The founding
Chief Executive Officer, Infotech Systems and founder of Ngor-Okpala
Progressive Organization (NOPO) for the Tri-state area in the United States of
America (USA), Chief Charles Ugochukwu
Eke, has urged
Nigeria to emulate Malaysia, India by leveraging diaspora citizens, reports ITRealms.
Speaking exclusively
to ITRealms, Chief Eke who is a
Computer Engineer by profession, noted that the roles by Nigerians, especially
of Igbo extraction leading to recent appointment into the transition team by
the New Jersey-elected governor, Mr. Phil Murphy in USA, brings to the fore the
need for Nigeria to take a second look on how to relate with her citizens in
diaspora.
He also said
that by this call for searching inwards would be influenced through engagement
of the Nigeria in diaspora.
Eke who
holds dual citizenship of Nigeria and United States, said that Nigeria must
trust the brain lost and find a way to regain it by leveraging her expertise in
diaspora, mostly in the United States.
According to
him, Malaysia and India were able to develop because they used their citizens
abroad with honest, “so, why can't Nigeria?”
Eke, who is a
leading figure in the ‘Africans for Phil Murphy’ campaign team expressed
delight over the harnessing of his potentials and opportunities accorded him in
US.
He further
gave some insights into his membership of Team Murphy for Governor campaign via
Rev Derrick Green, who supported his vision to start Africans for Phil Murphy
which today played a great roll in mobilizing Africans and Caribbean that
contributed greatly in victory of the governor elect, Mr. Phil Murphy.
Eke, a
Computer Engineer turn politician, said that he gave his best to the campaign
for 18-month none pay crisscrossing New Jersey, organizing and campaigning for
the candidate Murphy.
“I became a
family member welcomed by him and that ushered in the four appointments and
more to come,” he said.
As said by
him, the other trio include Dr. Obilor Iwuozo who is a medical doctor; environmental
engineer, Dr. Francis Owoh and Chief Sir Polly Ubah, all stood beside me
providing all their resources and always available throughout the campaign.
“Chief Sir
Polly Ubah to serve in Education, Access and Opportunity; Chief Charles Ugo Eke
in Government, Technology and Innovation; Chief Dr. Francis Owoh to serve in
Environment and Energy; and Chief Dr. Iwuozo Obilor to serve in Health,” he
said.
Eke emphasized
that their appointment is an indication that if given chance and opportunities “we
can deliver victory” stressing that he rose to senior coordinator in the
campaign and have helped bring victory to couple of other elections in New
Jersey.
“The zeal
and exposures are very high in New Jersey,” he declared.
Eke, whose
political career started in United States in 1995, said that persistent,
patient and total loyalty and honest.
ITRealms recalls that Eke had contested
first level in 1998 and won in his city, then served out is tenure and by 2002
became two-term commissioner before becoming citywide councilman at large
completing in 2012, whereas in 2015 he became a county committee member and
2016 joined Murphy for Governor campaign.
Chuks Egbune/GEE
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