Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, HURIWA, has recommended the Governor of Enugu State for what it describes as the ‘Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi democracy model’.
The human rights advocacy group further hailed the administration for its zeal for consistent local government elections as currently practised in the state.
It said that Ugwuanyi’s leadership style should be replicated in the 36 states of the federation and the Federal Capital Territory.
HURIWA said that the governors of the South-East must borrow a leaf on good governance and the ‘live and let live’ mantra of Governor Ugwuanyi as their leadership model.
HURIWA said this in a statement by its national coordinator, Comrade Emmanuel Onwubiko and the National Media Affairs Director, Miss Zainab Yusuf.
It compared what has happened preparatory to the Enugu council polls to what usually happens in an advanced democracy like Britain just before the British council polls.
“We are happy that here in the Nigerian state of Enugu, we have a political class that believes that legitimacy to exercise political and constitutional authority over the affairs of the citizens emanates from the good people of Nigeria,” the group said.
“The pragmatic campaigns initiated by Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi for the Council poll is a fantastic demonstration of leadership by example and we perfectly relate this to what obtains in advanced democracies like the USA; UK and Canada whereby the wheel of democracy derives its fuel from the electorate.
“This attitudinal and political modus operandi should be sustained and borrowed by other Federation units so we mainstream pragmatic constitutional democracy around the length and breadth of Nigeria in the shortest possible time frame”.
HURIWA has also relatedly, condemned the report of violent attack targeting a commissioner serving in Enugu whose two police orderlies were killed by gunmen in the neighbouring Anambra State.
The rights group further condemned the disquiet that happened in the state on Monday when the state Commissioner for Lands, Chidi Aroh, reportedly escaped death by the whiskers.
Gunmen were said to have attacked the commissioner and allegedly killed two police orderlies.
It was gathered that the incident happened on Sunday evening when Aroh was returning from the neighbouring Anambra State, where he was said to have attended a meeting on Saturday.
Although the Anambra State Police Command confirmed the incident, it, however, HURIWA said the whereabouts of the policemen were yet to be known.
HURIWA called on security agencies in the South-East to come together and combat the rising tension in the region and arrest the real perpetrators of violence on innocent citizens.
