The 2019 elections is at the corner and as usual the intrigues that come with quest for power which employs all desperate method to grab it by politicians will be on the increase. Rivers state will not be left out of such states that will witness the employment of devious means to be in charge all cost even if it will result to burning down the state. The statements accredited to the All Progressives Congress APC gives credence to this fact. The party in its quest for power is showing that it is desperate for power not with the votes of the masses but through the reckless use of blackmail aimed at rubbishing the image of their opponents in order to give a posture of sainthood to themselves.
The Ogba people of Rivers state
notably Omoku Town have been enmeshed in this ploy of saying the same lies
always in order to give it a semblance of truth. But everybody knows that no
matter how fast that lie runs, it will surely be overtaken by the truth just as
we are presently witnessing in Omoku Town. The opposition APC in the state
knowing very well the larger than life image of the PDP in the local
government, has made it its stock in trade to lay the blame for the crisis that
engulfed the town over the past years on the PDP all in a bid to discredit the
party. These people have a skewed view of themselves as a redemptive force.
The APC has gone to the extent of
sponsoring various social media accounts to buttress their wicked plots.Bro.
Felix Obuah an Omoku born politician who once was the Local Government Chairman
of the Ogba/ Egbema/ Ndoni local government Area has been one of the victims of
the fiendish propaganda of the APC in the state. These fake social media
accounts like UgorjiObieti, Ali Ogbalukpo etc. with faceless personalities all
with the efforts of denigrating the person who most people also know as Mr. Go
Round. I have in one of my comments on the posts of one of these sponsored
social media platforms, asked the admin if he has any evidence that ties Bro.
Obuah to the activities he has been alleged to have committed. His reply as
daft as it was, left so much to be desired and I see that such attitude
replicates itself in the entirety of the opposition who wants to see Bro. Felix
Amaechi Obuah go down as if such a scenario will make them climb to high heaven.These
people are ‘bad belle’ people who know that they cannot be like him.
As an Omoku and Ogba man and a PDP
member who is not a killer and has never been instructed by the Chairman by
word or body language to engage in nefarious activities in order to win
elections, I find the allegations as injurious to my person and wish to advise
those behind such to desist from such onoxious acts. I also want to implore our
people to stand by our own brother and not heed to the evil propaganda of the
APC and their band of player haters. The APC are the real killers and they have
shown Rivers people and Omoku people that they don’t want peace in Omoku town
and Ogba land through the granting of amnesty to cultists that participated in
the Omoku Christmas Day massacre and other heinous murders in Ogba land. For a
party that prides itself as committed to security in the state, I wonder why they
kept silent about this granting of amnesty by the APC controlled Imo state.
Connivance? Politics of condoning? Only the Almighty can fathom their
thunderous silence on this issue. Even when it was reported that the Okorocha
amnesty raised a lot of issues at The National Assembly when a motion was brought
to the notice of the House of Representatives, the leader of the broom party
who is the most vociferous and vehement person as far as the‘the Rivers
state is insecure’lullaby is concerned, maintained a grave yard
silence. I wonder if he and Rochas Okorocha had really discussed the issue at
Daura when they met to pay condolence (?) visit to Mr. President.
There are even insinuations that the
duo discussed how they will perfect their plans to destabilise the state
through Ogba/Egbema/Ndoni local government and put the blame on the state
government, Rivers PDP, Bro. Obuah and other major party stakeholders in the
state. The party hierarchy believes that with if Rivers state is insecure, it
will better their chances of winning the election and want to create the
insecurity or a state of insecurity even if it means generating one themselves
or creating a false sense of insecurity in the state.
Just as I am perplexed with the
attitude of the former governor, Dakuku Peterside as well as Chris Fynbone who
have found pleasure in shouting over the top on the issue of security in the
state have maintained a trumpet’s silence on the amnesty initiative of
Rochas Okorocha. I really don’t blame them because they have ended up exposing
their penchant of using insecurity as a blackmail weapon against the Rivers
state government and the PDP Chairman in the state. This is the position of
stakeholders in Omoku and Orashi region. The Orashi Peoples Consultative
Assembly OPCA has also buttressed this point when it called on the Imo State
government to drop the amnesty it granted. The assembly made it clear that the
Imo governor’s amnesty has exposed the APC as the real promoters of insecurity
in the region who wants to use it to foster their quest for a state of
emergency in the state or postponement of the Rivers state governorship
elections due to violence.
I wish to thank Hon. Betty Apiafi and
other members who moved the motion in the House against the sinister amnesty of
the Imo State government. What they did shows a proactive set of
parliamentarians committed to the state of affairs of its people. What is evil is evil. APC wants to ride into
power by killing innocent people in the state while putting the blame on others.
We must be vigilant to this mischievous politics by standing behind the state
government to ensure that the Imo state government rescind the amnesty.
Just like Joseph Goebbels of the Nazi
party, the propagandist machinery of the Communist party, the rabid Lai
Mohammed of APC, our budding Chris Fynebone as well as other practitioners of
the art of agitprop, we remain consoled by the fact that their their propaganda
will never last. The people will always find the crawling truth not minding the
horse speed of the lie.
ChibuezeNdubuisi Contributed this piece
from Omoku Town
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