By Ikhili Ebalu, Benin City
A leading aspirant for the Oredo federal constituency ticket on the platform of the PDP, Osaro Onaiwu jnr said, he’s got what it takes to wear the garb of a lawmaker and at the same time wade through the difficult task of lawmaking without much ado.
Recounting how he groomed and primed himself for higher political responsibilities, especially after he lost out in the state assembly primaries four years ago, the smooth-talking Osaro Onaiwu (Jr), told journalists in Benin, the Edo State capital, that the desire to serve his Oredo constituents Is already ingrained in his mind, adding he had taken the pain all this while to develop and acquire the requisite capacity and competence for the job of lawmaking.
According to the scion of the famous Onaiwu political family in Oredo, he has invested a lot of his energy and resources into understanding the plight of the people and the time is now ripe for him to mount the right platform from which he can then begin to proffer solutions to the problems, one after the other.
He opined further that his popular “Oredo First” mantra was the product of several days and weeks of”deep introspection”, on how best he could rekindle and reawaken the spirit of oneness among his Oredo people, adding he is happy that the ideology was embraced by the people and is more like a movement now.
He said;
“I vie for house of assembly four years ago and I lost in the primaries. And this time, I look at the space, the vacuum, in the house of reps position. I did my research and I found out the people that the people that are contesting, most of them are new to the party. They haven’t been in politics. And I also realized that when you contest house of reps you go there to make laws, to help move laws forward, to come up with new policies that would help Nigerians work better in an enabling environment.
Beside that I have developed myself more than I was four years ago.
Furthermore, my people clamoured that I vie for the House of reps seat. And I read and understand that the time is ripe for me to contest for House of Reps”
Osaro’s aspiration has reportedly sparked huge excitement among the Oredo populace, the majority of whom are hopeful he would astutely deploy his wealth of experience to ensure Oredo is adequately represented in the national assembly as well as discharge his legislative duties creditably.
In particular, Oredo youths form the bedrock of his support base and they have even gone on to constitute various support groups to spread his message of Oredo first.
