his rich political and intellectual firepower in today's more emboldened vision to make Imo State the cynosure of all eyes in Nigeria. The 3R Government truly needs the vibrancy of such a rare talent who had and has never shied away from efforts to stabilize the State during the failed orchestrations in the first term of the Government. He had been a dependable force during even the little beginnings of the Markarfi/Sheriff imbroglio. He could, at some point, be counted as being amongst the few open Hopites in all of Oguta LGA who dared the danger of opposing the likes of the then Deputy Governor-terror, Chief Gerald Ironna, his immediate kinsman.
Now that Imo State dreams to cruise into our collective dreamland, the tested and proven loyalty of Ogbonna Chibuike Charles, A.K.A Chibyke Jones is eligible for a deserved reward. This is timeous now, most especially, when Chibyke Jones has the necessary competence to contribute his know-how in working towards Imo Industrial Revolution, especially in Agricultural sector, which is one of the value chain advantages facing Imo State now with the dredging of the Urashi River.
It's Youths O'Clock in Imo State. Today is yesterday's much-talked-about Tomorrow. Let the youths now step in to make their bed the way they'd like to lay on it. Yesterday is gone!
© Hon (Amb) Stanford Arinze Nwokedi.
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