Elongation of lies against Abia State Govt

One Mba Kalu who signs that he writes from Ohafia, Abia State, in an article he titled, “Nigeria: Time for a national rethink (2)”, draws his fables he perhaps takes as points and said, “Where I come from for instance, the change bug is with us. We at least think we have a strong need for a change. T. A. Orji is seen to intently and callously foist a dynastic continuum of patented misrule. Abians see him as having achieved mighty little in eight years and yet wants to impose his protégée on us.”

You see, persons are most times hypnotized to say what ordinarily they should not have said. This boils down to “stomach infrastructure” of which, from all indications, Mba Kalu is suffering from and can write garbage just to keep his soul and body together.

We have hammered on this issue from the opposition's rumour mill casting aspersion that Dr. Okezie Ikpeazu (PhD) is a stooge. We must know that no one refutes his lineage. But Ikpeazu has come out clean on this matter which we shall read in the following lines.

According to Ikpeazu in an interview: “I had my doctorate degree before my 30th birthday. I have taught in four universities, including being the external examiner of master's degree students of University of Nigeria, Nsukka. It is unrealistic for somebody to consider me a stooge. This can just exist inside the domains of political promulgation.

“Pretty much every candidate in the race was once in the PDP, so clearly they all wanted to be stooges. They began singing distinctive tunes when the PDP individuals said, "we need change yet we need to change into conviction not into dimness' and the common hirelings said, "we need somebody who can keep our occupations and pay us, not somebody who will do right-measuring or down-estimating and retrench us toward the end of the day."

Ikpeazu continued, saying, “There is no governor in Nigeria that is anyone's stooge. Also on the off chance that you played part in publicizing for votes or helped a governor to be elected, you can't anticipate that the governor will be your stooge. You can just bring thoughts that are wonderful on the table and on the off chance that it falls into the fundamental edge of a focused administration..."

Agreed, Alex Otti and his hirelings are using a lot of propaganda in this period of election to cast slur against Ikpeazu, but he is wiser. Like Ikpeazu had noted as expressed above, one observer in another angle, said, “Alex Otti was the closest of all the Abia gubernatorial contenders to TAO but unfortunately the zoning arrangement did not favour him. Otti had hosted TAO in his Aro home not less than 6 times. The picture below was taken during his Ngwa house opening of which TAO was the special guest. So what is the argument here? That he lost out in a bid to be "'stooged"" shouldn't result to bitterness and a denial of those he once had a rosy relationship with. Characters with this sort of attitude should be closely watched. The gentleman by the right is the "favoured"' one. Can you beat his public display of humility?. The difference is clear. Go Okezie!”

In all fairness, Ikpeazu as a leader has shown that he has the capacity, known as leadership, to rally men and women to a common purpose and the character which inspires confidence. And this is the bane of the Mba Kalus of Abia State.

.Hart writes from Lagos