Who is afraid of history being made again?
Chronicled below are people who had date with history:
• 1951: Late Pa. Anthony Enahoro, the mover of the motion for
Nigeria Independence was 29 years, when he was elected, member of State House of Assembly.
• 1999: Erstwhile Speaker of the Federal House of Representative, Alhaji
Salisu Buhari of the Toronto University fame was 29 years old.
• 1999: Tokunbo Afikuyomi was 37 years old when he became Nigeria
Senator.
• 2003: The Present Speaker of the Federal House of Representative got
elected as Member of the House at the age of 33.
• Prof. Pat. Utomi was a Presidential Adviser at the age of 27.
• Snr. Apostle Yemi Omaghomi was a Political Adviser to Ambrose Ali, at the age of 22.
• Hon. Barr. Olivia Agbajoh got elected as a Member of the Federal House of Representative at the age of 32.
• General Yakubu Gowon was 32 years old when he became Nigeria’s Head of State in January 1966.
• The late Shehu Musa Yar’adua was 36 years old when he retired from the Nigeria Army as a General and Vice President in 1979.
• Roman Abrahamovic became Governor of Chukotta in Russia at the age of 35 in 2001.
• Bill Clinton was 33 years old when he became Governor of Arkansas in January, 1979.
• Edward Moor ‘Ted’ Kennedy was 30 years old when he entered the U.S. Senate in November, 1962.
• The current Vice President of United States of America; Joe Biden, became a Senator at the age of 30.
• The famous Reformist, Martin Luther was 34 years old when he confronted the Roman Catholic Church with his historic thesis.
• Martin Luther King (Jnr.), the Baptist Minister from Atlanta was 34 years old when he wrote a letter from a Birmingham jail to eight clergymen in response to their request for the African American Community to suspend their civil disobedience demonstration.
• Bill Gates was 20 years old when Microsoft took-off in 1975.
• Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO and co-founder of facebook is now 25 years old.
• Larry Page and Sergey Brin were both 25 years old in 1995, when they started google.
From the above established facts, it is worthy of note that, wisdom is not a Methuselah function. Hence, age has nothing to do with good governance.
The question now is; Who is Afraid of History?
Definitely, not the People of Warri South Constituency, 1.
Definitely, not Deltans.
I implore you to make history with Comr. Michael Ejueyitsi Tidi.
Let’s elect him for Delta State House of Assembly; Warri South Constituency, 1.
When History Beacons, Man Must Reckon!
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