[b]In the present circumstances, it looks like
the humiliated former Governor of Imo
State, Mr. Ikedi Ohakim is dying a natural
political death since he created the falsified
impression that the ebullient former
Governor of Abia State, Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu
was caging him from working when he was
governor, which as a result warranted his
exit from the Progressive People’s Alliance
(PPA), a party that the influence of Kalu
propelled the people of Imo State to vote
for Ohakim in the embattled 2007
gubernatorial election in the state.
The February 2nd 2012 Supreme Court
judgment that threw a dirty mud on the
face Ohakim and asked him to leave
Governor Rochas Okorocha alone, is a sign
that Ikedi will gasp for the breath for
political relevance in Nigeria for so long, if
not forever. One thing is that Ohakim was
merely a political neophyte that was
brought to limelight by Kalu’s political
wizardry. But sadly that Ohakim jumped
ship on July 25th, 2009 from the party that
*made* him to the Peoples Democratic Party
(PDP), thinking that he was safe there.
The regrettable thing among many political
analysts since the goofing parade of the
persona dramatis laced with unprecedented
misery is the mumbo-jumbo political
propaganda that was carried out and
created against an innocent man like Kalu
by the nonconformist. The insinuation or
verbatim talk that emanated from the fangs
of Ohakim was that Kalu never wanted him
to use the money that was meant for work
in Imo State judiciously. This was the same
with Governor Theodore Orji of Abia State
who first ran to the All Progressive Grand
Alliance (APGA) before finally berthing in the
PDP. Like Ohakim, Orji also betrayed PPA by
his insensate defection to the PDP.
But as the facts of non-performance of
governance are unfolding between Ohakim
and Orji, it has been understood that they
said the untruths against Kalu. If they insist
that Kalu was their problem, Nigerians have
seen that they are failures after leaving the
PPA in their respective states.
Ohakim did not do any better during his
reign in Imo State. This was not caused by
Kalu, but by his gluttonous and ill-fated
perceived approach to politics and
governance. For sure, Ohakim will be
regretting by now, with deep thoughts of
why he left the PPA in the first place, seeing
the parade of political misery that surround
him today.
Consequently, Orji has engaged in media
abracadabra of how his government is
developing Abia State. But from east to
south to north and west poles of the state
people are praying for a foreseeable chance
of divorcement from the grip of the
inefficient government of Orji. For example,
see Aba and cry!
The misery that followed Ohakim when he
was governor and after was never told
anywhere before in the political history of
any country. Inter alia, can any sane
government, a democratic one at that,
incessantly bully its citizens to the extent
that a Reverend Father was recklessly
maltreated by the Ohakim goons in
government? This is what we are talking
about of a man who ran the Imo State
government like his dukedom. Though, he
has shamefacedly pleaded. But it is
surprising that his media followers are still
exonerating him from the crime he had
owned up, saying that the Reverend Father
saga was fiction created by his political
rivals to discredit him. This logic is not fair
anywhere, let alone in Imo State that has
crème de la crème intellectuals and political
bigots.
While Ohakim and Orji, through their
undisciplined practice of politics thought
that Kalu would be brought to close to tears,
Kalu is rather burgeoning stronger. It can be
seen that no amount of mobilization against
Kalu can bring him down again since the
duos have not succeeded in bringing him
down since they carried out that act of
political prostitution against him. They have
alleged that Kalu was greedy, but Nigerians
know better today that Ohakim and Orji are
the greediest people who only develop(d)
their states on the pages of the
newspapers.
Like Imo people were not happy when
Ohakim was *Ikiri *in government, the
same unhappiness is applicable to the Abia
people. Hardly do the majority of the people
want to hear the name “Governor Theodore
Orji” because he is not greedy with the
development of the state. Therefore, the
people are living like rodents and some of
us writers who out of what the government
fed us about Kalu and we wrote against him
are regretting the objectionable act today.
Nigerians of good have come to understand
that it was not Kalu and his mother who
were consumed by greed as was the
speculation, but Ohakim and Orji and they
are paying dearly for it. The duo thought
that development of their states would
come when they joined the PDP, not
knowing that they were going to meet their
waterloo. The non-acceptability of the PDP
in Abia State and Imo State till date
effectively worked against Ohakim and Orji,
even though that the later was declared
winner in the 2011 gubernatorial elections
in Abia State and Ohakim was fully mortified
out of office.
It was evident that the personality of
Ohakim and Orji and their self-conceited
promises could not influence governance in
their respective states of Imo and Abia. To
the average citizens of these states they see
the betrayal against Kalu as the doom that is
following them, because if Ohakim could
not be reliable in the PPA, he has also
showed that he could not be reliable in
governance, likewise Orji.[/b]


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