@arranowanna@KKenPela As he did not secure ticket he stepped aside and let his structure go support NDC aspirant. Who told you he is not working from ward to lga. Allow Deacon to what works for him.
Main thing is you! you! you do your bit for Delta and National NDC.
I'm doing my fair share📍OK2027✌🏽
A CLARIFICATION ON MY POLITICAL ENGAGEMENT
Anna (@arranowanna), I understand and would like to thank you for the concern behind your question. In the circumstances, I believe it is fair that I clarify this — not only for you, but for others who may have wondered the same thing.
I have not withdrawn from the pursuit of good governance in Delta or Nigeria, nor did that commitment begin or end with whether I secured the NDC governorship ticket.
I have spoken publicly about aspects of the process that produced the outcome with which I disagreed. Nevertheless, once the process was concluded, I made a deliberate decision to accept the outcome and publicly support our candidate, Deacon Chris Iyovwaye (@dchrisiyovwaye).
That was not merely a statement for the cameras or social media.
Soon afterwards, I formally handed over to the candidate the Vision Better Delta Movement Master Plan and our Job Creation Manual - work into which my team and I had invested considerable time, thought and resources in preparation for the Delta we hoped to build.
I also released and encouraged members of my political team to work fully with the candidate and his campaign. My Chief of Staff now serves as Deputy Director-General, Delta Central, in the campaign, while other members of the VBDM team are similarly working for its success.
Indeed, the National Chairman of our party (@NigeriaNDCHQ), subsequently referred publicly to my conduct following the primaries as an example of the political maturity our politics requires: that ultimately only one person can emerge, and those who genuinely believe in the larger cause must be able to accept an outcome and support the person who does.
I have also personally participated whenever I have been invited. I attended Deacon Chris's Thanksgiving, and when I was invited to the Ughelli South engagements, I was there.
But there is a distinction between supporting a cause and imposing oneself upon it.
I was not informed about or invited to the recent Asaba campaign-office opening. Neither was I informed about or invited to the one-million-man march. I do not believe the appropriate response is for me to begin turning up uninvited at political events simply so that my face can appear in photographs or I can demonstrate political activity on social media.
There comes a point in public life when one must respect the process, respect the responsibilities of those now charged with leading it, and also respect oneself.
I have accepted an outcome about which I had reservations. I have publicly supported the candidate. I have formally handed over the work my movement developed. I have released my people to serve. And whenever I have been invited to participate personally, I have done so.
If the candidate, the party or those coordinating the Delta campaign believe there is a further role for me to play personally, they know where I stand and how to reach me.
And lest this be understood only in the context of Delta State, the same principle applies to my engagement at the national level.
My political journey and public engagements over the past several years have also placed me within the larger national conversation about building a New Nigeria. I have served in national political responsibilities and worked alongside others in that cause. As at the time I left Nigeria four days ago, I had not been invited or assigned any particular role in the national campaign either.
That does not alter what I believe. But here too, I believe there is a difference between being available to serve and imposing oneself upon a process. If and when those charged with coordinating the national effort believe there is a role for me to play, they also know where I stand and how to reach me.
I have made this same point privately to @Morris_Monye and to others who have reached out to me on the issue. Anna's question now provides an opportunity to state it publicly.
KKP Sunday Reflections, and the other things you now see more frequently on my timeline, are another part of who I am. They are not a withdrawal from public life or a substitute for my commitment to good governance. If anything, those who have followed the Reflections closely will recognise in them many of the convictions that have shaped my politics and public life for years.
I have perhaps had more time recently to give expression to something that has always been part of me: examining leadership, governance, courage, integrity, justice, responsibility and our obligations to one another through the lens of my Christian faith. The Reflections are therefore not simply about religion as ceremony or Sunday observance. They are about the values by which we should live - and, for those entrusted with leadership, the values by which we should exercise power.
Anyone who has followed the subjects we have explored over these past several weeks will find there many of the principles that inform how I think about Delta, Nigeria and public life, and indeed some of the choices I make. My faith does not stop where politics begins. It helps determine how I believe politics should be practised.
So, no, Anna, I did not suddenly go quiet because I did not get the ticket. But neither will I manufacture a political role for myself merely to be seen to have one.
I remain committed to the causes for which I entered public life, and to which I have devoted myself and my resources for close to thirty years. I will continue to contribute wherever I believe I can do so meaningfully and with dignity.
I also continue to believe that a New Nigeria and a Better Delta are POssible. And even where I may not be physically involved, I will continue to pray, encourage and provide whatever support I reasonably can towards making both a reality.
KKP
@Funminz I applied on my own as I only needed my brothers uk bank statement for process.
People are just too lazy and want a quick win using middlemen which does not always yield results