Prominent APC Stalwart Urge Politicians To Imbibe Culture Of Charity Work In Their Party Politics
By Emmanuel Uffot
Prominent Akwa Ibom All Progressives Congress (APC) figure, Dr. Marshall Umoren, has said humanitarian work of charity can be used in influencing the promotion of party politics.
Dr. Umoren, who urged politicians and political parties to ‘think humanity’ said he is quite poised to influence a push for a significant shift in role, rating and evaluation of the opposition progressive party in the state.
According to a media statement signed by Mr. Emmanuel Uffot, media officer to Dr. Umoren, the opposition top – shot in expressing his readiness to extend available opportunities to Akwa Ibom youth, said he is going to leverage his charity organization, The HighTower Foundation ( THF) to uplift vulnerable households and very indigent individuals to a better life through sustained acts of charity.
Asserting to boost the capacity of the state human resource potential, Umoren said he will undertake same through the award of multiple scholarship to exceptional students across tertiary institutions. The scholarship, he stressed, would run for core professional courses.
The proposed initiative, singular in its intended effort is to however, increase popularity levels and give a fair acceptability standing to the party. He said the action would also leverage an accelerated growth of the party through enhanced membership registration.
Dr. Umoren who was quoted speaking from his United States base, said he is out to deployment his resources extensively in building and uniting the party, and also pledged his ” readiness to give the people, especially the youth and vulnerable persons some spectacular assistance; a special help as would phenomenally propel them to be uplifted from the socio-economic index of poverty.”
He stressed that “politics and leadership should be people oriented and development centred at all times.”
Challenging political leaders not to be found wanting in bringing phenomenal game – changing narratives to bear in the advancement of human society, the medical professional and humanist in politics, argued that while it is so necessary for players of power to think humanity, it however remains a souless point in politics not to inter-play the politics of raising people from poverty, with that of creating a direct bearing on impacting the economics of human progress.
Umoren, while dismissing the increasing levels of suffering by the ordinary man as a clear contradiction of democracy, however, suggested that the ruling PDP administration in the state needs to do a lot more to actively upgrade, and effectively bring a critical number of people from human capacity under-development to high capacity development. This, he said would come when government begin to ‘think humanity’ at all times and not only at times of electioneering.
