Nigerian politicians are not worth dying for. They take us for
granted. This is why we must not take our lives for granted for the
ascension of any political contender. What kind of money is worth
losing a life for? But Governor Ikedi Ohakim of Imo State looks like
one who wants to lose his life for his re-election bid, or wants the
people of Imo State to lose their lives, so that he could be
re-elected, following his body language, which depicts desperation.
From accounts of what have been playing in that state, whoever that is
working for Rochas Okorocha or Ifeanyi Ararume, automatically becomes
Ohakim’s enemy. His agents also know those people who are working for
these contenders, have their lists, and have made arrests.
Ohakim seems to have moles in every political camp in Imo State, that
are passing information to him. And many people do not know this, they
go about exposing theirselves, because of other contenders of Ohakim’s
office.
It is observed that some people in the politics of that state are
touts, just risking their lives for a piece of porridge. The advise
has been: they must stay away from this kind of politics. Politics of
bitterness is not good, and the people should stop using their lives
as bet to the Ohakim goons.
Kidnapping anybody in Imo State is criminal! Kidnapping is not in the
law of Nigeria, and does not make the people fear whoever that is
kidnapping or those who send them. Any arrest in Imo State that is not
made by the security officials that are recognised by the Nigerian law
is prosaic. And those promoting Ohakim have a very long time to seeing
that he lacks democratic values, by his alleged bullies of those
opposed to his shenanigan politics. Ohakim can be seen is so pristine
to revere free speech and its freedom.
How can somebody who said that he is a leader be so savage by asking
that nobody posts anything but Ohakim’s and Jonathan’s posters in
Owerri? Some persons have asked: What manner of competition is this?
And even said that in the USA., that Ohakim’s crude ordinance is
treasonable felony.
It is sad that Ohakim is playing a ‘do-or-die’ politics. And the just
concluded National Assembly elections in some parts of the state
proved this. He forgot that all over the world, democracy is not a
game of disparity: holding one group down, while another is promoted.
No.
My USA-based friend, Emenike Nwankwo, PhD, had warned: “It was just
an act of supporting the invasion of privacy that force president
Nixon to resign during watergate. His campaign staff were accused of
secretly breaking into the offices of his opponent to search for
information. When the incident leaked out to the press and it became a
burden, he was forced to resign his office and hand over to his
deputy”.
Would people stay away from Ohakim’s track and stop provoking him
because he is so desperate than some Imo people can see? So, Ohakim
did not expect any challenge? Would Ohakim sacrifice any Imo person
who is not supporting him? He cannot intimidate all the people to stay
away from Imo politics even when it is known that a dead general can
not live to fight again, but it is known that a good lawyer even
speaks from the grave. And Imo people must speak out!
Ohakim cannot intimidate all the Imo people with his rattled snake
condition in that state’s politics so far, to stay away from the
politics. Those people who have through the pen written constructive
criticism of him should not wane and hope that it is time to be
collecting their bonus and not say anymore no matter his Ikedinakobko,
which was Iwuoha’s predicament in the hands of Ohakim and his
subsequent articles that assigned Ohakim the title of a koboko man. It
was this that led my friend in the USA to say that Ohakim’s Public
Relation (PR) is finished, and that in the USA., he is cooked like
Okoro soup in the eyes of Imo citizens, for being the most
undemocratic ever in that office.
We also have heard that when some politicians in Imo State went to
answer the call by a Bishop Obinna, at Assumpta Cathedral Owerri, the
state capital, Ohakim was booed. The Bishop had invited all the
governorship aspirants to come and recite their manifestoes on how
they intend to develope Imo State. About eighteen aspirants went.
Numbers were said to them to pick from a basket for turns to speak.
Reportedly, Ohakim was either no. 7 or 8; when it was the turn of
Ohakim to speak, he was booed until he got angry and left the hall.
“When the turn came for Owelle to talk, he was never allowed to talk,
people started chanting: Owelle ka anyi ga eso. He pleaded the crowd
to allow him to speak but they did not. They told him that he has
already won… Even Ararume did not make any impact, ” said the
report.
It was also reported in a circulating grassroots voice poll results
that Okorocha will give Ohakim a massive defeat on the election day
because the people do not want Ohakim. “When we say Ohakim is
finished, it means that he should begin to look for new lawyers,
because he has questions to answer and to make public accounts of
every penny he was given from the federal allocation,” still said the
report.
It is no news that many Imo people have said that Ohakim fakes ‘419’
projects and hosts mischievous websites to hoodwink his people to
believe that his government is working. Many Imo people have said that
they are now ready for the ‘battle’ to root out evil from (Ohakim-led
Imo State government) Imo and bring the bright days they are working
for in the election. The momentum is growing, but could the days they
are working for be Okorocha? Some people are yet to believe this. The
‘rescue mission’ is also working, hoping that Imo will soon be free
from the ‘419’ projects?
Opinion poll carried by a group that parades itself as the Concerned
Citizens For Better Imo which took place on the 15th of February 2011,
when two students were sent to central Owerri to seek opinions
randomly on voters’ preference for Imo State governor, the outcome
indicates Owelle Rochas Anayo Okorocha leading the pack. Out of 4000
people approached in no particular form, the following responses were
obtained: 3651 said that they will vote for Mr. Okorocha, 303 said
that they will vote for Ohakim, 42 said that they will vote for
Ararume, and 4 refused to say anything.
The same opinion was reportedly seeked on the 20th February 2011, in
Orlu International market, and the opinions were targeted at 2000 but
3500 people responded thus: 3495 said that they will vote for Mr.
Okorocha, and 5 said that they will vote for anybody with cash. On the
21 of February 2011, the opinion seekers were reportedly parked their
car in Ubo Mmiri, along Orlu-Owerri Road, motorists, including drivers
of Keke totaled at 500 spoke, and the following was obtained: 452 said
that they will vote for Mr. Okorocha, 43 said that they will vote Mr.
Ohakim, and 5 said that they will vote for Mr. Ararume. On the 24th ,
the people started from Nkwere to Anara, then to Okigwe. They
reportedly, also, went to Mbaitolu and Mbaise. They could not continue
to other areas as they encountered unruly police officers. But out of
the 1965 people they asked, 1435 said that they will vote for Mr.
Okorocha, 350 said that they will vote for Mr. Ararume, and the rest
just called them Ohakim boys.
Notwithstanding, it was a Ayn Rand who said that, “Competition is a
by-product of productive work, not its goal. A creative man is
motivated by the desire to achieve, no
t by the desire to beat others”;
political juggernaut Kingsley O. Mbadiwe (K.O.) said, “When the comes
come to become, you will know the physicality of man”; and Collin
Powel said, “Only a fool is at his best”. It is now left for Imo
people to chose from the quotes the one that befits Ohakim. Imo
people, however, should be happy that Ohakim is a ‘teacher’, and not a
‘killer’. He flogs his political enemies in his office, like he was
alleged to have ‘disciplined’ one Samuelson Ikenna Iwuoha, for not
following ‘Ohakim’s order’. These Ohakim’s political enemies should
say that they are lucky Ohakim and his agents are not about killing in
Imo State, but about desperation.
