By his election, Okoh, a civil war veteran, becomes the first non-Yoruba to become the head of the Anglican Church. He follows a line of distinguished former Primates like Olufosoye Adetiloye and Akinola who were all giants of the church. It is the foot-prints of these men that Primate Okoh would now follow and possibly surpass.
We welcome the election of Primate Okoh to this elevated position in the Anglican Church. More so, as his election addressed a sore point within the Anglican Communion that has seen parishioners chaff under the headship of shepherds they felt did not share their culture and who they felt ensured that they were marginalized in church affairs.
This situation led to instances where, within the same communities, rival Anglican Churches emerged to cater to the different ethnic groups that established them.
It is a mark of the sagacity of the College of Bishops that elected Okoh that they shifted the office away from the ethnic group that has traditionally produced the top leadership of the Church. Call it zoning, if you like.