Since Mr. Emeka Ihedioha of the Peoples Democratic Party emerged the winner of the governorship election held recently in Imo State, all sorts of people who are able to get themselves interviewed by reporters have been filling our ears with rambling tales about how a new “messiah” had emerged to liberate Imo people from the hands of their “oppressors” and “exploiters” and usher them into a glorious era of limitless happiness.
We saw it during the tenure of Achike Udenwa. At that time, my weekly newspaper column always told Udenwa the truth I thought he should hear for the benefit of our state. Indeed, it was clear to me that after he had exhausted his tenure and left, Imo State would still be there for all of us whether left in a good or bad state. My loyalty, therefore, was to my state and not to any governor.
When he eventually fell and you listened to some of the same people that had praised him to high heavens only a couple of years earlier, you wondered at the kind of terrible mindset some human beings carried about with them. Stories had it that he often walked on the streets with little or no security and market women and poor artisans rushed unrestrained to embrace him, shake his hands and even offer him cold water which he received from their hands.
Soon, he equally reduced the number of work days and asked the impoverished civil servants to devote Thursday and Friday for farm work, not bothering if they had the funds to undertake such an endeavour. Even when he created the office of the Commissioner for Happiness and put his lovely sister in charge of it, the people still could not be appeased.
I have gone all this way to help Ihedioha to appreciate the peculiar circumstances that threw the governorship mandate on his lap. I have not seen Ihedioha address any crowd, but I would be highly surprised to witness him manifest an ability to charm a crowd.
EmekaIhedioha We pray God will envelope him with Wisdom and knowledge like king Solomon. Imo will continue to be GREAT.
EmekaIhedioha Let him win the election that will be conducted after a re-run is ordered, since he didn't get 25% of 2/3 local governments, before we can hold him accountable. I know he cannot concentrate until he wins the election according to the law.
EmekaIhedioha No, comments yet until after his 💯 days in office...
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