Abia &
the fools’ paradise
By Odimegwu Onwumere
What have Gov. T.A Orji and his media aides not
circulated in their make-belief and short-changed media platforms against me?
They write their diatribes against me with fake names, which is a practice only
known of cowards. They have written that I’m an ex-convict, a rapist of a 10yr
old girl, an extortionist nabbed by the police in Port Harcourt where I reside;
they say that I’m a chief blackmailer, chronic liar... Oh! The list is endless.
Some persons, especially my media colleagues, have
expressed their concern to spur for war against these media-gangsters,
describing their actions against me as shocking media show-of-aggression. But
to me, their actions are media foolery, only found among non-professionals, who
are only gasping to retain their Public Relation (PR) jobs, they lack the
dexterity and sagacity to man. For more than a week now, my name has been
concurrently awash in the media – online and print. The Gov. Orji’s media aides
have been barking like an insane wolf entrapped at crossroads in their bid to
defend their boss from my position that their government is not far from being
tainted. It took me to re-read their articles to understand the gobbledygook
contained in them that they called sentences with the mountainous of lies and
blackmails they heaped in them against me. This goes a long way to showcase the
fact that without lies and blackmails, which are unbecoming of professionals in
the PR job, these Gov. Orji’s media boys are no writers; they expertise in
manufacturing lies and recycling one article with over seven names; all
pseudonyms.
They go about in the media with their hands placed on
their heads and hitting their legs on the ground like a goat caught in the web
of soldier ants. They have been trying very hard to defend just one piece of
mine in the ThisDay of June 11, because the article contains what they did not
want the public to know. They knew that that article has generated a lot of commendation
from far and near, with over 13, 000 members of a socio-pol group known as “The
Abia Awakening” and called same, using it as pointer for casestudy. The Gov.
Orji’s media aides’ tirades against me have only exposed them to public
ridicule. Turn around and see how people are laughing at them: Hiohiohio!!!
Without bringing in the names of notable Nigerians
these Gov. Orji’s media aides want to sell to the public that have applauded
their Governor T.A Orji’s phantom projects, how else could Nigerians know that
he was building castle around nothing? In a good government, the projects speak
for the leader and not, somewhat rented praise-singers speaking. Is it not only
in Abia State that a governor would build Shoprite and hit his chest and begins
to boast about that he is developing his state? This is the level of chicanery
we have come to endure in Gov. Orji’s Abia State and call it democracy.
Whenever I read Gov. Orji’s media aides’ denunciations against my person and
stainless reputation, I quickly remember the axiom: A fool is at his best.
Imagine that the best the governor can offer our state is by saying through his
boys in one of their cynical articles against me this month (Hallmark, June 17,
which I have found not worth replying due to the over seven names they used to
circulate just that article) is by writing that my critiques concerning the
non-performance of Gov. Orji-led Abia State Government, will consume me one
day. Imagine that!
Nonetheless, that unguided position reminds me to ask
Gov. Orji, his government and family the whereabouts of the Army Captain whom
the media in the recent past reported that taught Gov. Orji’s bad-mannered son,
Chinedu “Ikuku” Orji some commando lessons after the purported pills-encouraged
son ordered the soldier to get out from a pub that he (Ikuku) entered to eat
and drink – his trademark – with his arsenal of street urchins, oblivious that
the man he was ordering to leave the eatery was a soldier. It was said that
other people who were in the eatery had left at sighting that Ikuku had entered
the place. Can Gov. Orji, his government and family tell the world what
happened to the soldier after that rather fortunate incident in which the
soldier taught Ikuku that might was not always right? Can they tell the world?
Where is the innocent soldier? I am asking!
In the Gov. Orji’s media aides garbage they flooded
with noncompliant words they christened articles, they amused the general
reading publics by writing that I worked with the government they succeeded and
masterminded who knows what they said was sold during the period. This is just
the figment of their imagination in their desperate moves to distract the
public and make their contaminated Governor Orji look like a saint: The
governor who has been widely known, tested, and accepted locally and
internationally as a failure in all measures, whose other name may be ingrate,
for barefacedly biting the finger that fed him, is the man they call “Ochendo
Global. Indeed, Ochendo global, for failure.
Where did I work with that government or who has ever
seen me with the ex-governor in question? No wonder Ndigbo would say that a
child who does not know a male-stranger in the father’s compound qualifies the
stranger as his or her mother’s concubine. Let me get busy, out of this cheap
blackmail, because I’m not like the Gov. Orji’s media aides, who do not have
other things to do, except the production of lies and blackmail against
innocent critics of their government like me. They have questioned my innocence
of writing from Aba sometimes and, Rivers most times. Please, when a journalist
travels from Nigeria to say USA and is reporting from there, would he or she
continue to sign that he or she was reporting from Nigeria? Hahahahahahaha.
This is to tell you the level of mentality of the persons that Gov. Orji is
working with.
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