Owelle, compliments of the season!
Owelle, I have not met you before and I am not writing this
article for any form of inducement. I am also writing this article considering
your current level of governance in Imo State which has not been encouraging and
has left the state in chains.
Also, you are running the state aground because you already
know that you can't come forward to vie for the post of the office of a
governor again, but you have shown that you do not think ahead. You have
continued to run the state very recklessly no matter whose ox is gored, you run
the state like a private enterprise with a touch of cronies and nepotism.
I believe that power is not a toy and should not be handed
to all comers, for you, you grabbed power and you have misused it.
For a visionary leader, his quest for political power is
simply to enable him pursue and attain the set goals as may have been spelt
out. Vision breeds purpose, and purpose in turn breeds direction and if the
other way round, it makes power useless with the person in charge.
Let me tell you that your antecedents are shrouded in
half-truths.
It has not been that long that Jacob Zuma and Ellen Johnson
Sirleaf visited Imo State. Talking about Zuma, you handed him the Imo Merit
Award, the highest award kept aside for those that have paid their dues in the
state in different field of endeavors. What is Zuma known for, rather for a
continuous level of corruption? You still went ahead to give to him a
chieftaincy title, you unveiled a statue in honour of him likewise Sirleaf. The
financial attachments are indeed scary.
On Friday, 22nd September, 2017,you marked your 55th
birthday and each of the 27 Local
Government Areas (LGAs) presented 27 cakes and tax payers money were used for
that purpose.
Imo State has remained a state where nothing is working and
governance has taken a flight. Pensioners and their families are facing life and
death struggle due to unpaid arrears, teachers are been owed too.
Just last week, your wife Mrs. Nneoma Okorocha marked her
50th birthday celebration and I looked at the trappings of the set-up, and I
say that the money spent was also scary. It was a lavish celebration.
Owelle, you are known to boast openly for your lack of
regard for due process and contempt for
the rule of law, hence your habitual neglect and failure to comply with due process in taking
sensitive official decisions and actions. You have the penchant for
disregarding court orders and judgments, so as to reverse some of your wrong
decisions.
I was flummoxed when I heard the post of your biological
sister, Mrs. Nkechi Ololo (Nee Okorocha) as the Commissioner of Happiness and
Couples’ Fulfilment. I heard that there has been a slight change to the
portfolio? Does it still matter?
Of what essence does the post stand for? Must you carve out
a post to satisfy your family members?
Owelle, you need to go back to the drawing board if you have
any. Let me tell you that, you lack vision in all you do and you forgot that
vision is that creative mental force which enables a leader to rise above the
pack, point out, define and provide newer and worthier directions or
alternatives for the people on issues that affects them. It is the creative
spirit that enables a leader to connect to the people through performance - and
not through propaganda, undue sentiments or empty posturing.
Anytime I remember Imo State, I remember the likes of Mbonu
Ejikes, the Nzirimos, the Mbadiwes and today you are the joker in the saddle. I
look at the films you have acted so far and I say that you would have done
better as a Nollywood actor than as a political actor.
As I ponder on your type of governance in Imo State, I
cannot but feel for the people of Imo State.
This whole episode is just
horrifying like having a bad dream.
Owelle, let me tell you that you represent a sore and sour
taste when it comes to governance in Imo State and posterity will indeed judge
you.
May God Bless Imo State!
*Courtesy; Chris Uruakpa, wrote in from Lagos.
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