Madumere The Political Mediator
The name Prince Eze Madumere is supersonically-fast becoming synonymous with “conflict resolution”. A man who spends a considerable part of his time to resolve anomalies that tend to derail the ongoing development process carried out by his boss and mentor, His Excellency Owelle Rochas Okorocha. Not only is Madumere gradually injecting his nature and character into the administration of his political father. He conveys the middleman approach between Government and its people. Grievances and misunderstandings from any sector gets his speedy attention, in a bid to clearly avoid the premeditated intentions by political no-goods whose desire is to destroy an existing smooth flow of progress and development in all facets of the Imo political and economic standing.
Like the IPMAN Owerri (Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria Owerri chapter) crisis that almost grounded Imo state to a halt until the swift and timely intervention of the most reliable mediator, and the 2012 Orsu’Obodo/Addax oil conflict which once again required the mediating mastery of the “Special Deputy” to avert an up-rise in kidnaps and communal restiveness. Same was the case, after the 2014 Imo state APC primaries. Some aggrieved aspirants who felt shortchanged, threatened fire and brimstones against the party, vowing to work against all of the party’s interest. But again, like always, Prince Eze Madumere came in handy! His adept touch, the “give-and-take resolution”, gave both the winners and the losers some concrete political hope, which saw the accommodation of everyone’s interest on a platform that re-united everyone and got the party firing at top cylinder during the just concluded elections!
The Imo state Deputy Governor was at it again when artfully with great control over stormy issues, he came unannounced into the IBC (Imo Broadcasting Corporation) quarters. Armed with a pre-information of a purported protest against the Imo Government over some misinformed salary issue. True to it, the protest was already ongoing. But his arrival ignited the magic wand which automatically doused the situation on ground. Even though the protest had commenced, like expected, his intervention produced a new normal in less than an hour, ending a protest that was just about to take a rougher dimension, as work immediately began in earnest!
That is the much air that a rare man like Prince Eze Madumere brings into the polity. With the somewhat sumptuous air of development currently spreading all over Imo state, discharging an aura of beauty that gives Imo a new identity in the comity of states. A leadership gem like the Imo state Deputy Governor can do a lot good bringing his mediating prowess to bare in tranquilizing disintegrating issues that tend to deviate the course of development.
IKECHUKWU GILBERT
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