Inferiority Complex Or Ignorance?

MAZI EJIMOFOR OPARA 

“The last State visit by a President was in 2012, ostensibly to commission a brewery and another private enterprise”… Gov. Soludo.

I don’t want to dwell too long on this conversation. This is solely because I find nothing to it beyond what was stated. Soludo’s speech had three clear dimensions for those who read it with an open mind. First, was its historical context which established Mr President as a long time friend and gave factual insight into when a similar visit took place in the State and the reason for it. The second dimension is the strategic principles that showed the nexus between the broader analysis of where both Tinubu and Soludo find a common ground. The third is the ideological dimension that spoke to the progressive stance that unite the foremost progressive party and largest progressive party in the country.

Of these three dimensions, a few merchants of crisis have elected to infuse their thoughtless opinion into a factual historical event that happened as stated. I have read both Val Obienyem’s diatribes and the tantrums of a few “headless mobs”. The questions neither Val nor others in this charade have clearly answered are;

— Was it in 2012 that the last STATE VISIT by a President take place in Anambra?

— Was a Brewery and another private enterprise commissioned in that visit?

— How is this an attack on Peter Obi, or was he not the Governor of Anambra in 2012?

— Did Gov. Soludo in anyway or in any part of his speech denigrate the said brewery that was commissioned in 2012 by Mr Peter Obi?

Sincerely I think most of the persons on this tenuous conversation have a complex issue. I hope this is not a consequence of the relative deprivation felt by someone or some people who now feel deprived relative to their object of comparison? One thing is clear, only a useless father prays to remain bigger and better than his sons.

I will always state this at each turn of this mob-like tantrums, that a Soludo is not one to be cowed or bullied into silence. Those who once said, “a trader has done his bit and a Professor should do his own”, are now disheartened that a Professor is indeed professing beyond the trader’s minimalist achievements even when the trader operated in the time of PLENTY!

We must not always go this route. What should be of great concern to us is that this state visit was not an empty jamboree. It was historic — signposting the breaking of a 34year old jinx and beginning of Anambra’s journey into becoming a destination — and rewarding giving Mr President’s open acceptance to actualize much of Soludo’s ask-list. Many of which shows Soludo as a true Progressive leader determined to reposition his people in the larger Nigerian polity.