Looking very
dispassionately at the current Senate, there are outstanding members who
unarguably have high reckoning as model public officers. One of them is
Senator. Pius Akpor Ewherido popularly known as ‘GOGOROGO’ representing Delta
Central Federal Senatorial Destrict of Delta State. He is a towering figure in
height and in character nobility. A Philosopher and a Lawyer, he is the
Vice-Chairman, Senate Committee on Marine Transport committee.
A remarkably urbane, cosmopolitan, public-spirited and new-age politician, he has a mind that is well attuned to the Winston Churchill dictum that “The price of greatness is responsibility”. He has a moderated view about life and he is far removed from the prevailing haughtiness and vacuous hedonism that rudely characterise our political firmament.
He has an uncommon zeal for touching lives as
evident in the massive life-enhancing projects which he has delivered to his
constituency. His electrifying and magnetising aura gives smiles to faces,
inspires hope and raises human dignity.
He has sincerity and integrity ingrained in his
human nature, as such, he is a great man in line with Anatole France’s
observation that “the first virtue of all great men is that they are sincere;
they eradicate hypocrisy from their hearts.” As an epitome of simplicity, he
admirably brings grace, simplicity and humility to bear on his endeavours, life
and philanthropic works.
He has no supercilious air around him nor is he
a slave to wealth; and as a man of deep-seated sense of purpose he continually
seeks ways of advancing the common good and making life really good for the low
members of the society in the tradition of progressive politics.
The privilege of good “nature” and “nurture” he
inherited from his highly revered educationist father and his public-spirited
mother must have imparted the noble and cherished “GOGOROGO” virtues of
humility, uprightness and sublime humanness on him as he has the right
disposition to position and power.
Senator Ewherido has an uncommon aversion for
social disorder, leadership ineptitude, poor economic governance as well as the
opprobrious monument of our national infrastructure deficit and the lack of
innovativeness in managing our national affairs especially in area of
integrative citizens’ welfare. To him, it is sad that nothing seems to work in
our country except the “contracting department” of government.
It was his deep concern for national retrieval
and remediation of the prevailing social disorder that made him to alert the
nation on the ominous threat to our national growth by sponsoring a bill
“Devolution of Powers to States and Public sector Accountability Bill 2012”.
He also has to his credit a number of other
significant motions and bills such as Welding Standards Regulatory Council of
Nigeria (Establishment etc) Bill 2012, A Bill for an Act to provide for the
Offence of Corporate Manslaughter 2012. He is co-sponsor of the motions on “The
State of Nigerian expressways”, designed to address the problems associated
with non- completion of on- going federal road projects; “Economic Growth and
worsening inequality in Nigeria: A call for New approaches to poverty Reduction’,
which urges the federal government to consider new approaches to develop and
implement policies and programmes on how to promote and generate job for
intensive economic growth; among several others.
He is highly esteemed by his colleagues across
party lines for his infectious personality, affability, knowledge and deep
grasp of issues.
Aruviere Martin Egharhevwa (ACILEx) writes from
London, United Kingdom.
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