{"id":20949,"date":"2013-12-17T17:14:04","date_gmt":"2013-12-17T16:14:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=20949"},"modified":"2013-12-17T17:14:04","modified_gmt":"2013-12-17T16:14:04","slug":"sadly-luck-has-run-out-on-imo-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/articles-opinions\/sadly-luck-has-run-out-on-imo-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Sadly, luck has run out on Imo State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>\u00a0 By Chukwuka Ezendiaru<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n\u201cA man who sold his dog to buy a monkey still has a squatting animal in<br \/>\nhis house.\u201d This Igbo proverb seems to capture appropriately, the<br \/>\nsituation of the people of Imo State. In 2007, the people of the State<br \/>\nwere on the verge of getting it right again in their choice of governor<br \/>\nuntil the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) mishandled the governorship<br \/>\npolitics in the state.\u00a0 That singular mistake threw up a third-rate<br \/>\nopportunist, Ikedi Ohakim. of the People Progressive Alliance (PPA), as<br \/>\nthe governor after an illogical voting pattern.<br \/>\nBy the way, Ifeanyi Araraume was declared as the authentic PDP candidate<br \/>\nby the Supreme Court contrary to former President Obasanjo\u2019s choice,<br \/>\nCharles Ugwuh.\u00a0 But rather than support Araraume, Obasanjo flew into Imo<br \/>\nState after the Supreme Court verdict to declare that his party, the PDP;<br \/>\nwas not fielding any candidate in the election. And true to Obasanjo\u2019s<br \/>\nstance, PDP abandoned its official candidate and supported PPA\u2019s<br \/>\ncandidate, Ohakim.\u00a0 Yet this is the same Obasanjo that accused President<br \/>\nGoodluck Jonathan of anti-party activities in Anambra, Ondo and Edo<br \/>\nstates.\u00a0 If Obasanjo is right in his recent 18-page letter to President<br \/>\nJonathan, then the President has been a very good understudy of his<br \/>\nbenefactor, the former president!<br \/>\nThe arrogance with which Ohakim misgoverned Imo once again proved the<br \/>\nsuperiority of popular choice to imposition and the manipulation of the<br \/>\ndemocratic process to which Obasanjo once again pleaded his guilt in his<br \/>\nacerbic letter to Jonathan.\u00a0\u00a0 Yes, Obasanjo confessed that he probably had<br \/>\na hand in deciding the democratic outcomes in the 1979, 2007 and 2011<br \/>\npresidential elections.<br \/>\nBack to Ohakim\u2019s Imo state: because Ohakim knew those who made him<br \/>\ngovernor, his allegiance was never to the Imo people.\u00a0 If anything, he<br \/>\nheld the people in contempt as he was everything a governor ought not to<br \/>\nbe.\u00a0 But little did he know that people power will come to play in the<br \/>\n2011 election.\u00a0 For the people of Imo, Ohakim\u2019s cup was full to the brim<br \/>\nand it was time to show him the exit door.<br \/>\nThe popular sentiment was that any person other than Ohakim would do.\u00a0 To<br \/>\ntell how the people detested the idea of the return of Ohakim as governor,<br \/>\nthey were willing to put on hold the principle of zoning, which has helped<br \/>\nin peaceful\u00a0 political succession in the state if that is all it would<br \/>\ntake to sack the governor.\u00a0 That was how Okorocha was elected as Imo State<br \/>\ngovernor.<br \/>\nThose who think the ambivalent politician who has been a member of five<br \/>\ndifferent political parties since 1999 is popular must think twice.\u00a0 This<br \/>\nis particularly important as we approach the politics of 2015.\u00a0 Indeed in<br \/>\nelecting Rochas Okorocha, the people of Imo were willing to accommodate<br \/>\nthe Orlu Zone for another four years after former Governor Achike Udenwa<br \/>\nwho hails from Orlu had done two terms totalling eight years. That was<br \/>\npart of the huge sacrifice to get Ohakim out of the way.<br \/>\nBut with the benefit of hindsight, it is dawning on our people that they<br \/>\nhave probably sacrificed more than was needed to get Ohakim out.\u00a0 As it is<br \/>\nturning out, Governor Okorocha is becoming a bigger liability than Ohakim.<br \/>\nYes, the former governor could be accused for his arrogance, intemperate<br \/>\nlanguage and even lack of dissimulation in his dealings with the people.<br \/>\nYet the incumbent governor, Okorocha has become an incubus, a terrible<br \/>\nnightmare to those who expected much from him.<br \/>\nSmart and gifted with the gift of the garb, Okorocha stole his way to the<br \/>\nheart of the ordinary people, especially those incapable of any<br \/>\nsophisticated analysis.\u00a0 And with his sugar-coated tongue, governance has<br \/>\nbeen reduced to a road-show, and if you like, a huge joke in the Eastern<br \/>\nHeartland.\u00a0 These days, when Okorocha pays salaries of teachers, which he<br \/>\nis supposed to do anyway, he calls a world press conference and creates a<br \/>\ndrama out of it; when retired civil servants are paid their pension, the<br \/>\ngovernor makes it television live coverage event. Such has been the<br \/>\nmelodrama, which governance has been reduced to.\u00a0 But governance, which<br \/>\naccording to classical philosophers like Plato, is a serious business that<br \/>\nmust be based on exact knowledge, has been turned on its head by Okorocha.<br \/>\nIf all that Imo people have had to contain with is Okorocha\u2019s road-show it<br \/>\nwould have been excusable. But unfortunately so, their governor is<br \/>\nbuilding a great reputation for arbitrariness.\u00a0 There are many allegations<br \/>\nthat good and reputable contractors have left Owerri in droves because of<br \/>\nthe manner the administration in the state is awarding jobs without due<br \/>\nprocess and proper documentation.\u00a0 Where on earth except perhaps in Imo<br \/>\nthat Government contracts for roads and other infrastructures are awarded<br \/>\nto people by mere verbal proclamations?\u00a0 There are hush-hush talks in Imo<br \/>\nState capital about contractors who allege of being swindled by the state<br \/>\ngovernment through this verbal award of contracts by officials of the<br \/>\nstate.<br \/>\nMoreover, Okorocha appears not to have any agenda for the development of<br \/>\nthe state that expects so much from him.\u00a0 You can quarrel with his<br \/>\npredecessors, Udenwa and Ohakim for not delivering much but they at least<br \/>\nhad plans.\u00a0 Not so for Okorocha who is simply muddling through issues and<br \/>\nproblems.\u00a0 That is why today the governor is chasing misplaced priorities<br \/>\nthat will certainly not improve the life chances of the people. For<br \/>\nexample, how can the building of a five-star hotel in Okigwe, a town that<br \/>\nhas no access to potable water and where poverty is walking on its rural<br \/>\nstreets help the poor masses of our people?\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 How does the issuance of<br \/>\ncertificates of recognition and staff of office to some nondescripts<br \/>\nliving outside Igbo land as traditional rulers in their places of<br \/>\nresidence against the letters of the law be a governor\u2019s priority?<br \/>\nThankfully, the South-east Council of traditional rulers have spoken up<br \/>\nagainst Okorocha on this matter.<br \/>\nThose who know Okorocha intimately indeed warned when our people were<br \/>\nembracing him just to get Ohakim out of the way.\u00a0 The governor did not<br \/>\neven settle down before he vindicated those early warnings.\u00a0 First, he<br \/>\nframed his deputy governor, Agbaso, whose elder brother paved the way for<br \/>\nhim in APGA, with bribery allegation and got him impeached.\u00a0 The only<br \/>\noffence Agbaso committed was that his presence constantly reminds the<br \/>\ngovernor of the one-term agreement he entered into before he was given the<br \/>\nAPGA ticket.\u00a0 Although EFCC has cleared the innocent man, Okorocha and his<br \/>\ngang are questioning EFCC\u2019s verdict on Agbaso.<br \/>\nSecond, Okorocha did not only jump out of APGA, to join APC but strived to<br \/>\ntrade away a party that was magnanimous to offer him the opportunity to be<br \/>\ngovernor, in his treacherous dealings with Tinubu and Co.\u00a0 Now Okorocha is<br \/>\nrunning his mouth against the PDP in his misadventure to be considered for<br \/>\nthe vice presidency in APC.\u00a0 Okorocha is free to pursue his selfish<br \/>\nambition in APC but he must be told in clear terms to count our people out<br \/>\nin his perilous journey to political perdition.\u00a0 Our people are clear on<br \/>\ntheir position to support President Jonathan in 2015 should he decide to<br \/>\nrun.\u00a0 And if by any chance Jonathan is not running, Okorocha most<br \/>\ncertainly cannot be the Igbo candidate.<br \/>\nLooking back now, it was not always bad for Imo State.\u00a0 This is the same<br \/>\nstate that produced Sam Mbakwe, RBK Okafor, Justice Oputa, Mike Ahamba and<br \/>\nother men of integrity.\u00a0 Why has our politics fallen into the hands of<br \/>\ntricksters, charlatans and roughnecks?\u00a0 Why is Imo very much unlucky?<br \/>\nEzendiaru, a civil servant, wrote from Mgbidi, Imo State.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 By Chukwuka Ezendiaru \u201cA man who sold his dog to buy a monkey still has a squatting animal in his house.\u201d This Igbo proverb seems to capture appropriately, the&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20950,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles-opinions"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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