IKPEAZU'S INORDINATE LOST AND THE COST

By

Mike Odeholonta

 

As if the game is gradually winding up  for the outgoing Chief Executive Of Abia, and being very reluctant to let go easily, Ikpeazu has chosen to play another smart one .

One can recall that the drama that surrounded the disappearance of the Chief Judge of the State immediately Uche Ogah was declared the winner.That itself paralyzed the activities of judicial officers for close to a week and followed closely by Ikpeazu 's declaration almost a week holiday in the state and his subsequent rent-a-crowd antics.These also cost the state over a billion naira in terms of economic loss.

By all these,Ikpeazu hoped to achieve three things, one to make sure he sways public
opinion to his side, maintain his grip on the state by blackmailing judicial officers into
giving favorable judgements and finaly to paint his rival closest and the incoming
Governor as black as the devil so that he wont be acceptable to Abians. Many of Ikpeazu's aides have gone the extra mile claiming that Ogah would decamp to the Apc if sworn in but that blackmail didn't sail .

Now, it is on good grounds that Ikpeazu has set aside a whooping sum of #50,000 000 (fifty million naira ) to secure certain influential media houses and journalists so as to denigrate any judicial officer that dare rule against him and to make sure Ogah is perpetually blackmailed. Another hefty sum was budgeted to procure youths who would embark on
protest marches and demonstrations in Umuahia and Abuja .

THE COST
It is not longer a secret that civil servants in Abia have not been paid their salaries for 7 months upwards.This extra budgetary would further compound the government's inability to pay its workers. Furthermore, since the beginning of the Ogah Vs Ikpeazu tussle ,the outgoing Governor has virtually grounded the state to a halt financially, economically and otherwise.

My thinking is that why should Ikpeazu pay #50.000 000 to launder his image when he claimed he has done so much and besides the case in the courts, he should have used those monies to pay Abians their salaries. Right now, Abia state is hemorrhaging seriously.