Snakeholders in Igbo-Etiti Politics: When Saboteurs Masquerade as Stakeholders.
Snakeholders in Igbo-Etiti Politics: When Saboteurs Masquerade as Stakeholders. In every thriving political environment, stakeholders play a critical role in shaping vision, fostering unity, and advancing development. Unfortunately, in Igbo-Etiti Local Government Area, a disturbing trend has emerged—the rise of “snakeholders”: political actors who disguise themselves as stakeholders but whose actions betray selfish motives, bitterness, and calculated sabotage. These snakeholders do not represent the people, but rather represent personal ambition dressed in borrowed legitimacy. They sit at meetings not to offer solutions but to plant seeds of discord. They speak of progress while quietly working against it. Like snakes in the grass, they smile publicly and strike privately. True stakeholders engage constructively and place the collective interest of Igbo-Etiti above personal grudges or failed ambitions. Snakeholders, however, thrive on misinformation and sponsored...