Dateline: January 2011: The inglorious Ohakim regime was about to face
\nImolites for a second term after nearly four wasted years in power. With
\nnothing to show except cartoon scripts of \u2018achievements\u2019 that exist only
\nin the subconscious of the officials of the government and in giant bill
\nboards littered all over Imo State, with a notorious penchant to provoke
\nthe people of Imo State through haughty and empty arrogance and with the
\ncitizenry openly pitted against him, Ohakim went on a recruiting binge for
\nwho will tag with him on the impossible re-election battle. His then
\ndeputy, Ada Okwuonu was ditched and he went to recruit Viola Onwuliri
\nwhose husband Celestine Onwuliri was running out his tenure as Vice
\nChancellor of Federal University of Technology Owerri. Ohakim, a soiled
\nand bad product, with no known achievement to sell for his four years in
\npower threw a bait and his bait caught a woman with an indecent ambition
\nand insatiable appetite for the klieg light and Ohakim went home and threw
\na party that he had found a panacea to his possible exit from power.
\nIt took the mere suggestion of this bait for the woman to go gaga and
\nensured that such \u2018great opportunity\u2019 never eluded her. Her friends
\ncounseled. Her priests advised, her relations weighed in, her associates
\nadviced her but they might have been talking to a stone for Viola Onwuliri
\nhad seen a life long opportunity and she was not going to miss that for
\nanything else. Oh, yes, \u2018Ohakim is an incumbent\u2019, as she was wont to tell
\nthose near her then and that it would take a miracle to defeat an
\nincumbent. When she was confirmed as the official tag of Ohakim in that
\nill fated drive of ambition, she went to work fully charged. She termed
\nherself a magician and without shame, appropriated the liabilities of
\nOhakim. She was on a gallivanting spree, dancing and reveling all over Imo
\nState, extolling the virtues of her master. She shunned all entreaties to
\nabandon a sinking ship and went to town with how Ohakim and PDP were
\ninvincible because they were in power. Onwuliri made it a point to tell
\nImolites that whoever promised them free education in such an
\neducationally advanced state like Imo is a thief, in apparent reference to
\nGovernor Rochas Okorocha\u2019s infallible promise to grant free education to
\nImolites on election. She masked and reveled and was backed up with sirens
\nand prodded to affix \u201cHer Excellency\u201d to her name. vanity and ambition
\njammed and led her to the guillotine and her fancy ride in the lane of
\nidiocy lasted.<\/p>\n
The rest and all that happened when Imo people trooped out en mass to vote
\nout Ohakim and Onwuliri, the strident efforts to steal the mandate and the
\nstiff resistance Imo people put up are now history. But the shame and
\ndisgrace Onwuliri suffered could be better imagined for Igbo people have
\nthe wise saying that the disgrace of a noble is worse than his death,
\nthere was no doubt that Viola Onwuliri practically descended into oblivion
\nas she kissed the dust with her master when Imolites dared tanks and guns
\nto reject their soiled candidacy in 2011 governorship election.
\nThe Viola Owuliri tragedy was aptly captured by erudite Prof. Mark Odu on
\nhis treatise; \u201cViola Onwuliri; The Shameful Lust Of An Amazon\u201d. That
\nnaturally was a tragedy of inexplicable proportion because there were
\nenough warning by those eager to save this sinking amazon but her lust and
\nvaunting ambition had the better parts of her. To compensate her and
\npossibly wipe away the huge barge of disgrace that followed her after this
\nill fated vouyage, the PDP side-stepped other aspirants for ministerial
\nnomination from Imo State, including her principal Ohakim, who were
\napplying to be appointed minister in the Jonathan regime to make Onwuliri
\na Minister of State for Foreign Affairs. To her, the star is ever bright!
\nThe first action she took, which showed that she learnt nothing from her
\nfatal vouyage in indecent ambition, was to pick up her pet tag of \u2018Her
\nExcellency\u2019, claiming she is a minister of foreign affairs and as such is
\nentitled to go by that title.<\/p>\n
Since she assumed her nondescript duty, she had made it a point of duty to
\nnot only shows her unbridled loyalty to Ohakim to whom she owes her queer
\npolitical rise. She had elected to be the talisman a discredited PDP that
\nwas chase out of power nearly three years ago hopes to employ to climb
\nback to power. She had made the frequent mounting of revelry and jesting
\nin Owerri her primary duty as hardly any week passes without Viola
\nOnwuliri entertaining PDP members in Owerri with the absurd and silly
\ndemand that Governor Rochas Okorocha should account for the allocations
\nthat have accrued to Imo since his regime began. Good demand but one
\nguesses that Onwuliri always screens her eyes shut whenever she makes this
\nlaughable demand for she is buffeted on all sides by real, hard and
\ntouchable evidences of where the Rochas government invests the resources
\nof Imo State since May 1999 when the rescue government came on stream to
\nbail the state from decrepit state the PDP dumped it for the past twelve
\nbaleful years.<\/p>\n
From the comprehensive reconstruction and tarring of all township roads in
\nOwerri, Orlu and Okigwe, to the complete opening up of all the rural
\ncommunities, to the complete replacement of the dingy huts that formed the
\ngovernment house where Ohakim wanted to romp with Onwuliri, to the array
\nof glittering face of public buildings in Owerri, to the new model schools
\n(one of which I am sure, is located in Onwuliri\u2019s hometown), to the
\nmillions of Imo students in all levels of education who are enjoying free
\nand qualitiative education despite the Onwuliris and the Ohakims. With
\nthese and the legions of Imolites who were given gainful and real
\nemployment, to the communities that had their lingering leadership tussles
\nsettled, to the community governments that had taken governance to the
\ngrassroots, to the thousands of indigent widows and orphans that are being
\nsustained by the Owelle government, it is obvious that Viola Onwuliri must
\nbe really queer in demanding where the Rochas government is spending its
\nallocations. Again, the government owes Viola Onwuliri and her brood of
\nshare reapers in PDP any explanation where it is spending its resources,
\nshould they decide to feign ignorance of the earth shaking achievements of
\nGovernor Okorocha. It rather owes any explanation to the people of Imo
\nState who are seeing the resources not as handouts from the overlords of
\nPDP but as meaningful projects in their respective communities. One would
\nhave thought that Viola Onwuliri would have been moderated by the death of
\nher husband through an accident that is traceable to the corruption and
\nincompetence of the government she serves but from all intents and
\npurposes, she feels the death of her husband has freed her to indulge in
\nthe well known prosecution of a deadly ambition to remain in one political
\noffice or the other. What a pity!<\/p>\n
But we may be mistaking if we believe that Viola Onwuliri is ruled by the
\nwell being of Imo State in her present voyage in desperate folly. Like
\nany other PDP member, she is desperate to please Jonathan and retain her
\nlowly ministerial position. She is desperate to sing sweet songs in the
\nears of Jonathan so as to continue remaining in power. Her desperation is
\nlegendary and was the reason why she went on a gravy ride at the back of a
\nsoiled Ohakim and had a fall that is akin to humpty dumpty\u2019s. The
\ndesperate and ambitious amazon knows that she has nothing to point to or
\ncelebrate for her stay as a minister of state. Much more, it will be
\nfoolhardy to challenge Viola Onwuliri to state what Imo State has gained
\nfrom the hefty 52 per cent of allocations the federal government takes
\nevery month. For the avoidance of doubts, Onwuliri wants Okorocha to
\naccount for a fraction of the remaining 42 per cent Imo State gets from
\nthe federation account. When is she going to account for the huge 52 per
\ncent the Jonathan government pockets while ensuring that Nigeria remains a
\nterritory worst than Somalia for the past four years?<\/p>\n
Can Onwuliri tell us the federal projects her clan of PDP rent collectors
\nhave done in Imo State? It is a pity that Onwuliri would be gasping for
\nwords with this elementary challenge because she knows there is none. She
\nknows that under the PDP, Igbos have been completely wiped out and remain
\npitiable solicitors that would need the kind of disgraceful showing Viola
\nOnwuliri is staging in Imo State today, to remain in nondescript offices
\nlike minister of state for foreign affairs. Onwuliri knows she is fighting
\nthe wind in asking stupid questions that betray her desperation because
\nImo people know exactly where their money is being ploughed. But as
\nNigerians, they don\u2019t know where their trillions are going into under
\nOnwuliri\u2019s master, Goodluck Jonathan. All they know are the trillions
\nbeing stolen on daily basis. They know of the rising population of
\nunemployed youths, the worsening state of poverty, they know of the
\ngeneral state of insecurity, they know of massive oil thefts, they know of
\nworsening roads, they know of worsening state of power, worsening state of
\neducation, health, public looting, etc. these woeful stories are what they
\nwant Viola Onwuliri to address and also tell Imo people what they have
\ngained from Jonathan and not the silly ramblings of \u2018the achievements of
\nPresident Jonathan\u2019, as she always recites in a bid to please her master.
\nShe should quickly provide these nagging answers and back them up with
\nconcrete projects, as Owelle Rochas is doing or quit cashing in on our
\nintelligence for her selfish benefits.
\nUche Onwuchekwa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Dateline: January 2011: The inglorious Ohakim regime was about to face Imolites for a second term after nearly four wasted years in power. With nothing to show except cartoon scripts…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22995,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles-opinions"],"yoast_head":"\n