Any day Ike Ekweremadu, the deputy senate president wakes up and didn\u2019t
\nabuse or blamePresident Buhari for one reason or the other is certainly an
\nodd day. Heliterarily sleeps and wakes on the steroid of antagonizing
\nBuhari. He eats insultsand abuses on Buhari as a favorite staple.
\nEkweremadu comes from the South Eastwhere abusing Buhari is gold and he
\nstrives so hard not to miss that gold!Ekweremadu as deputy senate
\npresident was a throw-up of Bukola Saraki\u2019s coupthat saw him trade off his
\nparty\u2019s due right to get his own senate presidency.So Ekweremadu is a
\nusurper that feels he needs extra efforts to keep himselfelectorally
\nviable and what better effort than abusing Buhari which has becomea very
\nviable venture for displaced South East PDP politicians since 2015
\nwhenBuhari got their god and personal savior out of power?<\/p>\n
ButEkweremadu was deputy senate president for eight years before his
\ncahoots withSaraki got him another deputy senate presidency. You might say
\nhe needs toabuse Buhari to stay beholden to his party whose investment in
\nprocuring the deputysenate presidency from Saraki and his betraying
\nloyalists looks like a badinvestment considering Buhari\u2019s scorched earth
\napproach to the public treasurywhere Ekweremadu\u2019s almost twelve years\u2019
\nreign as deputy senate president foundrewarding traction.<\/p>\n
ToEkweremadu, Buhari is the beginning and end of all Nigerian problems
\nandrecently, he was so peeved that he baited military coup if only it will
\nstopBuhari. Ekweremadu lives on the life sport of abusing and accusing
\nBuhari andin this, he is home with a coterie of his fellow Igbo PDP
\nchieftains andmembers who see Buhari as the most potent evil that must be
\ndone away with. Youcan\u2019t blame them. At the twilight years of PDP in
\npower, Igbo became its firstsons. Added to this fanatical attachment is
\nthe presidency of Jonathan, whichthe Igbo claimed with resounding glee as
\ntheir own. In the run up to the lastgeneral election, Igbo threatened,
\nvowed and swore that nothing and nobodyshould dare vote out PDP and
\nJonathan. They courted and made viable enemy ofother Nigerians with their
\nrabid pro-Jonathan obduracy.<\/p>\n
It was suchrude awakening that on the morning of March 29, 2015, Igbo woke
\nup to discoverthat both Jonathan and PDP had been swept away in a
\nrevolution that they hardlyprepared for. Who led such revolution? Buhari.
\nSo you can understand why manyof them, especially PDP beneficiaries have
\nvowed to live their entire liveswith hatred for Buhari running terminally
\nin their veins. It was a rude shockto Ekweremadu and his Igbo PDP
\nconfederates. It was a terrible morning and theafter-effects of that
\ndreary morning is what is playing out today. Additionalto this sad reality
\nis Buhari\u2019s tight-fisted approach to the treasury fromwhere the life blood
\nof these Igbo PDP mandarins flows. They are not finding itfunny at all.
\nCuriously, in the bloom of PDP\u2019s unseemly corrupt dominance ofthe
\ncountry\u2019s politics, Igbo were perpetual hewers of wood and fetchers
\nofwater with nothing to show for their drudgery except the gargantuan
\nloots ofthe Ekweremadus and other top party leaders.<\/p>\n
Yes, PDPleft nothing, absolutely nothing as achievement for its faithful Again,Ekweremadu has particularly come under the klieg light of the raging SoEkweremadu has every reason, like any other corrupt politician, to hate I am sureEkweremadu and his ilk are not interested in providing answers to Listening toEkweremadu\u2019s rants against Buhari, you will think that he and Ekweremadu was getting richer when prominentroads in the South East When Ekweremadu was acquiring all manners ofwealth for himself as Deputy Perhaps theonly democracy dividend Ekweremadu and his PDP did in Igboland ButEkweremadu knows that he and his mischievous cohorts have a rich In the eightyears he was deputy senate president under PDP, Ekweremadu has Since 2015,ranting against Buhari has become quite a rewarding venture in Peter ClaverOparah.<\/p>\n Ikeja,Lagos.<\/p>\n
\nfanatical Igbosupport in the whole 16 years of its leadership. You are
\nbound to run into aditch and an unfathomable crisis if you ask those who
\nfanatically carry therump of PDP in Igboland today to tell you just one
\nthing PDP did for Igbo\u00a0in 16years<\/span><\/span>. Particularly vexatious is that the
\nJonathan regime whose defeat isfiring an unhealable sore in Igboland today
\ndoes not even have a five kilometerfixed road in Igboland as its democracy
\ndividend to Ndigbo. It was so horriblethat the late Alex Ekwueme, former
\nVice President and leading PDP light bemoanedbitterly in probably one of
\nhis last interviews. Ekwueme told Vanguard aboutJonathan\u2019s attitude to the
\nSouth East, \u201cSo, he had every reason to befair-minded and equitable in his
\ndistribution of resources. But we could not gofrom Enugu to Onitsha on a
\nfederal road, you couldn\u2019t go from Enugu toPort-Harcourt on a federal
\nroad, we couldn\u2019t go from Aba to Okigwe on a federalroad; you couldn\u2019t go
\nfrom Owerri on the federal road. None of the federalroads in the
\nsouth-east was motorable.”<\/p>\n
\nBuharianti-corruption war. The regime\u2019s anti-corruption agency had
\nrecently swoopedon Ekweremadu to uncover a hidden tranche of
\ncorruptly-acquired 23 propertieshidden across the world. This itself
\nfollowed a petition against Ekweremaduwritten by a former Enugu Chief
\nJudge, Prof. Umezuruike who wondered howEkweremadu who was a struggling
\ncharge and bail lawyer in Enugu State prior to1999 suddenly came upon his
\nmassive wealth. It was in the thick of this inquestthat Ekweremadu made
\nhis infamous coup-baiting gamble.<\/p>\n
\nBuhariand make his demonization his primary business as he has been doing
\nin the pastthree years. But then, how does this maniacal attitude helped
\nEkweremadu\u2019sconstituents and the Igbo who are prime pawns of his
\nuncensored bile againstBuhari? How had his never-ending acerbic
\nvituperations against Buhari broughtthe democracy dividends to his people
\nwho have watched in strange awe as hispersonal fortune skyrocket in the
\npast 15 years he has been deputy senatepresident while theirs nosedived in
\nthe same period? What real fortune has hiscompulsive ill manners against
\nBuhari helped him to deliver to his peole forwhich he solicited their
\nvotes and got elected into the senate? How has thedwindling Igbo fate been
\nhelped by Ekweremadu\u2019s petulant insouciance to Buharithese past three
\nyears?<\/p>\n
\nthe above. Heand his cohorts know for sure that they don\u2019t have any
\nreasonable answer fortheir bile-seeped tirades against Buhari. Good for
\nthem, they know that mostIgbo do not need such answer from them. They know
\nthe porousness of Igbo politicalthoughts can allow them walk away with
\nblue murder so long as they can unleasha generous dose of insults on
\nBuhari. They believe they will remain politicallyrelevant in the Igbo
\nenclave if the only thing they do is to insult and blameBuhari for
\neverything under the sun. it is such tragic but true! That is howlow Igbo
\npolitics has sunk!<\/p>\n
\nhis ilk that are sunkin this paranoid state brought heaven on earth to
\nIgboland when they wereholding sway, making merry and feeling good before
\nBuhari came to spoil theirorgy. Strangely, whatever good Ekweremadu and
\nhis cohorts did was to do wellfor themselves in terms of illicit
\nself-aggrandizement. Their fat bankaccounts, borderless estates, choice
\nproperties and thick cash are all the Igbogot for the 16 years they
\nwielded untamed power. The Igbo masses, on the otherhand, fared so badly
\nwhen Ekweremadu and co were at the zenith of their reign.While the
\nEkweremadus and their compatriots that are stuck in this maniacalfrenzy
\nbecame stupendously rich for the period their PDP was holding the
\nlongerend of the stick, the Igbo walked away empty handed.<\/p>\n
\npractically went extinct. He pretended he never knew,saw or noticed this
\ndebris. By then, his present seemingly pro-Igbo mindset wason recess. The
\nEnugu-Onitsha Expressway, the Enugu- Port Harcourt Expressway,the
\nOwerri-Port Harcourt Road, all practically went extinct as Igbo,
\nwhomEkweremadu wants to con with his cheeky vitriols and uncooked, acerbic
\noutburstsagainst Buhari, were practically locked down. That was what
\nEkwueme bitterlycaptured in the interview excerpted above. The Second
\nNiger Bridge became aregular pawn to Ekweremadu and his PDP as the promise
\nto build that bridgebecame a ready aphrodisiac Ekweremadu and his PDP
\nwaved to Ndigbo for the 16years they were in power. It is curious that the
\nsame Buhari Ekweremadu targetsfor unending assault is today, and in just
\nthree years, fixing theaforementioned roads as well as many other federal
\nroads in all nooks andcrannies of Igboland. What more, the Second Niger
\nBridge has migrated frombeing an election-winning mantra to a reality as
\nthe bridge is beingconstructed by the same Buhari Ekweremadu picks up
\nevery morning for uncouthabuse.<\/p>\n
\nSenate President, Biafran soldiers were dying intheir numbers and he never
\nsaw any need to make a case for them. Today, Buhari whohas become the
\nready butt of Ekweremadu\u2019s diarrhead mouth paid off the pensionof former
\nBiafran soldiers.\u00a0 At the heightof Ekweremadu\u2019s suzerainty when the
\ncommonwealth was a free trough for allmanners of looters, Ekweremadu made
\ngood for himself and over 27 statesincluding the five Igbo states went
\nbankrupt and couldn\u2019t pay the salaries oftens of thousands of Igbo workers
\nfor several months. This was at a time oilwas going as high as between $86
\nto $140 a barrel and Nigeria was exportingover 2.5 million barrels each
\nday. The Buhari he finds so happy abusing savedthese workers from
\nperdition as well as the millions of their dependents bybailing out these
\nstates and stabilizing them even when oil went as low as $27per barrel and
\nNigeria was exporting a meagre 800,000 barrels per day!<\/p>\n
\nwas remaining adecrepit Enugu airport as \u2018international\u2019 airport even with
\nno upgrading of thedecayed facilities in the airport. Is it surprising
\nthat Ekweremadu and hisIgbo senators who pick Buhari as fair game every
\nday, were there when theirsenate drastically made nonsense of Buhari\u2019s
\n2018 budgetary provision toupgrade the dead facilities of the airport?
\nCaught pants down by the angryreactions that followed this action,
\nEkweremadu and his fellow anti-Buhari Igbosenators feigned ignorance of
\nthe fact that the budget for Enugu airport wasreduced o near nothing by
\ntheir senate. Ditto for the budget for theconstruction of the Second Niger
\nBridge!<\/p>\n
\nharvest byploughing the rich Igbo anti-Buhari sentiment as a panacea for
\ntheir own failurefor the past twenty years. They know that the Igbo space
\nis filled to the brimwith people that ask no question from those that
\nclaim to lead them, a peoplethat lionize the rouges that steal from their
\nbarn and are mobilized easily towage sentimental wars that short-change
\nthem in the long run. So to remainrelevant, Ekweremadu and his fellow
\nslave-drivers are hooked permanently onabusing and insulting Buhari. This
\ncreepy fellow sees a perpetual politicalrelevance in waking daily and
\nmaking insouciant comments about Buhari. Theyknow who they are dealing
\nwith and are assured of the perpetual value for suchperfidy. They are
\nhooked with a people that easily confers political relevanceon those of
\ntheir people that grew rich from the common purse; a race thatcares less
\nabout life-changing projects but more about lionizing the mostegregious
\nthieves that grow fat from looting the common patrimony.<\/p>\n
\nnothing to showtan his massive wealth. In the three years he had been
\ndressed in the stolenrobe of deputy senate president in an APC government,
\nEkweremadu has hisunceasing abuse on Buhari and his sudden pro-Igbo rants
\nas enough democracydividend for him to continue being in the senate. He is
\nnot missing thatopportunity so he must rant, he must pontificate as a
\nrabid Igbo irredentistand with these, he is assured of the votes of his
\npeople. That is enoughdemocracy dividend for them. Buhari can take the
\nblame for every other thing.<\/p>\n
\nIgboland andthis is what the Ekweremadus who have absolutely nothing to
\nshow for their longstay in the inner coves of power to their befuddled
\nfellow Igbo play with glee.No one is bound to ask him how he grew so rich
\nwhile his constituents andindeed Igbo have nothing to show for his stay in
\npower. No one demands anyaccount from him. He is above board so long as he
\nkeeps abusing Buhari. No onequeries what he brought for Igbo as deputy
\nsenate president for 15 years. Abusingand hauling invectives on Buhari is
\nenough democracy dividend for Ndigbo inpost-2015 Nigeria. It is sure
\nvote-catching gimmick and the rump of the waningPDP in Igboland are
\nlapping so hugely on this. He believes that he is assuredof perpetual
\nelectoral value amongst Igbo so long as he hangs unto theanti-Buhari
\nranting aphrodisiac. It is a durable life wire as he and his ilknavigate
\nIgbo through their blindest political alley since creation.<\/p>\n