OGU BUNDU NWADIKE, M.A
Inconsequential media urchins of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Imo State and Rt. Hon. Ihedioha recently resumed their plagiarism of exhuming and reposting of our past short essays written when we plied our trade in Imo PDP before securing a juicy transfer to Imo APC.
The latest exhumed and reposted article was the one that was written in early 2021 and entitled: “Imo: Why Uzodimma Remains Unacceptable And Rejected In Imo”. It was written about the time that President Muhammadu Buhari paid a scheduled working visit to Imo State on September 9, 2021 to commission some projects completed by Governor Uzodimma.
In fact, we can humbly confess it now that the successful invitation of Mr. President by the Executive Governor of Imo State, His Excellency, Distinguished Senator Hope Uzodimma, and the magnanimous honouring of the visit by the president, counted among reasons that fertilized our eventual decision to leave the obviously doomed Imo PDP few days after the article.
All the while, members of the Imo PDP cabal had deceptively argued and even tolled bets that President Muhammadu Buhari can never personally honour the invitation by Governor Uzodimma. We took them seriously!
But lo and behold, on the announced date, Mr. President arrived Imo live, in body, soul and spirit, to the amazement of the good people of Imo State, but certainly to the chagrin and consternation of Imo PDP, all of whom lost their bets in shame and disgrace.
Indeed, that was just one among the many such hate speeches and hateful arguments by the leadership echelon of Imo PDP, who daily inoculated their hypnotized captives, wearied by endless tales, of the elastic plots by the doomed party to oust Senator Uzodimma, the duly elected Governor of Imo State.
Incidentally, by their recent exhumed and reposted articles, they’ve just reminded us of the need to articulate some researched reasons for the seeming jinx upon Ihedioha, their owner.
It’s on researchable records that Ihedioha’s malaria dreams to become Imo Governor started in 2012, in the second year of his controversial third term as the Member, representing Aboh Mbaise/Ngor Okpala Federal Constituency in the House of Representatives.
He was there from 2003 to 2015. Three straight terms of 12 consecutive years. And he rose to become Deputy Speaker. It was from there that he began his jinxed efforts to Douglas House in 2015.
Of course, he was defeated by the then incumbent Governor, Owelle Rochas Okorocha, in the 2015 governorship election, with enough betrayal by the Imo PDP he bestrode like Colossus on his parabolic war horse. Nothing has changed!
In 2019 Governorship election, Ihedioha was obviously fielded again by personal party, Imo PDP as their standard bearer. He suffered loss, defeat and failure in the hands of Governor Uzodimma. Nothing has changed!
He’s now struggling quite too hard and rather too desperately to be handed the gubernatorial ticket of Imo PDP in the 2023 governorship election, of which if he gets the ticket, he’ll again be defeated. Nothing has changed!
He’ll again be defeated because there are winds of jinx against his political soul. And Incidentally, they’re the same personal and Imo PDP internal winds of jinx that blew against him in 2015 and 2019. They seem set to stand between him and Douglas House for the last time! Omewere ma Chi ekweghi!
In the next edition, we’ll unveil specific research findings that are permutated to be banker draws on why Ihedioha will never be Governor of Imo State.
We’ll elaborate on the ancestral and contemporary links and considerations, in which pride, arrogance, indiscipline, impatience, impulsiveness, impetuosity, impunity, hatefulness, malice, nepotism, bigotry, stinginess, dishonesty, insincerity and assorted negative attributes, combine to make Ihedioha unelectable into Douglas House yesterday, today and tomorrow.
It’ll be loaded with facts and figures. It’s our promise! Stay tuned!
By God’s grace, Imo State is being rehabilitated, reconstructed and recovered by Governor Uzodimma!