By Romanus Ogene
__What more can ndi Enugu ask for in an ideal governorship candidate? Peter Mbah has with a mind that is both locally experienced and digitally sophisticated built antecedents that are loud on competence, creativity and innovation. The man stands as a 21st century leader, a perfect link between the past, the present and the future. His emergence as the PDP guber candidate heralds a new order of change that would lean on disruptive innovation, digital smartness and human capital development.
__What does a nation of endless possibilities mean to a car user who is financially restricted from going about his day to day businesses because of the current outrageous hike in the price of PMS. There is no gainsaying that the current national hike in the price of PMS is causing untold hardship on Nigerians.
__This is a prevalent national situation, but while the rest of Nigerians are buying PMS at outrageous prices of *N400 - N500* per litre, the Enugu People are enjoying the benefits acrued to the proverbial kid whose father is part of the council as all Pinnacle Fuel Stations in Enugu state sell at the rate of *N195* courtesy of Barr. Peter Mbah.
__For those who are yet to understand the influence that this proud son of Enugu wields in the downstream oil sector, let me restate his responses to the state house correspondents on the event of his thank you visit to the President. Mbah informed that the scarcity is a result of the deficit of the set of investment that Pinnacle Oil and gas has done in the downstream sector. He disclosed that his company has recently invested about one billion dollars and that with more of such investments in the downstream, the scarcity will be a thing of the past.
__Well, this article is not about the current fuel scarcity in Nigeria, rather, it is about the capacity and humanitarian disposition of a man, 'Peter Ndubuisi Mbah'. Barr. Peter Mbah is not yet the governor of Enugu state, but has filled the gap of sacrificial leadership by stretching the capacity of his Pinnacle Oil and Gas to cushion the effect of the PMS scarcity and hike on the Enugu People, a situation that fuel marketers are exploiting to make a lot of money.
__Infact, I find it hard to reconcile the numbers every time I buy PMS at N195 in Pinnacle Oil as against the outrageous price of N450 sold in other fuel stations. Through this gesture, Peter Mbah demonstrates that his love for Ndi Enugu lives above financial gains.
Romanus Ogene is a Political Scientist/Analyst and a Good Governance Advocate.
