The Nation Newspaper Igho: From broadcasting to community leadership
While you gaze elsewhere, Peter Igho arrives suddenly at the unexpected destination. Or so it seems. Only recently Peter Igho was elected president of the Urhobo Leadership Forum Abuja. ULFA, for short, is a solidarity group intended to provide advocacy support for the Urhobos of Abuja. Again in 2009,
Peter Igho was born in Jos, went to school there and his first significant stray to the south was when he attended the University of Ibadan in 1969. It was here we met and became friends. He was my first close contact with the social network of the north and its elites. Peter looked like a northerner, spoke impeccable Hausa, consumed Hausa menu and was perfectly at home in the northern milieu. Even his work in television was sometimes overtly populated by exciting visuals from the region.
Peter Igho has been concerned with escalating Urhobo consciousness across the land. At great personal cost, he crisscrossed the whole of Urhoboland and produced a documentary which covered all the 24 kingdoms of the jurisdiction. This brought him into close contact with the leading lights of Urhoboland and would inevitably have given him a more acute understanding of the problems and dysfunctions in his homeland.
The mandate given to Peter Igho, like the obligations shouldered by the Urhobo Leadership Forum is crucial. Before his election, Peter had engaged elites, rural dwellers as well as some traditional authorities. I met Peter and some members of the ULFA in the Abuja residence of one of them. His Royal Majesty Air Vice Marshal Ararile, the Orosuen of Umiaghwa Abraka kingdom. The monarch has been a product of the best legacies of the military and traditional governance.
Membership of the Forum, which was registered in 2012, is drawn from Urhobos resident in Abuja, persons who have attained high levels in their respective careers in the public and private sectors and are of high integrity.
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