AS IT WAS IN SAPELE V – BY CHRIS MUSTAPHA NWAOKOBIA JNR.

"Every generation out of relative obscurity discovers its mission, fulfills it or betrays it." - Frantz Fanon.

I have been inundated with calls and messages demanding the continuation of the SAPELE series, but intervening matters of national interest got in the way. However, this is the conclusion of the series.

Sapele will always remain a call to industrialization and infrastructural development. I know a Sapele that had one of the best Township Stadium in the old Bendel State. A Sapele with one of the best Golf Courses in Nigeria. A Sapele that besides the AT & P, had the best Roof making Company in Nigeria (Eternit), the best Package making Company (Delta Pack), Nigeria's biggest Thermal Power generation outfit (Ogorode, Sapele) and many more, now defunct or at best comatose.

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Sapele inspires a strong call for renewed infrastructural development, for industrialization, for Youths and Sports development, for Power generation and for a total overhaul of our leadership paradigms. Sapele is a call for national cohesion centred on JUSTICE, on FAIRNESS, on EQUITY & on EXCELLENCE.

And SAPELE is the challenging imperative for which I seek the high office of President come 2019. Sapele stands for the...

S-Strategic

A-Altruistic

P-Progressive &

E-Egalitarian

L-Leadership

E-Enterprise

which I offer, knowing that A NEW, A BETTER & A PROSPEROUS NIGERIA IS POSSIBLE.

*Concluded.

Chris Mustapha Nwaokobia Jnr., a Barrister-at-Law, and social critic, is a Presidential hopeful in the forthcoming 2019 Presidential election in Nigeria.