Taraba, Northern East Nigeria is blessed to have an indomitable Young man. A leader whose political records have broken many records of his contemporaries as a young political-focused-minded person.
Rt Hon Abel Peter Diah is an expert in the political game of Taraba, a philanthropist and respectable consultant who owns conglomerates of consulting firms. For many decades he was recognized as a political Master schemer whose virtues many described as a legendary young leader in the person of Nigeria great leaders of our time.
The Sardauna-born political battle ax is a tiger of masses emancipation when he became a Man in the business of empowering Young Nigerians, especially to the people of Mbamnga, a constituency is representing in the state House of Assembly under Sardauna Local Government, Taraba Central Senatorial District.
His performance in the area of Job creation was a record that today is beyond the capacity of other lovers of his dear constituency, an area with vast arable land.
Throughout his life, Peter’s many contributions to humanity remain a reference of leadership credence that will be better utilized when he became the servant that will serve the entire state. It is on record that his strength is measured up in serving his people as a good representative at both the National Assembly and state level being the point of his call. This is where he can do the best, perform and release his full potentials as a good leader.
While a speaker of the state Assembly, he empowered, he created the jobs, provided opportunities, and did a lot of projects connected to health and education. Everyone, everywhere Diah is talking of the town that the termagant of the masses liberation has come to serve humanity.
In 2021 was a page of his political journey unveiled with the young, old, and people of diverse races and clans in Taraba seeing him a promising young chap with no traces of religions, tribal sentiments, void of nepotism.
Being in the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) as his party of sure banker to serve humanity with a delegates structure of the masses, who are his good wills pushing his agenda is what is changing the arithmetic thinking of political pundits that from the blues a man with people’s mandate has come to tell another story. Story of freedom, the story of political emancipation, he will certainly tell the story of liberation from the shackles of poverty and tackle the bedeviling state of underdevelopment of Taraba State.
By implications, the intelligent former speaker will bring galvanize the socio-economic nature of Taraba State. He will contribute positively to nation-building and make sure lawmakers pass resolutions that will bring the state into an enviable state in the eyes of the world and the state’s commonwealth will be utilised better.
Scholars of politics kept on wondering how comes the magic behind Abel’, his political goodwill and strength made him be winning the heart of the Taraba people. Unknown to all political students the young Man won their heart, not because of any political Father, but because his work for the masses is behind him, pushing him toward the noble course- the calling mark of service.
Take it or leave it Abel is one man politician whose closeness to the grassroots and direct electoral voters stands tall than any, there is none of his second in Taraba in terms of constant touch with the electorates.
At the moment, his line of duty as a philanthropist in Taraba does not only stops there, but he crossed the bar for his goodwill extending it to other states in the country. He helped thousands of farmers with fertilizers across many LGAs. He empowered many with business capital and skills acquisitions in his state.
Peter is now seen as the super Supporter of the masses who is having the idea of creating people-oriented policies, evoke constituency projects in the area of Agriculture, Education, Empowerment, and social services like the provision of water in many communities lacking such, renovation of health and schools infrastructures in his blueprint agenda to salvage the state. This is where his strength will be laying and hovering around.
Plus or minus, take it or leave it Diah has bought the people’s conscience with his good works. Not because of his much involvement in the process of party politics but because of his good political will of working for the masses.
With his name, his political scheming ability, and what he has done and still doing, it’s not a surprise or arguably seen that nobody either in Abuja or Jalingo even those feeling that they control the party from the presidency seat of power will beat him because his pure heart is answering the call of many people. I know this, when it comes to the votes of the electorate, hundreds of times and at many times they will prefer Peter.
My line of thinking, therefore, PDP critical stakeholders should unite to politically save the party from collapse, that the likes of Abel and many others are the saving grace of the party. Fighting or trying to scheme him out of the party system is unfortunate to say is harm being done to the party rather than good.But for Peter whatever the side of the coin faces is a smooth ride on to his next political journey. Meaning he will have a smooth rocking right in 2023 whatever the game turns out to be because he endeared himself to the masses.
A word they said is enough to a wise person and a stitch in times saves nine. Let PDP have a good thinking package to save the party in the interest of all party loyalists supporting Peter come 2023.
Tom Garba
Opinion writer
Wrote this from Jalingo
Taraba State
