Lack of Leadership Arrowhead, Problem in Isoko -HOSTCOM BOSS
...Accuses Okowa's Govt of Dividing PDP
By Elo Edremoda

Morrister Idibra

Chairman of Host Communities of Nigeria, Isoko Chapter, Comrade Morrister Idibra, has pegged the problem of Isoko on the lack of an "arrowhead", an ethnic leader.

He also accused the current state government of creating division in the People's Democratic Party in Isoko South council area.

Speaking in an interview with isoko recently at Warri, Idibra noted that neighbouring ethnic nationalities of Itsekiri and Ijaw have single leaders (the Olu of Warri and Chief Edwin Clark respectively), who irrespective of political or otherwise affiliations, speak for them.

"Leadership arrowhead is the problem we have in Isoko. Any body who is chanced to hold an office, sees himself as a leader and it is not helping Isoko as a nation. My advice to this at the higher cadre of our leadership is that they come together, let them subject themselves to one another so that we can have one arrowhead as Isoko leader. This is not about politics. Politically, we may not be able to have only one because of political differences. But we should have an ethnic leader. For the Ijaws, whether E. K. Clark belongs to PDP or not, every Ijaw person sees him as his leader. When an issue comes, he is consulted and when he speaks, people largely listen.

"We need to look at somebody, the person may not be a politician but one who has an independent opinion and also has national interaction, so that when he speaks, people will know somebody has spoken," Idibra advised.

On the division of Isoko South PDP, he said: "The way the government is going about the politics of Delta in PDP, it is helping to divide the party in Isoko South in particular. We are all PDP members, who worked in our own capacity to deliver PDP, but the governor is seeing some people as second class members. He is teaching us a political lesson that might be practised in the near future."