By Henry Ofa
We are immensely pleased and highly elated to pour out our hearts before you in a clear expression of how proud we have been over your unmatched sterling performance as the Executive Chairman of Ethiope West Local Government Council since 2015.
We recall with nostalgia how some pundits erroneously foresaw the failure of your administration long before it ever came on board, but thank God that the events of the past have proven them wrong.
The past six years with you on the saddle of the Local government’s affairs has been truly remarkable and dotted with tales of successful development efforts initiated by your administration.
Incontrovertibly, you have redefined the context and content of grassroots administration and governance, and it is on the stretch of this ineffable truth that we, the leaders and good people of Ward 8, in Ethiope West Local Government Area, have decided to formally write to inform you of our high level of satisfaction with your unmatched achievements as a Council Chairman in the last six years.
Suffice to say that among your many areas of credible performances, we are enthralled by how you succeeded in the key area of taming the hydra-headed monster of insecurity which had eaten deep into the fabric of the Local Government Area at the time you took up the mantle of leadership.
We recall that incessant kidnapping and broad day light robbery were almost becoming the order of the day in some parts of the Local Government Area, but almost immediately after you assumed office, you tackled the scourge headlong and flushed out the daily infestation of threats to lives and property from all three kingdoms in Ethiope West.
Today, we can go to bed with both eyes closed and the seemingly lost night life among our people has returned.
Your administrative dexterity was also very visible in the areas of physical infrastructure.
Despite the inclement conditions under which your administration operated, you were able to demonstrate genuine interest in the overall development of Jesse, Mosogar and Oghara kingdoms.
No doubt, your persistent interest in ensuring the comfort of commuters along the dilapidated Benin-Sapele expressways remains one of the much cherished policies that were vigorously pursued by your government.
Observably, your countless interventions in the failed portions of the road are the reasons the road is still motorable today.
Furthermore, you initiated and completed several infrastructural projects, including the legislative quarters in the Council’s Secretariat which was recently commissioned to the eternal glory of God.
Also in your time, we were witnesses to how you worked vigorously hard to ensure the victory of our great party, the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), during all elections, especially in our ward.
As the records have shown in previous elections, the federal ward eight remains one of the most consistent and viable wards when it comes to the mobilisation of political support for the PDP and all its candidates at the federal, state and local government levels.
This is a clear attestation to your significant commitment and input that have cemented all broken walls and healed all wounded consciences within the PDP household in Ethiope West generally and ward eight in particular.
You also scored very high in the area of revenue generation which is critical to every government.
We saw how you mobilised extra funds through diverse internally generated revenue techniques, including the restructuring of the local markets to position them for greater efficiency.
Your admirable ability to shore up the financial receipts accruable to the coffers of Ethiope West Local Government Council and the successful deployment of such revenues to the benefits of the good people of Ethiope West has endeared you to many.
For all these and many other achievements too numerous to be listed, we have decided to formally and openly commend you, our indefatigable former Chairman, Honourable Solomon Golley.
Indeed, you have brought your wealth of leadership experience to bear in our Local Government Area.
Ethiope West never had it this good and we are proud to be duly associated with you as kin from the same ward.
We are confident that you will continue to remain a shining example of effective grassroots administration and a reference point to the crop of leaders who will be taking over as the new generation of the Council’s executive members.
On this note, therefore, we wish to passionately call on the Government of Delta State, ably led by our ever dynamic and amiable Governor, Senetor ( Dr ) Ifeanyi Arthur Okowa, to kindly give Deltans the opportunity to tap from the leadership knack of Honourable Solomon Golley by appointing him to serve in a befitting capacity in the current administration of Delta State.
As the saying goes, the reward for hard work is more work, and every good turn deserves another.
We have every reason to believe that Solomon Golley is still very well disposed to render his services to Delta State and its good people.
Therefore, his appointment to serve his people with higher portfolio will be a most welcome development.
Once again, we extend our heartfelt congratulations to the people’s chairman as he takes a bow and we wish him the very best as he continues on the path of offering purposeful leadership to his people.
CHIEF HENRY O. OFA Ph.D, JP, PHF (The Ame Of Oghara Kingdom)
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