Probe: Is gov. Orji attempting a reconciliation with Kalu?
By Odimegwu
Onwumere
It was Hubert H.
Humphrey (American 38th US Vice President under Lyndon B. Johnson (1965-69) and
US Senator from Minnesota (1949-64, 1971-78). 1911-1978), who said that the
essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent
and probing concern for the future.
But Governor
Theodore Orji of Abia State does not want to focus for the future without the
unremitting calls to probe his predecessor, Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu. Perhaps, Gov.
Orji wanted reconciliation with Kalu, without knowing how to go about it, hence
the probe.
Nonetheless,
information has it that Kalu has constantly responded that he has nothing to
quiver for the affront called probe; he is only concerned that Governor Orji
has slighted him so much, beyond parsimoniousness, by saying that he should
appear before the probe panel, as if he is Orji’s apprentice.
Dr. Kalu’s
infuriation was noticed after the newsflash on Nigeria Television Authority on
May 15, 2013, has it that Governor Orji, who set the panel, was asking him again
to appear before it. It is though imperative to say that the vulgarity in the
statement on the television by the government of Abia State has further exposed
a known fact that the Governor Orji-led Government of Abia State does not know
what Due Process is and if it knew, it does not keep to such. Else, how could
it not have properly invited Kalu for the probe, instead of addressing him like
one loafer in the country? Although, what is the gobbledygook of a probe is
this?
In his chase
after Kalu inter alia, Orji had said that the probe was to look into the
running of the state's newspaper outfit while Kalu was in government; but in a
statement by Kalu, he urged Orji to go collect his towel where he took his bath
and stop distracting him, as his newspaper outfit, Sun Publishing Limited which
operates in Aba, Lagos and Abuja, was financed by Guarantee Trust Bank Plc, and
all the equipments it purchased had been fully paid.
It is
preposterous how Orji has made governance to look like, without a direct
approach to the rule of law, which Kalu is highly committed to, and has vowed
that it would be a shame to all the people who may be involved in the kangaroo
probe if they fail to invite him in order to put his actions as Governor of
Abia State between 1999 and 2007 straight, and stop this government’s
distractions of his activities, because he has a lot to do, if the government
is less busy in the midst of plenty works to do in Abia State.
As Abia people
knew, Kalu had noteworthy achievements during his tenor of which Gov. Orji
cannot compete. If he is in doubt, we henceforth challenge him for a debate.
How come that since 2012, the major work that Gov. Orji has known to do, is the
call to probe Kalu? This has gotten to an irritating stage. Who does not want
Kalu to speak about Abia State and her government again and who is afraid of
Kalu?
We have to
remind Orji that he should own up that he is not at peace with his conscience
for all the perceived malevolence he has meted out against Kalu whom he once
served his government as Chief of Staff, hence the make-belief probe. Abia
people are very sure that Orji is heading to the gulag from where he became
governor, if by peradventure Kalu is duly invited and he comes to open the
Pandora’s Box containing unprintable things about Orji.
Last time, it
was the irritant that the Abia State Government circulated that it wanted to
probe Kalu, because according to it, “there has been a lot of anger, irritation
and agitation within the Abia populace as a result of the unguarded false
utterances being credited to a former governor of the state, Chief Oriji Uzor
Kalu”. Nonsense! Arrant nonsense!! Which Abia people were angry over Kalu? Was
it Kalu who has been pelted severally in Abia State by the same populace or
Governor Orji? Of course, Governor Orji. This is how Abia people have started
to probe Governor Orji, while he is still taking Kalu as cover for his
non-performance in the Government House, Umuahia, Abia State capital. What an off-beam
news state!
How one wishes
that traders from Aba will also be invited to the ground of the probe and let
us see who would be pelted, booed, jeered again for his clueless, visionless and
clownish embarrassment of governance, and because of his misplacement of
aggression and misplacing governance with
nastiness. What is Orji going to probe Kalu for, when the present government
has been a nonpayer to virtually all the workers in the state? Maybe, Orji is
inviting Kalu to help him address his ineffectiveness in governance.
The present
government in Abia State is very funny – it has knack in diverting attention –
in lieu of probing into why there are many ramshackle roads, infrastructure,
dead commerce/industry, dead education. Which sector is alive in Abia State
under Gov. Orji? Yet, Abia people cannot
see where the proper use of the monies due to Abia, since 2007 till date of
Governor Orji, is channeled to. Are the monies where? Because, many unbiased
Abia people are yet to see any laudable thing that Governor Orji has done with
the monies.
It is only in
this present government in Abia State that many are regretting that they are
cursed with leadership, and they start to equate Governor Orji with a magician,
because of his ability to deflect concentration from actuality. It is only in
this Orji government that such statement as “this administration is seriously seriousless” is being heard of.
Whether Governor
Orji wants to probe Dr. Kalu or reconcile with him, Abia people of good will
had already said that Kalu is by 85% better than Orji. The only information
that Orji has kept flowing is how to probe Kalu, whereas Abia people had
expected the government to flow information to the Federal Government that all
the Federal and state projects in the state are in ruins, and instead of
travelling to Europe and USA and Abuja that do not add meaning to the wellbeing
of our impoverished people.
A bad worker is
always quarrelling with his or her good or bad tool. Under Orji, political
appointees have cried and cried and are now sacked, amongst others. By
mentioning that he would probe Kalu, Orji has started the initiation of probe
against himself, being Kalu’s Chief of Staff for 8 years. Why was Orji cooling
his feet in detention for alleged financial crimes before 2007, whereas there
has not been any case of such against Kalu?
In a state like
Rivers State, where the successor had respect for his predecessor, what was
constituted was a reconciliatory panel, which brought about the once elusive
peace back to the state. Nevertheless, let us not keep out our minds to what
Hubert H. Humphrey had said: The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid
adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future.
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