Amaechi & the hijack of democracy
By Odimegwu
Onwumere
Aftermath the
election of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) in which Governor Chibuike
Amaechi of Rivers State was said to have won with 19 votes against 18 (some say
16) votes that the Governor Jona won, the powers that felt they were greater
than Amaechi have been beating him up and down.
The annoying thing is that they
do not want him to cry. Any attempts he makes to express himself, they award
him with one penalty or the other, not minding the chagrin on the masses’ faces
bemoaning that democracy that was supposed to be for democrats have been
hijacked by traitors. Where has that happened before that a child was beaten
and the beater does not want him or her to cry?
The Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP), being the party that Amaechi is a member, is only
concerned about its Constitution and, not the Constitution of the Federal
Government (FG). The party has been abusing the Immunity Clause in the FG’s
Constitution, which the governor was entitled to enjoy. In a conspiracy on
April 26, the governor was molested at Akure, where his state’s aircraft that
he sojourned with, was blatantly seized on an ‘order from above’.
Since May 24 that
the NGF had the election and Amaechi was elected to continue the piloting affairs
of the forum, it has been one intimidation or the other meted out to him by his
party. The party does not mind that he is a sitting governor. If anybody would
say that this is not true, why was it reported that the National Working
Committee (NWC) of his party has set up a committee to investigate the
governor? Investigate him for what? Does he no longer enjoy the Immunity Clause
or has PDP gone gaga with the prescription of Impunity Clause because of Amaechi?
Regrettably, the cry
that a smashed millipede was supposed to be crying, it was the person that
smashed it that was crying. With what the PDP has been doing to Amaechi, it has
now become very imperative to ask who the real violator of the PDP Constitution
is. Is the constitution of the party supreme to what democracy entails? How come
that an election said to have been won by the governor was hijacked? Yet,
somebody is still calling Amaechi names and wants to send him to Golgotha. For what!
If PDP continue like this, soonest, a sitting governor would be thrown into the
prison, but let that person not be Amaechi.
In a linear rear,
it is not Amaechi that was caught in any anti-party activities, but those that
do not want to uphold the tenets of Democracy. If there was any anti-party
activities tag on Amaechi, from what that has been playing out of the party
against him, it is a case of giving a dog a bad name in order to hang her.
But what is this
anti-party activity about Amaechi all about? Is it the rumour from the mischief-makers’
mill that he had a vice-president ambition with a northerner as president in
2015? And so what! Is he not a politician aspiring for a greater height in his
political career? Although, he had ascribed the statement as a ruse from those
who did not want him and his political career to grow.
The height of
violation of any Constitutions is the hijack of an election said to have been
free and fair and won by Amaechi; for-this-reason PDP should abrogate the
furtherance of its deceiving tactics where it had prescribed Amaechi in bad light
before the unsuspecting and suspecting public that he was caught at a crossroad
in an involvement in the violations and breaches of the party constitution. Hooey!
With what the PDP
is doing to Amaechi, it is no longer hidden that the PDP as a political party
has not been setting any rightful precedence for the current democracy to have
as its genuine base to spring from. Using the 2015 presidential election as
defense, where some yesmen want to criminalize Amaechi for the incumbent
president to contest, is an estrangement and, it is condemnable.
How come that there
is much desperation by the sitting president for the 2015, which has resulted
in the PDP flogging Amaechi with an armoured cable, whereas in the past, the
party was not intensively committed to consenting to the directorial and moral
lapses on the part of its governors? The political hatefulness by the
presidency against Amaechi is without doubt the return of totalitarianism in
the country and it is creating opposition in the PDP, which is only beneficial
to the opposition political parties if the later could make bet of the glaring
opportunity.
To Nigerians who
are spiritual (not religious), it could be said that providence wanted to use
Amaechi to expose the putrefaction that Nigerians have come to endure in the
hands of this PDP for the past decade it has held power in Nigeria. What has
been happening to Amaechi can be said is a life changing episode in the history
of democracy in Nigeria. The bad news that PDP planned for Amaechi has made him
to be relevant than ever. People are no more showing sentiments against him,
like it was when the whole brouhaha started. Except some of the PDP members,
many Nigerians are thinking of how to move the country forward and, they are
very embittered that some PDP members could express this puckishly level of
pettiness against Amaechi. One thing today is sacrosanct: PDP has exposed
itself to public ridicule, while some of its members are already suffering from
heartache, which Amaechi has given to them.
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