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‘THE INSANITY OF THE INSANE; THE CASE OF OKWADIKE IKPEAZU’

Misapplication and waste of resources have continued to be an avoidable hindrance to economic development and stability of man and the society. That one could wake up one morning, hire the services of an ignoramus who would not have the moral courage of identifying his real person but rather choose to hide under a false name and ask same to come up with a three-page newspaper publication that only expresses ignorance and falsehood is something that should give concern to many with conscience. This is more worrisome taking into consideration the present economic difficulties currently being experienced in the country.

On pages 46, 47 and 48 of The Nation Newspaper of Wednesday November 19,2014 one evidently unknown and uninformed ‘Okwadike Ikpeazu’, who claimed to have his base in Abuja, embarked on adventurism that only exposed him as an unscrupulous mercenary who merely wanted to feed the unsuspecting public with tissues of lies and deceit.

In the said publication, the purported ‘Okwadike Ikpeazu’ started with an ambiguity in the choice of caption; ‘The Insanity in Abia State – LeadershipVacuum? What he meant to achieve by associating the leadership in Abia State with insanity is some thing I think should be left with clinical psychologists who can only arrive at that after a thorough examination of the mental state of ‘Okwadike Ikpeazu’. This is important because for a man to publicly describe his country as ‘God–forsaken’, it must be indicative of the fact that he sees nothing good in his country. In this very regard, ‘Okwadike Ikpeazu’ must be a sadist of extreme order.

Insanity in a man could manifest itself in very many degrees. A man that is worth his salt will not caption his drab as “The Insanity In Abia State – Leadership Vacuum but goes ahead to insult the President of the country in the most unjustifiable manner whom he absurdly questions his wisdom in decorating Governor T.A. Orji with the national honour of commander of the order of the Niger; C.O.N. The uninformed commercial writer, in his frenzy of mental disorderlines, used a medium he had irresponsibly captioned “Abia” to portray Governor Martin Nwanjo Elechi as a leader that abhors continuity in governance. He equally went to the extent of hauling abuses on GovernorRochas Anayo Okorocha of Imo State and even his children. There is no doubt that the so-called Okwadike Ikpeazu is a maniac depressive.

Realities in contemporary Abia State Government make it imperative that when pipsqueaks like this nomenclatural camouflaged Okwadike Ikpeazu are poorlyrecruited to write on a subject-matter that they are, in every material particular, incompetent to write on, well meaning Abians would not bother to give any attention to such trash that is only good for the trash can. But because in irresponsibly exposing his porosity of intellectual comprehension of facts as they exist in Abia State, he overflew the banks of his stupidity by insulting thePresident of this great country and two other state governors, it becomes pertinent to disabuse the minds of a few who, innocently, could allow themselves to be tempted to be lured into feeling that a human being had spoken, not knowing that the said Okwadike Ikpeazu is only a morally bankrupt untutored hired writer.

Let me take, for example, ‘Okwadike Ikpeazu’s frivolous claim that Governor T.A. Orji, whose election, in 2007 was, according to him, the most bizarre, was unknown. This thinking can only come from an insanity-ridden Okwadike. Except for his insanity, Okwadike should have known that a gentleman that brilliantly passed through a Primary School as Governor T.A. Orji did, successfully went through a Secondary School before actualizing his Higher School Certificate at Holy Ghost College, Owerre, read English Language at the University of Ibadan, started his civil service career as an Administrative Officer in the Old Imo State, worked as an Administrative Secretary of National Electoral Commission of Nigeria, rose to the apex of civil service by becoming a Permanent Secretary and served as Chief of Staff to a sitting Governor for eight years can not, in any way, be said to be unknown.

The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, was the electoral umpire of governorship election in Abia State in 2007. Based on facts before it, it lawfully declared Governor Theodore Ahamefule Orji as the duly elected Governor of the State and the state judiciary, in accordance with the law, swore him in as Governor. Some contestants in that election took him to court, evenupto the highest appellate court, as constitutionally stipulated then but the court, in its judicial responsibility, confirmed Governor T.A. Orji as the lawfully elected Governor of the state. What then constitutes ‘most bizarre’ in this democratic process that entirely passed through the crucible of the rule of law.Okwadike says that any election won by a duly cleared and certified candidate of a registered political Party should be regarded as ‘most bizarre’ as long as the person was merely in detention and not even prison. Okwadike should be ashamed of his ignorance. Governor T.A. Orji was not the first to win an election in West Africa while in prison. The late Dr. Kwame Nkrumah won election in 1951 while he was in detention in Forte James Prison and was consequently released by the Colonial Government in Ghana to head the government formed by his Political Party; Convention People’s Party, C.P.P.

Okwadike talked of collapse of infrastructure in Aba and even Umuahia. He specifically mentioned the road that leads from Abia Tower at Enugu-Port-Harcourt Express Road to Umuahia as one of the roads that typify his imaginedcollapsed infrastructure. There could not have been any better way of exposing the level of insanity in him other than using the beautifully dualized zero pot-hole Ossah road as his ‘case in point’. If Okwadike Ikpeazu had not been insane and naturally given to perjuries, he should have known that there is no way a state that has two major cities like Umuahia and Aba can finish rehabilitating all her inherited collapsed infrastructure in the two cities within a period of eightyears. Thank God Okwadike acknowledged that Governor T.A. Orji is building a Government House in his village in Umuahia even though he myopicallyasked; what road would lead to the Government House? It may be pertinent to state that Abia Government House can only be built in the state capital which isUmuahia. It can not be built in any other place, including Okwadike’s never-can be- mentioned village.

After Okwadike had unwarrantedly insulted Governor Martin Elechi of EbonyiState, he, being driven by insanity, quickly contradicted himself by praising him for building a state secretariat complex, modern market and dual carriage way into Abakiliki. One agonizing feature of insanity is that its victim only sees or hears occasionally. In the case of Okwadike, the lunatic spirit in him did not allow him to see or even hear of the dual carriage Ossah road that leads toUmuahia town, the dual carriage Bende road and the dual carriage Oguruberoad, both of which can separately lead to the befitting expansive Government House being constructed by the state Government headed by Chief T.A. Orji. Giving the benefit of Okwadike’s incurable insanity, no one should blame him for being off track. Otherwise, Okwadike and his unpatriotic sponsors should have commended Governor T.A. Orji for initiating and building three exotic markets in Umuahia; a feat no government in the state had achieved before. It is only one that has the misfortune of being blind, deaf and dumb in Abia State that can not applaud the Governor T.A. Orji’s administration for building, from the scratch, a twin four storey civil service secretarial complex, equipped with elevators. Since Okwadike did not tell us he is blind, deaf and dumb, no other reason can justify his crazy manifestation of absurdity other than being a prisoner of insanity. I am sure that if Okwadike could successfully ask for forgiveness for the atrocities he has been committing against nature and humanity, he could recover ten percent of his lost sanity and once that happens, he would be able to see that Chief T.A. Orji’s administration has completed an entirely new conference centre that is capable of accommodating more than five thousand guests at any given time. How would Okwadike see, hear or applaud this when nature has declared a corrosive war against him?

Okwadike is like a person the police would like to describe as ‘a man of no fixed address’. The name he uses is a false one and the address he claims defiesevery geographical definition and description. For purposes of this refutal, I have given a traceable address of mine and would go further by saying that I had the privilege of teaching for many years, both during the democratic dispensation of the second Republic and during the Military regime of GeneralsBuhari and Babangida. I want to say, without any fear of contradiction, that teachers in Nigeria have always had the challenge of not having their salariespaid as and when due. The reasons are obvious. Okwadike, being a nonentity, does not know and is incapable of appreciating the challenges of teachers in Nigeria. If he were sane, Okwadike should have said when teachers in the state were last paid. Again, Okwadike only exposed how unintelligent he is in his insanity. The Nigerian teachers have one of the most formidable labour unions in Nigeria; The Nigerian Union of Teachers. Does Okwadike want to tell teachers in Abia State that they are incapable of speaking for themselves?

In the same path of insanity, Okwadike talked of appointment of very poor persons as Transition Committee Chairmen of the Local Government Councilsin the state. Without bordering to waste precious time on a frivolous opinion of fickle-minded Okwadike, I strongly believe that in trying to disparage Governor T.A. Orji’s administration, Okwadike unknowingly promoted the administration as one that is committed to poverty eradication. Okwadike’s annoyance withAbia State government has, therefore, been traced to its favourable policy on poverty.

In furtherance of Okwadike’s rantings, he said that Abia State Governmentreceives thirteen percent oil derivation from the federation account and, in his ignorance, does not deploy it in the over all interest of the people of the state. True to his type, Okwadike, being a sadist, will never be positive in assessing any issue. If this were not so, he would have appreciated the fact that while the previous administration bluntly refused to establish Abia State Oil Producing Area Development Commission, the administration of Chief T.A. Orji, just on assumption, established the interventionist commission. Needless to state that the Agency has been wonderful in addressing many basic problems of the oil producing areas of the state.

No body that is worth his salt should be worried that Okwadike listed almost all the personalities that matter in Abia State and, in a very unwarranted disrespectful manner, dismissed them as men who see evil being perpetrated in the state but have refused to rise against it. Okwadike, by this generalization ofinsult, confirmed that he is insane and could be one of those unfortunate children that were given birth to by persons whose bio-mental stability may not be guaranteed. But the truth is that if Governor T.A. Orji had been associated with mis-governance in the state, there could not have been any magic all those dignitaries of Abia extraction insulted by Okwadike would have kept sealed lips. The simple fact that the Abia personalities of note have continuously openly associated with the Governor goes a long way to prove that the Governor has been piloting the affairs of the state in the most acceptable standard of governance.

For obvious professional reasons, I would not like to bring up Okwadike’shallucination that what Abia leaders of thought saw and kept mute is what Chief Arthur Eze saw and spoke out. I have taken this path of reason because Chief Arthur Eze came on road to Umuahia from Enugu on 27th of August, 2014. The only state roads he used were the Ossah and Library roads before he rode into Michael Okpara Auditorium. Even if it would be assumed that Chief Arthur Ezehad the most inexperienced and reckless driver, there could not have been any cause for the Anambra-born Chief to imagine, even in the least, that either of these two roads was bad. The two roads remain amongst the best roads in the whole of the south-east of Nigeria and, of course, Nigeria. The complaint by Chief Eze was the poor and discomforting state of the Enugu-Port-Harcourt express road which are presently being worked upon by the Federal Goverment.

Okwadike ended up disclosing the main source of worry of his sponsors when he spuriously alleged that Governor T.A. Orji is ‘playing god’ by zoning the governorship of Abia state to Ukwa/Ngwa axis of the state. He seemed to have satisfied his pay masters by expressing doubt if there would be a level-playing field for aspirants. He finally warned that any aspirant associated with Governor T.A. Orji would fail at the 2015 election.

In giving a resume of my attitude to Okwadike’s vituperations in the last paragraph above, it is germane to point out that Okwadike was hired by an inordinately ambitious governorship aspirant who even disowned his paternityin order to claim Ngwa origin and who has refused to acknowledge and respect the natural dictates of equity and social justice. The aspirant who is a mere political neophyte knows that Chief Orji Uzor Kalu was governor of Abia Statefor eight consecutive years; from 1999 to 2007 and he is from Abia North.Okwadike, though insane, should not be told that Governor T.A. Orji who will complete his eight years in 2015 hails from Abia-central. Okwadike’s master’sonly reason for being annoyed with Governor T.A. Orji’s strong belief in equity is because he and his master have time-held animosity against the people ofUkwa and Ngwa. As sectional Chauvinists, Okwadike and his master who has, out of greed, desperation, indiscipline and inexperience, impatiently decamped from P.D.P, having painfully realized that despite excess money he ambushed from the bank where he held sway, Abians have rejected him and his money and have, rather, settled very comfortably for equity. Let Okwadike be made to know, any time he may be lucky to recover from his state of insanity, that it was the People’s Democratic Party in Abia State that, in pursuit of equity, justice and fairness, formally resolved to zone the governorship of the state to Abia–South senatorial zone. It was not the decision of Governor T.A. Orji as an individual.

In rounding off this piece, I want to assure Okwadike and his frustrated master, whose wife has realized that Abians do not want her husband and has panickly taken to running a restaurant in Lagos preparatory to accommodating herhusband when it finally dawns on him that the most unwise decision he took was to give up his plump job in the bank, that Abians are unmistakably satisfied with the leadership of Governor T.A. Orji and will willingly elect whoever that P.D.P chooses from Abia – South as Governor in 2015.

As regards his poser on merit of aspirants from the Ukwa/Ngwa zone of the state, I do not need to remind Okwadike and his pay-master that the people of the zone parade a galaxy of eminently qualified politicians. Who on earth can doubt the qualification of an urbane academic like Okezie Victor Ikpeazu, Ph.D, who has taught in four different universities and has been in government for more than fourteen years of continuous unstained service to his father land?


Chief (Sir) Don Ubani; ksc, JP
(Okwubunka of Asa)