…APC HAS TOTALLY RUINED IMO IN ALL SECTORS AND RAMIFICATIONS
…POWER RUSTLING AND MONEY MONGERING IS THEIR MAIN STOCK IN TRADE
… DEMOLITION AND DESTRUCTION IS THEIR MAIN PROJECT
…MAY GOD SAVE IMO FROM APC
By Ogu Bundu Nwadike, M.A
“I’ve come to bury Ceasar, not to praise him”! That popular quote was donated to the world through the legendary William Shakespeare via the diplomatic character of Mark Anthony in the dramatic work with the simple title of “Julius Ceasar”!
In this short essay, we’ve as usual come to situate the truth of burning matters and not to press or praise them or anybody. Hypocrisy and sycophancy are never in our itinerary for constructive criticisms of the matters arising in the State.
There’s certainly fire on Mount APC of so-called All Progressives Congress. That accounts for the race and running going on in the unpopular anti-people party in the recent times.
A school of thought has hinted that whatever anybody thinks is going on in APC, Karma and Nemesis are on morning duty. A simple explanation of that would be that evil that men do, lives with them and after them.
The APC dogs are now eating APC dogs. That’s an abomination and a bad omen. There was once upon a time when those APC dogs ganged up in barking against the Peoples Democratic Party PDP in the State. Imo people quite remember that!
A short trip into the history of the origin of the war of attrition that APC leaders are fighting in Imo State now may be pertinent.
It goes thus. Prior to the 2019 general elections, the fire raging in camp APC now was ignited. The genesis hinged on the period when APC leaders and members eagerly waited for the then governor, Owelle Rochas Okorocha, to show them the man and go to bed and enjoy some well-deserved sleep.
Incidentally, Rochas in his wisdom or folly showed them his boy, Chief Uche Nwosu, who’s husband of his first daughter, Ulooma in place of the man that APC had been expecting.
That turned out to be the lighter that sparked off fire in the tinder box on Mount APC. It began few years ago but has continued to smoother!
The first of a series of consequences was the emergence of a formidable faction that went by the simple memorable aegis of “Coalition”, while the other splinter faction prided itself as “Ndi Agburu”! That was in 2018!
Next in the line of action and activities was the APC primary election in the same 2018. It ended in all sorts of parallel pockets of elections here and there by the two prominent factions.
It was while the fire smoked that Senator Hope Uzodimma gatecrashed into APC and characteristically hijacked one of the plural gubernatorial tickets for 2019 election.
Meanwhile, Rochas through his son-in-law, Uche Nwosu, was also brandishing another APC gubernatorial ticket for the same guber election.
After all was said and done, Uche Nwosu and Rochas chickened out and rushed to the Action Alliance (AA), realizing what became known as “AA-APC Perfect Alliance” and obtained their gubernatorial ticket.
It has since been confirmed by the Supreme Court that Uche Nwosu contested the 2019 election flying two flags of both AA and APC, creating the poser over which flag Uzodimma was flying in that election! Or was he an independent candidate?
Then came Saturday, March 9, 2019, the day of the guber election in Imo State, and on the marks for the race were Ihedioha, Uche Nwosu, Ifeanyi Araraume, Uzodimma and a some other over 60 candidates.
On Monday, March 11, 2019, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) announced the results of the election and declared His Excellency, Rt. Hon. Emeka Ihedioha, CON of PDP as winner of the election, with Chief Uche Nwosu of AA coming in second position, and Senator Ifeanyi Araraume of APGA coming third. Senator Uzodimma of AA came fourth.
In April 2019, when the Imo State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal opened sitting, the trio of Uche Nwosu, Araraume and Uzodimma practically ganged up and presented petitions contesting the results of the election, insisting that Ihedioha didn’t win the election.
In September 2019, the Tribunal ruled that Ihedioha actually won the election. Then the trio of Uche Nwosu, Araraume and Uzodimma rushed to the Court of Appeal, which in November 2019 upheld the ruling of the Tribunal the Ihedioha was rightfully returned as governor-elect.
Not done, in spite of all efforts made to get them seek political solutions to their grievances rather than persevering on legal litigations, the trio to Uche Nwosu, Araraume, and Uzodimma further rushed to the Supreme Court, which on January 14, 2020 made Uzodimma governor against the evidence before the Court.
The gang up of the trio which was hazy all the while became overt when they jointly celebrated the questionable declaration of Uzodimma as winner of that election.
Those people that had insisted that the trio were old time, far back co-connivers and co-conspirators were vindicated as Rochas, Uche Nwosu and Araraume guffawed up and down at the swearing in ceremony for Uzodimma and followed him sheepishly to different occasions, like the Okigwe North rerun election which was won by APC, courtesy of the combined force of the trio!
However, when the loot, booty, and spoils of war were to be shared, trouble began as Uzodimma proved that all factions are equal but Camphope faction was more equal than the others.
Uzodimma’s appointments went to only his loyalists and apologists in Camphope, leaving out loyalists and apologists of CampRoche and CampAraraume!
Not a single supporter or stooge of Rochas, Uche Nwosu or Araraume was offered appointment by Uzodimma. That blew some hot breeze on the embers of the fire that started in 2018.
Then dogs began to eat dogs. Uzodimma began to witch-hunt Rochas, just as Rochas began to witch-hunt Uzodimma at local, State and national levels.
Araraume too was biting Uzodimma, particularly over the Okigwe Zone Senatorial bye-election in which Uzodimma did everything humanly possible to stop Araraume from contesting the bye-election, not to talk about winning it, or to talk about returning to the Senate for a third term.
Along the lines, Uzodimma began to demolish and destroy roundabouts and some building structures constructed by Rochas.
Then came the implementation of the recommendations of the Judicial Panel of Inquiry that looked into the acquisition of land in Imo State from 2006 to 2019.
Uzodimma ordered the take over of Eastern Palm University (EPU) which Rochas claimed to be his, but which the Government of Imo State has been proving to be owned by Imo State.
Then, Uzodimma ordered the sealing of the expansive Royal Spring Palm Hotel that was built by Dr. Mrs. Nkechinyere Rochas Okorocha. That’s where we are as at today!
What the people who nurse the views that the hands of Karma and Nemesis are in the whole entire macabre dance on Mount APC must be saying is that the same people that once upon time ganged up against PDP victory in the 2019 governorship election have ended up ganging up against themselves.
About one year ago, they rejoiced at extricating power from PDP and His Excellency, Rt. Hon. Emeka Ihedioha. Today, they’re regretting their conspiracy against PDP, as like typical bandits and terrorists, they’re now fighting over the power and money they fought to grab by brigandage.
Let the show of shame continue in Imo APC House of Confusion and Commotion so that the world would know that the APC leaders in Imo State are political, social and economic vandals and invaders, bandits and terrorists, whose only achievements since 2011 has been the systematic and systemic total ruin of the State in all sectors and ramifications. Cry beloved State!
By God’s grace, Imo State must be rebuilt!!