The Uncanny And Bilious Bickering Among Imo Politicians

THE ONGOING UNCANNY AND BILIOUS BICKERING AMONG IMO POLITICIANS

Greetings brethren! Frankly I would have forgotten to salute you in our usual pattern of salutation due to the nightmares I’ve been encountering. Honestly I feel uneasy each time I come across anything that seems like a nightmare especially when it has to do with the society I belong to.

Honestly, sometimes the emergence of something strange might make a certain person or society to forget the responsibility he/it is currently faced with. Take for instance: you will agree with me that the Nigerian government no longer pay much attention to the plan regarding the release of the abducted Chibok girls or the Nigeria’s security challenges at large, as a result of the emergence of the dreaded and deadly Ebola Virus Disease (EVD). This is why sometimes one may even forget to greet his parent the moment he wakes up from sleep, if he spent his previous night with the parent in question. Yes, the emergence of a certain strange thing might erase your senses entirely.

Penultimate week, Wednesday to be precise, I was taking a walk along Wetherel road situated at Owerri metropolis, and I overheard a group of street (roadside) analysts discussing some vital issues taking place in the Nigerian polity. It happened that they came to peruse some national dailies and other local tabloids as usual, at one of the newspaper stands located on the aforementioned road. One of the issues of the moment they were discussing had to do with arrogance coupled with impunity of most Nigerian political leaders.

As a Public affairs analyst and Social activist, I’ve taken my precious time, both in the past and present, to tour round Nigeria with the aim of seeing things for myself. At the long-run, I realized there is one common phenomenon occurring in the country’s political sector; and it has to do with the inconsequential and uncalled heating of the polity by our practising politicians. It’s pathetic that my home-state, Imo precisely, has abruptly emerged as one of the states that are taking the lead in the absurdity. Let’s ride on!

For those Imolites whom haven’t spent much time in Imo State, I’m using this avenue to urge you to cough up some tangible time for the state; I’m referring to those who are residing in the diaspora. Sincerely, we all need to experience this anomaly by ourselves because it’s really telling on us, especially the masses.

How can one imagine seeing someone he/she sees as a role-model indulging in an exchange of words that isn’t called-for? Please I want you to answer me with all manner of sincerity; how would you feel if you eventually see your Pastor making passes at a certain pretty damsel along a street? Well, I don’t need to wait for the answer to that candid question because I know for sure that the church being ministers or led by the Pastor in question would be compelled to experience emergence of factions among the worshippers.

I would say that Imolites are really disappointed in most politicians from Imo State owing to the fact that they have embraced derailment profoundly. It is no longer news that the people or group of persons we look up to have derailed intensely. Presently every social or cultural gathering embraced by them would end-up being divided due to their vainglorious posturing. It is even more appalling that this uncalled behavior is mainly found among those in power.

How can those who call themselves our leaders be indulging in bilious bickering thereby attracting inconsequential uproar or pandemonium in any occasion they found themselves? Isn’t it ridiculous? My annoyance is that, at their levels or statuses, they have failed to understand that such attitude is liable to drastically reduce one’s popularity or fame. Sincerely, someone really needs to call them to order for posterity sake.        

Most pathetically, you would see some of them gossiping or raising propaganda that the present governor of the state never attended any tertiary institution. Come to think of it: If truly that the man in question never attended any higher citadel of learning as presumed by them, how does it affect the leadership of Imo State negatively? For crying out loud; if one with First School Leaving Certificate can lead Imo State effectively and efficiently, what stops him? In the same vein, if one at twenty can do more than what one at fifty does, what stops him?

Personally, I don’t pay much attention to ‘Paper qualifications’ or age as the case may be. My paramount interest lies in what one has upstairs. To be honest; if I happen to be in charge of a an interview crew of a certain firm/company, I will never pay any serious attention to the applicants’ certificates, rather I will concentrate on what the individual has in his/her medulla oblongata or what he/she can offer the company, professional wise.

In other words, my interest is to see that Imo State is being led adequately, and not who leads the state. If an ‘imbecile’ can grant the state what she really desires/needs, what stops him? We should all mind our utterances and face reality; else, we would be subjected to an unimaginable state of doom.

Let’s leave 2015 elections in the hands of God. If He says that he would give us somebody that would do better than the present governor, so be it. Who are you to query the Almighty when He says ‘Yes’ or ‘No’? After all, the emergence of the governor in question was by His (God’s) making.

Please let our interest lie in the well-being of Imo State in its entirety, not who becomes the leader of the state. Thus we ought to allow God to decide; we must surrender everything to Him. All we need is someone that would take the state to the promise-land. Q.E.D.   

At this juncture, I’m pleading with all the Imo politicians or all those involved in this ongoing uncanny and bilious bickering to desist from the ugly act, which is liable to diminish their fame thereby making them appear as nobody to their respective fans.

Therefore I’m urging them to indulge in activities that are interested in only the future of Imo State at large, and nothing less. If they fail to bury their individual interests, I’m afraid ‘Sorry’ is most likely to be their name in no distant time because Imo herself is really frowning at those idiosyncrasies that are uncalled-for. How can elections that we are not even sure that we would be privileged to witness, make us forget the present responsibilities that are facing our individual selves? Think about it!

 

FRED DOC NWAOZOR

frednwaozor@gmail.com