In my over 20 years as a university teacher in the
United States, I had never been as awed and
disappointed as I was when I read the disjointed,
malicious and tendentious publication in a Nigerian
national daily of September 17, 2014 by a pseudo-
political cum pressure group by the name Abia
Patriots. They made a lot of ludicrous, outrageous,
subjective, pitiable and substantially unverifiable
claims with regard to the performance of the current
man in the saddle of leadership in my dear state, Abia,
Chief Dr. Sir T.A. Orji. The publication could at best be
seen as a poorly-handled PR stunt by a group fighting
hard to do the hatchet job for which it had been
settled.
Initially, I thought it was a mere theatrical display by a
band of social misfits masquerading as elders, until I
got to a point where they started making serious, but
bogus claims. I was thrown aback by the polemics they
spewed with infantile braggadocio and probably,
senility too, (since they claimed to be speaking on
behalf of some ‘masked’ Abia elders).
If the word ‘elders’ is interpreted in the context it was
used in the said publication, then it can be safely
concluded that Abia State does not have ‘responsible’
elders. Elders, for all I know, are men and women who
have come of age in terms of life’s experience and
sagacity – ready to offer wise counsels for the peace,
development and good governance of their people. In
fact, elders, in the community where I come from in
the northern part of Abia State, are men and women
that are held in awe, and have worked with dignity and
candour to protect their reputation and
accomplishments in life. They are also men and
women who speak the truth with brutality and finesse,
and do not dabble at vainglory and puerile rigmarole.
This is why it is a big deal in my place to behold elders
with reverence.
Suffice it to say that elders all over the world are
peacemakers, evil-fighters and bearers of good tidings.
Beneath their age is also mundane rationality, which is
spiced with celestial wisdom and illuminating and
penetrating mind. Above all, elders are usually above
board and do not pander to the whims of any political
overlords or desperadoes.
Pitifully, the so-called Abia Patriots made nonsense of
whatever ‘elders’ stand for by embarking on political
merry-go-round in such an obtrusive manner,
smacking of haughtiness and jaundiced emotionalism.
No wonder many of these elders from my clime are
ready to prostrate themselves even before idiots and
nonentities to pick up crumbs underneath the table.
What a way to fall! ........GET FULL STORY AT http://skyblings-entertainment..com.es/2014/09/the-so-called-abia-elders-and.html?m=1

Who ever wrote this piece is a fool.

T.A.ORJI-IS-A-CRIMINAL!