“PDP as an opposition party in Abia is likened to lousy interlopers with the sole intention to deceive the general public with falsehood and cause distractions from a government of hope that has brought back sanity and responsibility to governance in the state.”
By Njoku SaintJerry A.
Reading from a recent published concocted essay titled Press Statement signed by Abia PDP Acting Chairman and Publicity Secretary, Elder Abraham Amah; it is evident to conclude that Abia state was very fortunate to be rescued by the Labour party led government of Gov. Alex Otti from the kind of characters that once paraded as its political leaders.
PDP in Abia state, now discarded by the electorates, relegated to waste bins it once made of Abia and disorganized, the remaining characters clinging on forlorn hope while it struggles to salvage whatsoever is left of the party in Abia have resorted to campaign of calumny against the ruling Labour Party led government of Governor Alex Otti rather than engage in healthy opposition which serves as one of the prerequisite for a robust democratic government.
The activities of these characters at every turn have never failed to portray itself as a very disorganized group, confused and disoriented from its recent political role as a permanent opposition party.
For the avoidance of doubt; take for instance Abia PDP’s claim of an Intel into Gov Otti’s led Labour party government where it quoted in its press statement of an issue that is completely unfounded, baseless and false regarding the resignation of two cabinet members from the Otti’s government.
More so, it claims of an intelligence gathering into the Labour party government that reveals of ‘confusion and disarray’ in both the party and the government leaves so much to imagine how low the almighty Abia PDP has fallen, otherwise, except for the business of beer parlour politics, the recent activities of PDP as an opposition party will be likened to lousy interlopers with the sole intention to deceive the general public with falsehood and cause distractions from a government of hope that has brought back sanity and responsibility to governance in Abia.
As a matter of fact; the engagement of opposition parties in every democratic setting makes provisions for a balanced democracy and responsible governance a necessity, However, it becomes worrisome when for the sake of acting as oppositions, certain characters in the party resort to mud fight, flinging fists of sands and smearing dirt on responsible people in leadership, committed to the business of governance and accountability to the people, an act that will remained alien to the PDP leaders in Abia whose era in governance were characterized by brazen graft and administrative rascality.
Another development I have found very childish and laughable among many aides and sympathizers of the PDP past leadership of dishonor in Abia is how they invade every social media space and radio airwaves in Abia to praise Governor Peter Mba (PDP) of Enugu State right here in Abia State and uses his governance over there in Enugu to weigh on the Labour Party led government of Alex Otti as better performing or as usual just to confuse the people whereas it is evident as black and white that the best performing government today among the 36 states of the federation is Abia State under the wise leadership of Gov. Alex Otti Labour Party government, the information are all out there in the public domain.
Abia today is top in the list across South East and Nigeria as a whole in its economic development index and delivery of campaign promises, I do not need to engage in quoting figures that are of public knowledge even one of the arch critics of Alex Otti government, a certain fugitive based in far away Scotland whom have continued to serve the interest of the distractors, in his recent published work which I duly commend his effort, he titled a 50 page score chart or a critique of the Otti government, he had admitted in his report that the Alex Otti Labour party government of a truth has ran a government of ‘Accountability’ to the people.
Which completely faults Abraham Amah’s claims and calling on Abia people to always demand for accountability from the government which for all his 24 years of rollercoaster political cycle in Abia never consider it an honor to be responsible to the people of Abia which led to their woeful failure at the polls relegating the PDP and its leaders to a permanent role as opposition party in Abia State.
The Labour Party government is a working government, focused and committed to nation building, this is one reason you do not see us at all times running to every media platform to shout and perhaps deceive the public on what is not obtainable or lie to them.
Gone are the days of PDP in Abia, this is a known fact and no matter how they resort to struggling to regain relevance, I am very confident to tell us that Abia people can never be deceived again.
Therefore this idea of PDP’s intelligence gathering searching for loopholes to cook up lies to deceive the public will continue to be countered by every sane Abians who is sincere enough to differentiate from the days of darkness and rot to the light and beauty every resident in Abia is enjoying today.
It is a weird act of political voodooism when all your energy is geared towards throwing a spanner and destroying the progress of the state by propagating falsehood, perhaps to pave way for your comeback into governance and you call that Opposition. That is not acceptable!
The PDP Acting Chairman and Publicity Secretary had accused us of learning the ropes or new in the politics of Abia. That misconception can be tolerated on one ground and that is;
Labour Party is and will remain alien to those sycophantic and culturally corrupt practices former members of PDP and it’s sympathisers were known for, if you say we are learning the ropes, you will be dead wrong because we are not learning any rope of fraud and mismanagement of public trust, rather we are laying a new template of governance and decent administration that will establish Abia as truly God’s own state where men of character and responsibility are groomed
Njoku StJerry A. is the State Publicity Secretary of Labour Party Abia, He writes from Umuahia
