In the spirit of the New Year celebration, an expanded love, peace, progress and development party has been held on Monday in Enohia Itim, Afikpo LGA, Ebonyi State.
Organised by Engr Chief Ibru Ogbonna Nwachi, FNATE, a fast-rising humanist and empowerment grand king, the party which began at about 6 p.m. ended Tuesday at 5:am.
The event which drew a critical mass of political actors, the business community, members of the academia, community leaders, friends, well-wishers, associates and other actors from within and outside the state to Enohia Itim Afikpo, portrays Engr Chief Nwachi as one not playing ethnic cards.
With over 2000 guests being thrilled by performing artists, choreographers, dancers and comedians, the event indubitably qualifies as the first of its kind in the anal of Afikpo, nay, Ebonyi and Nigeria’s history.
According to a press release made available to our correspondents signed by Collins Azu on behalf of the Ibru Nwachi Media Network, the event, “Billed to collectively deepen timeless values of peace, love and progress among the people, the party reechoed the place of peace and love in the human ecosystem, an absence of which triggers chaos”.
The statement said Engr Nwachi “expressed satisfaction with the mammoth crowd that came to celebrate peace, love, development and progress in Enohia Itim with zero consideration to ethnic and political cloaks”.
According to the release, Chief Nwachi started “that a society devoid of love, peace and progress and tolerance, practically reenacts the Hobbesian state of nature where life and social cohesion, according to the English Political Philosopher, Thomas Hobbes “are short, brutish and anarchic”.
According to Chief Nwachi, “We have every reason to love one another as humans.
“Even in the wild, if love can be found among even primates and other mammals, how much more we humans with superior faculties”?
“And so we must embrace peace, love, and progress because it is the tripod on which development sits”.
“This party held today in my house is nothing more than preaching and walking love, peace and progress in Ebonyi State in particular and Nigeria in general”.
Engr. Nwachi lauded Governor Francis Nwifuru for “defying clashing interests to enthrone love, peace and progress in Ebonyi State, I will always support his government and so I want all of us to support Governor Francis Nwifuru in his determination to bring peace to all areas of our state”.
The party concludes the weeklong event of the philanthropists who had earlier last week distributed bags of rice, clothes, wrappers and cash in celebration of Christmas and New Year.
Chief Oluchukwu Ukie Ezeali, a member representing Afikpo Northeast in the Ebonyi State House of Assembly, former Social Democratic Party House of Assembly Candidate for Afikpo Northeast Constituency, Chief Fidelis Inya, Afikpo LGA Chairman, Hon Uchenna Inya, former Coordinator, Chief Omerikete, key political stakeholders had earlier paid the philanthropist, Christmas homage.