{"id":235726,"date":"2025-09-16T19:04:51","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T19:04:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.name.ng\/news\/bourdex-declares-mandate-is-not-a-meal-ticket-as-abia-north-eyes-2027\/"},"modified":"2025-09-16T19:04:51","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T19:04:51","slug":"bourdex-declares-mandate-is-not-a-meal-ticket-as-abia-north-eyes-2027","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/bourdex-declares-mandate-is-not-a-meal-ticket-as-abia-north-eyes-2027\/","title":{"rendered":"Bourdex Declares: \u201cMandate Is Not a Meal Ticket\u201d as Abia North Eyes 2027"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<h4 data-start=\"3137\" data-end=\"3313\"><em>Bourdex blasts failed Senate representation in <a href=\"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/abia\">Abia <\/a>North, insisting a mandate is not a meal ticket but a call to service. Full story inside.<\/em><\/h4>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Dangerous Effect Of Married Women Cheating In Igbo Land Revealed | IGBO PREMIUM CONTENT\" width=\"740\" height=\"416\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mYOYbgHSiGg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"kvezio kvezio-clearfix kvezio-post-inline kvezio-float-center kvezio-align-center kvezio-column-1\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Who Cheats More: Married Men or Women? | IFENKILI (PREMIUM IGBO CONTENT)\" width=\"740\" height=\"416\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_kcF0IcrtLU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Chief Dr. David Ogba Onuoha Bourdex, MFR, OON, popularly known as Ugo\u2019Ena of Abiriba, has issued a bold political charge, declaring that a legislative mandate is not a meal ticket but a sacred responsibility to serve the people.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In a strongly worded statement titled \u201cA Mandate Is Not a Meal Ticket,\u201d Bourdex condemned what he described as the complacency and self-indulgence of some past and current representatives of <a href=\"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/abia\">Abia <\/a>North in the Nigerian Senate. According to him, the red chamber has too often been treated as a dining hall for personal gain rather than a battlefield for the progress of the people.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-2\" style=\"margin: 8px 0; clear: both;\">\n<p><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cThe Senate is not a lounge for the entitled, it is not a dining hall where power is consumed like a buffet,\u201d Bourdex said. \u201cA mandate is not a meal ticket to feed a man\u2019s ego or bankroll his empire\u2014it is a sacred trust, a weapon for service, and a battlefield for progress.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"kvezio kvezio-clearfix kvezio-post-middle kvezio-float-center kvezio-align-center kvezio-column-1\">\n<div id=\"kvezio-178990-1649116402\" class=\"kvezio-container kvezio-type-image \" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/WPAdBlock\" data-adid=\"178990\" data-type=\"image\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" class=\"kvezio-image\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/afnews.sumofunnel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/cover-1-scaled.jpg?w=1170&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"news paper\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>He lamented that while <a href=\"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/abia\">Abia <\/a>North needed warriors to defend its interests, it was instead handed \u201cwaiters who carried trays of excuses instead of shields of courage.\u201d He accused past senators of going to Abuja to \u201ceat, not to fight,\u201d while the region\u2019s roads collapsed, schools decayed, and young people were forced into migration in search of survival.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Bourdex stressed that true representation is not leisure but labor\u2014one that requires courage to fight for resources, push for people-oriented policies, and demand justice for neglected communities. \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/abia\">Abia <\/a>North needs a warrior, not a senator who treats the red chamber like a private clubhouse,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>With the 2027 elections looming, Bourdex insisted that the people of <a href=\"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/abia\">Abia <\/a>North must rise above sentimental politics and elect leaders who understand that a mandate is a call to war against poverty, unemployment, ecological disasters, and neglect.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet it be clear: a mandate is not a meal ticket. It is a call to war against poverty, erosion, unemployment, and neglect. And in 2027, <a href=\"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/abia\">Abia <\/a>North must choose a warrior, not a waiter,\u201d he declared.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Abiriba-born political figure concluded with a rallying call for a new era: \u201cA new <a href=\"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/abia\">Abia <\/a>North is possible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><h3 class=\"jp-relatedposts-headline\"><em>Related<\/em><\/h3>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-1\" style=\"margin: 8px 0; clear: both;\">\n<h3><strong>Listen to top Radio Stations in <a href=\"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/abia\">Abia <\/a>State CLICK HERE<\/strong><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- CONTENT END 1 -->\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bourdex blasts failed Senate representation in Abia North, insisting a mandate is not a meal ticket but a call to service. Full story inside. \u00a0 Chief Dr. David Ogba Onuoha Bourdex, MFR, OON, popularly known as Ugo\u2019Ena of Abiriba, has issued a bold political charge, declaring that a legislative mandate is not a meal ticket [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":235727,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[176],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-235726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abia"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/bourx-001-e1758047735934.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235726\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}