By: Ferdinand Ekeoma
I just got off a live interview alongside the Shadow-loving PDP State Chairman, Chief Amah Abraham and the Abia State IPAC Chairman, Chimex Uluocha on News Central TV.
Chief Amah will be regretting this their shadow nonsense. He will explain until he gets tired. He has realised that this is not BCA radio and TV which he used to abuse and blackmail Dr. Alex Otti during their era.
He must give account of their years of destructive leadership. The audacity to lie is already being deflated. In a saner clime, Amah Abraham would either be in exile, or be drenched in sobriety.
The IPAC Chairman lambasted him and reminded him and his Co shadows that they lack the character and moral grounds to talk, let alone form the so-called shadow government, and assured that IPAC would ensure their prosecution.
The Moderator asked him to respond to my allegation of destroying the state and leaving several years of unpaid salary arrears, a mess which Governor Alex Otti is clearing.He responded and claimed that they inherited salary arrears and left arrears, but that the money they left behind was enough to pay those arrears. Even Satan will shed tears hearing this from Chief Amah Abraham.
I reminded him that Governor Alex Otti is presently paying close to 18 billion naira they left behind in salary arrears alone. Of course I alao reminded him that they destroyed our only state university ABSU where they owed 11 months salary arrears amounting to over 4 billion naira. Abia Poly 32 months. ABSUTH 12 months. ACETA 27 months. HMB, School of Health Technology, SEMB, ASPINS etc.
I made him to understand that Otti’s achievements aren’t audio, but visible and verifiable, hence his popularity in Abia.
The final question posed to him by the Moderator was, “Mention three notable achievements of former Governor Okezie Ikpeazu”? And he responded thus:
1. We made Abia the SME capital of Nigeria.
2. We built 90 roads.
3. We brought peace to Abia
Honestly, these funny claims reminded me of Ikpeazu’s Rebuilder 365.
Even Chief Amah was not sure of himself as he gave those answers, and the way the Moderator looked at him worsened his situation. I read his mind, and I could hear him say to himself “Ekwensu Eromansia mu na national television “.
1. Really? You made Abia an SME capital, in a state where Agberos reigned supreme and intimidated and extorted innocent businesses men and women? Doesn’t Chief Abraham know the relationship between SME and Ease of Doing Business?
Could SME have thrived in a state where double and multiple taxation was the order of the day?
Could SME have commanded external patronage in an environment that was notable and notorious for refuse dump?
Could a government that empowered thousands of youths with Keke, appointed over three thousand special advisers and assistants, and groomed army of jobless youths as social media sycophants, ballot box snatchers and political thugs honestly say that it did well in SME?
Port Harcourt road was one of our major SME gateways, but the PDP led-government which Abraham Aham presently chairs, demolished people’s houses, refused to pay compensation, abandoned the road, allegedly looted the money earmarked for the project, and killed businesses and other economic activities.
2. They built 90 roads? Please how many kilometres are the so called 90 roads and where are they?
3. You brought peace to Abia, yet statistics during the period under review presented Abia as one of the most insecure states in the federation?
You brought peace, yet several critics of the government were arrested and dumped either in prison or DSS custody without known charges? At least one of the Shadow appointees was one of such victims.
You brought peace, yet you wrote petition to the Police Service Commission accusing Otti of sponsoring IPOB as an Opposition Leader, just because he condemned the killing of several innocent Abia youths in 2020 by those working with the government.
You brought peace, yet kidnappers and ritualists overwhelmed the state and built the most powerful criminal architecture in different parts of the state, especially at Lokpanta where they kidnapped, raped and killed innocent citizens.
You brought peace and yet you watched helplessly when the Prelate of Methodist Church in Nigeria and others were kidnapped at Lokpanta in Umunneochi and held hostage and tortured until the church allegedly paid the sum of 100 million Naira as ransom?
We have a democracy that’s guided by our 1999 constitution, and political parties guided by both the Constitution, the Electoral Act and individual Party Constitution that have no room and recognition for Shadow, but because of emotional breakdown associated with loss of power and lust for power, you decided to give yourself portfolios to sustain your fancy and entertain yoir fantasies, and you think that becoming a shadow of your old selves would make Abians forget your atrocities so quickly? Mbanu!
Before I forget, I reminded Amah that his party defrauded Abians by transferring several millions of naira from the Abia State Ministry of Lands and Housing Account to purchase a party Secretariat which the government has now sealed, yet they didn’t deem it fit to go to court if they didn’t commit the fraud. Anyways, they will still be arraigned and tried for that audacious thievery.
To be continued…..
Ferdinand Ekeoma
December 5, 2024.
