Manu-Soro walks to the parliament
The ninth session of the National Assembly will be inaugurated next month and as expected, the tussle for the leadership of both its Upper and Lower Chambers have begun in earnest. For the House of Representatives, ranking member Femi Gbajabiamila is clearly on the lead as he is more popular than all other contestants and therefore strategically placed to win the contest. Gbajabiamila will be at the HoR for the fourth time to represent Surulere Federal Constituency of Lagos state. He is a lawyer and presently the House Majority Leader.
As the fifty six year old legislator strategizes to take over the mantle of leadership of the HoR, the House is set to usher in both returning and new members amongst whom is Honorable Mansur Manu-Soro, a conscious and deliberate achiever who has followed the path less travelled. He was a Special Assistant to Bauchi State Governor on MDGs and Development Partners and is the immediate past Bauchi State Focal Person of the Social Investments Programs (SIPs). He won the Darazo/Ganjuwa Federal constituency House of Representatives seat with over forty five thousand votes beating his closest rival who got a little over twenty thousand votes.
Manu-Soro`s success at the polls did not come in any way as a surprise given that his constituents merely reciprocated his gesture of uplifting the life of the ordinary man to greater heights. As a business man, he is an employer of labour whose staff gets their daily bread through his investments. And as S.A on MDGs/SDGs, he worked with determination and dedication to execute the goals of the project. More so, when he served as the SIPs State Focal Person, he did so with courage, determination and patriotism. It is because of the leadership dynamism he exhibited at the SIPs that Bauchi is one of the states with the highest number of beneficiaries of the project.
Today, Bauchi state has a total number of 670, 145 beneficiaries of the five components (Food Vendors, Home Grown School Feeding Program, N-Power, Conditional Cash Transfer, and the Government Enterprise and Empowerment Program) of the SIPs out of which 618, 214 are pupils benefitting from the school feeding programme. And because of the factor of multiplier effect, it is almost difficult to ascertain the number of ordinary people the SIPs have positively affected in Bauchi state. And while Mansur Manu-Soro takes the credit for his untiring efforts, Gov. M A Abubakar of Bauchi state also deserves to be identified for the support he gave towards the successful implementation of the SIPs in Bauchi state.
Thus as Manu-Soro, a gentleman politician, walks to the parliament, the good people of Darazo/Ganjuwa Federal Constituency are sure of a fair representation that will eventually see them enjoy the dividends of democracy.
Mukhtar Jarmajo, Abuja