IN SUPPORT OF EUSTACE, THISDAY, TUESDAY, NOV 13, 2012

 A recent article on page 14 of THISDAY Newspaper, November 13, 2012, was highly revealing. It showed that the thick fog enshrouding Dr Orji Uzo Kalu’s foxy lifestyle and make-believe political prowess is gradually lifting. Recent posturing of the former Governor of Abia Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu in reclaiming his chequered political image is laughable. I was actually taken aback as I wondered if the Igbos can accept the twice-told-tales of OUK. His recent antic is his Njiko-Ndi Igbo group which he claims will improve the lot of Ndi-Igbo. The piece by one Eustace Amanwandi which opined that Orji Uzo’s presence in Nollywood would have made Mr Ibu, (John Okarfor)  and Osuofia (Nkem Owoh),  nonstarters in clowning  is no exaggeration. The former governor of Abia State has a career waiting and can assume this anytime. In truth, Amanwandi’s piece has emboldened me, and I do not hesitate to support her as most of our men have kept quiet.

The question people keep asking is, ‘How did OUK make it to such a revered position?’ The truth remains that he would not have gone this far without the gullibility of Abians in particular and Nigerians in general.

He was historically elected the Governor of God’s Own State Abia and spent eight years in a quizzical rigmarole. What did he not indulge in? He, rather than feed Abians, long thirsty for good leadership, fed them with cataclysmic falsehood. This is a classical example of a father giving stones in place of bread to a famished child. He knows Abia’s penchant for veracity but went to the complete opposite, busy publishing audited accounts and fabricated documents to fool Abians and Nigerians of his honesty and stewardship.

It could be recalled that Orji spent the first few years of his first tenure defending a certificate scandal. Soon after, he added MON to his name making people believe that he was actually awarded the Member Order of the Niger. When the searchlight was turned on him, he hastily changed to “Madu Oha Nile, a ruse title which means ‘man of the people’ in Igbo Language. His doctorate degree and university education in Maidugiri opened another can of worms. As a cover-up, he shamelessly registered as an undergraduate at Abia State University- explaining to those who cared to listen that he was showing example to Abia drop-outs to go back to school- drop out indeed. Only God knows if his admission went through Jamb and if he graduated. Do we talk about the fake currencies he donated in an occasion in Adamawa some years gone? He claims to be so rich yet he plundered Abia treasury like a vandal, a case he is yet to be off the EFCC’s hook.

In his tenure as Governor, there was a quick succession of commissioners, some actually lasting a few months like Omri in the Bible, including the ones he recruited from USA. Possibly because of the joker in him, everything was a joke. Revered statesmen were insulted at will with all ease. Abia was in endless controversies from oracular Anini to ageless Obasanjo. Most times when he said yes, his close aids knew he meant no. Most of them fondly called him Gamji Man. Only God knows what they mean. Government is continuity but our man had his definitions. Most times we saw him adapting the Idi Amin personality. ‘Amin knows how to appoint them and remove them.’ The Executive council was vacant for months, a strategy that allowed people to fall over each other, lobbying for appointments, kowtowing for recognition, genuflecting and dropping gifts, money and all to the one called Odi Uko for the spoils of office. Check his passport, you will realize that he was at best a globe trotter, somewhat beating Ajala’s record as he jumped in and out of USA and Europe, forgetting that he had a mandate from Abia people.

He has an unmatched flair for different jobs when he hardly completes any. Could he be the Jack of all trades that masters none? He loves journalism and once interviewed a South Africa leader. In his religious classification, he is known as a Christian but you will be shocked when you see him dressed as a Muslim and pretends to mime the Koran.  He dabbles into issues he knows little about. The column he runs in the Sun newspaper is alleged to be a well syndicated piece. It was in a national daily once where he apologized to the Northerners for the Biafran War. What does Kalu know about the war to render apologies on behalf of the Igbos he has serially deceived?  He has a big dream of being in the hearts of the people but no genuine efforts thereto. For instance, during his tenure, he labeled buildings, the Abia Stadium, Ehimiri Housing Estate and Abia House in Abuja after himself. His overnight Igbo irredentism did not tell him to name one of these after any Igbo monument. All these have been reverted. What did Orji Leave as a legacy for Abia? Is it in roads, estates or mere buildings?  The tragedy of OUk’s political gamble is that he knows the right thing to do, but he irredeemably and constantly embarks on the opposite.

He has now taken on a big one of negotiating with Boko Haram for the Federal Government. Let us watch, he may be part of them as he is known to run with the hares and hunt with the hounds.

Saying much on OUK may be mistaken as a sign that we are taking him seriously but no, there is need to guide the people so that we are not fooled all over again.

 His Local Government the Bende Local Government in a Caucus meeting of the PDP has shut the door on him, and the totality of Abia PDP marched to WADATA house a few weeks ago to protest his entry into PDP. What a persona non grata? 

According to Abraham Lincoln, the 16^th president of United States of America, ‘you can fool some of the people all the time; you can fool all the people some of the time but you can’t fool all the people all the time.’

Kalu should tell us another story as we watch out for his next bag of tricks.

CHIOMA IFEGWU.

Editors of Sun Newspapers taken to the shrine at Igbere

 

After months of serious investigations by our team of seasoned reporters, we can now reveal the names of editors of Sun Newspapers taken to the shrine at Igbere home of their publisher Uzor Kalu for oath swearing. 

Those who refused to the oath swearing having reached Neya shrine were asked to go back to Lagos and face the consequences. The names are: Amanze Obi, Femi Adeshina, Onuha Uke, Steve Nwosu, Robert Obioh, Funke Egbemode , Tony Onyima, Femi Adeoti , Eric Osagie, Bruce Malogu and Shola Oshunkeye. 

As it stands, these editors are enjoying the confidence of Kalu, while the others who refused are being frustrated. We learnt that Kalu and the mother Eunice have vowed that all the staff must be initiated.

As it is Sun has witnessed mysterious fire and other strange happenings a situation some have attributed to this oath saga.

OUK caught attempting to rape an 18yr old girl

Ex Abia state governor Orji Uzor Kalu's woes seem unending. Few years after a female friend died mysteriously in his house in US, Kalu is now involved in a serious rape scandal with an 18year old girl. Our source hinted that the incident took place in a five star hotel in Abuja. Our source disclosed that kalu's hobby these days is sleeping with young girls of 18. On this fateful night we learnt Kalu was unfortunate as the girl that was brought for his sexual satisfaction turned out to be stubborn.

It was learnt that after Kalu's entreaties to have the girl did not happen he went the forceful way, a situation that forced the girl to raise serious alarm that attracted the hotel management to intervene after the shouting of the girl became unbearable. Kalu who looked sober having been caught tried to bribe the hotel staff unfortunately one of the attendants who felt bad about the incident decided to leak the information

THE DECEIT OF SUN NEWSPAPERS AND THEIR MONEY LAUNDERER PUBLISHER

Social media sites were agog with a special report on Aba and in the SUN newspapers estimation, a city under neglect. Let me state here that Aba, like many other megacities is confronted by myriad of challenges. Let me also state here that the pictures being bandied in the SUN NEWSPAPERS represent height of first class deceit. No thanks to the internet that leaves us with little or no opportunity of verifying the veracity of claims we are inundated with. At the risk of repeating myself, Aba is experiencing challenges but by no means what idlers, loafers and custodians of jaundiced journalism are making out of it. OUK is already maintaining a permanent place in the dustbin of history or if you like; gallery of antiquities. OUK killed Abia when he resolved to be richer than the State. OUK is recognized in history as the only Governor that has no single capital project to his credit after eight years. OUK has tried unsuccessfully to get the attention of TAO. As expected TAO rebuffed all his emissaries because OUK connotes evil, wickedness and fetishness. No sane person would want OUK anywhere around him. It is therefore understandable if he resorts to blackmail.For the avoidance of doubt, Emelogu Street (which SUN wickedly published) was recently refurbished and one of the best access roads in Ngwa Road Area of Aba at the moment. Need I say more, what they still have as the picture of Ukwu Mango was what they recorded before 2007. Ukwu Mango has been reconstructed after over thirty years of neglect by successive administrations. I am not surprised because SUN Newspapers has the personality of the owner: deceit, falsehood, wickedness and trading in half truths.

Let us note that:
1. SUN NEWSPAPERS for those who do not know, is owned by former Governor Orji Uzor Kalu. That establishment is one out of the very many avenues through which OUK laundered billions of tax payers’ money while he was Governor. It is therefore understandable when this medium presents itself as a willing tool to distort and peddle false information.
2. It is a ‘weekend’ newspaper that unfortunately runs daily. Weekend newspapers in the history of journalism are soft sell papers, whose primary function is to entertain. They use screaming headlines and trade in jaundiced journalism. People who are seeking for the truth and core facts, obviously do not refer to SUN NEWSAPAPERS. They are largely patronized by readers who are not seeking the truth but desire to be entertained.
3. SUN NEWSAPAPERS was borne out of greed, selfishness and wicked antecedents of OUK. OUK as Governor appropriated large sums of money to revitalize the state –owned AMBASSADOR NEWSPAPERS. It is heartrending to know that instead of investing in the state, he diverted the funds to establish hi – tech SUN, by implication killed AMBASSADOR. If OUK was honest, if he had the interest of Abians at heart, why did he ensure that AMBASSADOR was moribund until he left the Government House? What was it OUK had that Abia State could not afford, so much that he destroyed the state to build his empire?
4. It is a known fact that the gory pictures posted in the SUN were scenes recorded in Aba while OUK was ‘Action’ Governor. OUK it was who was hounded out of Aba stadium (play the clip of Enyimba and Iwuanyanwu Nationale at Aba 2006 season) in protest of the poor network of roads and degraded environment. What rented the air was, “Orji, Gaa kpoo dirty! O gi bu Mugu” (Orji go and clean Aba, you are the mugu not Aba people).
5. Aba is being gradually recovered from abashed neglect and criminal conspiracy supervised by OUK. For the eight years he was in government, he could not assess New market Road where his ‘father’ lived. SUN did not post images while this reign of terror lasted. They also failed to tell us by way of special report the real relationship between OUK and his ‘father’.
6. SUN has refused to tell us how Millions of Abia Tax payers money was allocated to them to travel to Igbere during Eunice Uzor Kalu’s Igbotomma in 2007. If they are honest, they should tell us with what funds they chartered an aircraft from Lagos and consequently spend nights at Damgrete during the time. Were those Editors and Top management blind at the time?
7. Let us say they were blind. Have they equally lost sense of history so much that they could not trace how Aba came to their perceived sorry state. Where were they when a group of media experts did a tour of States in Nigeria while OUK was Governor? Wouldn’t they have given us a special report on the reasons for the non – performance of their launderer publisher?
8. Did SUN not read in CAFONLINE that while OUK managed Enyimba, that cheques in favour of the Club were issued in the name of SLOK GROUP?
9. Is it not possible for SUN to do a special report on servicing of debts incurred by OUK while he was Governor? Is it difficult for them to tell us the last minute effort at milking the State dry by OUK and the subsequent collateral damages that have caused the State?
10. Did SUN know that where Nnanna Kalu, OUK’s former sleeping member of the House of Representatives, cornered as site for his industry was originally proposed by government as a refuse dump site? That singular act had grave implications and deserves a special report. We are waiting for SUN to do a special report on that.
11. Wouldn’t they have done a report on HOW OUK RIPPED ENYIMBA OFF? In case they did not know, for the eight years Enyimba reigned, they did not have anything to show for it because OUK ran the Club like his personal estate. Is it not newsworthy that a Club who were African Champions for two years under OUK neither had neither a corporate account nor a functional operational office? How come HENRY UMAHI did not periscope that, to add voice to the blueprint on how to manage our Sports?
12. Who sold Golden Guinea Breweries for a penny? Is SUN not aware that OUK mortgaged the collective future of Abia Youths by his gangster style of leadership? Does that not qualify for a Special Report?
13. OUK and his Odiuko supervised the mad erection of shops in Ariaria and promoted the slogan of ‘share and sell’. If SUN is honest, they should do a comparative analysis of what obtained in Aba while OUK was Governor and now.
14. SUN should apply their investigative Journalism sense and report back to us why Osusu, Omuma and the famous Orji Uzor (Cemetry) Roads collapsed after three months. A newspaper is supposed to stand in the gap and advocate for toothless masses. Why is SUN not telling us why for the eight years OUK ruled, he could not give Abians a single capital project.
15. If they are not out to deceive unsuspecting members of the public, why have they failed to disclose information on how they were established? I had thought that the least a Newspaper could do is to gift their readers with privileged information.
16. The money used in establishing SUN NEWSPAPERS would have been enough to build 70% of the roads in Aba. Where is the newspaper’s sense of vigilance if they could sit by and benefit from money laundering?
17. OUK could pass for the most slippery human being I have encountered in my whole life. He has applied every means from the mundane to the sublime to attract the attention of TAO. He has sent thousands of emissaries to negotiate for peace with the TAO led administration. The latest being the Alhaji from the north who is negotiating for OUK to return to PDP and pleads that TAO accepts OUK.
18. OUK has written hundreds of letters begging the State Government to pay SUN N27M, election debts he could not pay himself but has criminally said it is advert fees due to his brainchild SUN NEWSPAPERS. OUK established SUN with Abia money and still wants the government to provide funds for their recurrent expenses. How absurd!
19. If OUK has genuinely repented and in the mood for peace (I wonder), why did he not cause SUN to publish the billions of Abia money he wasted in the establishment of his very many personal businesses.
20. I blame TAO for indulging a man who struggled so hard to under develop the state entrusted in his care. I blame him for delaying in telling the world how deceitful and wicked OUK is, given that OUK generously impoverished Abia and laid the foundation for degraded environment.
21. OUK should know that power is not acquired by blackmail.
22. I challenge anybody who thinks those pictures are Aba as at now to give us a picture of Fauklks Road end of Free Zone up to A line. That is the lead picture they published. That image was recorded before 2007. Anybody who is taking the challenge should swear by his entire family.
23. OUK is working hard to dispel visitors from Aba. He is working so hard to tell a lie repeatedly to make it look like the truth.
24. Leaders have memoirs. I challenge OUK to publish his for the eight years he supervised criminality in Abia State. It would make the Guiness Book of Records because that would be the most laughable chronicle to ever appear on the shelves.
25. TAO should expedite actions in telling Abians why it would take a little longer to reposition a State mortgaged by its past leader OUK.
26. I urge TAO to either bring OUK to justice to take justice to him. OUK has insulted the intelligence of Abians enough sand deserves to be condemned to the dustbin of history.
27. I urge TAO to change SUN to AMBASSADOR just as he did to State office in Abuja that OUk criminally named after himself

REAGAN UFOMBA: THE APOSTLE OF FAKE BURSARY AWARDS

When Abia State University Students confronted authorities of their institution on the policy of ‘no fees, no exams’; the immediate fall out was the closure of the inst

itution to avert further altercation. The rest is now history as issues were resolved in record time. As I write, the students affected have graduated.

At the middle of that challenge, Reagan Ufomba; a self – acclaimed later day Saint, came from obscurity and promised he was going to generously offer BURSARY AWARDS TO 200 ABSU STUDENTS (emphasis mine). That gesture according to him was to serve as palliative to the students. I hailed his immaturity. I commended his resort to cheap popularity but still prayed that he does not disappoint again this time. I am afraid, he did and unfortunately in the most bizarre manner. Today, less than one month after that promise, he has recanted and made a dangerous volte face. It is very easy to identify a confused, lying and deceitful person. Reagan is a combination of these vices. So painful!

I was quick to point out that even if he is able to fulfill his promise of awarding bursary to just 200 students out of the over 20,000 affected; it would amount to curing the illness without recourse to the causative element. I also knew that Reagan was insulting the intelligence of Nigerian students of ABSU extraction when he willfully elected to make them appear too cheap. I also knew that for the about fifty year Regan had lived, he does not have the culture of decency, integrity and honesty.

Recently, this pathological liar and apostle of fake bursary took on the most disappointing mission by arranging the names of some people who he attested to being beneficiaries of his phantom bursary awards. In that failed attempt, he still could not make up the names of the so called 200 students. There are at least 200,000 students of Abia origin who are in dire need of help. They are in every ward (I wonder why Bursary award has to be on the basis of political ward) and in all communities. Our friend Reagan, still could not make up the list of 200. IN ABSU alone, there are over ten thousand Abians seeking to be offered help.
Reagan said that his policies are always predicated on VALUE CHAIN. He needs to explain to us the extent this child’s play could go in impacting on enduring measures for improved standard of education. In Reagan’s mind, by offering bursary to fictitious names, we have solved the challenges of inadequate funding in the education sector.
Who are these people? Credible scholarship programmes or bursary awards are managed on the bases of :
1. Name of student
2. Instutition
3. Dept/Course of study
4. Matriculation number

Reagan might think we are still in the era of rice and stew politics when we cook rice to entice prospective voters. He did a poor job of this one and has gone a step further in proving that apart from being unintelligent, he is acutely daft. We need a fresh list of these beneficiaries on the sub heads listed above. Disclosure of information is another hallmark of a good leader.
One of the qualities of a good leader is having the ability to manage long term policies. Regan has been a billionaire (from his claim) for well over twenty years. We need to know when this phantom bursary award was instituted and who have benefitted. Our people cannot be taken on a jolly ride. While large number of Abia Youths are seeking to be employed, Reagan ‘established’ (okpokpo ashi) his multi billion naira cement factory outside Abia. I have been thinking how a cement factory sited in Calabar could impact on the life of an average Abian. What are the VALUE CHAIN imperatives of this venture?

I sincerely hope Reagan is aware of the overall implications of the wild goose chase he has undertaken. He needs lessons on integrity and straightforwardness. He is perfecting in this art of treachery and affront on the collective psyche of great Nigerian Students with his co – traveler; another political Lilliputian called Chinedu Nwogu. Chinedu should go through that Bursary list again and tell us just for one time that he has succeeded in further messing Reagan up. What was that mess all about?

OUK’S NEMESIS: AS HIS MOTHER BATTLES BANKRUPTCY AND ABANDONMENT

• Tells mother, “the party is over”
• Berates Nnanna for his docility
• Begs to return to PDP
• Plans to install Mascot, Abia Gov 2015
Former Governor of Abia State, Orji Uzor 

Kalu can no longer contend with the overbearing and nagging attitude of his mother, Elder Mrs Eunice Uzor Kalu who he has described as unwanted distraction and annoying spendthrift. OUK has severally fingered her and Nnanna, his younger sibling; the former sleeping member of the House of Representatives as being responsible for his many woes.
The self – styled Odiuko, who is down with a chronic disease has had to complain to virtually all friends of OUK of her son’s attitude. Odiuko laments that she is left to her fate in their Abuja house alone while OUK and his siblings continue with their wild goose chase of taking over Abia politics.
OUK feels his mother is a victim of nemesis as the very many women she enslaved may be hunting her. Odiuko was known to have caused women to abandon their husbands to uproot yams for her; which they never tasted. The same women kept vigil for months processing melon which they ironically could not take even the smallest quantities to their families. Her inability to realize that the party is over for the Uzor kalus, according to OUK would remain her albatross. 

Her many problems may also not be unconnected with her life of waste. OUK recollects that her mother pocketed Abia State while his tenure lasted and is having difficulty adjusting to normal life. Her very many properties in high brow areas of Abuja, according to OUK should be enough to take care of her.
A source disclosed that Odiuko spends huge amount of money daily on drugs and suffers untold grudges as her children have all deserted her. Nnanna appears the worst as he continues his sleeping attitude and not caring a bit how to salvage the mother’s challenges.
OUK is having the battle of his life as the door seems to have been closed perpetually on his renewed quest to return to the People’s Democratic Party (PDP). His businesses are at the risk of danger of precipice, with SLOK in Gambia feared shut down. OUK has gone into Gambia with his fraudulent nature, evading Tax for as long as four years and his inability to service his loans. OUK had hoped to service that debt until the bubble bust. The rest is now history!

OUK however continues with his wild goose chase of presenting Mascot Orji Uzor Kalu as Governor to Abians in 2015. How he hopes to achieve this impossible feat would be as strange as contending with his nagging mother who is fast going bankrupt.

OUK offer self to dialogue with Boko Haram

Former governor of Abia state Orji Uzor Kalu come under heavy attack recently over offering himself to lead the negotiating team of Boko Haram who wants to dialogue with the federal government.

Boko haram recently name Buhari as its leader to negotiate with the federal government,  an offer the former head of state turned down.

Kalu in his characteristic manner of working for relevance recently offered himself to lead Boko Haram in their negotiation with the federal government .

The Islamic sect  in a statement described Kalu as an illiterate who simply does not understand the ideas and vision of the sect, questioning his offer to help them .They bluntly told Kalu to stop seeking for cheap popularity and face his trial by EFCC.

They stated that Kalu is an opportunist and a political leper.