Build Anambra And Breath!
Somehow, I'm feeling more helpless to do something patriotic to back
Anambra State and wondering if there was something more I could do to
help. I've documented, I've done carpentry, I've moved mud and dirt, and
I’ve made some sort of contact with the people in the neighbourhood.
I've tried my best to be an ambassador. Yet, somehow, it feels that I've
not done enough.
The case of Anambra exemplifies partiality. It is not unusual to have
crisis and there is crisis in Anambra State, the beauty of it is that
you learn from it, there used to be disagreement and dispute in the
family, community and in a nation, it is normal but where it pains is
when elders sat at home and allow goat to die in tatters. Why we are
still where we are today is because those who supposed to say the truth
are more interested in what will go to their pockets or selfish gains
and if it didn’t come through that angle, he scatters everything. But
when you come with the truth to settle a dispute, it results in peace
and progress. So there are many elders who are in Anambra who left the
goat to die in tatters and I want all of us to go and release the goat
from the tatters, so that it can be free and our party will move
forward.
Anambra has set me on the path of political righteousness. No time will
my relationship be blighted by these unpleasant incidents, for I am
restructuring my affairs, taking as my model the procedures, attitudes
and conduct of my dossier to bring back this state, the limelight of the
Igbo race? I can think of no greater compliment, and I know you will be
excited and proud to hear it.
I have noticed that whereas I personally attend to my telephone calls
and letters, when I try to contradict issues, I am confronted by the
personal, ever-changing, pre-recorded, faceless monsters troubling my
people near eastern land. From now on I have come to choose only to
deal with sycophant and blood persons who has soiled this eastern
landmark; Anambra. My mortgage to repay this evil would not travail,
therefore, and no longer be alternated, but Anambrarians take solace,
by justice, addressed unanimously and confidentially to the people
mandate and the next vote to come by whom the people must nominate.
You will be aware that it is an offense under the Constitution to flair
justice, Andy Uba masterminded, Chris Uba drafted, and their cohorts
looted and squandered the commonwealth to blunt the rich heritage of
this enviable Igboland. For any other person to open such an electoral
envelope, Anambrarians, please rise to the occasion;-dethrone and chase
the crooks. We require fair justice to choose leader to complete the
works our great leaders like the Ziks, Onohs, Odimegwu's and the rest. I
am at pain with the Rugs, who denied Anambra Obasanjo's eight-year
political balance. I know as much about them as Political gambits
knowing nothing but how to cheat and deny others whatsoever, there is no
alternative to Self-governance, may they know. Please tell Andy Uba that
he cannot rule Anambra with the tarnish and the way he is polluting
Anambra politics of his Obasanjo gang-up. He must be countersigned by a
Justice, visited by his nemesis and that the mandatory details of self-inflicted situation .Uba should hide his face in shame by now.
By confession that the 2003 election in Anambra State was rigged and
following the subsequent suspension of some key players by the ruling
political party in Nigeria, I believe that history will at its own time
and convenience look at the moral question that is Anambra State today,
having regard to the genesis of the problem and how one man without any
input usurped a group effort aimed at uplifting our people as a family
agenda.Anambra related matters" can best be described as a reflection on
the feelings of a plurality of Nigerians. It can also be seen as a
vindication for those of us who have accused Obasanjo of complicity in
the Ngige-Chris Uba saga. The treason perpetrated on the people of
Anambra was mishandled from the start by the Obasanjo Administration and
the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP cooked by Andy Uba in an anticipation
to usurp the laedership, Obasanjo then advantaged.. It wasn't an
internal party affair; it was a crime against Nigeria and should have been treated as such. Yet, we are happy that Audu Ogbeh, for whatever
reason, has chosen to speak the truth. It should outrage Nigerians that
Ngige, the executive Governor of Anambra State, went without security for
nearly one year while Chris Uba and his band of thugs were being
protected (and are still protected) by the fiercest arm of the Nigerian
Police- the Mobile Police unit.
And Since the inception of the crises in our beloved Anambra State, too
many people have blamed it on Mr. Obasanjo, who was accused and pointed
to, as the instigator in-chief and may be because Mr. Obasanjo appear
aloof, at least, at some point, albeit, providing more nuance to an
already complicated crises; But who can blame the president for saying
the immorality and confession of Dr. Ngige, soiled Ngige’s hands,
depriving Ngige of presidential help or the benefits of presidential
clout and legal protection there-from. We have now learnt that personal
revulsion and repulsion, was reason, that it does appear now, that the
Anambra State House of Assembly, properly accepted Ngige’s resignation,
because they knew, all along, what the president has just revealed to
the rest of us.
I fail to see the relevance of Dr. Mbadinuju, the former governor of
Anambra State to the crisis of confidence between Ogbeh and Obasanjo. If
Obasanjo considers Mbadinuju an ‚"unmitigated failure" why did he
promise him an Ambassadorial position in his government? Does the
President consider the position of an Ambassador such an insignificant
office that it can be used for resettling incompetent PDP stalwarts? The
President's letter is replete with insults and personal attacks that
should not be part of a public document authored by the leader of the
so-called giant of Africa.
If Obasanjo had an iota of respect for the office he singularly been
privileged to hold twice, he would have ordered the police to
investigate Chris Uba and Chris Ngige for denying the people of Anambra
state their right to self-determination. Instead by his silence, he has
become a willing accomplice for thwarting the will of the people of
Anambra state. The President, instead of being the number one defender
of the Nigerian Constitution, is a willing participant in its rape. The
treason of July 10, 2003, that was carried out in Anambra state by Chris
Uba and his group has yet to result in detention and prosecution of
anyone including the self-confessed mastermind. No doubt, the inability
of the Obasanjo Administration to prosecute these criminals gave them
more impetus to carry out more attacks on the people of Anambra State
for three days starting November 30, 2004.
This disparity is explained away by some experts as rooted in the
dispute between the Governor of Anambra State and the President of
Nigeria, that the tussle for power between Governor Ngige and the self
proclaim godfather Christian Uba was largely the cause for the undue
neglect. Some others claim the fault lies with the lacking ability of
the federal representatives to properly secure the necessary funds for
their home State, that most of the representatives careless or know very
little of the role they are supposed to play as per the political
problems that has gradually eaten up the people in their district.
When the self-styled “godfather” of Anambra State politics, Chief Chris
Ubah apparently secured the blessing of the powers that be in the PDP to
produce the machinery of government in Anambra State, including all its
elected and most of its appointed officers at the local government,
state and national levels through the April 2003 polls, he went out of
his way to forestall the type of problems he now has hanging on him“like a giant’s robe upon a dwarfish thief” (apologies, once again,
Shakespeare). He knew the risks godfathers run when they put the wrong
people in authority, especially a powerful executive authority such as
the post of a state governor under the 1979 presidential constitution of
Nigeria.
For one thing, Ubah once worked under the first godfather of Anambra
State politics, Chief Arthur Eze, who had the blessing of the late
General Sani Abacha. He was mindful of how easily all the Arthur Eze
boys, especially himself, quickly deposed their master when the Abuja
power base crumbled. For another, he saw how the second godfather, Chief
Emeka Offor, who was instrumental to the picking of Dr. Chinwoke
Mbadinuju as Governor of Anambra State, was spurned by Mbadinuju on
assuming office. Outside the state, he was a living witness to the
cavalier manner in which Dr. Chimaroke Nnamani, crippled his benefactor,
Chief Jim Nwobodo and reduced him to a persona non grata in Enugu State.
If one person had boasted that he installed all PDP elected public
office holders in Anambra State from the governor, his deputy, three
senators, members of the Federal House of Representatives and 29
Assemblymen and women, and this same man is now guiding legal luminaries
in the Supreme Court on how to upturn legitimate and already ruled
verdict, such “Ubalitics” should go back to school to learn the use of
political joy sticks and crystal balls. To that extent it now means that
PDP did not and have not won any office in Anambra State where disparity
is seen as being responsible for the political crisis looking for
technical check up.
By L. Chinedu Arizona-Ogwu
Founder; Nigeria4BetterRule
Writes From Oyigbo; Rivers State
08034885337. levinet64@yahoo.com