​Dr. Uche Ogah’s business in politics and the desperation of the political camarilla. By Uche Aguoru

To the political sciolist, the question that engages their psyche on the person of Dr. Uchechukwu Sampson Ogah is what will a decent, highly blessed, self fulfilled, God fearing billionaire with a vast business empire like the Master Energy group be doing in politics? Most times these questions arise out of pity and love for his kind nature as against the muddy shark infested political waters that Abia has been turned into by a set of political desperadoes.  Who are bent on making sure that the state keeps walking heads down and feet’s up, as long as their bank accounts gets fatter every FAAC day.

And the answer lies in a recent speech made by Dr. Ogah in a function where he said and I quote “My venture into politics is out of love for my people and the crave for even development of my state across all sectors as found in other progressive states of the federation.”

Dr. Uchechukwu Sampson Ogah had in no small way added value to the lives of Abians, he has all along placed Abia and Abians first in his priority list. This gentle, unassuming and benevolent personality had all along lived above self by exhibiting a rare show of love for the poor and vulnerable in the society. All these  can be attested to by the way he transformed the sleepy Community of Onuaku to the largest industrial cluster in Abia today. 

He has also turned the poor Onuaku Community to an enviable estate by erecting befitting abodes to virtually all the households in Onuaku.  He also has made sure that all the youths in Uturu are engaged either in businesses or studying in various universities within Nigeria and beyond courtesy of Dr. Uche Ogah Foundation. He single handedly erected the faculty of law building in Abia state university Uturu. He also donated more than a quarter of the total number of cars given out as empowerment items by the state government under the immediate past administration.

He also extended his benevolent spirit through the Master Energy Group where there is a direct engagement of over 6000 youths within Abia and an indirect employment of almost twice the same figure. Dr. Ogah’s benevolence and philanthropy is not one borne out of political ambition but of genuine desire to transform the lives of any one who he comes in contact with through the enormous blessings God has dropped at his door step.

The desire to change the living standard of Abians was what dragged him out of his billionaire comfort zone into the political wrestling contest, where those incharge of the political wrestling beat is scared of any body who has come to rewrite the political history of the state from the negative to the positive. In an interaction with Dr. Ogah he once told me “I love the poor, but I hate their condition” Dr. Ogah communicates more through action and has designed a definitive road map for the development of all sectors of the state, he has an economic empowerment action plan that will ensure sustainable economic empowerment of every family unit in Abia. He also has a program that will industrialise the three geopolitical zones and create jobs for the teeming unemployed youths. 

Time and space will not permit me to enumerate the various economic, human capital,education,health and infrastructural development action plan with a clear cut and thoroughly defined implementation structure that will place Abia amongst the first in the comity of states.

All these wonderfully created initiatives flowing out of the innate desires of a man who wants to see an Abia that we all will be proud of, that will ensure that the state attains its full potentials in all sections, cannot be possible if justice is not dispensed by the Supreme Court in favour of the ordinary Abian who Dr. Uche Ogah represents. 

The ordinary Abian has been suffering untold hardship in the hands of a governor who would rather use the money meant for the salary of Abia Civil Servants to fly private jets. A governor who for lack of  entrepreneurial initiatives will prefer to jet out with a chattered aircraft with just two pair of shoes for sale rather than think out how to improve the Made in Aba shoe market by building gum factories and bringing leather designing equipment. A governor who prefers to indulge in expensive wines,spirits and partying while the state capital is submerged in heaps of refuse threatening the health of Abians. A governor who prefers to service the pockets of a clique against service to the people. A governor who lacks economic creativity in these financially challenging times. 

A governor who is busy trying to gain the attention and friendship of fellow governors rather than think out ways of tapping the enormous natural wealth that is domiciled in all parts of the state. A governor with limited knowledge and tact on how to move the state forward from where he met it. 

While it is very painful and excruciatingly difficult to admit, it remains an unbleached truism that Abia under Dr. Okezie Victor Ikpeazu has not moved a step forward from where the previous administration stopped. And, it is even more horrorful to admit that the economic and infrastructural fortunes of Abia State has retrogressed due to incompetent leadership and ineptitude as exhibited by Dr. Okezie Ikpeazu PhD.

Aguoru 
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​THE EIGHT LIES (FALSE INFORMATION) FOUND ON THE TAX PAPERS OF DR. OKEZIE IKPEAZU THAT CAUSED HIS SACK. by Chima Obiwuru

 

Hon. Justice Okon Abang delivered his judgment in the case involving Dr. Uche Sampson Ogah Vs. Dr. Okezie Ikpeazu & 3 ORS in which the Court found out several false information on the tax papers filed in by Dr. Okezie Ikpeazu and ordered him to vacate his seat in accordance with the law and precedents. The same Court ordered Dr. Uche Sampson Ogah who is the qualified candidate of PDP to be sworn in as the Governor of Abia State.

Since then, Dr. Okezie Ikpeazu has refused to vacate his seat using all manner of tactics and arm-twisting measures. The whole world is watching. Read the findings of the learned judge:

“Now the crux of this matter which I will soon resolve is the issue raised by the Plaintiff that the 2nd Defendant was not qualified based on 2014 People’s Democratic Party’s Electoral Guidelines to contest the said primary. That INEC Form CF001 and documents he submitted to Independent National Electoral Commission contain false information which by virtue of Section 31(5 & 6) of the Electoral Act 2010 as amended he is not qualified to contest the said primary election.

The Plaintiff further contended that Form CF001 deposed to by the 2nd Defendant with attached documents submitted by him and the 1st Defendant to the 3rd Defendant contain false information.

 
That by virtue of Section 31 (6) of Electoral Act that where the Court determines that any of the information contained in the Form CF001 or any document submitted by the 2nd Defendant is false. That the Court shall make an Order, disqualifying the candidate from contesting the said primary election.

The Plaintiff also contends that having not been qualified to contest the said primary election on 8th December, 2014 that the votes cast for the 2nd Defendant are wasted votes. That they are null and void and to no effect. That in the circumstances, that the 2nd Defendant did not win the People’s Democratic Party’s primary election. That the Plaintiff won the election.

My Lord, this is the moment of truth.

My Lord, the issue in this matter has been narrowed down. My duty in this judgment today is to look at Form CF001 sworn to by the 2nd Defendant and documents attached to therein (Exhibit H) and determine whether any of the information contained in Form CF001 or any document submitted by the 2nd Defendant to 3rd Defendant is false then the Court shall issue an Order disqualifying the candidate from contesting the election. Put differently, my Lord, the Court is enjoined by Section 31 (5) of Electoral Act as amended to look at Plaintiff’s Exhibit A to H ex facie and find out whether the information contained in the said documents submitted to INEC by the 1st and 2nd Defendants are correct or false.

In my humble view, this exercise stated above has nothing to do with forgery of these documents as alleged y the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Defendants or making of false documents under the Criminal Code or Penal Code.

My Lord, the issue before the Court arising from the claims of the Plaintiff in my humble view is not whether the tax receipts were forged by the 2nd Defendant or whether the maker of the tax receipts and tax clearance had criminal intention, far from it. The Plaintiff from the depositions in Affidavit in Support of Originating Summons did not allege forgery of these documents. Therefore it is in appropriate in my view for the 1st to 3rd Defendants to rely on a claim of forgery and false documents and the meaning attached thereto in the judicial authorities cited by them and definition of the offence under the Criminal Code and Penal Code. With the greatest respect to the learned Senior Counsel for the 2nd Defendant A. A. Awomolo (SAN), the authorities cited by him relating to what is a forged document or false document, alteration of documents or making of false documents are irrelevant since the issue before the Court has nothing to do with forgery of the tax documents or any related Criminal Act or Conduct. The case of IMAM VS. SHERIFF supra relied upon by him was cited out of context. The nature of document to be false under Section 31 (5) of the Electoral Act was not the issue in that matter. Therefore, it does not require in my view ordering of pleadings or requiring the Plaintiff to prove the allegation beyond reasonable doubt. The issue here is simple and straight forward, whether there is any false information contained in the documents submitted to Independent National Electoral Commission by the 2nd Defendant. The contention of the Defendants as regard whether the documents were forged is not the requirement of Section 31 (5) of the Electoral Act.

For the upteempth time, the issue before the Court is whether on the face of these documents, information in Exhibits A to D and H of the Plaintiff’s Affidavit are correct or false no more, no less.

In order to establish whether or not information Exhibits A to D and H contain false information and as argued by the parties, reference is hereby made to the Plaintiff’s Affidavit in Support, the Plaintiff’s further Affidavit, the 1st and 2nd Defendants’ Counter Affidavit Dated 2nd October, 2015 and the 2nd Defendants with attached documents submitted by him to Independent National Electoral Commission contain false information.

The false information can be found in the 2nd Defendant’s 2011 tax receipt which is Plaintiff’s Exhibit A and 2nd Defendant’s Exhibit OK6.

Reference is made to the 2nd Defendant’s Exhibit OK1 which is his appointment letter as General Manager Abia State Passengers Integrated Manifest Scheme with effect from 18th July, 2011 with amount payable as salary, allowances/entitlements clearly spelt out.

Going by the 2nd Defendant’s appointment letter Exhibit OK1, the 2nd Defendant worked for Abia State Passengers Integrated Manifest Scheme for 5 months 12 days in 2011.

The earnings of the 2nd Defendant based on the letter of appointment in 2011 for 5 months and 12 days by simple calculation is #493,128.00 that if he is assigned Government vehicle or #546,609.00 if not assigned any Government vehicle. The tax receipt or tax clearance exhibited by 2nd Defendant Exhibit OK6 and Exhibit OK8 did not reflect these figures. That is not all.

However, the Plaintiff’s Exhibit A which is the 2nd Defendant’s Exhibit OK6 is that the tax receipt for 2011 indicates that the gross emolument or earnings of the 2nd Defendant Dr. Okezie Ikpeazu for 2011 is #1,135,476.00 and his income tax was assessed on this figure for 2011.

My view here is that the 2nd Defendant’s gross emolument (earnings) for 2011 does not correspond with the period the 2nd Defendant worked for Abia State Passengers Integrated Manifest Scheme in 2011. In 2011, the 2nd Defendant was paid the sum of #1,135,467.00 for working for 5 months and 12 days that is in 2011, the 2nd Defendant actually received 12 months salary which he worked for only 5 months and 12 days.

Put differently, the 2nd Defendant gave false information in his Exhibit OK6 that his gross emolument for 2011 is #1,135,476.00.

The correct gross emolument for 2011 having regard to salary and allowances that he earned for 5 months and 12 days in 2011 ought to be #493,128.00 or #546,619 (if not assigned any government vehicle). The information that he earned #1,135,476.00 in 2011 is false. It is not possible that the 2nd Defendant earned that amount having worked for 5 months and 12 days in 2011 taking into consideration what he was supposed to earn as salary, allowances and entitlements as per appointment letter Exhibit OK1. This has nothing to do with forgery but giving false information to Independent National Electoral Commission.

Second false information. The date of 31st December, 2011 in 2011 tax receipt with Serial No. 0012849 is a Saturday. Saturday is not a working day even in Abia State. Ministers, Public bodies such as Abia State Board of Internal Revenue do not work on a Saturday. It is none working day.

This is another false information given in the documents the 2nd Defendant submitted to the 3rd Defendant.

Third false information. The Serial No. 0012849 of the 2nd Defendant’s 2011 tax receipt came first for a tax receipt purportedly issued on a Saturday on 31st  December, 2011 before the tax receipt No. 0012846 of 2012, 31st December was issued. See Plaintiff’s Exhibit B which is the 2nd defendant Exhibit OK3. The tax receipt for year 2013 with Serial No. 0012847 was earlier in time before the 2nd Defendant obtained tax receipt for 2011. See Plaintiff’s Exhibit C which is also the 2nd Defendant’s Exhibit OK4. Plaintiff’s Exhibit A, B, C being also the 2nd Defendant’s Exhibits OK6, OK3 and OK4 contain false information. Using the same booklet to issue tax receipt for 2011 ought to have been first in time before the serial number of the tax receipt of 2nd Defendant for 2012 and 2013. However in this case, it is the serial number of the 2nd Defendant’s tax receipt for 2012 and 2013 that came first. The information contain therein in those documents are false under Section 31 (5) of the Electoral Act. This has nothing to do with forgery.

The 2nd Defendant claimed in his defence that Exhibit OK2 was issued in error and that explained why his Exhibit OK6 was later in time that is 2011 tax receipt. The fact of the 2nd Defendant’s explanation here is an admission against interest that indeed the earlier 2011 tax receipt contains false information.

My Lord, if indeed the 2nd Defendant Exhibit OK2 was issued in error and known to the 2nd Defendant, the 2nd Defendant ought to have explained this to Independent National Electoral Commission when Form CF001 with attached documents were returned to Independent National Electoral Commission on 26th December, 2014. This would have shown good faith on the part of 2nd Defendant. He waited till when the issue was raised by the Plaintiff. Since 2nd Defendant did not submit his Exhibit OK2 to Independent National Electoral Commission alongside with Form CF001, the Court is only bound to examine documents attached to Form CF001 and forwarded to Independent National Electoral Commission to see if they contain false information and not documents not forming part of the documents attached to Form CF001. Therefore, the defence of the 2nd Defendant on this issue has not discharged the burden placed on him by Supreme Court in the case of EKAGBARA VS. IKPEAZU supra to prove that the documents he submitted to Independent National Electoral Commission do not contain false information.

The defence of the 2nd Defendant here is an after-thought. What was cancelled does not form part of the records of Independent National Electoral Commission. It is an admission against interest. It is my view that any other fact coming as justification or correction, addition different from what was submitted to Independent National Electoral Commission abinitio in Form CF001 makes the case of the Plaintiff and it is a confirmation or admission that what was submitted to Independent National Electoral Commission was false.

The fourth false information given by the 2nd Defendant and submitted to Independent National Electoral Commission is that the amount paid as tax in the tax receipts in Exhibit A, B, and C is different from the amount paid as tax in the tax clearance certificate Exhibit D. put differently, the claim of payment of income tax for 2011, 2012 and 2013 is not true, it is false.

I have already discusses in this judgment that the sum of #1,135,476.00 is the 2nd Defendant’s gross emolument (total income) for the year 2011. That out of that amount the 2nd Defendant paid the sum of #166,145.20 as tax for that year and this does not represent what the 2nd Defendant ought to have earned for 5 months 12 days having been employed on 19th July, 2011 to take effect from 18th July, 2011 by Abia State Passengers Integrated and Safety Scheme. Exhibit D which is the tax clearance certificate of the 2nd Defendant indicates in the 2013 column that he paid personal income tax of #75,017.76 whilst Exhibit C the 2nd Defendant’s tax receipt for 2013 with serial no. 0012847 dated 31st December, 2013 indicates that the 2nd Defendant paid #38,775.00. The amount in the 2013 tax receipt for 2013 should be the same amount in the column for 2013 tax in the tax clearance certificate. This is another false information that 2nd Defendant submitted to the 3rd Defendant in his tax clearance certificate Exhibit D.

In the 2nd Defendant attempts to show that the amount stated in the tax clearance for year 2013 is genuine and not false, he made reference to his Exhibit OK4 and OK5 and sub-paragraphs 11 and 12 of paragraph 3 of his further Counter Affidavit dated 16th March, 2016 to the effect that the amount in the sum of #75,017.76 shown in the 2013 column of tax clearance certificate is the sum total of taxes paid by him from his employment in two agencies in 2013 i.e. for Abia State Passengers Integrated Manifest and Safety scheme and other from Abia State Environmental Protection Agency. That according to the 2nd Defendant accounts for the receipt No. 0012847 of 31st December, 2013 and receipt No. 0012848 of 31st December, 2013.

My Lord, if indeed it is true that the entry of personal income tax of the 2nd Defendant in the tax clearance certificate for 2013 represents payment of taxes by the 2nd Defendant when he served in two agencies in 2013, the 2nd Defendant ought to have made this explanation to Independent National Electoral Commission when he filled and submitted Form CF001 to Independent National Electoral Commission.

This is so because the 2nd Defendant Dr. Okezie Ikpeazu on 22nd December, 2014 declared on Oath in Form CF001 that all answers and particulars he has given in Form CF001 are true and correct and that he has fulfilled all requirements for qualification into office he is seeking to be elected. He signed and the Commissioner for Oath also signed.

The 2nd Defendant submitted income tax receipt for 2013 and indicated that he paid #38,775.00. the entry of #38,775.00 should also have been reflected as such in the tax clearance certificate Exhibit D. i.e. the amount stated as income tax in 2013 income tax receipt should have been the same amount stated in 2013 column in the tax clearance certificate Exhibit D. it is my humble view that the 2nd Defendant provided false information in the tax clearance certificate Exhibit D where the figure was changed from #38,775.00 to #75,017.76.

2nd Defendant signed Form CF001 himself, nobody signed for him. It is the document he submitted to 3rd Defendant. The 2nd Defendant has not pleaded non est factum – meaning not my deed. There is no evidence before the Court indicating that the 2nd Defendant was of unsound mind when he signed Form CF001. If indeed the figure in Exhibit D for 2013 tax receipt represents payment of income tax for the two agencies of Abia State Government, then the 2nd Defendant ought to have explained this in a Further Affidavit to Independent National Electoral Commission. Producing Exhibit OK5 now that did not form part of the documents submitted to Independent National Electoral Commission is an after-thought designed to cover false information given by the 2nd Defendant to Independent National Electoral Commission. He cannot be allowed to use extraneous documents not forming part of the documents he submitted to Independent National Electoral Commission earlier to establish that the facts contained in Exhibits A, B, C, D & H are correct , true and genuine.

The fifth information given by 2nd Defendant to Independent National Electoral Commission that is false can be seen in Exhibit A. that is 2011 tax receipt. The 2nd Defendant tax  payment for 2011 was made for the period 1st January, 2011 to 31st December, 2011 see the Plaintiff’s Exhibit A and 2nd Defendant’s Exhibit OK6. The false information given by the 2nd Defendant here is that he stated paying income tax to Abia State Passengers Integrated and Safety Scheme before his employment on 19th July, 2011 that took effect from 18th July, 2011. This is also false. A person cannot pay tax for a period he did not work. This is false information and has nothing to do with forgery.

The sixth false information given by the 2nd Defendant to Independent National Electoral Commission here is also apparent in Exhibit D tax clearance certificate. It is also the 2nd Defendant Exhibit OK8. Exhibit D and OK8, it is clear in 2011 that the 2nd Defendant gross emolument (earning) is #1,135,476.00. That is, he only worked for his employer for 5 months 12 days in 2011 and he paid #166,145.20 as tax, while he earned the same amount in 2012 that he worked for the whole year of 12 months, he paid a lesser amount of #66,000.00. This is a false information to the extent that the 2nd Defendant could not have paid a higher amount. In 2011, that he worked for 5 months and 12 days only for him to pay lesser amount for the same gross emolument when he worked for 12 months. No person that is employed by an agency of Government can pay tax for a period he did not work or for a period he is not yet employed. It is my view that any iota of information submitted to the 3rd Defendant by the 2nd Defendant that is false is sufficient to disqualify the 2nd Defendant from contesting the People’s Democratic Party’s primary election held on 8th December 2014.

My Lord, the documents claimed by the 2nd Defendant to be tax receipts and tax clearance are irregular and confirm false information as submitted to the 3rd Defendant Independent National Electoral Commission by the 1st and 2nd Defendants and accompanying Form CF001.

Reference is hereby made to paragraph 4 (IV & V) of the 2nd Defendant’s Further Counter Affidavit dated 16th March , 2016 that he claimed he played no role on how and when his tax is paid within the period of his employment or how and when taxes are paid within the period of his employment as regard reduction and remittance of his tax between his employers and Abia State Internal Revenue Service, rather I agree with the Plaintiff that it was the 2nd Defendant that supplied all information in the relevant form before the tax receipts and tax clearance certificate were issued by Abia State Internal Revenue . As stated in the extant laws regarding payment of taxes by taxable adult, tax receipts are issued monthly. If a taxable adult is employed by agency of Government, whether Federal or State, the monthly pay slip or pay advice will show much is deducted as tax monthly from the 2nd Defendant’s salary. Contrary to the facts stated by the 2nd Defendant in the Further Counter Affidavit, tax receipts and tax clearance certificates are dated the day or date they are issued or signed not on 31st December of each year. The issue here is that, the act of giving false information must relate to the act of the 2nd Defendant. It is not in dispute that he submitted the documents to Independent National Electoral Commission.

The seventh false information given by the 2nd Defendant to Independent National Electoral Commission is that he failed to pay his tax for three preceding years that is 2011, 2012 and 2013 as when due before the People’s Democratic Party held its primary election on 8th December, 2014. The Plaintiff’s Exhibit D and the 2nd Defendant’s Exhibit OK8 is not the 2nd Defendant’s income tax clearance known to law.

It is also my view my Lord, that the 2nd Defendant did not produce his personal income tax certificate nor any evidence to show that he paid his income tax for the last preceding three years before the People’s Democratic Party’s primary election took place on 8th December, 2014.

The income tax pay as you earn receipts exhibited Exhibits A, B, C as well as tax clearance of the 2nd Defendant Exhibit D the serial number on the receipts clearly show that they were issued the same day. The income tax receipt of the 2nd Defendant 2011 was even issued on a Saturday. This is also a false information as it is expected that no office opened for business on a Saturday. Payment of tax was made in 2012 before payment of tax was made in 2011. The 2nd Defendant has a not proved that the information contained in Exhibits A, B, C & D are genuine true and not false.

The income tax receipts Exhibits A, B, C show that the 2nd Defendant did not pay his tax when due for the preceding years 2011, 2012 and 2013 to qualify him for tax clearance certificate in 2014. The 2nd Defendant claimed to be a public servant not a political appointee and that he received his salary monthly.

The 2nd Defendant ought to have forwarded the monthly pay slip or pay advice to Independent National Electoral Commission to show that he paid his tax as and when due. If as contended by him that he is a public servant or civil servant which is in doubt, then the information in the Plaintiff’s Exhibits A to D cannot be correct. It is a false information because the 2nd Defendant paid his tax for the preceding three years on 4th July, 2014. In line with the decision in LANTOS VS. WOWO supra, if indeed the 2nd Defendant tax was deducted as and when due, there should have been evidence of deduction of monthly tax as and when due. Exhibits A, B, C do show that the tax was paid on 4th July, 2014 for the three years.

The 2nd Defendant cannot submit documents to and with false information, inaccurate and inconsistent facts and figures and then claim that the documents are his tax clearance certificate and evidence or payment of income tax 2011, 2012 and 2013. These documents cannot survive a minute longer. They have to be struck down today because they contain false information.

It is my view that Exhibit D or Exhibit OK8 is not the 2nd Defendant’s tax clearance certificate known to law. Exhibits A, B, C or Exhibits OK6, OK3 and OK4 are not the 2nd Defendant’s income tax receipts for 2011, 2012 and 2013 known to law. Therefore, Exhibits D and C are hereby set aside and accordingly nullified. I so hold.

My Lord, it is my view that the 1st Defendant and 2nd Defendants having not submitted to and tax   receipts for 2011, 2012 and 2013 known to law or tax papers showing payments of income tax to Abia State Board of Internal Revenue as and when due and the 1st & 2nd Defendants having not submitted to and the 2nd Defendant’s tax clearance certificate known to law, the 2nd Defendant was not qualified to contest the People’s Democratic Party’s primary to elect or nominate a candidate under People’s Democratic Party platform to contest for the office of the Governor of Abia State of Nigeria in line with Article and 14 (a) of People’s Democratic Party’s Electoral Guidelines 2014 which provides –

Article 14 –

“An aspirant to the gubernatorial primary election shall not be qualified to be nominated or contest the primary election if he/she;

Article 14 (A) –

fails to produce his personal income tax certificate or any evidence that he has paid his income tax for the preceding years or evidence of exemption from payment of personal income tax”

My Lord, having held in this judgment that the information contained in the documents attached to Form CF001 submitted by 1st and 2nd Defendants to Independent National Electoral Commission are false and having regard to the provisions of Section 31 (6) of Electoral Act 2010 as amended, an Order is hereby made disqualifying the 2nd Defendant Dr. Okezie Ikpeazu as the candidate of People’s Democratic Part for 2015 general election to the office of Governor of Abia State of Nigeria. I so hold.”
By Chima Obiwuru 

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​WHAT A MAN, JUST 46 YEARS OLD WITH IMPRESSIVE RECORDS OF LANDMARK ACHIVEMENTS TO HIS CREDIT….BY CHIMA. O.

Currently, he holds the Investor of the Year Award 2016.

He is among the published Top Ten Business Leaders Industrialising Nigeria.

He owns the biggest industrial cluster across the East of Niger.

He has created thousands of jobs more than any private owned company across the Niger.

He owns the biggest Tank-Farm /Private Depot in the whole of West-African Sub-Region. 

WHEN THEY TELL YOU THAT THE MAN IS DESPERATE, ASK THEM WHAT KIND OF DESPERATION?

Yes, I agree that Dr. Uchechukwu Sampson Ogah is desperate, he is indeed very desperate to change the ugly story of his home state Abia for good and to right the wrongs, that is why he descended low to aspire to govern his state, hence charity they say begins at home.

The beauty of the phenomenon called Dr. Uche Ogah is a cascade of complex and fruitful benefits to study. 

Abia can only be better with people like Ogah who has etched prosperity into their DNA and that of their people. 

Dr. Ogah has done so much for the people and that is why Abians converged in unison  proclaiming………Ogah please come and liberate us, Ogah please come and lead us, Ogah please come and turn things around in Abia state.

Abians believe without fear and doubt that Supreme Court will surely rule in their favour by granting justice to Dr. Uchechukwu Sampson Ogah, the liberator and emancipator who has put smiles on the faces of the downtrodden.

The apex court must take note that Dr. Uchechukwu Sampson Ogah is the adjudged most popular man in Abia state today, unequal amongst equals and has consistently displayed high sense of patriotism in all his dealings hence the masses are the driving force behind his quest to rescue Abia from decay.

Declaring Dr. Uchechukwu Sampson Ogah the governor of Abia state is the only part for peace and development in Abia state.

Dr. Uche Ogah, be assured that posterity shall reward thee in the annals of history. You are indeed the salt of Igbo race, the light of hope for the masses of Abia and a widely declared illustrious son for deferring all vicious humiliations to recover the destiny of Abia from occultic men so that the people of God’s Own State may have a breath of fresh air.

You have vowed that NEVER again shall Abians eat from the meagre fallen crumbs on the floor nor accept to play a second fiddel. Truly you are a huge blessing to your generation.

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​THE AUDACITY OF MEDIOCRITY IN ABIA. Hon. Demian Igbokwe (Voice Of The Street)

The mental slavery of this Abia Government hired hands may never get to be cured. They can’t be emancipated.  How do one reconcile the over stretched accolades they pour on Ikpeazu since the commissioning of Shoprite in Umuahia. A conglomerate own by South Africans,which every of the profit made will return back to South Africa while our people serve as sales persons,Clark, cleaner and probably cashiers. They hire cheap hands to cut cost of running their businesses here. What will the pea nuts the pay solve for the Umuahia youths that are hired to do sales girl and boy’s job.

Umuahia have Ceramic company,Brewery and other State government own but almost dead projects. It will take nothing out of a progressive minds to revive most of those decaying projects. It will only take a visionary leader to set Abia back to its original track of Japan of Africa. Why do we always have daft men as leaders in Abia State? To worsen the situation,we also have daft men as their followers. This has made mediocrity a landlord in Abia affairs.

I have read many post made by the media aids of Ikpeazu since the commissioning of a man’s private business(Shoprite ) in Umuahia. I saw the pictures where the former Governor and his wife also graced the SHOW OF SHAME. I could tell from the way Okezie Ikpeazu was carrying himself on that day that he was feeling he has achieved a project and also accomplished. What a shame and display of lack of administrative  skills. Ikpeazu has displayed lately that he has no single business hanging on in government house.
Enyinnaya Appolos, John Okiyi Kalu,Amb Nelda Ikechukwu Okafor, Nnaji Obed Asiegbu,Ugochukwu Ezenwa Oon
Why have you decided to ruin Ikpeazu’s remaining days in office, just as you ruinned  that of TA Ojiugwo Orji by always lying to him that he was performing where as he was and still remain the worst governor ever produced from the south east until the coming of Ikpeazu. 
Why can’t this aids advise Ikpeazu to indulge in people profit oriented projects in the State that can attract Abians applaud?

Just last two weeks a teenager was caught in Aba while breaking and entering  a shop to steal. When asked why he indulge in such act,the young man blamed Ikpeazu led government for owing his mother that is a civil servant and asuch causing the family to starve. I am certain that good number of us saw that post on Facebook? It’s not propaganda,it’s real. 

Did Ikpeazu suddenly forget that he is owing Abia Workers salary for over 7 months? Where will they workers get money to shop in that mall?

Perhaps he also forget that Umuahia’s revenue generating sectors  need reviving for the betterment of the people of Abia at large.

The worst media aids of any South Eastern State is in Abia as they have never projected their Principal in a good light,rather,they have always shown to the entire nation that their Principal is on an accidental mission to the Abia Government house.  I have nothing directly against Ikpeazu but I have alot of things against the system that is running his shows.
I am the VOICE OF THE STREET.

#AbiaMustBeRescued.

NIGERIAN MAN DIES AFTER AN ABUJA PASTOR PAID HIM ₦500K TO PRETEND AS IF HE WAS DEAD SO THAT HE COULD PERFORM A FAKE MIRACLE

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According to reports making the rounds, an Abuja pastor, pictured below, offered a trader 500,000 to pretend to be dead so he can perform a miracle. But luck ran out of him when the man died in the coffin before they reached his crusade ground.

Read according to the reports below…

“Meet The Abuja Pastor That Offered A Trader 500,000 For Miracle Scam That Went Bad
An Abuja pastor that offered a trader 500,000 for the trader to be used as a miracle scam. The Trader was to pretend that he was a dead man and the Pastor will then raise him from the death, unfortunately the trader died in coffin before they could make it to the stadium where the pastor was holding his crusade in Abuja.

The wife of the deceased trader got police involved the fake Pastor was arrested by the police.

However ,the pastor has been released through the help of his influential friends in Abuja and he has gone back to the business performing strange miracle in his church in Nyanya Abuja.

The name of the pastor is Bishop Emmanuel Esezobor and his ministry is Firehouse Church, located beside Niger-Delta Gardens and Hotels Checking Point Nyanya.

The so called Bishop Emmanuel Esezobor pastors the church with his wife and they have huge number of people to come to their church for miracle and solution to their problems.”

IKPEAZU’S MEDIA AIDE DUMPS PDP

A media aide to Gov. Okezie Ikpeazu, Mr. Ebere Uzoukwa has resigned from the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP,
Though, Uzoukwa who served as Deputy Director ,Media of Ikpeazu’s campaign in 2015 before his appointment as SSA Media to the governor, did not state any reason for his resignation, he however, expressed gratitude to the governor and party leaders in the state for their support throughout his stay in the party.
The ex media aide who also served as Chief Press Secretary to Imo state governor, Owelle Rochas Okorocha from 2011 to 2013, hails from Ward 9 in Obingwa council area of Abia.
In a letter to the Chairman of the PDP, Ward 9, Obingwa LGA, Mr.Erasmus Ebere, Uzoukwa who is a leading chieftain of the party, cited personal reasons and assured that his days with the PDP were over.
It was gathered that many chieftains of the PDP in the area have started defecting to other parties over alleged non performance of the incumbent administration in the state.
PDP chairman, Ward 9, Obingwa council area, Chief Erasmus Ebere, could not be reached as at the time of filing this report, however, a chieftain of the party in the area, who pleaded anonymity, disclosed that some party bigwigs in the area have been threatening to leave the PDP, stressing that the resignation of the former media aide, few days to the local government polls, is a big blow to the party in the area.
He said, “Ebere Uzoukwa was one of the leading PDP chieftains in this area. He has done a lot to support PDP,his resignation coming days to the December 17 local government election is certainly a big blow to the PDP. Other PDP chieftains are threatening to dump the party. We are calling on Gov. Okezie Ikpeazu who is the leader of the party in the state to ensure that the PDP remains one big family.”

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T.A.Orji Is A Senator In Exile – Stanley Ohajuruka

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Former speaker of Abia State House of Assembly, Stanley Ohajuruka has accused the immediate past governor of the state and senator representing Abia Central, Chief T.A Orji, of ineffective representation.

Ohajuruka told newsmen in Umuahia that Abia Central was unfortunate to have a senator in the mould of T.A. Orji who he described as a senator in exile.

“With T.A. Orji, we don’t have effective representation in the Senate. I stand to be corrected,” he said.
The former member of the House of Representatives who boasted that he attracted 63 projects to Ikwuano/Umuahia federal constituency, said it was unfortunate that T.A. Orji had not attracted a single project to his senatorial zone since he went to the Senate.

“How many projects can the present Senator (T. A. Orji) tell us he has attracted to the people of Abia Central? Has he ever invited anyone from the area for a senatorial meeting? Where is the senatorial office, does he have any? If you can find any, you tell us.”

The former speaker also described the immediate past administration in the state under Orji as one that lacked presence, stressing that what the state was suffering presently was as a result of the misdeed of the past administration.

“The immediate past administration lacked capacity, integrity, humility and everything that suggests good governance. It was bereft of ideas; it was a completely incompetent administration that we experienced in the state in the past eight years.

“What is happening in the state now is a hangover of that incompetent administration that was foisted on this administration and this present administration is now struggling…I sympathise with the current government in Abia because the burden the last government left is unspeakable.
“It will take a magician or somebody with special skill to be able to navigate the act of governance in the state as presently constituted. So, I think this present government has a Herculean task to address the maladministration the state experienced under the dispensation of Theodore Orji.”

The former speaker advised Governor Okezie Ikpeazu to shun sycophancy and extricate himself from the influence of the former administration.
For Ikpeazu to effectively tackle the problems he inherited from the past administration in the state, he must not to allow anybody to manipulate him, Ohajuruka said.
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OGBONNA & ONUIGBO UNDER FIRE: I LOST THE CHAIRMANSHIP TICKET BECAUSE I REFUSED TO TAKE AN OCCULTIC OATH – CHIEF CHINEDU OBILOR (IYIERI OBA)

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More secrets of what transpired during the so called PDP chairmanship primaries are still being revealed by aggrieved individuals who felt cheated by the process.

A former Deputy T.C Chairman of Umuahia North LGA and a chairmanship aspirant at the just concluded PDP  primary elections Chief Chinedu Obilor told newsmen yesterday that he was denied the party’s ticket because he refused to swear to an oath.

He gave this revelation while speaking to newsmen yesterday when he was addressing newsmen under the aegis of 8 PDP Chairmanship Aspirants for Umuahia North LGA, in his address he said he went to consult with the State PDP  Chairman Chief Johnson Onuigbo to know if any body has been pencilled down for the position of the chairman so that he won’t bother wasting his funds in the purchase of nomination forms ,but was told that the contest is open and will be free and fair as directed by the Governor, but surprisingly Chief Onuigbo (a.k.a Akinbod) told him to go and consult with his cousin Chief Charles Ogbonna (Evuleogu Ibeku) the Commissioner for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs if he wants to get the party’s ticket.
According to Chief Obilor, When he told Chief Charles Ogbonna of his intention to run for the council Chairmanship, Evuleogu told him in plain language that he will have to go into an agreement with them (him and the PDP Chairman)  by taking an oath in a fetish shrine if he wants to get the party’s ticket, when asked if he knew the weightiness of the allegations, he said he was particularly shocked on hearing such wordings emanate from the mouths of Evuleogu knowing fully well that it was one of the reasons the Ochendo administration gave for distancing itself from the Orji Uzor Kalu family and he expressed surprise that such a statement will be coming out from Chief Charles Ogbonna at this time while the governor is busy assuring every one that the elections will be free,fair and credible.
When Abia Facts Newspaper contacted Chief Chinedu Obilor,  he insisted that the story we gathered was true and that Chief Johnson Onuigbo and Chief Charles Ogbonna are partners in that crime.
AFN further asked if the aspirant Mr. Chidiebere Nwachukwu that later picked the ticket swore to the oath , Chief Obilor confirmed to it.
“Yes, he swore to the oath, he agreed on how the council money will be shared monthly, he signed the contract and that was why he was given the ticket ” Chief Obilor said.
Abia Facts Newspaper contacted Abia State  PDP publicity secretary Chief Don. Ubani to hear his view concerning the development and he said “Abia Facts, am hearing this for the first time and I don’t know what transpired, so I don’t have what to say now “.

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ABIANS WARN STATE GOVT TO CHECKMATE IT’S TOUTS, AS DRIVER ATTEMPTS TO SET ABLAZE TOUTS IN UMUAHIA

Some residents of Umuahia, the Abia capital, have urged the state government to take urgent measures to checkmate the activities of touts.
The call was made following a failed attempt by a motorist to set himself and six touts ablaze in Umuahia on Thursday.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) learnt that it took the timely intervention of bystanders and shop owners in the area to avert what could have been a major disaster.
A witness told NAN that the incident happened around noon, when touts popularly called “agboro”, accosted an unidentified motorist, accusing him of parking wrongly.
A shop attendant in the area, Gregory Kalu, observed that the menace of the group had gained momentum since the inception of the present administration.
Kalu described Thursday’s incident as a regular occurence in different parts of Umuahia,adding: “we see these things everyday.”
Mrs Catherine Mbanaso, a petty trader in the vicinity, also described the touts as “a band of notorious and vicious men” who attack motorists recklessly.
Kalu and Mbanaso accused the touts of often molesting and extorting money from unsuspecting motorists, especially commuter vehicle, tricycle, lorry and haulage vehicle operators in the city.
“Their reckless approach, including dragging the steering with commuter-vehicle operators on motion, had led to accidents on several occasions,” Mbanaso said.
Both residents appealed to the state government to disband the group as its activities were unacceptable and tended to bring the image of the state government to disrepute
According to the witness, the touts pounced on the motorist, accusing him of causing obstruction.
“They shouted and threatened to impound his bus.
“Surprisingly, the driver pulled out a jerrycan of fuel from the bus, rushed out with it and splashed the fuel on the touts and himself.
“He then rushed back into the car and took a packet of matches before a large crowd who had gathered at the scene held the man.
“They over-powered him and led him back into the bus,” the witness said.
NAN reports that the incident is generating public discourse with many residents calling for urgent government intervention.
Meanwhile, the Public Relations Officer, Ministry of Transport, Mrs Tina Ikwuegbu, told NAN on telephone that the ministry was worried by public complaints over the activities of touts.
Ikwuegbu said that the ministry was working on measures to checkmate them.
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IKPEAZU, A COMPLETE NOVICE ABOUT ABIA STATE – By Chuks Omesie

One of the reasons why it always takes Gov. Okezie Ikpeazu weeks or even a month to make a statement each time any part of the state experiences unfortunate deaths either as Political killings or Herdsmen attack is because he is not on ground in Abia State. He also does not know his way about in the state he is governing.
Okezie Ikpeazu may be sitting as the Governor of Abia State, who happens to be the Chief Security Officer of the State, but the truth remains that he doesn’t know his way about in the state. He equally lacks the confidence of a Governor and it is very dangerous for such a novice to pioneer the affairs of our dear State.
Abia State needs an astute Leader and leadership unlike Okezie and his team. Abia needs someone who knows his way about in the State, who will not take permission from his Godfather before doing anything. The condition of Abia State now calls for a pragmatic leadership and not a lostminded leadership.
The only reason why Abians have been having bad leaderships since 1999 is because the people have refused to revolt against maladministration and injustice they have been facing. 
Abians are afraid of deaths even when their leaders are subjecting them to death. Some of the maladministrations against the people in the past have been unchallenged, except this time around, people like Alex Otti, FN Nwosu and Uche Ogah stepped in.
One of the dangers of Ikpeazu not being on ground in Abia State is that one can wake up one day and hear that the entire treasury of the state have been looted or that the enemies of the state have wiped out one Community of the State. It is really dangerous to put the entire in state in an unsafe hands.
On how to sustain the state during this recession period, Ikpeazu knows nothing and equally has no plans about it. He is not even aware of the revenue Abia State is generating and how it’s been generated let alone planning how to increase it. He is not aware that revenue contractors make a lot of loots from the revenues, am referring to those given out contracts to collect revenues for the Sate and Local Governments.
Someone contacted me that he was forced to pay 3000 Naira for a levy called Business Premesis. The Receipt given to him was written 1000 Naira and I asked him why he was not issued the receipt of 3000 which he allegedly paid, he told me that the additional 2000naira is for Penalty for paying late and I laughed. 
I told him that the Penalty should have been covered with a receipt to show that it would enter into the government Purse. 
These and more are going on in every part of the State where the so called Taskforce or Contractors are making more money than the government.
Ikpeazu doesn’t know some of the locations where Contracts he signed are. For instance, during one of his Radio interractions with the people of the State at Magic FM Aba, someone called and asked him his plans for Ngwa Road. He transferred the question to his Commissioner of Works, demanding the situation report of the Contract, the Commissioner casually said that the Contractors are in the site, and Ikpeazu interjected that he thought that the road needs to resurface. 
Did that statement show that Ikpeazu understand the Contract he signed? Obviously No. I have also confirmed that there is no contractor on ground in the Site except an abandoned damage tipper packed close to the said Site.
Ikpeazu is only interested in occupying the seat as a Governor and not interested in any other thing except his Security Votes and some kickbacks (Apirico) they are probably paying him for any contract he signs.
Ikpeazu is really seeing himself as an opportuned Governor just like village champion who travelled to America where he sees everything as if it’s a Paradise, that is the reason why he belittled the respected Office of the Governor of Abia State, wasted the scare resources just to deliver Pairs of shoes to the former President at Ottah Ogun State, instead of inviting him to the factory for selection. Who is even sure that what he delivered is an Aba made shoe because if it is, he would been proud to bring Buyers to the State.
Ikpeazu will soon understand how he was used to loot the treasury of Abia State after being ousted by the Supreme Court. 

He would later find out that some of the people he worked with are certified Criminals and Fraudsters.
Lets hope that God will give Abia State a Governor who will understand her problems, and who will be connected with the people he would be governing. With that, Abia State will be prosperous and definitely move forward.
Ka Uchechukwu Mee Na Aha Jesus Christ.
By Chuks Omesie

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Scientists Has Discovered That The Soul Doesn’t Die – It Goes Back To The Universe

Two leading scientists claim that the human brain is actually a ‘biological computer’ and ‘human consciousness’ is a program run by the computer that’s located in the human brain and that continues to exist even after death.

As the scientists explained, the soul returns to the universe after death and never dies. The debate whether the soul exists and whether it’s immortal or dies with the person is a never-ending story that has occupied the minds of great philosophers throughout history. 

The soul’s mystical nature still perplexes different fields of science. Recently, a team of scientists has discovered a new truth relative to the human soul 

– the soul doesn’t die; it returns to the universe.

Since 1996, Dr. Stuart Hameroff, an American Physicist and Emeritus in the Department of Anesthesiology and Psychology, and Sir Roger Penrose, a mathematical physicist at Oxford University, have been working on the Quantum Theory of Consciousness, which is based on the belief that the soul is sustained within the microtubules of the brain cells.

This thought-provoking theory claims that brain cells hold the soul within their internal structures called microtubules.

The two scientists believe that what people perceive as consciousness is in fact a result of ‘quantum gravity’ effects found in the so-called microtubules. The scientists named the process “Orchestrated Objective Reduction” (Orch-OR).

The theory explains that when people go into a phase known as ‘clinical death,’ the microtubules located in the brain lose their quantum state, but keep the information contained within them. Or, as the scientists described, when people die, their soul returns to the universe and doesn’t die.

In the interview he gave for the Science Channel’sThrough the Wormhole documentary, Dr. Hameroff explained:

“Let’s say the heart stops beating, the blood stops flowing; the microtubules lose their quantum state. The quantum information within the microtubules is not destroyed, it can’t be destroyed, and it just distributes and dissipates to the universe at large. If the patient is resuscitated, revived, this quantum information can go back into the microtubules and the patient says “I had a near-death experience.”

“If they’re not revived, and the patient dies, it’s possible that this quantum information can exist outside the body, perhaps indefinitely, as a soul.”

As postulated by this theory, the human soul is not a mere ‘interaction’ of neurons inside the brain and it probably exists since the beginning of time.

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ABIA POLITICAL DRAMA: A letter To My Brother, Adindu. By Max Nduaguibe

You are truly worried about the goings-on in our state like many of us. You are angry about the obvious distractions and legal battles our cousin is confronted with. You are very right. But, have you ask yourself which other governor in Nigeria today is so assailed with a myriad of similar distractions? Your answer would probably be ‘none’ and if so, then, why is it that it is only our state and your cousin that are in this situation in this whole country?
I understand from you that you are not a politician. That may be the reason you have a misplaced aggression on the wrong people whom you blame for the collective amnesia we find ourselves in this State. 

I pardon you. If you were a politician, and a senior politician for that matter, you will understand that these multiple litigations against our poor cousin was a well orchestrated design, planned in advance, as a way to share the future resources of our state, by those who enthroned our cousin. 

This is Politics 101, and you get to learn this when you climb to the senior cadre in political leadership. It is one among many tactics. This one is called a ‘rope around the waist’. It helps the godfather to be in control for some time. There are other knockouts in the kitty; each is to be used at the appropriate time, and depending on the circumstance. But, this particular one guarantees a quick return on investment, because THOSE WHO HANDLE OUR STATE FINANCES ARE THE GODFATHER’S LOYALISTS placed in strategic positions. 

The rope around the waist creates room to loot the treasury at a time a new Governor arrives because he is completely blue on how state finances are distributed. The new man is informed of pre-existing priorities and obligations set by the emergency of a situation created before the arrival of the new Governor. 

The emergency always includes setting aside funds to prosecute litigations involving the Governor himself. That is the reason ‘electoral umpires’ are always forced by godfathers to declare their candidates as the winners, let the other sore losers go to court., knowing that the poor losers after a competitive election are drained of resources and are unable to compete with them, since they hold state resources. 

The people cheated out can’t compete with them in terms of paying judges and their accomplices, the SANs and other scoundrels. As you can see, the emergency is put in motion at a time the Governor’s position is vulnerable and highly threatened. The godfathers will converge to share the money in the guise of fighting to protect the Governor from losing his position. 

The Governor’s supporters, of course, would not mind, even if the water in the entire Atlantic is drained out in order to keep their man in ephemeral power. It is human. All manner of people (Locusts, usually called Elders, Middlemen, senior Lawyers, people who know somebody who knows the Judges) are invited to prey on the vulnerabilities. 

So, today, we in our state have taken it for granted that it is normal to use our state allocation in this way. Who then cares if our civil servants are deprived of their wages for months and their families die in penury and want? Who is bothered if our retirees and pensioners die in droves, after all, they constitute only a fraction of a percentage of the population, I am told. So, they can perish!
MY brother Adindu, I agree with you entirely, and I think all Abians do, when you assert that ‘All these fights of dinosaurs can only wither the green grasses and erode the hills, valleys, plains and soils of Abia state and at the end Abia state will remain worst placed’. There is no truth further than that.
But, you failed to identify the real culprits which led you to direct your anger on the Alex Otis, Uche Ogahs and bar Nwosu of this world, for distracting our cousin with these litigations. By the way, the distractions are occasioned by the very arrogance of the godfathers, who had, mind you, in their usual signatory impunity that ‘nothing would happen’; they dared everyone affected by their evil scheme to do their worst, believing that ‘with Jonathan all things are possible’. 

Jonathan did not make it, and PDP failed at the federal level also. And here we are, sacrificing our development and wellbeing just for the sake of a liability incurred by one person, supposedly, for and on behalf of all Ukwa Ngwa people. You inadvertently, ignored to expose the gluttonous delight and greed of the godfathers and their emergency elders who are directly responsible today for the anguish of Ukwa Ngwa people, the depravity and wretchedness of all Abians and our decayed infrastructures which you correctly deplore and at the same time offer as excuse for your annoyance.

 But, what is more astonishing and annoying is the fact that the Ukwa Ngwa people are pitched against each other and against everybody else, in defense and protection of the Aliens who are looting our state without us knowing that we are shielding the locusts. We have been brainwashed and programmed to believing that we are fighting for what is ours. It is not true. This is the work of a carefully crafted and divisive false propaganda dished out to manipulate our understanding of the issues. Today, they will tell us that ‘umu ohuhu’ are fighting our cousin because they hate us, ndi Ngwa. Or that our opponents don’t like Ngwa people. 

Therefore, it is our collective duty as Ukwa Ngwa to protect what has been generously given to us. That it is only an Ngwa person (the propaganda goes on to say,) who can develop Aba, but you know that Chief Sam Mbakwe was not an Ngwa man. Propaganda appeals to base instincts faster than reasoned judgment and we seem to be hooked on it, while they laugh at our stupidity.
Now, have we asked ourselves what really put our cousin in this suffocating heat of litigations that occasioned the political crises in Abia state in the first place? 

Would you not agree with me, brother Adindu, that if the godfathers were less greedy , since they are the Alfas and omegas, if they did not regard you and me, the Ukwa Ngwa man, as 404, that they would have done best by giving our cousin the correct papers he needed without infecting it with that poison, which, I, as your senior brother, who is a politician, knows too well. Bro Adindu, do you see how they staged us and pitched us against ourselves and against every other person? 

Politics is something else. But there are still good people in it. In politics anything goes. You witnessed what happened in the USA and still happening? Anything to destroy your opponent, except murder, is welcome. The Alex Otis, Ogahs and Nwosu of this world are not within my own contemplation of the reasons for the depravity faced in our state. 

These people you are blaming are collateral damages, fallout of the devilish design of the locusts. Check it out one by one how each and every one of them came on to the scene. They are not the cause of our civil servants going for several months without pay, they are not the reason that our pensioners and retirees are dying in droves nor are they responsible for the neglect of our decayed infrastructures.
The correct question to ask oneself in order to unravel the scheme of the godfathers is this: did all the tax papers issued to all Abians, in the years aforementioned, have the same defects as those given to our cousin? If, par hazard, your answer is no, then, your next question would be: why would they do that to our cousin, if their conscience was righteous, as they would want you and me to believe?
Bro Adindu, the power-givers were never sincere with Ukwa Ngwa people. They are simply using us as cannon folders, to shield, cover and hide their loot. That is why the contracts being awarded are not made to be transparent.
Brother Adindu, can you now see the reason of my outburst earlier in the year, when I came out of the sick bed to realize how you and I, and every other person have been conned? Many of our brothers who did not understand said to me ‘Dee Max, don’t worry. We have never gotten this close to power before. Half bread is better than none’ Damn! Why should I be served with half bread when every other person got a loaf? Because, there were no negotiations between the Bende and the Ukwa Ngwa for a smooth transfer of power. What happened was an imposition. 

Imposition does not work in a democracy where people are free to ventilate their rights. For example, between the Bende people, there was smooth transfer of power from OUK to TAO and the state moved on quickly thereafter.
Now, be careful, Dee Max, is not positing that godfathers don’t operate in politics, or that godfathers are always evil. No, please. Godfathers always exist. Nobody ever puts a crown on his own head. There are interests that are conceded during negotiation. Our cousin was simply called in, alone, and told that they will make him governor. Under that circumstance, he has no power of negotiation; he had only the voice to express his gratitude.
Adindu leyi, I have a good understanding of how this thing works. Politics operates on the basis of trust. You cannot support someone to take power if you have no trust in that person. The problem usually encountered is the greed in humans. Here, again, is the example of the TAO/OUK relationship. Everything went on well between the two, until greed crept in between the twosome.
Let me give you a personal example as someone who has been a godfather of some sort. I installed 13 out of the 17 local government chairmen and councilors during the zero party election in Abia state. 

I did not ask nor accept a kobo from anyone of them. Many are still alive and can attest to that. I even paid for INEC forms for many of them with my own money. We transited from the zero party to party formation and elections. Myself and followers set up the DPN, Vincent Ogbulafor and co set up the NCPN, Orji Uzor Kalu and co formed NCPN. 

At this point, I observed that some of the chairmen and councilors I had sponsored their election in the zero party election did not follow me to the DPN. Now, we needed to ensure the loyalty of the people we are going to sponsor henceforth. So, we demanded from our candidates to deposit with me large sums of money in post-dated bank cheques which they did. My brother Adindu, the difference between me, as a godfather of yore and the godfathers of today is that I was not looking to enrich myself in politics. 

I still have in my possession, till today, more than a hundred million Naira in bank post dated cheques. We are talking about the naira of twenty years ago. I never bothered to present them for payment to enrich myself. Find out from those people who occupied positions under my leadership (Council Chairmen, Councilors, and Members of both state and national legislatures). 

They did so peacefully without any encumbrances save the expression of their loyalty. The problem is our inability to tame the greed in us. OUR people and I mean here, my Ukwa Ngwa brethren seem to me to be in a situation of ‘monkey dey work, baboon dey chop’. Throughout, the past 16 years that the Bende group held on to political power, it did not come to my notice that private organizations and town unions raised money to fix or tar roads in Umuahia or Igbere as I hear my people, (Ngwa Patriots),are doing ‘to help our Ukwa Ngwa cousin fix roads in Aba’ So, it’s not only that the godfathers are sucking the state dry, they are also exploiting our naivety in very many ways possible.
Bro Adindu, make I follow you rest my case. Stay well.
By Max Nduaguibe

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​Governor Okezie Ikpeazu the Shoe Seller… Can Someone Wear Shoe In Aba??? … By Chuks Omesie

The most ironical Governor i have ever seen or read about in this world is Okezie Ikpeazu. He complained that he stopped the road constructions because of the rainy season but having entered the dry season, he runs to Abuja to sell Shoes, forgetting to mention about the Road constructions again. 

Help me ask the confused Governor whether someone can wear shoe on the deplorable Roads of Aba. 

What is trending is Dunlop or Rubber Slippers in Aba, Abia state because of bad unaccessible Roads. 

Bankers, Pastors and other cooperate Workers in Aba do put their shoes in their bags until they get to their offices before wearing them, this is how sad living in Aba, Abia State has become, while the their Governor has turned to a Shoe Seller over night in Abuja and there are no good roads to wear the same shoe he is marketing in his own State. 

Help me tell the confused man that the dry season is over now, in case he has forgotten, so he can start the road constructions as he promised. 

Let’s just pray Harmattan doesn’t come, because he is looking for another flimsy excuse to give before approaching another Rainy Season. 

Okezie said “we have to stop Road constructions because of the Rainy Season but he as well alleged that he mobilized/paid Contractors during Rainy Season with more than 2 billion Naira, to do what? 

Are they Banking Institutions? and if truly he paid them,  what is stopping them from commencing work? Okezie should know that he can’t fool everyone all the time and should stop deceiving people.

The truth is that Okezie is confused. His people are displaying raw Photos of the Road constructions in Ebonyi state by Engr. Dave Umahi but in Abia they display Photo edited Pictures. 

What if those he is selling the Shoes to, come to Abia State, are they really going to wear those shoes or remove it like others? 

Aba is now a City where everybody has learned to be Spider man to enable them go and source for their daily living.  

Even the Roads and the environments where the shoes are been produced are despicable. 

They are eye sore and anyone working there should have one or two diseases he/she must have contaminated from the stench smells exuding from the environment. 

The Abians and the world should know the truth. The truth is that Okezie is not really promoting Aba made Shoes as you see him showing it to Nigerian Elites but he is using it as an opportunity to source for who would help him to bribe the Supreme Court Justices. 

He wants to attract sympathy from Nigerian Elites and delude them into thinking that he is working and not supposed to be removed from the Office. This is just a 419 antic but no amount of lies and pretenses will save Ikpeazu from been sacked because Abians are suffering more in his hand. 

Any government that cannot prioritize its activities according to time and season is satanic and anti-developement. 

The only solution now is for the Supreme Court to sack Okezie Ikpeazu, once it is done, Abia will be free from Ndi Iberibe (Senseless People) in its leadership.

By Chuks Omesie

​THE MEDIA HYPE OF A DROWNING GOV. AND THE BLUNDER OF HIS OVERZEALOUS AIDES. By Chima Obiwuru

Truth be told, the handlers/aides of Gov. Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia state are morally bankrupt,  incompetent and visionless to be associated with the office of a state chief executive.

How else can media experts and sane minds discribe the media team of Gov. Ikpeazu for allowing him indulge in his recent escapade of made in Aba media hype without human face?

When you want to launder the image of a VIP like a state chief executive, you must be very tactical and on point else you damage his reputation and send a wrong message to the general public and this has been the ugly story of Gov. Ikpeazu each time his media team cum handlers present him to the public.

Is it not very laughable, shameful and mockery of the highest order for a man who feel TOTALLY unconcerned about the plights of Abia people to be going round the cities of Nigeria singing the song of made in Aba promo while in reality he has done nothing to alleviate their painful predicament such as roads, housing, affordable health care services and above all insecurity?

Does Ikpeazu really need to spend extra money out of the scarce resources of Abia state to charter flight with high routines of aides and personal friends going to Otta just to sale few shoes to former president Obasanjo? How many shoes can OBJ buy? Is OBJ the class of Nigerians made in Aba is targeting?

If Ikpeazu is not playing a political script just to hoodwink the gullible minds, what stops him from inviting OBJ and few others to the city of Aba for shopping? When they come, he can still be magnanimous as usual hence he has necknamed himself “PAYTMASTER” as a spendthrift to charter helicopter for them to use while shopping in Aba because there is TOTALLY no road in Aba drive on. 

If only common sense is indeed common to Ikpeazu’s handlers, they ought to have advised him that it is needless spending tens of millions just to sale few shoes to one individual rather fixing Aba roads is the only miracle that is required to market the made in Aba products to the world.

When you fix Aba roads, the entire West African sub-region and beyond will troop to Aba city for her goods and other services.

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How To Write A Good Petition – EFCC

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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has given clarifications on how a good petition to the commission should look like. 

The commission gave the clarification on Monday where it said the foremost stage of every good petition is that it must be addressed to the Executive Chairman of the commission.


EFCC Below is the various stages of a good petition according to EFCC: 
1)”A good petition should be addressed to the Executive Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.” 

2)”A good petition should include a name, telephone number and address (For contact).” 

3)”A good petition should have a title.”

 4)  “A good petition should have an introduction.”

 5)  “A petition should have a body of complaint (s) – facts, documents, sources of information e.t.c” 

6) “A good petition should have a conclusion” 

7) “A good petition should end with a name and signature.” 

8) “If anonymous, a good petition should have a contact number in case some documents need to be verified.” 

9) “Keep your hands clean. Stay away from crime.” 

10) “Your peace should be invaluable. Avoid a lifetime of regret.” 

11) “The privilege of anonymity is limited. You will be anonymous to the world.” 

12) “Well, trust is a fragile thing but we assure you we are worth it.” 

13) “Some petitions do not fall within the purview of EFCC. In this case, they are sent to the appropriate agency be it the Police, ICPC e.t.c”