2023 General Elections offer Nigerians and Ndi-Igbo in particular a critical juncture to elect leaders who believe, advocate and promote the dignity of human life, labour, strong institutions and national development. For it’s true that today’s Nigeria socio-economic and political landscape is bedeviled with lots of dialectics (epileptic leadership inclusive) that are catalysts for the country and its citizens’ retrogression and threats to her existentialism.
Despite these challenges and marching into the general elections next year, one platform offers us a chance for overhaul, hope, inclusion, respect/dignity of human life and labour and above all, the importance of family in the development of any society – Labour Party.
A glance at the Labour Party’s logo shows – father, mother and child which depicts family. The Igbo society is one which anchors her values and tenets on the uniqueness of family. Ndi-Igbo believes the family unit as the super-structure on which every other stands on, for to have a failed family unit aggregates to a crack to the larger society. This is reason for ‘family’ in Igbo society to be termed ‘Ezin’ulo’, which could loosely translate to ‘society and home’.
A further introspection shows the colours of the party; green and red. Green stands for life and Red for kinship and sacrifices made. With this, the Labour Party reminds Ndi-Igbo of the importance, sacredness and sanctity of human life, kinship (brotherhood) and to extol sacrifices made on the altar of nation building while acknowledging that for every labour, there’s a reward.
Going forward, Labour party offers Ndi-Igbo a chance to ditch vehicles that not only inflict pains on us but continue to deny us the chance to wail either in solitude or public. These vehicles have not stopped the killings nor hunger from north to south, west to east but through their actions and inactions encourage our annihilation.
Just as we believe in the adage; Onye ruo, O rie (reward for labour), Labour party carries same mandate. ‘Labour’ gives us a chance to strive for a society; where we’ll not be shamed for productivity, encourages healthy competition, level playing field, inclusion, justice, fairness, equity, sanctity of human life and the supremacy of national interest above self.
Bringing home the philosophy of Labour party to Bende Federal constituency, the candidature of Chief Iheanyi Chinasa follows suit to uphold familial values and tenets. To help build a better society, Iheanyi Chinasa continue to engage students and youths alike to horn relevant skills in today’s world for development of ala-Igbo. This action have not only build skilled youths of Igbo extraction but imbibes the kindred spirit, competition and honour to labour across board.
To many, a Peter Obi’s triumph through the vehicle of Labour party offers us a shot at the Presidency but that’s far from it. ‘Labour’ offers us a league of gentlemen and ladies who’re pan-Nigerian, ready to build a nation that lead in inclusion, equity, fairness and justice.
For as Acemoglu and Robinson rightly put in their masterpiece ‘Why nations fail: the origin of power, prosperity and poverty’, that developed nations are rightly so because they run an inclusive society with strong institutions. To this end, Labour party is significant to Ndi-Igbo as we hope for the restoration of the diginity of man, respect for the sanctity of life, inclusion and exaltation of the ideal familial values.
Article written by Chimezie Nebolisa
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