By Senator Emmanuel Onwe.

This year, I'm most delighted and humbled to report that we have attained the zenith of success in our rice production efforts. In this third year of our endeavour in this field, I can confidently state that the practical results represent my doctoral thesis in rice production. Not only can we now boast of the largest private farm in southern Nigeria but, far more importantly, we can demonstrably declare the best performance in rice yield in the 2018 wet season cycle.

The glory and accolade should unhesitatingly go to His Excellency, Engr Dr David Nweze Umahi, the Governor of Ebonyi State, for his incomparable motivational leadership. Absent that, I would NEVER have stepped into the rice field; and I most definitely would not have persisted with the level of self-application and financial commitment it had required to arrive at this positive point.

It required the subtle application of the best techniques of leadership by Governor Umahi.

To bring it to a brief distillation: he came up with a chemistry of motivational leadership which could take any difficult task to success.

Because transformational leadership is a relationship of mutual stimulation and elevation that converts followers into leaders while the transformational leader subconsciously elevates himself to a moral agent, Gov Umahi commands change through a combination of action and moral example - the most difficult leadership quality to attain, and the most productive once attained. I'm a front row witness.

In sum, the difference between transactional leadership and transformational leadership is that the former focuses merely on task completion through tactical management, whereas the latter focuses on strategies and missions, deploying passion and vision as its agent provocateur.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXl9OB6RMMY

Thus the transformational leader is prime candidate for durable history and not just a flash in the pan.

Thank you, Your Excellency, for what you have become to us as individual citizens and to Ebonyi as a historical figure who has earned the title of Father of a modern state.

Senator Emmanuel Onwe
(Accomplished Rice Farmer)