Chief Peter Obi shocked his admirers
and all when he abandoned his parent political party, the All Progressives
Grand Alliance, APGA, to join the People’s Democratic Party just lean months
after his 8year reign as the governor of Anambra State. Whatever Obi could
adduce for the act which many find most distasteful, he has weightier explanations
to advance for his hankering after and viciously insisting on an overrule in the
affairs of Obiano’s Anambra State, an order he was instrumental to instituting.
Obi’s sulky expressions, too soon after leaving power, give him out as one who
is ill prepared for life devoid of the executive flair he so warmly craved and
cherished while his power lasted. His simulated denials of ensnarement by
office pomp make another day’s subject.
Truly Chief Obi failed all those who
thought that he would be wise to leave power gracefully when it left him. But
the lure of power and the 8year indulgence unfortunately infected the faculties
of an otherwise prudent fellow. ‘How art the mighty falling?’ Chief Obi went
for a free fall, and has continued to bruise his delicate ego and a promising
carrier APGA spelt out for him. It is never in doubt that Chief Obi remained an
obscure, crafty and undeniably successful businessman until APGA offered him
political baptism. His new PDP tongue is a furtherance of his capitalist lovage
which seasons the mind for endless self gains.
Whereas APGA gave its all to ensure both
Chief Obi’s ascent and sustenance as the governor of Anambra State, Obi merely
saw the party as a platform to achieve his selfish mission of administering the
resources of the state, and through the enterprise, he consciously laboured to
attain Aliko Dangote’s heights in the business world. Obi should be blamed
less, Anambra people share greater blame for their naivety in not grasping
Obi’s underlying doublespeak.
Smart Chief Obi saw Anambra as a
territory he had conquered, and with a conqueror’s mindset he set to endlessly
enjoy the spoils of conquest, but Governor Willie Obiano’s stout refusal to act
the script invited resentments which fast-tracked Obi’s infamous decampment,
the notoriety of which compares to the hush defiance of a suicide.
Surprisingly, instead of a
compunctious demeanour, Obi and his camp have sworn to get the heavens down
unless pounds of flesh are extracted from Obiano’s cardiac zone. They have
deployed every conventional and unconventional media to fight dirty, without
saving a breath. They create fairy enemies in Obiano and begin to punch the
wind in futility. But the governor moves on deftly with the obligations of
state administration. He understood early enough that his detractors want to do
him in by consistently distracting him and wishing that state business will be unattended
to. But Obiano’s achievements in just one year in office are confounding.
I am convinced that if these abroad
critics, whose sensibilities have suffered reductions by their inflammatory
attacks on the government and governor of Anambra State, find time to do a proper
random sampling of what Anambra has gained in the past eleven months of
Obiano’s administration, they will abandon Peter’s denials and diatribes, and turn
Pauls in propagating the good-news that is Anambra’s lot today. Anambra has surely moved on.
Cheta Agundu
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