EMMANUEL UGWUMBA
First and foremost, it is important to remind you that as of today, the criminal organisation in Abia called the PDP has governed the state for almost 20 years. I pray for you that your life and family in the next 20 years will experience the kind of treatment the PDP has meted out to the state. May the condition of Abia reign supreme in your family all the days of your life. I hope you will say amen to that.
Whilst that prayer is taking hold of your life, it is important to remind you that your PDP has governed Abia state for almost 20 years under the PDP federal and now the APC federal. And APC has governed Lagos state for the same period of time under the PDP and now the APC federal. I mean that same Lagos where some of your family members are resident and are witnessing development everyday and your so called PDP leaders in Abia have gone to, to invest the billions of Naira they stole from our state, because they can see progress in the state.
As you compare and contrast Abia state governed by the PDP and states governed by APC, it is important also to remind you that that there are Igbos, Hausas and Yorubas in APC as there are in PDP.
To remind you how foolish you are by calling APC Hausa and Yoruba party, there are top Igbo leaders in the party and they equals to their counterparts from other parts of the country.
The criminals from Abia who led you in the PDP have so mesmerized your brain to the extent that you don’t even remember that your so called Igbo PDP could not find any Igbo man suitable to be made President for 16 years that they governed the country. No Igbo man was good enough to become the President through them.
You are so daft that you don’t remember that Obasanjo who ruled Nigeria for 8 years under PDP was a Yoruba man, late Yar’Adua who ruled for 2 years plus was an Hausa Muslim, Jonathan who ruled for almost 6 years was not an Igbo man and Atiku Abubakar that you are following now is an Hausa Muslim who was a vice President under PDP and later moved to APC.
For 16 years, the party you claim to be Igbo party was in power, they could not do anything tangible in the whole of South East. The most important infrastructure in the South East today is Second Niger Bridge. They played politics with it for 16 years and did nothing about it. Under your criminal PDP, Federal INFRASTRUCTURES in the South East collapsed. And you were there swallowing their faeces and did not even know what was happening.
I am not saying that everybody in PDP is evil and everyone in APC is a saint. I am only worried about your stupid thinking. There is the good, the bad and the ugly in every party but the majority of PDP members especially in Abia state are demonic.
PDP in Akwa Ibom under Attah was not superlative. But PDP in the same Akwa Ibom under Akpabio did well. PDP in Anambra under Mbadinauju was a disaster. PDP in Ebonyi under Elechi was decimal but PDP today under Umahi is advancing the state.
APGA under Peter Obi in Anambra was good. Ngige in the same Anambra under PDP was good and APGA under Obiano is doing well. At the same time Peter Obi was the governor of Anambra under APGA, Rochas Okorocha was the governor of Imo State under APGA. Everybody saw the the difference between the two; though they were of the same APGA.
Today Rochas Okorocha is in APC, we can see the difference between him and some other APC governors like Ambode of Lagos and El-Rufai of Kaduna.
In the final analysis, in the Nigerian politics of today, it boils down to the individual performance. But if you may compare and contrast on the overall, APC is still far better than the PDP at the federal. If you can present us with the records of PDP performance in their first 3 years in power compared to APC in the last 3 years, it will make sense. Don’t challenge the performance of APC without a proof of PDP’s performance. You will be a fool to do so. Because only a fool will doubt a proof.
As it stands today, everyone in APC in Abia state are all indigenes of the state. Likewise everyone in PDP and APGA in the state. We have experienced PDP governance in the last 19 years and it is shameful. We are yet to see our brothers in APC and APGA in the state govern the state. There is no basis to judge any party in the state outside PDP as evil and there is no basis to judge their performance in the state when they have not governed.
It is even shameful that your so called PDP that is Igbo party that has governed the state for 19 years and is still in power can go around campaigning to retain power on the basis that APC is Hausa and Yoruba party, when all they needed to do was to flaunt their achievement.
But they know that some people will be stupid enough to forget, so they are making every effort to divert attention from the real issues. They are talking about party when they should be telling you how much money they received on behalf of Abia state and what they did with it. If you are sensible enough, you should be asking them what they have achieved and what they intend to do next. Likewise you should be looking at the character and antecedents of those who are are asking you to let them power, whether APC of APGA. What have the individuals contesting under PDP, APC and APGA done to warrant them to lead the state? What is their individual contributions to the development of the state and how have they demonstrated individually. Who amongst the governorship candidates have the vision, the passion, competence and character to lead our people? What has been their role in advancing the state or in destroying it; notwithstanding if they are currently in APC, APGA or PDP?
Its time to wake up and buy sense. As it stands in Nigeria today, even as it is obtained in other democracies, people are voting for individuals and not based on party, zone, religion or gender; those are ephemeral. Only a foolish person will be talking about, party, zone, gender and religion when all he need is solution to his or her problem.
As stupid as you sound with all your prejudices, when you went to market to buy the cloth you are wearing as you are reading this opinion, you did not ask the seller where he or she is from. You will not remember asking about the zone of the state he came from, the political party he belong, his or her real gender or religion. And to an extent did not even ask who is the individual who produced the cloth? You simply wanted a solution, (that is the cloth), it didn’t matter who produced it, it satisfied your need.
In the same manner, you go to a hospital when you are sick to seek solution, it doesn’t matter who the doctor is, all you look for is solution. In some cases when you can find solution to your health in your state, you go to another state or another country to find it. It doesn’t even matter to you if the Doctor you meet in the state or country is a Christian or Muslim, man or woman, APC or PDP, old or young. All you are simply focused on is getting solution.
How come some people in Abia state that can’t compete with their opponents on the basis of their record and competence are drinking garri with your brain? They tell you not to vote someone who will bring solution to your state because the man or woman is not in APC, PDP or APGA? Because the man who has the solution to Abia problem is in one party or the other, or is from one zone or the other, you are rejecting the solution.
My friend, the truth is that you are foolish by all standard. For thinking in that manner you are a common illiterate at your best. Because it is unthinkable that someone can cajole you not to vote for a man or woman who has the capacity to develop your state. Whether the person who is telling you that stupid thing is in APGA, PDP or APC, it doesn’t matter. Let everybody that wants to win election at any level in the state; be it for governor, Senate, Reps or state house contest on his personal record. Election is about recruiting the best hand for the job and not for ephemeral reasons.
All you need is a solution, it doesn’t matter who provides it. Get your your solution and stop being foolish.
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