Orji’s unfounded incessant attack on Kalu
By Odimegwu Onwumere
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The more some of us want peace to be restored in
Abia State among all the fraying politicians in the state, the more some
uncouth rabble-rousers are throwing stone; some are throwing sand, or even
both. This was captured in a freshly interview in the media by one Onyechere
who has succeeded in bringing himself to the gallery for people to laugh at.
Onyechere had said that Abia State is in the present
state of governance mishap and derailment, because of what he termed, the
squabble between Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu, former governor of Abia State and,
ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo. Guzzling in the ecstasy of an aide to the out-of-action
Governor Theodore Orji of Abia State, Ochechere and his like in the ill-providenced
Orji-led Abia State, have refused to eschew trading blame where it is not
necessary and, face the reality confronting the unlucky Orji-led government of
Abia State.
Many questions came to mind after reading the narrow-minded
interview. Was it Kalu who has denied workers their right in Abia State, not
only to their wages, but also to their pensions? Was it Kalu who has denied
taxpayers the right to a good environment and infrastructure in Abia State and
hound qualified Civil Servants from Abia State and call them non-indigenes? Was
it Kalu who has mounted wickedly, dispositions in Abia State, that compelled
the lawyers of Aba Branch to stage an unprecedented protest in Abia State,
against the immorally government of Orji? We can go on and on, but for the pity
of printing space.
How can it be Kalu who is causing the unfavourable
operational environment in Abia State, no matter where one stands to stare at
the state, because he was once in a political turmoil with the
Owu-generalissimo called Obasanjo? Was it Kalu who also made traders, residents
and other systematized groups in Abia State not to be happy with the Orji-led
government? Was it Kalu who caused their exhibitions of anger and frustrations by
pelting the present government in Abia State with boos and pure water always?
Shame, shame, shameeee!
As a government known for misdirecting the general
public, it has told us of its mirage partnership with the Federal Government’s
Ministry of Power, to exploit the output of the Ohiya Power Plant. We shall
come back at this another time. This Orji-led government has accused an
in-the-clear Kalu for all its robbery of good governance, whereas Kalu is very
far from it. What is it with Orji? Did Orji not distance himself from Kalu
hoping that he (Orji) could do better in the delivery of governance, but
Nigerians have seen that he was better with Kalu who perhaps was grooming him
for leadership traits? Was Kalu wrong when he compelled the people of Abia
State to vote for Orji in the 2007 elections? Orji happens to make Abia State
and himself the nastiest of all states and governors in Nigeria?
What many of us thought that these Orji aides
seeking for relevance but in the wrong direction could be doing was to be
whispering to their Orji that concerned citizens are saying that he is
heartless and without conscience, there are no pliable roads, portable water,
in short, favourable environment for anything in Abia State and, the state has
become a place where workers are paid their salaries, only when emperor Orji
wished.
Orji’s body language is of the suggestion that he is
above questioning, hence the exercise of plunging of the state psychologically
and economically continues, for the people to be experiencing untold government
of the locust. The immaturity and crudity dispositions of Orji have
underdeveloped Abia State. Apart from the fact that Orji is still a governor
and is mentioned as one, he is in a clear state of oblivion in the eyes of
well-meaning Abia people. This is why he is always looking for cheap publicity
by every means necessary and unnecessary by involving the name of Kalu in
everything wrongfully he (Orji) does.
The action we are provoking Orji to take is to be
concerned with the duty of a governor and, not to be dragging himself into the
mud always, through his arsenal of aides, who have become media tooth-less
tigers, by sending mischievous stories online under pseudonyms, against Kalu
and, of course, critics of the government. Is it not the height of insult for
the aides to say that “God” is using Orji to rebuild Abia State and, equating
him with Pa Nelson Mandela of South Africa? Wonders, they say, shall never end!
Though, it is boring now, but it will be very boring
to see how this Orji will end as governor, because he has tailored towards
failure. He represents disappointment. He has been moving towards
disintegration of the people. He is a
shocker to ala-Igbo and to other governors from the region. Did he not open his
mouth recently that the Igbo should wait behind 2015 presidency? And he has
headed to reprimanding, segregation, and dehumanization by the entire Igbo
speaking people of Nigeria. Orji has made himself a wonderful statue of
Igbo-embarrassment and a supervisory outlaw.
It was expected of Orji that he should be thinking
towards repentance, but instead of do this, he thinks that major millstone to
political expansion and monetary growth, is to bring the name of Kalu in
everything shameful he is doing in Abia Sate. The measly talk about this name
‘Orji’ is seen as an anathema to many in any public discourse. People change
topic of any discussion anytime Orji is mentioned. They see him as the
most-horrible froth of our time. He is a misapprehension!
Abia State would have been better off without a
governor, instead of Orji. Now all the people and states that had something to
do with Abia State just hate it because of Orji, who has perfected his effort
of building the state on lies. As people from all walks of life are gearing
towards going to their various towns and villages in the event of the yuletide
season, the same is not applicable to Abia sons and daughters, because they do
not have a safe place to go.
Orji is not walking the job of one in a position of
authority as a governor. He does not understand the true meaning of leadership
and what it offers. He is only learning who said something that is not
favourable to his government and, not what the person said that might help his
government. Any commentator, to national building, who has a contrary opinion
to his, automatically is tagged an enemy of the government. Orji has always
touched the hornet’s nest, but in the most-horrible direction. This is Orji who
has concurrently inflicted an enforced levy of N2000 (two thousand naira) on
every trader at Ariaria Market, Aba, without anything to show for the levy and,
other of its like, in the entire Abia State. This levy was not exceptional to
the forced N1000 each trader paid in 2010 dubbed “infrastructural development
levy”, whereas the roads leading to the Ariaria Market, till date, are in sorry
state. Did Kalu cause this as well?
It is important
to know that Orji has no comportment. This is how his aides have threatened to
kill yours truly using falsified names and portals. May the soul of one Chidi
Nwosu who was mowed down on 29th December 2010 at his hometown in
Arochukwu rest in peace. Nwosu was a human rights activist and campaigner for
democracy in Abia State, who
was directing the nuisance called Orji-led government on what to do right, but
was killed at his prime, by alleged government’s killer squad! As this
government has no bearing, failure has captured it. Now, people are asking what
Orji is still doing in Abia State; they are asking if his heart was removed and
replaced with the Satan’s. He has credited the future of Abians to woes.
The Kalu that Orji has been antagonizing incessantly
for only reason best known to him, has the Igbo spirit of brotherhood or
sisterhood, which Orji frowns at. If Orji did have this spirit, he wouldn’t
have sacked his fellow Igbo from other states working in Abia. What is Orji’s
rationale of chasing shadow against Kalu? Is his betrayal of Kalu not enough?
It is sad that Orji has continued to bite the finger that fed him without a
twinge of conscience.
Odimegwu
Onwumere who temporarily relocated to Abia State,
contributed this piece from Aba.
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