From age to age such kind of responsibility has always fallen
upon great philosophers to look the king in his very countenance and reprimand
him. To this, many great philosophers have experienced persecutions in its
wake. Shall we recount the agonies of the poisoned thinker of
Athens—Socrates—or the banishment of Anaxagoras or the torturing of Zeno. I too
have a crystal reminiscence of the execution of Severinus Boethius, the
Nero’s killing of Seneca and the brutal decapitation of Thomas Moore, to
mention but a few. Their crimes have the semblance of the crime of Jesus before
the ignorant Jews of those days. This crime which I shall not in any way spare
contemplation or fear to commit against a king that has executed much evil
against the ordinary man even against a political party so dear to Igboland. It
is my duty, I ween, an eternal obligation of the righteous, to bring to the
open the sins of the wicked. I may not be alone in this judgment. But one thing
is to be noticed my judgment must be guided by the illumination of reason. What
I have just expressed is that the onus of chronicling the mortal sins of the
wicked, even of the king of our day falls upon me. This sole task shall this
piece undertake to accomplish.
It is a crime against Igboland, the culprit being “onye”
Anambra. He sits in the throne of the king even of the king of the day here in
Anambra. He has wronged his people even the ordinary man of the day. He is a
trader, even a successful trader of his day. This adds sadness to him who has history
read. Who have endeavored to contemplate the writings of Plato in the Republic or
the teachings of Aristotle in hisPolitics. Their concordance with respect to
their takes on leadership and the republic is outright spurning of the artisans
(traders) who being in the lowest rung of ladder of men in the republic should
not for any reason whatsoever be allowed to rule. Trading is consequently for
the emotional—people who are ruled by their crude desires, and not their
thought. I have deliberately pointed out this before I commence in earnest the
goal of which this piece has undertaken to express. Its essence is to serve a
caveat to the managers of APGA of the dangers of allowing merchants to rule, as
I, Plato and Aristotle have pointed out are very wrong people for such a noble
appointment. Small wonder, Plato did aver that unless philosophers are made
kings or kings be imbued with sufficient measure of genuine philosophy the
commonwealth or state shall know no peace. And it seems to me that the ultimate
cause of the conflagration consuming APGA is the abdication of leadership to
merchants who Plato aptly dubbed the artisans. We shall indeed plead for
forgiveness on behalf of the corrupt king; his sins notwithstanding shall be
made public to serve deterrence to the kings hopeful and to prepare the members
of our great party to rally round the true leadership of APGA under the
chairmanship of Sir Victor Umeh for the next election soon to come. I shall
therefore at this moment through the illumination of reason showcase to the
ordinary man of APGA the great sins of our king against the very institution
that graciously molded and made him.
The first sin: In the year of the Lord, 2006, after the great
struggle to enthrone the king, and the king having been enthroned, there ensued
the first mortal sin. The king declared a shoot on sight even against his
people. Kill, shoot them even on sight. And so many were killed, homes
pillaged, women raped at thy command Oh king! But, there were dissenting voices
even from the very party which the king belonged. Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu
Ojukwu denounced the shoot on sight—he, the leader of the party. Sir Victor
Umeh condemned the shoot on sight—he the National Chairman of the party. The
king, his sidekicks and kitchen cabinet have either denied this or rationalized
the unfortunate act. But, the truth remains that the essence of the king’s act
was to annihilate MASSOB who sadly today appear to be the friend of the corrupt
kingdom. The then king of kings—Obasanjo—had instructed our king thus: If you
desire to continue in this perch and consequently enjoy the trappings therein,
you must ensure you abstain from that rascal—Ojukwu—and, of the other, is that,
you must perforce ensure that his foot soldiers—MASSOB—are completely extirpated.
So the king denied his party. Ignored his party leaders and embarked on those
killings that were reminiscence of the ugly pogrom of the civil war even in the
heartland of Igboland when there were better ways to rein in the restiveness of
the youth of those days even as suggested to the king by his party leaders.
Thus he clearly demonstrated no regard for the sages of the party but on the
contrary made obeisance to the king of kings (Obasanjo, of PDP) as is
consistent with what obtains with his obeisance to our today’s king of kings
(another PDP president).
The second sin: In Obi’s first four years, he maintained a
close relationship with the powers that be in Abuja—PDP. This particular sinful
act just like others was not without one misfortune or the other for the party.
The party was left in forlorn. People were abandoned. Party members were
offered no reasonable appointment. And the king has so many reasons to justify
his meanness against the fingers that fed him. The act we remembered created a
problem between our king and Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu as the king was
refused the party ticket in 2010 lest such now routine treachery be adopted as
the way of the party. That fear of that old man has been confirmed today as the
king is now fighting hard to customize its perfidy by working both covertly and
overtly to divest Umeh of his position so as to impose stooges who can as at
when due execute his debauchery.
Third sin: Obi denied the party completely. Soon after the
king’s victory: the king has been given the party ticket after much kneeling
and asking for forgiveness, and election having been won and the king having
been sworn in for the second time agha were setie—real war, the long
anticipated has come. The news tabloids were awash with the statement which was
credited to the king’s uncle that APGA contributed nothing to Obi’s victory
rather Obi won that election as a result of his sudden exalted personality.
Madness! It was a direct attack against a man who staked his life for a mere
trader now turned king. And those days the man ideologically avowed: “vote for
him this is my last wish”! And Odumegwu never knew—but he supposed to have
known—that he has consented to his demise and that the principalities and
powers, the thrones and the dominations, the cherubims and seraphims, the laws
and the virtues, the angels and archangels have in the wake of his avowal been
made handicapped even in the day of his rescue. Don’t you see, thee that is a
member of APGA that the renewal of the king’s power is not without the shedding
of the blood; for unless a grain of wheat falls down to the ground and dies it
can profit nothing but the king said APGA contributed nothing.
The fourth sin: The refusal of Obi to conduct local
government election. Forms having been sold to the party members who have
indicated interest! To some, hundred thousand Naira! To another, one million!
All the necessary things having been put in place, the hopes of the party
members were dashed to the ground even to the ground Oh thee the wicked ruler!
And the king’s party members not only were forced to spend their hard earned
money to purchase forms but were indefinitely forsaken by their supposed king.
The king has so many reasons to adduce for the non conduct of this election.
But, we are wiser to have known the whole truth and nothing but all of the
truth. It is consistent with the king’s strong resolve not to see APGA flourish
so as to continue the king’s lubrication of his unholy union with every king of
kings up there.
The fifth sin: In consistency with the king’s policy of
oiling his union with the king of kings and still in unremitting consistency
with ensuring that APGA’s structure be handed over to PDP as at when the later
demanded, the king was caught in another sinful act; the fifth sin: Obi handed
over APGA tickets to the PDPs—Dora Akunyili, Chuma Nzeribe, and Joy Emordi. And
the man who shamelessly claimed that his personality gave him victory in an
election where there were obviously better personalities than the king (Soludo
and Ngige), could not deliver the PDPs now APGA. For far from it, the king was
not in any way naïve in this matter, it was to enable the king of kings
establish his suzerainty on us as the PDPs in the PDP took a larger part of the
senatorial districts.
The sixth sin: The king’s conspicuous absence in all the
campaigns of all the APGA gubernatorial candidates in other states namely Imo,
Ebonyi, Enugu, Abia, and River states in 2011 elections. At the confrontation
by the chairman over such a perfidious stance, the king has a reason
congruously depicting a man obviously invaded by narcissism and schizophrenia:
I am the vice chairman of the governors’ forum and the chairman of south east
governors’ forum and I cannot therefore go to their states to campaign against
them. Ndi APGA kwenu! The king has a conspicuous
unremitting stance on such matter especially as concerning APGA and PDP. When
it does come that there is a conflicting interest between the duo we can easily
guess the side on which the king pitches his tent. This is our king who
apparently is now the one championing the restructuring of the king’s party to
accelerate its development and consequently ensure that the king’s party wins
election from the Coal city to Enyimba stadium, from the land of the River’s
man to the Bayelsa Ijaw. Narcissism and Schizophrenia are diseases capable of
precipitating such affective illusion. This is pure chicanery. The king is in
full knowledge of his actions: you mean what? To keep greasing his union with
the now king of kings—PDP!
The seventh sin: In the battle that ensued between the
national chairman and the former national chairman as regards INEC’s
registration of UPGA, the king maintained a disturbing but perfidious silence.
This is our king who now wants APGA to be robust and formidable and
consequently dominate in future elections both in the east and beyond. The king
of kings would want such confusion that would have followed the registration of
UPGA as PDP will benefit in such political commotion and our king cannot but
maintain a silence likened to that of Brutus ere his stabbing of Caesar with
such an immeasurable wickedness.
At this station the king sins eight times: All other
machinations have failed. The option left was perchance a complete surgical
operation to delete the face of the man who is the engine of this wheel and
consequently render the wheel not only rickety but in a state of unmitigated
comatose. “Umeh go or be sacked”, overwhelmed the political-media space. It is
unceasingly circadian in the mouth of the king’s uncle. In the circles of the
king’s commissioners! In the gathering of a whit of wretched transition
committee chair-the-loot! That was an atmosphere dominated by smear campaign to
depose the authentic Ojukwu-Achuzie affirmed leadership of APGA. I dare say
that the world is an ordered whole and nature has a way and has always taken
care of the likes of this kind of king of our day. Let’s wait and see! Because
I for one know that the king, even the king of our day, cannot escape the
retributions due for his sins for karma is surely as real as the certainty of
death.
The ninth and the last station: The king’s deployment of
Ojukwu’s house and wife to destroy Ojukwu’s party. The king has always
championed the cause of ensuring that Ojukwu’s Enugu residence be made use of
as a rendezvous for their unholy assembly. This baffles not me but the
traditional Igbo man who wanders how the dead man’s kitchen could be deployed
in ensuring that the last fabrics of his remaining political legacy are
completely destroyed. That is the strange behavior which is one of the
hallmarks of the kings neck-deep in the demonic occultism that now surprisingly
pervades the world of the jet age. Because we know as history has always made
known that that is the only source of such emboldening. But, let us reason—now
through dialogue—awhile because we do know that this Ojukwu “residence of a
thing” fractured the relationship between the MASSOB leader and the national
chairman. What is important, I may ask, Ojukwu’s residence or Ojukwu’s will?
Certainly I will say Ojukwu’s will because the will of a man is the real man
in/of a man. And if it is true it is Ojukwu’s will, what then is Ojukwu’s will
with respect to APGA? That APGA be an independent party capable of protecting
and projecting the Igbo agenda and that of the ordinary man in the country where
we are. You have answered rightly, my son. Assuming you answered quite
correctly, why then do you accuse the king? Because the king’s actions have
undoubtedly indicated an unremitting stance, tendencies, and now clear-cut act
of a man who wants to hand over the APGA structure to a party other than
APGA—PDP. I have not finished sir: And this is the same party upon her
humiliation of Ndi Igbo APGA was perforce formed. What then is this tantamount
to, my son? That the king’s posturing of deploying Ojukwu’s residence is a long
known artifice of charlatans now so moribund to be deployed in matters of
political subterfuge. And what does your big grammar portends to say? That it
is the kings that do the will of God that will make heaven and not the king
that kills God’s prophets even right inside the synagogue. Wait a minute sir:
That it is not the kings that say “Lord, Lord” that shall be welcomed into the
heavenly nirvana but the kings that do the will of Ojukwu who sent Umeh. You
have answered correctly, my son. And it seems to me, therefore, that the rift
between chief and the chairman should be resolved by this theological
understanding.
What shall I say having said all that have been said: These
finally: that this write up be liken to any of those epistles of the man of
Tarsus, even Saul who was later named Paul. And that this epistle listing the
mortal sins—“a mortal sin in Roman Catholic theology is considered to be so
evil that it causes a complete loss of grace”, in this context the grace of the
king to anoint his successor—of the king be dispatched to all the districts and
provinces of APGA (ward to ward) so as to keep the ordinary man in knowledge as
election draws nigh. Let the women endeavor to obtain their copies and the men
do as well. I suppose that young people pay more attention word by word line
after line to the contents of this letter. This is to ensure that the wicked
king having lost the grace to anoint a successor in the wake of the gravity of
his sins could be stopped forthwith from imposing a candidate upon our party.
That it shall no longer happen in Igboland that such kings that act with
impunity come even after this one. Let it be so!
Elo Afoka holds a PhD in Logic
Mobile: +2348039229982
Email: eloafoka@gmail.com
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