Leadership is a word, and productive leadership is an art. The art
part is when you use your knowledge and decision to apply proven practices to improve
upon the status quo. It is then you are in to produce effective results.
The season of campaigning is the time those aspiring to govern the
people enter into social contract with the electorate through their
manifestoes. Governor Ifeanyi Okowa campaign assertions formed the reason why
the people of Delta State gave him their mandate to become the governor of the
State.
The governor promised during his declaration to ensure job
creation through creating a vibrant industrial atmosphere that will boost
entrepreneurship and human capital development and to focus on the overall
wellbeing of the common man, which will generate employment and empowerment for
all. That is what he is doing now without any repudiation or
hesitation.
Governor Okowa began his governance with key projects that made
his five-point agenda of SMART. In furtherance to this, the State government
under the SMART agenda has rolled out six job creation schemes. The six
schemes are: Youth Agricultural
Entrepreneurs Programme, Skills Training and Entrepreneurship Programme,
Production and Processing Support Programme, Tractorisation, Extension of
Microcredit and Agricultural Loans and Development of Agro-industries.
Governor Ifeanyi Okowa assumed office with accurate capacity and
enormous creativity on how to execute his agenda and leave behind indelible
marks on the sands of time for generations after him. Any leader that made
promises without planning how it will be brought about is like planting a seed
without watering it to sprout.
Though the odds of the present economic status of our country and
the world at large may hamper his desired projections on how to grow our
economy, he has long looked beyond the federal allocation, searching within
measures to earn more revenues.
Okowa’s approach on how to achieve his visions is truly
displayed in all his efforts. He has said clearly
that he is not in governance to neither protect ills nor harbour evils, that no
person in his government shall be justified to squander our common wealth, no
matter his status. He won’t tolerate undemocratic behaviour in public service
nor condone the barbaric act of looting in any form. Transparency shall be his
government’s watchword and in all transactions of his governance, due process
will be followed to the letter.
It can be argued that the primary business of democratic
government is the development and implementation of good policy and the optimal
allocation of resources to support those policy decisions. "Good"
policy has the desired effects and, where possible, does not have unanticipated
secondary effects. A key factor in making good policy is the use of high-
quality evidence about the issues in question so as to define or resolve the
range of options available to the policymaker.
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