BY EBERE WABARA
Last week, a news magazine reporter sent an SMS to me in his
professional search for elucidation on the abrupt withdrawal of former
governor of Abia State and founding member of the Peoples Democratic
Party (PDP), Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu, from next year’s senatorial battle. I
swiftly called the reporter and made profound explications on why Kalu
had to call it quits. It is only a man with a brain tumour that persists
in a conflict in the face of present and clear ambush.
As if our discussion had gone viral, on Sunday, November 30, 2014, a
fictive and moronic jester with a nomenclatural pseudonym of Romanus Uwa
published a toxic article into The Guardian on Sunday euphemistically
classified as an analysis! Analytical discipline demands balance and
fairness to all parties in a disputation. Beyond this dispassion, we all
know the illicit financial component of smuggling, which is far more
critical than objectivity in this vindictive circumstance. As an aside,
The Guardian of yore would not have published such a diatribe no matter the level of inducement.
The bunkum, who purportedly wrote the calumny said he wrote from Aba
without properly identifying himself. The fact is the oppositional
elements against Kalu are afflicted by cowardice so much that they are
afraid to disclose their real identities. They are so fretful because
they know that they are on a persecution and falsehood mission. I
implore them to be bold enough and courageous by telling us who they are
so that we can adequately respond to their interminably invidious
outbursts. Using vicious leaflets and other propagandistic channels to
foul up the space merely trivializes issues. And I keep telling
colleagues of mine in the robust media team of Kalu that we should
ignore most of these concoctive and insipid publications because our
response will dignify the mercantilist hacks and their financiers.
As should be expected, the Kalu haters who mushroomed from his
beneficence have relapsed to amnesia and are declaring that Kalu
“chickened” out of the senatorial contest for “fear of being
humiliated” by Gov. Theodore Amaefula Orji of Abia State. For Kalu’s
vanishing detractors, capital must be made out of everything – both
imaginary and real. Last month when President Goodluck Jonathan was
declaring for his second term at the Eagle Square in Abuja, the voyeurs
of volleys of lies went to town and stupidly misinformed the public
through one jaundiced online portal that Kalu who routinely was abroad
had been arrested at the venue by officers of the Economic and Financial
Crimes Commission (EFCC)! Such is the height of deviancy by the
opposition.
As I hinted last week, the truth of the matter is that Kalu dropped
his senatorial ambition on tactical grounds. He plays politics with a
measure of strategy and contemporaneous realities. A sensible man
cannot with clear eyes and sound state of mind walk on political
landmines. His strategic withdrawal from the senatorial race was the
best decision for reasons that will be adduced presently.
I blame the PDP for Kalu’s withdrawal from the senatorial battle for
granting him qualified instead of absolute waiver to return formally to
the party and to contest the forthcoming senatorial election as the
partys sole candidate for his constituency. This should have been the
most ideal and logical step to take. The ruling party’s leadership
knows the soured relationship between Kalu and his successor and the
questionable political powers they have bestowed on governors vis-à-vis
who stands any election in the state be it the National or State
Assembly, their successors and other tangential elective positions. The
PDP erroneously believes that President Jonathan’s success in the
upcoming February presidential poll depends exclusively on serving
governors. How the party arrived at this point remains cloudy to me. The
only rationalisation I can make is that there must be a provincial
manipulative underpinning in our electoral system that only state chief
executives can engineer in their respective spheres of influence!
Otherwise, it does not forensically add up at all. I stand to be
challenged on this.
Considering PDP’s dubiousness on Kalu’s senatorial candidacy and
other preceding issues, I do not blame Gov. Orji for Kalu’s tactical
withdrawal. The blame rests majorly on the confused party. Gov. Orji is a
mere accessory to the fact of the PDP’s duplicitous management of
Kalu. The landmines I mentioned earlier were procured by the PDP and
generously given to a ready and willing governor to lay on all
oppositional paths, particularly that of Kalu in all its essence.
Therefore, with Gov. Orji unilaterally drawing up the delegates’
list for the primaries, singlehandedly, in line with the Wadata veiled
mandate, it would have been foolhardiness and politically suicidal for
Kalu to have gone into the senatorial competition on such a monstrously
annihilative platform. I am certain that those who hatched the exclusion
plot knew from the outset (onset, correctly) that Kalu would not go
beyond expression of interest and declaration of intent as long as the
humiliation scheme was in place.
Let me mention it here for the first time and possibly to the chagrin
of my principal. I had always believed since 2011 that the PDP has
been playing games with Kalu. And my boss seems not to realize the
institutional treachery. When people point the finger at Gov. Orji with
regard to the travails of Kalu in the PDP, I vehemently disagree because
if the party meant well, Gov. Orji will not be subtly equipped and
officially emboldened by the PDP to slyly incapacitate his predecessor
in office. It is this political empowerment by the PDP being
mismanaged and abused by Gov. Orji that has become Kalu’s nemesis and
responsible for his associational vicissitudes and floundering
perceptions.
It becomes vexatious when clowns like Uwa embark on their incognito
buffoonery by speciously “analysing” the context of what they do not
have the cerebral capacity and competence for political ecology to
pontificate. The irony is that the Uwas of Abia State and their
benefactors know that their adversarial conduct borders on lie
blatancy, crass mischief and psychotic brazenness. In the farcical days
of the National Party of Nigeria (NPN) in the second republic there
never existed this kind of traitorous behavior on needless and
unjustifiable political expediency that alienates some key members. Such
sacrificial altars should be left for fledgling party subscribers, not a
global brand like Kalu whose unflinching and resolute commitment and
loyalty to the PDP are unparalleled. Who does not know about this fact?
The faceless and fictitious Romanus Uwa refers to Kalu as belonging
to “men of yesteryears (sic)….” Lesson number one: ‘yesteryear’ is
non-count. If a youthful Adonis like Kalu could be so described, what
terminologies shall we then employ for his senile persecutors and
beneficiaries of his political miscalculations? I am sure the clown who
wrote the trash published by The Guardian under reference is
far older than Kalu and still does errand/messengerial assignations for
the establishment which Kalu bestrode illuminatingly, superlatively and
incomparably for eight years far back (1999-2007), long before the
current pitch darkness!
Another extract from dunderhead Uwa comprising lessons two and three:
“The scenario (sic) (wrong context)…which culminated to (sic) (in)
Kalu’s recent, sudden withdrawal from the Abia North Senatorial seat
race.” There was no suddenness in Kalu’s timely appreciation of the
subterfuge and unconventional punctuation of it. In these matters, time
is of essence lest the wiles of the enemy camp encircle and constrict
you irredeemably. Why procrastinate when you are dealing with devilish
foes, murderous antagonists and governmental principalities?
Hesitation could be inimical. You need to always be ahead of your
traducers and detractors! Keep them perpetually busy with your
masterstrokes since they are averse to good governance.
Lessons four to six still from Uwa’s yellowish intervention: “… he
(Kalu) quickly fell back on (to) his (the) PPA, under (on) which
platform he….” Political associations do not belong to individuals. I
am sure the mercenary who paid to get his master’s trivia published in
The Guardian, which failed to edit the horrible script due to ignorance,
carelessness or shoddiness, has never set his eyes on political party
guidelines for registration as enunciated by the INEC. Even Nigeria’s
1999 Constitution (as amended) recognizes political harlotry, just as
defection from one party to another is accepted worldwide. I do not
understand why and how Kalu’s case assumed a life of its own
exceptionally! The unprecedented resistance to Kalu’s formal return to
the PDP shortly before the tangential waiver requires sociological
enquiry and anthropological investigations.
We move to lessons seven and eight: “In a soft-landing tactics
(tactic)…Kalu recently wrote an open letter to the national chairman of
PDP announcing his withdrawal from the senatorial race and demanding
for (sic) a refund of the money he paid for the form.” ‘Demand’, when
used as a verb, does not admit ‘for’—except its noun form! No
administrative fees for this scholarship!
The phony Uwa also talks about Kalu’s desperation in his bid to
return to the PDP and wonders at his insistence to “cohabit with people
who do not want your association.” I am getting tired of this guy’s
brainlessness. Associations do not belong to individuals.
Individuals—stakeholders or whatever name they bear—belong to
associations. Nobody has the right to disallow anyone from being a
member. Organisational or group constitutions and, indeed, any other
constitution are inferior to a country’s Constitution. If you cannot be
accommodative and tolerant of other people’s idiosyncrasies, it
squarely rests on you to quit and not try to muscle out potential
threats to your grassroots political fiefdom. This, more than any other
suspicion, is the choking albatross for Kalu, who is rightly seen as a
domineering and dominant person not pliable—or submissive to a tribe of
harebrained elders, anaemic and poverty-ravaged stakeholders and other
nondescript stomach infrastructural deficient clan of political jobbers
on the fringes of Umuahia and its environs.
The final lesson for masked Uwa: “The saying that devil (sic) (evil)
thrives where good men do nothing is real.” (No quotations apart from
mine and attribution) For the first and last time in this intervention, I
agree holistically with pseudonymous Uwa that evil is thriving in Abia
State because the few good men, a handful of elders, ungrateful
patriots and political rascals and gangsters in the state have
compromised, sold their consciences for messy porridge and turned a
blind eye to the ruination of our state in the past seven-plus years
amid propagandistic legacies that diminish mirage. Photo-shop deceitful
manipulations, robotic advertorials, sponsored interview raves, facile
supplements and ad hoc media insurgency including abduction,
intimidation, clandestine and juvenile proscription of The Sun titles in
government offices in Abia State cannot rewrite the history of the
prevailing rot and stench in my state (ask multi-billionaire Prince
Arthur Eze)!
It is only a question of time before Abians will be inevitably
exposed to the stark realities of the present disastrous tenure of Gov.
Orji. In rounding off, let Kalu’s persecutors get people with credible
and known pedigree and at least average scholastic attainments to do
their dirty media jobs and legacy ventilation as mercenaries and
mercantilists—not the Romanus Uwas of hellish descent and crass
illiteracy profile as advertised collusively with The Guardian on Sunday as the vessel!
For Kalu and his exponential followers, there is a better life
outside the senate. And there is always another time after this currency
of travesty, with a predisposition to ferocious karmic retribution.
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