Egede Lawrence has briefly written a personal report on the works and walk of Ebonyi State Governor, Engr David Nweze Umahi. READ ON.
People are free to tell their own stories about Governor Umahi, the way they know him.
I want to tell a brief one about Governor Umahi the way I know him, from the day we witnessed his actions, in assessing his gift of nature as God ordained him.
Let me go straight to the points of what I know about Engineer David Nweze Umahi, presently the Governor of Ebonyi State.
I knew Governor Umahi in person the day we attended an empowerment gathering that he organized at Uburu, during the first tenure of Governor Martin Nwancho Elechi.
The Speaker of the EBHA, Barr. Augustine Nwankwegu led the House of Assembly delegation to the event. I was a legislative Aid to Hon. Kennedy Ogba then.
At that time Governor Umahi was the PDP Chairman in the State when the event came up.
It was that very day I spiritually discerned the reason Governor Umahi is the way he is today.
Governor Umahi is created to do big things, which cannot be a fault in his nature as a human being. No gift is for nothing.
Governor Umahi hates to see people who are mentally lazy, physically redundant, politically dependent, industrially fallow in action and spiritually defeated.
Left for Governor Umahi every person should be independent of anybody while working with each other to make progress.
That's why it seems he is doing everything possible with what is available, and to make progress out of every work hands can do.
Governor Umahi hates to be intimidated because he can react badly to it but likes to be wisely corrected and advised.
It is not that Governor Umahi is a Saint, he has some faults like any other person also has but I can't be his judge. The way that I saw and assessed him is what I am exactly talking about here.
If you want Governor Umahi to like what you are doing, just do what you can but make sure the initiative is correct, presentable and profitable for admiration in public view, not necessarily for an individual assessment of it.
Governor Umahi is naturally an Accountant, mentally economical and professionally constructive.
He likes prudent pass marks in the use of funds, not frivolous in the budgetary economy and not targeting profit without work.
Ordinarily, people who are used to earning a fat living by doing a little work are outside his book.
In such a situation some people who condemn his prudence are not aware he is a businessman and a wise philanthropist, who found himself in public politics.
If people who are brought up in austere economic localities are told to assess him, they will tell you that he is very wicked.
But unfortunately to them, he can't be the way such people would expect him to be, for the fact that his training, upbringing and environment of growth were not all the same as that of his critics, including his admirers.
One thing is that everyone has been created the same human beings naturally, but the gifts of the Spirit are not the same from God. Such gifts are diversified.
All Spiritual gifts by God are not the same and that's the reason the biblical book of the 1st Corinthians chapter 12 verses 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 & 11 analyzed how God shared them with every person ordained for each work.
Verse 4 said: "Now there are diversities of gifts but the same Spirit." Verse 5 said: "And there are differences of administration, but the same Lord." Verse 6 said: "And there are diversities of operations, but it is the same God which worketh all in all."
Verse 7 continued and said: "But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit withal." And verses 8, 9, 10 & 11 opened up for readers to know how the gifts work in every man for accountability.
The world is a passageway, it is a place of brief sojourn and a preparatory ground to meet the creator lastly for accountability.
Now, without bias I would want admirers and critics of the way Governor Umahi does things, to know that whatsoever one says and does is accountable to God at last. There are no excuses.
To God is the glory forever.
Egede Lawrence is our guest writer and public affairs analyst.
