There is this friend of mine that will continue to earn my respect into
the future chiefly because of the litany of informed quotations that I
learnt from him. He once told me that it is only when the past is
studied, and compared with the present that the future could be
predicted.
Then, I was confronted with the problem of understanding and
predicting the so-called Correction 2017; and I promptly adopted the
approach suggested in the quotation. I did not go far into the past when
I stumbled upon the scam called Change 2015 which was masterminded by
APC against the unsuspecting Nigerian hoi polloi. I compared the scam
with the so-called Correction 2017 in Anambra State and confirmed it a
scam too; hence, this alert which is geared to forestalling the ugly
experience that the entire Nigerians are facing now from doubling on Ndi
Anambra with an Anambra version of the scam.
Nigerians are
presently groaning under the APC-led government; so that there is this
humorous picture which was shared on Facebook by a friend, featuring
people that were running away from every direction; and the text in the
picture read: “when they ask Nigerians to vote for Change in 2019.”
It should be recalled that most prominent APC members were former
disgruntled PDP members. They joined APC when they needed to recapture
the presidential power which they lost to Dr. Goodluck Jonathan upon the
death of President Yar’Adua in 2009. They tried to dissuade the
meekly President from running his rightful second tenure, and when they
failed, they went diabolic. They formed nPDP, planting disunity in the
parent party, PDP; thus weakening the chances of reelection of President
Goodluck Jonathan.
They employed a massive black propaganda against the
former president’s political appeal, and I want to give it to them that
they were very successful in it. Obasanjo wrote an open letter which
was laced with politically venomous accusations; while the former
Governor of CBN, Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi declared some 20 billion
USD missing from the nation’s treasury and pinned it to Jonathan’s
administration. The slow but thoughtful president swiftly this time
ousted the Governor of CBN but the damage has already been done.
The
opposition also promoted that President Jonathan should perform the
miracle of rescuing all the Chibok girls in their complete number or
resign for failing Nigerians in that regard. It is left to God to decide
on the reality of the much publicized kidnap; Dame Patience Jonathan
saw the hand of Esau in it.
All these propaganda cost the former
president his legitimacy and people especially our Northern and Western
brothers were like, “we need anything but Jonathan.” Then the 2015
election came and Jonathan lost. Today, had I known lies on the lips of
not only the Yorubas but the Hausas whose brother is the favoured in the
election.
Now, coming home to Anambra State, a group of disgruntled
and self interested elements just like their APC counterparts are
scheming for a similar scam in the State. They are very clever to know
that the word, “change” has grown notorious and sinister in Nigerian
politics and they changed it for the word, “Correction.” But, we are not
fooled. A Chinese proverb taunted, “Fool me once, shame on you; fool me
twice, shame on me.”
This so-called Correction 2017 originated out
of the frustration and disappointment of the moneybags and the
self-appointed godfather from commandeering the State’s funds into their
private coffers. Yes, that is the origin; it started when the Godly and
humane Governor Willie Obiano refused their biddings to sacrifice the
interest of Ndi Anambra for that of the few. They went aggressive out of
the frustration.
Firstly, the self-appointed godfather just like the
Sanusi-man, accused Gov. Obiano of misappropriating some 75 billion
naira which he said that he left in the office. Gov. Obiano maintained
his peace, and proved to Ndi Anambra that the said 75 billion naira was
non-existent; that it was only a desperate attempt to give a dog a bad
name in order to hang it. It was later revealed that the 75 billion
naira was a metaphor for the fund which the self-appointed godfather
requested to be paid, and which Gov. Obiano refused in the interest of
Ndi Anambra. The self-appointed godfather and his cohorts, whom Chief
Stephen Osita Osadebe would like to call “Ndi Ochongonoko,” then, began
to marshal out several politically venomous accusations akin to those in
OBJ’s Open Letter, against Gov. Obiano. They bankrolled an army of
Cyber-bullies who are currently selling their black propaganda against
the 2017 God-ordained reelection of our people-oriented governor, Chief
Willie Obiano.
I have said elsewhere quoting an Igbo proverb that
when you show a toad to a child in the midst of stones, you do so by
pointing. I put together this comparison so that both Ndi Anambra and
beyond could promptly point out a similar scam irrespective of the shade
of nomenclature it chooses to bear; and so that they could avoid the
so-called Correction 2017 like a plague; because it is nothing but a
scheme by “Ndi Ochongonoko”.
I still remember with nostalgia that
the word, “correction” is among the earliest spelling of English words
that I learnt as a beginner in academics. It was always boldly written
on a redo of an exercise that one failed in a primary school class. One
reservation which I still remember I had with the word, correction was
that it never earned me a higher mark; rather, it always earned me a
word, “Seen” written in a near illegible penmanship. I hated it with
passion. As a pupil, I learnt two things about the word correction:
First, it follows an error in the main exercise; and second, it never
earned a higher mark but a near illegible word, “Seen” written in red.
Expectedly, the so-called Change 2015 did not earn a higher mark for
Nigeria and Nigerians. We have rather “seen” the more grievous error it
created. It follows therefore to mean that the so-called Correction 2017
will not earn a higher mark for Ndi Anambra. Suffice it to say here
however, that there is currently no error in the governance of Anambra
State. In Anambra State, I see excellence. In Gov.
Obiano, I see
prudence; he has been able to do more with less. The so-called
Correction 2017 is therefore, needless.
From this discussion above,
it is instructive that whenever the self-interested politicians broach
the so-called Correction 2017 around you, you should touch your
neighbour and tell him, “looku them, Ndi Ochongonoko.”
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