MyX1:
IF I WERE UCHE OGAR ...

Mr. Uche Samspson Ogar is an interesting
personality. I actually used to see him as a
young man with a great political future.
He is young and rich.
During my days in the downstream oil
industry, I came in contact with him quite
often because his company, Masters Energy, is
one of the top indigenous players in the
industry. When the NBA Aba Branch gave him
a merit award some few years ago, I read his
citation at the event, after which he gave me
his card and asked me to see him in Lagos.
Somehow, I never did.
Uche Ogar is a member of the PDP. Indeed, he
was close to the last government in Abia State
as his younger brother, Dr. Ogar was the
Commissioner for Health in the immediate past
government.
He was well aware of the decision of the party
in the state to zone their gubernatorial ticket
to Abia South in line with the Abia Charter of
Equity which seeks to ensure that every
senatorial district gets an equal opportunity to
produce the governor of the state.
As a prelude to the last elections in Abia State,
three people from Abia North Zone declared
interest to run for governor under the PDP.
They were -
1. General Azubuike Ihejirika, the former Army
Chief of Staff. He is from Isuikwuato.
2. Mr. Uche Ogar from the University town of
Uturu, Isuikwuato.
3. Mr. Alex Otti from Arochukwu.
However, after the party made their intentions
on zoning very clear, General Ihejirika saw
reason and ended his quest.
Alex Otti played smart and suddenly
remembered that though he is from
Arochukwu, he was born at Isiala Ngwa. He
quickly wrote a letter to the PDP requesting for
a "transfer" of his membership from
Arochukwu to Isiala Ngwa. In taking that step,
Otti accepted the fact that indeed, the power
shift to Ngwa land made sense. When the PDP
insisted that the power shift was not just to
Ukwa Ngwa alone but to Abia South, Otti left
the party and went to APGA where he
eventually contested and lost the elections.
But Uche Ogar insisted on contesting the party
primaries. It was his right. The party did not
stop him. Indeed, he was the only person from
Abia North that contested the PDP primaries.
It was an open contest and he lost to Dr.
Okezie Ikpeazu with a commanding margin.
Uche Ogar didn't challenge the elections. He
didn't also leave the party.
Dr. Ikpeazu went ahead to fly the party's flag
in the general elections, crisscrossed the entire
state during campaigns and eventually won the
elections.
I naturally expected Uche Ogar to form a
critical alliance with the Governor and support
the government. I expected him to help the
industrialization of the state by moving some
strategic units of his business to Abia State and
by so doing, show the people that indeed, he
was interested in the growth of the state. I
expected him to have a strategic and well
thought out political plan to work with the
governor with an eye for tomorrow. Afterall,
he is a young man in his mid 40s. He doesn't
have to be governor now. He could still be
governor tomorrow.
But No. Uche Ogar still wanted to be governor
and he wanted it now. Not by the popular will
of the people of Abia but surreptitiously
through some funny legal technicality.
Uche Ogar forgot the counsel of our elders
that freshly prepared hot yam porridge,
though tasty, can cause stomach upset.
And so, he quietly filed a suit challenging the
eligibility of the governor on the spurious
allegation of having presented false tax papers.
Having come second in the primaries, he
fantasized over the possibility of getting the
governor disqualified and he, taking over.
Uche Ogar, like everyone of us, knows that Dr.
Ikpeazu paid his taxes. Indeed, the governor
was not in any position to decide whether or
not to pay tax.
Uche Ogar knew that Dr. Ikpeazu was an
employee of the Abia State Government and
like every other employee, had no discretion
on tax.
He also knew, like the rest of us, that Dr.
Ikpeazu does not prepare tax papers. He
simply applied to the Revenue Board who
issued the documents.
Ogar, saw himself as another Amaechi who
didn't contest the general elections but was
declared governor by the Supreme Court. But
he forgot that unlike him, Amaechi won the
PDP primaries in Rivers State but was strangely
denied the chance to contest the main
elections. Amaechi had a good moral and legal
pedestal. Uche Ogar does not. He lost the
primaries.
It is curious that a man who failed to secure
the nomination of his party now wants to
become governor from the back door.
By seeking to use legal technicalities to remove
a Governor who was duly elected by the people
of Abia State and whose election was
confirmed by the highest court of the land,
Uche Ogar may have taken the worst political
step of his life.
By seeking to oust from office, the first ever
Governor of Ukwa Ngwa extraction, Uche Ogar
has declared war against not just the people of
Abia South Senatorial District in particular but
the entire people of Ukwa Ngwa land, in
general.
Make no mistakes about it, the people of Ukwa
Ngwa land have a deep emotional attachment
to this Governor. We see him as the
personification of our decades of struggle for
our political emancipation.
Therefore, any person who plans to remove
him from office naturally incurs the wrath of
our people.
If Dr. Ikpeazu lost the general elections, it
would be a different ball game. But to seek to
remove him from office using the Uche Ogar
style of legal technicalities is nothing short of
a declaration of political war. That's how our
people see it.
Not even Alex Otti who was a candidate in the
general elections and who went to court to
challenge the elections raised this spurious
allegation of tax.
Everyone knew that Ikpeazu was Head of ASEPA
in Aba before the elections. Was he working
for free? Was he not getting salaries? Will you
pay a man salary without deducting his tax?
By seeking to remove Governor Ikpeazu, a man
who has made clear his intention to rework
Abia State and set it on the path of economic
growth and infrastructural development, Uche
Ogar may have committed political suicide.
The generality of the people of Abia State see
this move by Ogar as a deliberate ploy to
distract the attention of a performing
governor...and that is exactly what it is.
Uche Ogar seeks to reap where he did not sow.
That is against the natural law of harvest. You
cannot sow ukazi and reap nturukpa. No!
I don't know if Uche Ogar thought deeply
about this his move. I don't know what his
political plans for the future are. I don't know
if he intends to run for any state wide office
tomorrow and if he intends in the future to
ask for the votes of the people of Ukwa Ngwa
land, the largest single voting bloc in Abia
State and a people that control 9 out of the 17
local governments in the state.
By Uche Ogar's strange political calculation,
the people of Abia South, nay, Ukwa Ngwa land
are not good enough to be governor, ehh kwa?
Uche Ogar, obu l'ezi?
Uche Ogar, Dede Nne, Ikpatala nku la eghe
anyim. Ma Chineke.
Do you know that if the Amaechi scenario were
to play out again and Uche Ogar becomes
Governor, God forbid, what it means is that
both the Governor and the Deputy Governor
will come from Abia North. This is because like
Amaechi, Uche Ogar will have to work with the
current Deputy Governor.
Tufia kwa!
If there is one thing I am sure of, it is that the
Supreme Court of Nigeria, the highest temple
of Justice in this country will never order that
a man who lost his party nomination and never
contested the general elections to be declared
governor. It doesn't make sense. Like I said,
Amaechi had won the primaries but was
stopped from contesting. Uche Ogar lost. How
can he be Governor?
I also know that the Almighty God is a God of
justice.
Anyways, we will always remember Uche Ogar
as the man who sought to break our hearts
politically.
If I were Uche Ogar, I wouldn't have taken this
step.
But I am not Uche Ogar.

QueenSarafina:
Invitation to come for the screening exercise in ogun state

nwadiuko1:
he is from my state but this is a welcome development, ...... if you know the problem this guy caused for my current governor during the election period with his ill gotten money, u go fear

QueenSarafina:
pls house, make the dresscode clearer, for those that av done other state screening was it thesame dresscode, i got mine sent to my email last nite.

dest4real:


Mr Solomon Arase is set to retire today.


In anoda news, Mr solo don do me leg over oooo, no specialist list released yet!

tycoon3:
Please house, I just checked my mail now and my interview was schedule for 6/15/2016...... Please what can I do.....
Quick response please

Nne5:
Big lie.Leave igbos alone.Hapu anyi aka ahn ahn

kstan:


Locate your local government headquarters to apply for the certificate.
It shouldn't cost more than a thousand naira.

solobb:
Pls does in umuahia shuld pls snap d pix 4 us because I hv not receive d email yet

heskeyw:

Am lost here. U need to reach them on twitter. If their response is nt fast enough, then u will need to go enugu police command on monday just like everybody else. Wen u reach there, u will explain to them.....

Sammyblaq:

I don't see any difference btw the 2....still serves the same purpose.

Sammyblaq:

Go to local government... Umuahia North(Bende rd/NEPA), Umuahia South(Apumiri Ubakala).

Sammyblaq:

Go to local government... Umuahia North(Bende rd/NEPA), Umuahia South(Apumiri Ubakala).

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