Pricey Governor, I write to convey my worries which aren’t completely totally different from the considerations of the silent majority who’re shy of speaking similar to you. Chances are you’ll by no means get to know your public ranking due to your model of politics that forbids suggestions and encourages echo chamber. You might have since assumption of workplace fought each actual and imaginary enemy and appear decided to hold on with the offensive so long as you stay the governor of Anambra state. It does seem there is no such thing as a restraining you.
Members of your Exco who ought to stand within the hole are usually not doing so. Peopled by women and men too younger and too inexperienced to make even a whimper, they watch helplessly as you keep on with unbridled conceitedness. Looking back, you outsmarted ndi Anambra when on the inception of your administration you insisted that appointment into your authorities should be on advantage and thru utility.
That supplied you the possibility to interact extra yes-nodding lackeys than assured performers. Those that are usually not pliable sufficient to undergo your weekly monologue on the Exco chambers you both throw out or triggered to function on the margins.
Sadly your intolerance to opposing views stored rising by leaps and bounds. You quarreled, and nonetheless quarrel, with anyone you take into account a menace to your need for energy. You fought ex- Governor Willie Obiano who defied smart counsel and risked the peace of his residence to choose you rather than Chukwuma Umeoji. You levied unprovoked warfare towards Peter Obi’s presidential marketing campaign which you at the moment are exploiting to benefit within the presidency.
You just about ended Victor Umeh’s political profession as a result of he suggested towards your governorship ambition in 2013, so that you don’t violate the zonal association within the state. However immediately you might be working arduous to maximise the good points of the zonal association for a second tenure in workplace. What might be extra misleading?
You might have, with the passage of time, change into extra aggressive and fewer emollient. You might have battled the normal rulers within the state and wrestled with the church of God. The esteemed Obi of Onitsha got here inside firing vary of your ill-bred media group for questioning your meddlesomeness in his management of the Anambra State Conventional Council. The revered Archbishop of Onitsha turned your enemy for asking you to curb your overbearing affect on church issues.
You’re presently up in arms towards Rev. Fr. Emmanuel Obimma (Ebube Muonso) the charismatic Priest of the Holy Ghost Adoration Ministry, Uke and Parish Priest of the Blessed Iwene Tansi Parish, Umudioka, for expressing outrage over the escape of two suspects arrested within the kidnap and homicide of Hon. Justice Azuka. Your response to Ebube Muonso’s admonition over the sloppy dealing with of the kidnap suspects was unmistaken of a provincial chief. However you’ll quickly realise you might be combating a person with immense grace.
You appear to have change into a god that any stakeholder, clergy man, conventional ruler, and so forth who opposes does so at their very own peril. Why the unrestrained assault on the church for holding you to account? You might have change into more and more contemptuous of opposing views with each speech you utter, and each motion you are taking, pointing to an unbridled conceitedness.
Throughout our retreat, at All Saints Cathedral, Onitsha, you spoke concerning the ravaging insecurity within the state. You had been your outdated self, speaking down on all people current, together with Bishop Okpala who was simply launched by his abductors after 25 days in captivity. You reminded all people current that top profile kidnap has been rampant within the state earlier than you turned governor. For emphasis, you talked about the kidnap of your father Chief Simon Soludo, Chief Tony Enukeme (Tonimas), Chief Paul Okonkwo (Pokobros) Chief Ubaka Okeke (GUO).
You forgot that it was your prohibition of the Monday-sit-at residence order in Anambra, with out enough safety association, that escalated insecurity within the state. While you realised the folly of your assertion and hurried to consult with Nnamdi Kanu in Kuje jail it was late. The horse had left the steady and extra violent crime ensued with felony parts cashing in in your unpreparedness. First, was the heinous homicide and severing of the top of Okechukwu Okoye who represented Aguata 1 within the State Home of Meeting. The demise nonetheless haunts the great folks of the state. Second was the killing of one other legislation maker Justice Azuka who represented Onitsha North 1 constituency within the State Home of Meeting after gathering thousands and thousands of naira as ransom. In between these two deaths many extra souls had been violently dispatched.
It might curiosity you that the individuals are not joyful. However they’re angered extra by the sloppy dealing with of two of the suspected murderers of Azuka who escaped after arrest. Lots of ndi Anambra are questioning what the assault on Fr. Ebube Muonso was for. So far as they’re involved, the person of God is talking the thoughts of a lot of them. If it isn’t intolerance, I’m wondering why your aides would descend on the charismatic priest. Your peevish response to criticisms every time there’s a breach in governance exposes you as insecure. The final time your authorities demolished a lodge in Oba which it claimed was used as kidnapper’s den and its topmost ground, a grave yard, when queried by ndi Anambra, was dismissed as senseless opposition.
The overbearing angle of your authorities manifests in virtually all points of your administration. In case your web supporters are usually not attacking a presumed enemy, your military, ARTMA, SASA, ASWAMA are unleashing mayhem on the folks. The worst of all of them is Anambra State Anti-Touting Squad (SASA) which has no purpose to exist in a state ruled by legislation. Since establishing this rogue Squad (ndi Aka Odu) many have both died from being tough dealt with or rendered invalid via the identical violent technique.
The case of Okechukwu Akaneme, former Chairman of Onitsha Chamber of Commerce stands out. The person has been in a vegetative state after an encounter with males of the Anambra State Waste Administration Authority (ASWAMA). Writing about how your males use pestle to deform victims within the identify of income technology, Sunny Igboanugo mentioned: “How Soludo’s males found this as their very own device of enforcement, significantly for income technology, has remained fairly baffling. It’s much more in order that this mental giant- probably the most visibly educated governor within the South East if not Nigeria- as an alternative of being scandalised by this stone-age mannequin, appears fairly snug with it”.
It’s apparent that you’re not going to vary your ways of attacking imaginary enemies irrespective of how you might be corrected. You appear to have this impression of your position within the state as messianic. However the folks know higher. Perhaps should you had ended your profession on the apex financial institution the folks can be stuffed with expectations, however your governorship has eliminated all doubts. Okwusogu wrote from Onitsha.
