RE: OUK's LETTER TO ABIANS - A HYPOCRITICAL STANDPOINT

RE: OUK's LETTER TO ABIANS - A HYPOCRITICAL STANDPOINT

He has refused to let sleeping dogs lie. The more he tries to pacify Abians whose collective psyches he bruised for eight years, the more he adds salt to injury. OUK has just written a letter to Abians denying leaving any debt and insistently claiming that while he was Governor, salaries were paid as at when due.

Again, I want to present OUK to the competent court of public opinion. For those who think it is foolhardy to dwell on the past, may I quickly remind them that a man who cannot ascertain where the rain started beating him would not know where it stopped.

I am compelled to believe what the Chief Press Secretary to the Abia State Government said about OUK. The CPS said without mincing words, that OUK did not have the faint idea of how monies were cornered and spent as his mother called the shots. The CPS told OUK that the Abia State Government will not respond to him as they can only talk to his mother who ran the government. OUK, according to the CPS, minded his very many businesses and did not have time for the day – to – day running of the government. The implication is that OUK does not know a thing. As shameful as that seems, OUK has by the contents of his letter to Abians fueled the speculation that he was indeed a Governor in Diaspora.

It is pertinent I remind OUK a few things that would help shape his though in future. In the public opinion court, it is unpardonable to lie in defence. My reasons:

1. While OUK was Governor, hospital – patient relation was at its lowest ebb. It was in his administration that workers of ABSUTH were owed eleven months salaries that resulted in the death of many patients, workers and dependents of workers. While the workers sent a warning notice to government for a strike owing to non – payment of salaries, the tough ODIUKO told them to return the keys to the hospital to her. Gradually, that hospital was locked for months. When academic and clinical activities returned to the hospital, the then CMD spent about N1.6m to clean up the hospital as it had turned to a forest within those months.
2. College of Medicine ABSU almost lost their accreditation due to incessant disruption of academic activities. History records that while OUK was governor, ABSU medical students spent an average of nine years for a six year course. These facts are verifiable. Ask any medical students in ABSU between 1999 and 2007.
3. Ifeanyi Ikwechegh was OUK’s brother who he appointed Chairman of Aba North LGA. By the time Ikwechegh came, another of OUK’s stooge had left six months arrears of salaries. Ikwechegh, who ran the Council from OUK mother’s kitchen, compounded the woes of Council workers by extending months of unpaid salaries.
4. While OUK was Governor, Council workers in almost all the 17 LGAs were owed arrears of salaries.
5. ASUU of Abia State University, Uturu had called out their members on weeks of strike to protest non – payment of salaries by the OUK government.

There is nothing wrong in OUK not doing anything while he was Governor. But, the repeated insulting of our intelligence by saying he developed infrastructure while he was Governor is not only morally unacceptable but empirically damaging. Which infrastructure?

Again, I am compelled to tell OUK that the ghost of his willful underdevelopment of Abia State is haunting him. He missed the golden opportunity of etching his name in gold. He is not making any head way with us by his lies. Again, I challenge him to say what he achieved as Governor. At the risk of repeating myself, I will quickly remind him that:

1. He bought new seats and re – roofed the Aba and Umuahia township stadiums,  which he shamelessly renamed ENYIMBA INTERNATIONAL STADIUM and OUK TOWNSHIP STADIUM RESPECTIVELY.
2. He refurbished Cemetry, Osusu and Umule Roads and they all collapsed after four months.
3. He lived in a rented government house for eight years
4. He employed public funds to finance his private businesses. If this is not true, what did he have that Abia State government lacked that he was able to run SUN NEWSPAPERS while NATIONAL AMBASSADOR belonging to Abia State Government was killed by him?

He said that he maintained peace and security while his administration lasted. Who introduced BAKASSI? OUK! It was the activities of Bakassi boys that desecrated Aba, reason the city has remained under the firm grip of familiar spirits.

OUK should consult with his mother before going to press. His mother seems to know more than he does, at least as it concerns Abia State between 1999 and 2007