By John Agbo (John Lead)

The embattled Candidate of the people's Democratic Party PDP Barr. Peter Mba has been making news for the wrong reasons following the presentation of his Manifesto on the 13th of October 2022. Many commentators have been legitimately picking holes in the overbloated manifesto not only because it sounded larger than life but also because it is cynically intended to hoodwink the exasperated Enugu people once again. Mbah's manifesto has received so much negative commentaries to the extent that Enugu people have faulted almost all the provisions of the document. The manner in which Enugu people descended on and demolished Peter Mbah's manifesto has once again brought to fore the public rejection of his ill conceived ambition to govern Enugu state. Like a swarm of honey bees angrily rushing on an unfortunate victim, the people of this state have perforated that hurriedly assembled regurgitation of routine but yet mundane anectode that always exude from the mouth of a regular Nigeria politician. It now looks like a lace fabric in structure. For some obvious reasons, it didn't occur to the owo man that it's no longer business as usual.

However yours sincerely is utterly bemused that our people gave so much attention to Mr. Mbah's inability to articulate an elaborate, practicable, realistic and achievable manifesto that depicts the yearnings of our people whose political awareness and expectations have skyrocketed in a geometric proportion without ascertaining whether the PDP candidate deserves to stand before Enugu people and talk about our collective future or not base on the current realities and Mba's despicable past. Permit me to admit here that I never expected anything more than the hollowness that characterised Peter Mba's manifesto. This is because from abinitio he never believed that he needs Enugu Peoples vote in order to be governor. Recall that the Owo man refused to consult or present himself to the PDP delegates during the build up to their primary election as other aspirants struggled to win the hearts of the delegates. Peter having perfected his transaction and purchase of the ticket from gov. Ugwuanyi to the tune of 13 billion naira, called the bluff of his party's delegate and waited till the governor ordered all of them to vote for Mba in a most fraudulent party Primaries in the history of Enugu state. It will therefore amount to asking for too much for one to expect peter Mbah to present a manifesto that can win the hearts of Enugu voters since he never believed that Enugu people's vote is all that he require to be a governor. In fact it is to the credits of Labour Party Enugu state and their candidate Chijioke Jonathan Edeoga who has been making great waves in his widely accepted journey into Enugu's lion building that an Ebeano Protege like Mba succumbed to attempting a shadow of an anachronistic, out of tune, stereotypical, and jettisoned kind of manifesto in modern world. This is why the document is completely devoid of everything originality, life, reality, Behind, spark, motivation, taste, ambition, and effect expected of a modern day political manifesto. And since other writers have done justice in dissecting the irritant of a document, I hereby proceed to the main crux of this write up as captured in the title.

Does Peter Mba Deserve to Present Any manifesto to Enugu People Now

Honestly speaking the PDP candidate has no moral standing to stand before Enugu people and start talking of what he will do or not do in the state. In order words Mba has no reason to aim at Enugu government house without clearing his name off the shameful financial scandals that have been hunting him since 2007 till date. In facts it is an unbearable insult to our people that Peter Mba should come to think of leading Enugu as governor without explaining in details his role in the stealing of the state treasury dry under the government of Dr. Chimaroke Nnamani- an action that earned him (Mba) 10 months of detention in the hands of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). Peter Mba has refused to answer questions on why he had to enter a plea bargain before regaining his freedom after his tenure as commissioner for finance under the same government knowing that a plea bargain in legal parlance is a mild way of accepting guilt in order to avert maximum punishment for the crime committed. This embattled Mba is obviously thinking that Enugu people are fools that should not demand explanation and apologies from him for raping the state to death financially. Recently a more damaging publication by the 'people's gazette' surfaced on how Dr. Chimaroke Nnamani and Peter Mba forfeited huge sums of Enugu state funds in far away USA in a court judgement as far back as 2009. I read a brief interview granted by Peter Mba after his provoking manifesto presentation where he dismissed the grave publication as a work of his political opponent.

Mr. Mba sir, Enugu people want to know how? I mean how does your 2022 political opponent become responsible for your indictment in a foreign country in 2009 What exactly do you take Enugu people for Why do you chose to trivialize a serious issue such as your indictment by the USA Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI when you have a lot of avenues to prove your innocence if at all you are. Sir, your response to the FBI question is highly unacceptable to Enugu people and I urge you to as a matter of urgency take actions and steps to prove your innocence or stand the risk of forfeiting your gubernatorial ambition as well if you can't establish your innocence. Enugu people are too enlightened to allow this matter be down played by you and your handlers. You are advised to sue the medium that published the news if you are innocent. Failure to do this within a space of time that shall remain unspecified shall force us to mobilize the entire state to begin a match that will force you to relinguish your candidacy in the up coming election. Enugu people can no longer allow people with a criminal record to emerge our leader for any reason. We are too sophisticated to accept that especially as we have a very credible alternative in Labour Party whom we know you can never win in a free and fair election. But we shall prove to you and your types that you cannot take us for granted as you are thinking by mobilising all known and unknown resources to make you bury your ambition before the election if you fail to establish your innocence within a shortest period of time. The onus is totally on you to show us that you are innocent of the offence. Telling us that it is a handiwork of your opponent is irritating, provoking, lame, evading, deceitful, dubious and largely unsatisfactory and cannot act as a fascia to cover and obliterate your ugly past that is hunting you.

Another issue worthy of this writer's note is the non disclosure of Peter Mbah's vital information in the so called manifesto. Dear Mr Mba, kindly note that Enugu people demand a full disclosure of your year of graduation, work experience, NYSC details, age, including how you earned the money for the establishment of your Pinnacle Oil firm etc. You see, deliberate dubiousity has a way of affecting everything one does in life. And we will not allow a man who cannot let us know ordinary vital information about himself to govern us. Everything this PDP candidate does have continued to betray a conspicuous hiatus in the personage of a man that want to govern Enugu state. And this is what we cannot allow to be since we have other men especially in Labour party who are not afflicted with Peter Mbah's kind of personality deficiency syndrome. So Peter Mba and his handlers must prove to the people they want to govern that he is innocent in a conventional court of law and demonstrate elaborate and irridiscent openess with regards to his vital information before he can qualify to contest for governor of Enugu state. Failure to do this will definitely lead to him and the party he represents losing the election before the contest begins. To be fore warned is to be fore armed.

Peter Mba is not innocent