Re: How PDP betrayed accord with APGA: a journalist's self deceit By Ikenna Igwe

Ordinarily one would have decided to ignore a jaundiced report in Daily Independent of

Thursday, April, 30, 2015, page 35 by one Chukwujekwu Ilozue titled “How PDP betrayed accord with APGA” but on a second thought, it would amount to conspiracy of silence if nobody speaks to firstly nip in the bud the dangerously but divisive politics of sentiments as wept or still being wept by the reporter and his pay masters.

While I see the exhibition of ignorance in the highest places by the writer and the intention he tried to express and message he tried to pass, one would conclude that there was a stillbirth in the cause of brining the falsehood to public domain.

Firstly, the write who I know is a journalist of many years experience threw caution and professionalism to the wind and chose to dance naked in the political market. He forgot probably that in the act of writing, there shouldn’t be visible expression of bias and secondly, there shouldn’t be a fallacy of non sequitur.

He bean with how he thought an accord was reached between the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP and the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA under the leadership of the former Governor of Anambra state, Mr. Peter Obi. He also said that while Obi held sway, the accord was still in tact until the emergence of a new king in the state who probably did not respect the accord or threw it away as part of operation destroy all that the present administration in the state is doing.

At the beginning of the write up, you would be tempted to believe he was writing about a purported agreement or accord between PDP and APGA as political parties until, when he lost his emotion and descended dangerously and shamelessly on the Senator elect for Anambra central senatorial zone, Mrs. Uche Ekwunife.

One will begin to ask question why the writer only chose to dissect the election that brought Ekwunife up as a senator elect since he was discussing the accord between the two political parties. From the write up also, the writer exhibited his hatred for Ekwunife and attacked her without any respect and recourse to the ethics of his own noble journalism profession as if the accord between PDP and APGA existed only in Anambra central zone.

No wonder, he kept on weeping sentiment maybe because his paymaster lost the election and lost so terribly that he still finds it difficult to regain his political consciousness. The naked dance by Chukwjekwu Ilozue is shameful especially in his failed bid to deceive the people through his jaundiced and poorly constructed write up that was full of lies.

Why must the write keep on saying that the accord failed in the state and yet, never mentioned any other senatorial zones in the state that also fell to the superior political power of PDP? His dwelling on Anambra central senatorial zone where Chief Victor Umeh contested showed he was paid to deceive the people or that he acted on vendetta.

It is no longer news that some people in his like have penchant for insulting those in authority either as a result of selling their consciences to their paymasters or just being a leftist, a person that always goes left when others are going right.

One would also ask his moral rectitude as a journalist he claims to be to say that during the campaigns, only APGA candidate was going on campaigning and that PDP candidates were not campaigning. This is clear, because Ilozue may have sold his professional birthright and possibly may have attached himself permanently to APGA and probably was beclouded with that and forgot that Mrs. Ekwunife won the election based on the design of God and self hard work.

Maybe, Ilozue should be reminded that Mrs. Ekwunife was and still remains the only candidate that toured all the wards, communities and local government areas twice during the electioneering campaigns. As the President General of Nawgu community in Dunukofia council area of Anambra central zone, the write never hid his bias in writing that PDP candidate did not campaign.

In his own community, Nawgu, Mrs. Ekwnife visited their community and even his ward severally and eve two days to the election, Mrs. Ekwunife also was in the writer’s ward to grace a wedding ceremony of the writer’s kinsman and before the writer, the entire community went in jubilation on sighting Ekwunife.

Little wonder, as the President General of Nawgu community, Mr. Chukwujekwu Ilozue belonged to the PGs that were warned by the state government never to receive Ekwunife into their community during the campaign, a directive that never yielded any fruits as the emergence and aura that follow Ekwunife campaign train overwhelmed them.   

In his write up however, there were many reasons to ignore his write up which to me is a mere expression of frustration especially as his paymaster was mercilessly beaten to his own game by a woman whose political sagacity is yet to be equaled by anybody in the state since her foray into politics few years ago.

For the fact that he has deliberately or ignorantly refused to accept the decision or the choice of the people of Anambra central senatorial zone, conspicuously demonstrated through their ballots for Mrs. Uche Ekwunife and PDP on the 28^th March, 2015 has further opened a fresh focus on his patriotism and self acclaimed love for the zone.

If after the people of the zone voted massively for Ekwunife and was duly announced and declared winner by the umpire, INEC, Ilozue still raises his head in objection, though a very infinitesimal, there is many to be desired from his deception exhibited in his write up.

There is no gainsaying the fact that one of the reasons that make the electorate choose their candidates still remains a matter of choosing the best among the pack. And in doing so, the people must have either seen your previous deeds or see a burning desire in your eyes to deliver on your campaign promises.

These and more to say the least were part of the major things that made Ekwunife a beautiful bride during the electioneering campaign which write himself was a witness. While he deliberately or ignorantly forgot to mention that his community, Nawgu was part of the federal constituency that is being manned by Ekwunife by her position as member representing them, he has lost moral justification to challenge the mandate the people of the zone gave to Ekwunife.

I bet you that Nawgu community in Dunukofia council area of the state is and still is one of the benefiting communities under Ekwunife’s robust representation, hence, the people of the zone couldn’t have gone for nothing less but massively voted for Ekwunife in her bid to up the ante for further quality representation.

Ilozue was a witness to massive and issue based campaigns carried out by Ekwunife door to door with obvious works already done by her in the community. During the campaign, Nagu witnessed a great event which included but not limited to the commissioning of over 4km road built by Ekwunife in the community. Various Nawgu citizens are till date in various levels of civil service courtesy of Mrs. Uche Ekwunife and yet he thinks the people of the zone are daft that they will not differentiate between quality and quantity.

On the day of the election, the people of Nawgu community and indeed electorate in Anambra central zone were waiting to compensate Ekwunife for her numerous quality representations at the lower chambers of the National Assembly. This was evident in the massive vote the people gave to Ekwunife and am sure that even Ilozue himself voted for Ekwunife.

Yes, he kept on eulogizing Chief Victor Umeh as the life wire of APGA. Who wouldn’t do what Umeh is doing if the person has the whole structure of an ailing political party built around or on top of his shoulders? Like the saying ‘in the country of the blind, one eyed man is the kings.

That Umeh is the pillar of APGA is not and was never considered a reason by the people of the zone to vote for him, rather, they went for a woman whose antecedents and political foresightedness they have seen, felt and touched. There was no miracle that Ekwunife trounced Umeh and he is crying like a baby. I don’t know where it hurts Ilozue most, whether it was that his boss was trounced by a woman or that he was crying like a baby.

However, everybody is entitled to his own opinion. He made mention of going to court. I sensed anxiety and joy in his heart when he is talking of going to court and probably forgot that court doesn’t belong to Umeh or APGA or even Ilozue alone. It belongs to the whole people so; it is not the person that first invites police that wins the case.

That brings me to another folly of the write when he wrote “As Umeh was licking his wounds, in Awka, Ekwunife was having a good lunch with journalists where she praised INEC for its transparency without forgetting “I beat Umeh silly” As I glanced through his write up, I couldn’t control my laughter when I got to the last paragraph of his submission that he probably went haywire because he was not invited to the purported lunch between journalists and the Senator elect, Mrs. Uche Ekwunife…haba. ENDS

Gattuso Igwe writes from Amenyi, Awka