By Madubuko Hart<\/p>\n
Opposition politicians in Abia State are looking for trouble in the name
\nof playing politics; they are diagnosing the politics in that state
\nincorrectly and applying the wrong remedies, all in a bid to smear the
\nimage of Governor Theodore Orji and mislead the general public.<\/p>\n
One wonders from where they got their information from which they titled,
\n\u201cAbia PDP Appeal Panel Disqualifies Orji\u2019s Son, Others\u201d published in the
\nThisday Newspapers of November 26, 2014.<\/p>\n
The report has been found to be untrue, and has been rebuffed by many
\ngovernment officials in Abia State whose opinions were sought at the
\nbreakout of the hoodwinking news. It, therefore, behooves on Abia people
\nto see government as the preserve of their fundamental rights, which
\nshould not by any means be pushed into disarray by misleading politicians;
\nAbia people should not allow the oppositions load the people with
\nperpetual disinformation.<\/p>\n
It is essential that the people make the state where opposition
\npoliticians do not mislead them with distorted reports as if the
\ngovernment is taxing their meat and their drink, their necessaries and
\ncomforts, their labours and their amusements\u2026<\/p>\n
The report of the disqualification of the governor\u2019s son by the Peoples
\nDemocratic Party (PDP) not to contest in the 2015 elections is opposed to
\nthe fact that the young man is still in the race. On flippancy smacking
\nreport, the opposition in doing everything to pull the name of the
\ngovernor into the mud, lied that the son is a member of a secret cult
\nknown as Black Axe Confraternity, which has been later found out to be
\nuntrue, also.<\/p>\n
It could be as a result of the shenanigan habits of the opposition in a
\ndemocracy that moved John Adams in “The Letters of John and Abigail Adams”
\nto write that, \u201cI do not say that democracy has been more pernicious on
\nthe whole, and in the long run, than monarchy or aristocracy. Democracy
\nhas never been and never can be so durable as aristocracy or monarchy; but
\nwhile it lasts, it is more bloody than either. \u2026 Remember, democracy never
\nlasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide. It is in
\nvain to say that democracy is less vain, less proud, less selfish, less
\nambitious, or less avaricious than aristocracy or monarchy. It is not
\ntrue, in fact, and nowhere appears in history. Those passions are the same
\nin all men, under all forms of simple government, and when unchecked,
\nproduce the same effects of fraud, violence, and cruelty.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen clear prospects are opened before vanity, pride, avarice, or
\nambition, for their easy gratification, it is hard for the most
\nconsiderate philosophers and the most conscientious moralists to resist
\nthe temptation. Individuals have conquered themselves. Nations and large
\nbodies of men, never.\u201d<\/p>\n
Rebuffing the nuisance that was created by the opposition politicians that
\nthe son of the governor is a cultist and has been disqualified from the
\nrace, the Abia PDP in a report titled, \u201cOrji\u2019s son not a cultist \u2013 Abia
\nPDP\u201d, published in The Punch, described the report as mischievous and
\nfraudulent.<\/p>\n
According to the Chairman of PDP in the state, Senator Emma Nwaka at a
\nnews briefing in Umuahia, \u201cFor the benefit of doubt, the governor\u2019s son is
\nstill very much in the race for Umuahia Central State constituency, adding
\nthat, the clearance certificate issued to him has not been withdrawn.\u201d<\/p>\n
It is palpable that the government is not the problem in Abia State but
\nthe oppositions who have found it as their stock in trade to be misleading
\nthe people irrespective that it was said that there was no petition filed
\nagainst the governor\u2019s son before the PDP Screening Appeal panel or
\nanywhere. In the same vein, which is not in vain, the Commissioner for
\nInformation and Strategy, Chief Anthony Agbazuere, described as brigandage
\nthe contention that the governor\u2019s son was a cultist.<\/p>\n
As if Franklin D. Roosevelt had the opposition politicians in Abia at
\nheart and he said that Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express
\ntheir choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of
\ndemocracy, therefore, is education. Malcolm X added that Education is our
\npassport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for
\nit today. But C.S. Lewis would say that Education without values, as
\nuseful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
\nHope those that have found it as their occupation to mislead the world
\nagainst the government in Abia State are taking note?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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