Governor Orjis Critics Running Out of Ideas By Madubuko Hart There are two articles that caught me thinking and at the same time laughing on November 9, 2014, that were published against Governor Theodore Ahamefule Orji of Abia State in The Sun and The New Telegraph respectively with the titles: “Gov Orji’s Risky Gamble”, and “War in Abia PDP as Orji, Son Move to Impose Successor.” The former article was as boring as meeting an unwilling landlord by a willing tenant while reading it, whereas the later was like calling someone whom the court has acquitted a culprit, when the court did not say so. I shall attend to the articles. The writer of the article with the title, “Gov Orji’s Risky Gamble” narrated of how he kept a company of gamblers in the university and even admitted that a friend of a gambler is also a gambler; needless to say that he has invariably told the world who he is. What the writer wanted to sell to the world in his imagination was that Governor Orji has gambled and is today not happy in the writer’s oversight. I could not stop laughing when I went through some paragraphs of the not-interested article, because of such aspersion that some critics of the governor have heaped around him and his government, as if the governor is just learning how to govern, whereas the governor has been running the affairs of his government with respectability and has been commissioning many projects. There is nothing wrong with the governor just that some ‘gamblers’ wanted him in their fold, of which he has refused, hence they are doing everything within and not in their reach to smear the governor, his family members and the government he superintend. The writer wrote debris of how the governor pitched tent with some political parties before resting with the PDP. Without mentioning names, there are one thousand and one politicians in the country that have pitched tents with the PDP, AD, APP, ANPP, ACN… and are still pitching. So, when did it become a crime in the country for a politician to shift his or political tent? Is it because Governor Orji was involved and those ‘gamblers’ who want to ‘initiate’ him to become one of them are crying blue murder? A critical examination of Governor Orji, one would not agree less that the man is not the person who is breaking-up Abia State, or throwing the state into becoming a gamblers den, but such people who use their gambler-friend to equate the governor in an article. I think the governor loves everybody irrespective of the differences there might be, because he keeps on keeping a united Abia State. The Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Mr. Charles Ajunwa would say that those who might think that the state is in ruins are just liars and should read C. JoyBell C: “There is no such thing as a broken family. Family is family, and is not determined by marriage certificates, divorce papers, and adoption documents. “Families are made in the heart. The only time family becomes null is when those ties in the heart are cut. If you cut those ties, those people are not your family. If you make those ties, those people are your family. And if you hate those ties, those people will still be your family because whatever you hate will always be with you.” I see the politics in Abia State and how opposition politicians characterize the governor through Ajunwa’s quote of Orson Scott Card in “Enders Game”. I’ve come to realize that the governor has not cut even his worst critic or political foe from his heart. Orson Scott Card: “In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him. I think it’s impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves…” My happiness is that in the second article titled, “War in Abia PDP as Orji, Son Move to Impose Successor”, the writer admitted that Governor Orji has severally said through his spokesman, Mr. Charles Ajunwa that “he has no anointed candidate and promises to ensure a level playing field for all aspirants…” It could be seen as the writer’s oversight function to please whoever that masterminded him to write that article insinuating that the First Family has perfected plans to impose a candidate on the state. This was the same way they said in a different fora that the governor had abrogated a court order and went ahead with the activities of the PDP ward congresses in the state, whereas the Abia State chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Senator Emma Nwaka has recently repealed such garbage, saying that no court order from Abuja was ever served on him or any other member of the party’s executives, stopping the ward congresses held recently. So, we can now understand that it’s not Governor T.A Orji who is the ‘gambler’, but some opposition politicians. And they are good at gambling with the truth. Hart writes from Lagos
Posted on: Wed, 12 Nov 2014 16:27:33 +0000
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