Undeniably, Gov. T.A Orji Has No Hidden Agenda
By Odimegwu
Onwumere
In any locality,
state or country where the leader is weak, not as a result of old age, but out
of incompetence, such an environment is bound to grow weaker and, the people that
such a leader is heading, susceptible to suffering. There would be many hurt, because
no job has been done. Having an eye for money becomes the order of the day; the
definition of governance becomes absentminded. Such a people are pushed to see
weakness as a norm and, should not complain about their pain and suffering.
It does not take
anybody who has been to Abia State to read newspapers to understand that the
state is undergoing serious misapplication of governance before broadsheet testimonies
captioned one of Governor T.A Orji of Abia State rampant comments this way: “I
Have No Hidden Agenda – Gov. T.A. Orji”.
Yes, Gov. Theodore Orji
has no ‘hidden agenda’ for governance than the incompetence that has paraded
his government; else we would have seen a new agenda from the failures he has
been proud of as good governance. You wonder why it was only the members of the
Peoples Democratic Party that called on the governor at the Government House,
Umuahia, as part of their 2013 Democracy Day celebration and, not the general
public of Abia State. This is where he told a select of his dependents, stand-ins
and proxies that he has no ‘hidden agenda’.
One agenda the
governor was able to tell his yesmen was the biased statement that they should
be circumspect of persons who may want to come into the party, according to
him, just for the reason of obliterating it. And you wonder why the party and
the mirage of persons so much of importance to Orji. No one praises himself or
herself, but the governor after looking round, would tell the world that “we
are laying the foundation for Abia state”. A state like Akwa Ibom, has finished
erecting edifices, whereas Gov. T.A Orji is still “laying the foundation for
Abia State”?
He always talk
about “a good working relationship between the three arms of government,
especially, between the Legislature and the Executive, made up of PDP members”,
whereas we have never heard nobody or as a group in these bodies spoken before,
except Gov. Orji. Rubber stamp deputies!!
It is obvious that
the government in our state has become one for the PDP members, hence no “hidden
agenda”. If the government is an all inclusive one, we would have been seeing
many agendas as they unfold, because a dog that bites does not bark. The dog
must have a secret and surprises people with action. But the Gov. Orji government
is like a dog that barks much without action. Agenda-less government is too
bad!
The government of
Orji, because it lacks agenda, is always calling for “confidence, support and
faith from members of PDP”, knowing that our hapless people have lost
confidence in the government since June 2010 it said that somebody was holding
it down from developing our state and, we later found out that all that were
sold to the general public against that person were blatant lies, mischievous
and malicious.
Perhaps, Gov. Orji
government has something to teach us with its incessant statement of “this government
has embarked on legacy projects in an effort to uplift the standard of the
state”, because when well-meaning Abia people look round, the ‘legacy projects’
we see are heaps of dirt, gully roads, a government that has refused to conduct
Local Government Areas (LGAs) elections, that is always fighting with the
authorities of Abia Poly, that hikes school fees in Abia State University, where
teachers are owed months salaries, non-Abia indigenes in the civil service are
chased out of the state, critics are labeled rapists, extortionists,
kidnappers, just name them. Are these the ‘legacy projects’?
It is laughable
when we read from Gov. Orji saying that his administration was “empowering the
youth of the state for them to be self-employed and earn decent living” and you
wonder when he would tell the world how many of our people have been gainfully
employed and how many job opportunities are there that his government has
created. Did you say, empowerment, indeed?
All we get year in
and year out is the PDP leadership in the state going to the governor to ‘re-assure’
that they are in his support and that they are “happy with what the governor
has been doing in the state”.
Anyway, Nigerians
know that Gov. Orji adoration for shame, blame, lack-of-respect, betrayal, and
the preservation of affection have damaged our once vibrant and ebullient Abia
State; he should know that shame eats the emotion of the soul, when a person
continues to boast in his or her failure.
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