As it was his personal character and leadership style, throughout his political career, this political horse-power machine demonstrated that greed, vengeance, hatred, half-truth and envy would poison men's souls and so it would barricade the world of men’s goodwill and therefore goose-step the society into misery and unpredicted throes. He never allowed any political ideological difference to thwart the dividends of democracy he could bring to his constituents and any person he could reach.

At all times in his political stewardship, he rather strengthened his particular sense of speed in executing economy-friendly constituency projects both in rural and urban areas in his region. It is important to acknowledge that our individual speed most of the times makes us cynical; our cunningness and cleverness, hard and unkind. We think too much of ourselves and feel too little of our brother’s pains but fortunately the personality and leadership of Dr. George Akume has proved over time that we must discover that fairness, honesty, justice and truth are all that we need in all that we do.

Given his track records, during the leadership of Muhammadu Buhari as Nigerian President, the distinguished political life-line was nominated and confirmed a Minister of the Federal Democratic Republic of Nigeria for Special Duties and Intergovernmental Affairs. Indeed, more than selfish cleverness, we need transparency and love in all that we do. For without these qualities, life will be chaotic and even violent and all will be lost.

Democracy and its credentials should bring us closer together. The very nature of these credentials of democracy are crying out for the goodness in us; crying out for universal brotherhood; for the unity of us all and for the growth of the nation. With these personal and political credentials, Akume has gained the political control of Benue State in a ruthless fashion most evidently in the 2023 general elections. With the help of Akume’s political mechanism, the APC bounced back as the ruling party in the state, trashing the PDP in almost all the elections: from the House of Assembly to the House of Representatives and Senate to the governorship seat.

George Akume, a graduate of Sociology from the University of Ibadan, where he also bagged a Master’s in Labour Relations, perhaps copying from the playbook of the Late Jeseph Sarwuan Tarka, whose influential and material political stewardship had earned him a local government counsel as a monument, has been facilitating political turn around in Nigeria as a whole. With such unfaltering spirit of craving for democratic front and national growth, it is an article of faith that the new Secretary to the Government of the Federation would allow his wealth of experience to consolidate the good intention of Mr. President and the progressive voices and actions will reach throughout the country. The millions of despairing men, women, and little children, victims of a system that makes men torture and imprison innocent people in the streets, in market places and even in homes would now have a cause to smile. For regimes come and go, and dictators expire, and the power they took from the people returns to the people. And so long as men expire, democracy will never perish.

Dr. Wayas, a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Linguistics, University of Nigeria Nsukka, UNN, wrote from Nsukka in Enugu State.