Abia & Gov. Orji’s incessant affront
By
Odimegwu Onwumere
Some
people have the ability to learn from experience while others do not
have. The latter does not make human existence unique. It is not remarkable.
Such makes the world to retrogress. And this is what has been
playing on in Abia
State.
But
Governor Theodore Orji and his bootlickers
called aides would ever comment to the contrary thereby deceiving
neophyte-observers of the political games they have been
playing
in that once “God’s Own
State” now turned to
“Goons’ Own
State”.
A
fortnight, one of the Orji’s aides spoke in an interview of how the
governor
has ‘restored the dignity’ of the Abia person, but one cannot
nominate
a place where the ‘dignity’ is restored. This is evident that
the
government is using propaganda as its vital tool for governance,
forgetting
that no government has ever survived on propaganda. The
Orji-led
government of Abia
State is living on such
now, but
definitely
it has shown that it cannot survive on a platter of good
governance
devoid of the art of propaganda.
The
rude side of this propaganda which the Orjis in the Abia State
Government
have been hatching un-relentlessly is their nasty
disposition
in churlishing the predecessor of Governor Orji of which
one
cannot examine their actions and understand what they are bent on
achieving
with such crass media brouhahas. It is therefore essential
to
note that the futility-war the Orjis have waged against the
immediate
past governor of the state lacks substance and do not hold
any
water, as the person in question wields political power that spans
beyond
and across the Orjis’ marooned political exhibitions.
Governor
Orji cannot be talking about having dignity when the welfare
of
the Abia people he was supposed to add value to is in shambles,
therefore
making the future of that state to be bleak. This is
annoying
because, as they say, Governor Orji was of the Civil Service
before
he became governor. Imagine a man who was once a permanent
secretary
ruling Abia State like one who has not heard about
the
tenets
of leadership before. He has further aided critics to question
how
he got to that position of a permanent secretary because his body
language
so far has proved that he was not competently qualified for
the
aplomb job.
Dignity
is not in name but in work. It is the good work that a person
has
done that compels people to see him as a man of dignity.
Notwithstanding,
this is not applicable to Orji, both in name and in
deed,
he is a light featherweight. Ask the Orjis one project they have
completed
in Abia State, they list frivolities. They will
mention Umuahia Master Plan, Aba Master Plan, and all other poppycock they have
been exhibiting in Abia
State and call it good
governance.
A
man like Governor Orji who they say was a permanent secretary is
supposed
to make Abia State functional, but the obverse has
been the
case.
And this is the bane of the patriotic Abia people. For example,
where
is the N1 billion grants for youth agriculture? The Orjis would
use
the flood that took over some towns and villages in Nigeria as an
excuse
whereas Abia State was not a witness, or how they
have
disbursed
the ‘N1B’ to the youths who were certified by their various
local
governments and traditional rulers for farming. Hooey! What
about
the much-touted and hyped monorail project? As if that was not
enough,
they would tell whoever that cares to listen of how Orji pays
out
N2.5 billion to civil servants as salaries. They know how to draw
pity
to their government of how less than N1billion is left for them
every
month. This is an insult!
It
is sad that Abia State fell in the hands of kidnappers of
good
governance;
where the governor’s wife has been building houses for
people
christened underprivileged people, and one is poised to ask
where
she got the money from and what her occupation is. This is what
the
state has become, and the aides are competing for who issues out
the
longest press briefs on matters bothering to the governor. The
cheerless
side of their charade is the incessant rudeness they show
against
the immediate past governor of the state. This habit however
shows
that there is perhaps something that is eating the fabrics of
the
Orjis in government that they don’t want to say. Albeit, the
masses
will know in due course!
It
is lacks judgment by any aide serving Governor Orji-led government
of
Abia State not to know that down deep Orji’s
heart he feels guilty
of
how he betrayed the finger that fed him with abusive excuses as
reason,
when what the Abia people have gotten as governance is
intimidation
and unquantifiable taxations of the residents in a place
like
Aba and sundry.
The sycophants do not realize that nothing lasts
forever
and that very soon Orji-led government will be but a history.
No
doubt, Orji and his aides’ approach to things are uncivilized,
makeshift
and narrow-minded, with their disastrous government that has
already
crashed in the abyss. Those aides of Orji that are writing
deconstructive
garbage against the immediate past governor of Abia
State
will write against their today paymaster Governor Orji by
tommorow.
It is a promise. What goes around comes around.
Odimegwu
Onwumere, Poet/Author is the Cordinator, Concerned
Non-Indigenes
in Rivers State (CONIRIV).
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