IMO: Uzodinma And APC Conspiracy And Connivance Against Imo People

By Ogu Bundu Nwadike, M.A

Ndigbo have a saying which proposes that under certain circumstances, a subject would wear a basket mask and speak truth to the king.

That saying has a lot of implications for the gang up by powers that be in the All Progressives Congress (APC) and Senator Hope Uzodimma in Owerri, Imo State over the period that began on Sunday, March 14, 2021 in a purported celebration of Uzodimma’s 14 months of non-performance and failure in office, with their “commissioning” of his invisible projects in Imo State.

Truth be told to power, the recent physical and virtual pouring into Imo State by the national executive and legislature leadership of APC extraction to celebrate the failure of Uzodimma and APC in Imo State, with their supposed “commissioning of projects completed by Uzodimma” smacks of grand conspiracy and connivance to ridicule and embarrass the highly cerebral good people of Imo State.

This is the very first time in Nigeria that a president virtually “commissions” so-called projects from a long distance based on unverified photos and obviously biased hearsay.

It’s the second time in Nigeria that a vice president in Nigeria would “commission” projects that he didn’t see, but was told through unverified photos and hearsay.

This is the first time that a senate president will be goaded into the faux pas of standing to “commission” an inconsequential banquet hall in an inconspicuous corner of Government House.

It’s the second time “project commissioning” is done anywhere in Nigeria in the dark hours and the twilight of the day, with the aid of the beams of halogen searchlights.

Only the dishonest and insincere ploy to shield the bad project would necessitate that show of shame.

Real projects are physically commissioned in good daylight hours of the day, when the project, the executor and the people can be seen clearly and heard loudly.

If it required the full force of the very top leadership of APC to literally invade Imo State physically and virtually to provocatively perform “virtual commissioning” of micro-mini projects like a banquet hall and hidden uncompleted road projects, what will they do had Uzodimma accomplished a major landmark project like the good roads and good bridges that are seen in other States of the Southeast and South South geo-political zones?

It’s obvious that the good people of Imo State feel outrage and appalled that this kind of conspiracy and connivance was wickedly planned and poorly executed in the State in such a shameless and shameful unprecedented way and manner by Uzodimma and his Camphope faction of APC!

Evidently, that clear instance of conspiracy and connivance by Uzodimma and APC against Imo State is most unacceptable to genuine well-meaning Imolites! That’s the verdict in Imo!

Rating Uzodimma highly when because of his bad governance the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) rated Imo State lowly as the unemployment capital of Nigeria is most dishonest and insincere of the APC leadership.

Rating Uzodimma highly when his non-payment, underpayment, staggered payment of workers’ salaries and retirees’ pensions rate him very lowly is an unfair blackmail of Imo State and Imo people by APC leadership.

Under the watch of Uzodimma, over 99% of roads in Imo State remain dilapidated after his 14 months in office. In real terms, there are no motorable roads in Imo State!

It’s a crime against Imo humanity that some APC henchmen could afford to sit esconced in confinement and virtually “commission” roads that aren’t qualified to be tagged Trunk A, Trunk B, or even Trunk C roads. Too bad!

It’s very appalling that the president, vice president, senate president, APC caretaker committee chairman and others could afford to pour encomiums on Uzodimma, in spite of his colossal failure in office.

What’s the great hope Osinbajo is seeing for Nigeria in Uzodimma’s 14 months of failure? Truth is that with characters as Uzodimma and APC, there’s no hope at all in Imo State and Nigeria.

However, whatever is the interest or purpose of APC in Imo State, the incontrovertible truth is that right from the advent of the current 4th Republic in 1999 till date, Imo State has unarguably remained a stronghold of the PDP.

There’s no gainsaying that Imo is PDP and PDP is Imo! The people of Imo State love PDP and PDP loves Imo people! No controversy about that truth!

But for political terrorism, brigandage and subterfuge that characterize the APC since its formation till date, PDP will continually emerge winners in all elections in Imo State.

On a final note, therefore, we make bold to reassert that APC is on an unwise mission to Kala in Imo State. The foothold APC think they have in Imo State is a weak foot, with which it can’t move an inch to anywhere in the Southeast if the popular will and wish of the electorates are allowed to prevail in free, fair and credible elections.

Whatever happens, let it be noted that the conspiracy and connivance by Uzodimma and APC against Imo State and Imo people have been underscored and is being systematically and systemically contended with and will be legitimately contained and lawfully subdued at an appointed time soon. There’s a Supreme God!

By God’s grace, Imo State must be rebuilt!!