WHO WILL TAKE TO THE STREETS TO PROTEST IF UCHE OGAH WINS?

Desperate Time Exposes Desperate Politicians As the final act of a perfidious regime, the Abia State Government has hatched sinister plans to be executed in the three senatorial zones of the state. One of the plans is to stir up sentiments in the state, using some hired groups – youths, women, artisans and other amorous organizations to demonstrate in solidarity with Governor Okezie Ikpeazu, backed with media hype.

This is coming against the background of the commencement of the case between Governor Ikpeazu and Dr. Uche Ogah at the Supreme Court over the state governorship election of 2015. Recall that the case was the fall out of the false information allegedly supplied by the governor in his nomination form, as aspirant of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). The demonstrations will take the character of the mayhem that was unleashed on some parts of the state during the first week of January 2016, following the December 31, 2015 Owerri Court of Appeal, judgement that sacked Governor Ikpeazu from office and declared Dr. Alex Oti of the All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA), winner of the 2015 governorship election in Abia State. After the Appeal Court verdict, pockets of sympathizers allegedly backed by the state security apparatus took to the streets, blocked the highways and other adjoining roads.

The demonstrations continued until the masses trooped out to express their support for Oti. The governor was overwhelmed, and he hurriedly called of all demonstrations and solidarity rallies in the state. With the planned rallies, the governor intends to convey the impression to the judges in the apex court judges and others that his support base in Abia is huge, and if he is removed, there will be anarchy in the state. This is untrue. Instead of violence, Abians will jubilate on the day the governor is removed; some would even dance naked to express their joy.

Abia workers are literally eating the bread of sorrow and chastised with the rod of affliction by the incumbent government. Removal of the governor will bring relief to them. Like a drowning person looking for straw to hold for survival, Ikpeazu knows he is living on borrowed time at the Government House, Umuahia, and he is doing everything to survive. That was why the idea of causing confusion through demonstrations, rallies was hatched. The withdrawal of Justice Amina Augie of the Supreme Court on January 11, 2017, from the Ikpeazu versus Ogah case is giving sleepless nights to residents of Abia Government House.

The revered justice gave reason for her withdrawal, saying it was based on allegations of bias preferred against her by a party in the suit between Ikpeazu and Oti. Recall that after the Appeal Court judgement that removed Ikpeazu and declared Oti the governor, the Ikpeazu group used every available medium to attack Justice Augie and the courts. Also, after Justice Okon Abang of the Abuja High Court removed Ikpeazu and ordered INEC to issue a Certificate of Return to Ogah, the Governor’s group petitioned Abang at the NJC. The NJC headed by the Chief Justice of Nigeria declared that the judgment delivered by Justice Abang was very in order.

Since then, the governor and his group have been jittery. Their thinking is that if the NJC declared that the judgement of Justice Abang that sacked the governor is in order, the governor’s fate in the matter before the Supreme Court hangs on the cliff.

Another worrisome dimension to this is that the over N10.5 billion Paris Club refund, which President Muhammadu Buhari directed governors to use to settle salary arrears of their workers is alleged to be part of what the Abia State government is using to fund demonstrations and solidarity rallies in the state and buying of media spaces for the project.


With sound judgement, let’s assess the exact state of Abia and allow unbiased judge to answer the simple question:

WHO IN ABIA WILL RUSH OUT TO THE STREETS TO PROTEST IF UCHE OGAH WINS?

Health they say is wealth. Let us begin with the government hospitals in Abia and you would discover that we should weep for the patients who have been discharged untimely from Abia State Teaching Hospital, Abayi Aba to go and die of course. Patients have been asked to go because the doctors and nurses have refused to attend to them because of non-payment of their salaries for many months. Even those booked for surgical operations have been asked to try other private clinics, and for now we are yet to ascertain the number of causalities. On the contrary, Okezie Ikpeazu wants the nation to believe that their families, friends and communities from the three senatorial zones will rush out to the streets in protest if he is removed by the Supreme Court.

Source: http://abnews247.com/en/2017/01/19/true-abians-for-development-initiative-peter-agba/

@ op, how much were you paid for this?.