By Odimegwu Onwumere
The law of karma basically states that every action has a reaction and
whatever you do to others will later return to you, either in this life or a
future life. Furthermore, ignorance of the law is no excuse. We are still
accountable for everything we do, regardless of whether we understand it or
not. We cannot escape it, even if we do not believe it. Therefore, the best
thing is to learn how it works. If everyone understood the Law of Karma, we
would all be living a happier life in a brighter world.
I was too sure that
a day like this would come against the embattled and estranged All Progressive
Grand Alliance’s (APGA) National chairman, Victor Umeh, because the founder of
the party, Chekwas Okorie was hounded out by those he brought to the party. Okorie
was crying and shouting above his voice, but the powers that felt they were in
the party did not care to listen. All they cared about was ‘politics’. Nothing more!
They could say that Okorie was removed as chairman by the court of law. But in
ernest, was the court not adduced?
I don’t know Umeh neither
Okorie except as I read about them in the newspapers like other Nigerians. One person
that is conspicuously in the scenario that I have met one-on-one is Governor
Peter Obi of Anambra State. It was during one of the Press Conferences that he
held at Government House Awka, and I was among the invited pressmen.
Umeh reminds me of
how people in our country talk about religion so much, but hurl the word Karma around
nonchalantly, as if it belongs to the Traditional Believers they regard as
fetish, periscoping through the self-acclaimed Godly people’s inadequate and prejudiced
lens.
There would always
be karma! Umeh who is a Knight in the Catholic Church had in different
interviews talked about how “God” has helped him to the ‘level’ he is today. He
rather forgot that there are always the principles of Karmic Justice, which
provides deep lessons to learn. The God of Justice (pls, not Jehovah or Yahweh)
but Karma, has given Umeh a wonderful gift to use as he was disgracefully
chased-out as the national chairman of APGA, by the same court they used
against the good-natured Chekwas Okorie, whose tears of how they intimidated
him has not dried from the ground the fell. How I wish that Dim Chukwuemeka
Odumegwu-Ojukwu is alive today! Remember? Okorie brought Ojukwu to APGA and
made him the Leader of the party and latter, the founder of the party was made
the feeble.
It was a long encounter
between Okorie and the forces that hijacked the party he founded from him. In
an appeal instituted by the former National Chairman of the party, Chief Okorie,
challenging the decision of an Abuja High Court, which validated his ouster
from the Party by the Umeh faction, the tussle came to an intimidating end on
13th January 2010, as a Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja, delivered
its judgment against Okorie.
The stubborn confrontation
for the Chairmanship of the party didn’t start in 2010; it started in the year
2004. Umeh faction met and sent out Okorie from the party. They gave a good dog
a bad name in order to hang her, mouthing that Okorie was shooting to sell out
the party’s mandate. Governor Obi was then seeking to retrieve the state from
Dr. Chris Ngige, who was the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party.
Umeh and his splinter
group gave all sorts of names to Okorie. Apart from their shamefaced claim that
Okorie wanted to sell the party, when they saw that that was not saleable, they
said that Okorie embezzled the party’s fund, and converted same to his private
use. How true was it that Okorie was the sole signatory to the then party’s
accounts? They even expelled Okorie from the party that he founded! Humiliation,
upon humiliation!!
Umeh did not
remember Karma or respect the “God” he has always boasted of serving. Upon that
the National Working Committee of the party latter met and ratified Okorie’s expulsion
before he moved towards an Abuja High Court, to challenge his eviction, Umeh
and co was busy playing ‘politics’. But still Okorie has face to present today
in Nigeria than Umeh. Okorie was able to file an action before the court
seeking to have his expulsion quashed and sought for an order of the court
dismissing this Umeh.
It is today
palpable that the victory that Okorie could not get then, Umeh has finally
gotten it but in the opposite and is disgraced out of the party. Even though
that Okorie failed in his pursuit at the High Court and talked to the appellate
court to set aside the lower court’s judgment, Umeh is straight away disgraced,
not only by the court that he used against Okorie, but by the same forces that
he was boasting with against Okorie, and Maxi Okwu has replaced him in acting
capacity.
Umeh is today
suffering in the APGA that his team suppressed Okorie in, and the latter’s
matter suffered series of adjournment including applications for stay. Umeh was
then thanking the judiciary for the unanimous decision reached by the court, which
upheld the decision of the trial court and held that Okorie’s ouster from the
party was authentically done, in line with the stipulations of the party.
While a cost of
Seventy Five Thousand Naira was awarded against Okorie in favour of Umeh then,
the case is different today. A national shame has been awarded against Umeh in
favour of Okorie. Not even the Supreme Court can save Umeh, as he has started
to talk ills of the judiciary that he was once full of praises for. How I wish
that this Victor Umeh could lay hand on the work entitled "Eckankar:
Ancient Wisdom for Today" by Todd Cramer, he would understand that Karma
applies itself in the most exacting and clever of ways. If we deprived another
human being of freedom in a previous life, we'd probably have our freedom
curtailed in this life. This experience would give us time to reconsider our
views and learn the Law of Love.
Odimegwu Onwumere,
Poet/Author, contributed this piece from Aba, Abia State
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