Onwa, Idenna I greet you, Happy Birthday.
As you mark another Year, I will also like to celebrate, mark with you and at same time offer Advise, solicited or not, after all the saying that provides "Ikwu amaghi, Ibe eziya" is applicable.
I looked at how far you have moved in life, from base of the bottom and was pulled out by Eselu and placed at the Head of the banquet.
How well the good Lord have kept you and then I count your blessings, but some of them(What I count as your blessing) wants to slap me for counting it wrongly.
IDENNA, I know you crave and wish to be the JAGABAN of South East APC, same way Tinubu is to the West, but that can never suffice for Tinubu is a Polician that no IGBO MAN wants to be, infact HE is DON CORLEONE of Nigerian Politics despite the fact that I do not like him, but he is the Man.
Be anyi ife anyi Nwelu but Politraders and not Politicians..
We trade Political vantage to acquire what we can use for immediate pleasure, but real Politician will look at 20 years to come and start making plans that will make posterity to stand attention with respect,the person will be watering the plans and watching it mature..
In politics, you have to sow, water, nurture and wait for harvesting which will be bountiful..
The only Igbo Politician on National Level who has done something, but needs real thinkers around him to position him is Senator Andy Ubah, what he did as Okwuka Obasanjo is what a sighted man can do but a discussion of another day..
Tinubu is the only Politician who take others along, he doesn't hire servants, he brings partners, he creates wealth and made Billionaires from those who served his table, but Ndibenayi na acho Ndi oti mgbu that will live off stipends and die as paupers even while dying still call them Chairman.
From our side of the world, compare those who served as Governor with and when Tinubu became Governor of Lagos State, 1999 - 2007.
How many people rose beyond Commissioners, SAs and PAs under these Governor's? .
With Flexible Exception of Enyinnaya Abaribe and Theodore Orji in Abia State under Orji Uzo Kalu and Ike Ekweremadu under Chimaroke Nnamani.
Senator Ngige has no one I know off .
Achike Udenwa, Ogbonnaya Onu, Mbadinuju, Ezeife, Ohakim, and others have none.
Okorocha clownishly decided on his son-inlaw, while Peter Obi misfired with Obiano.
For Tinubu, Lai Mohammed (from Kwara) was his first Chief of Staff. Today he is a two time Minister after being the Publicity Secretary of A.C., A.C.N and APC.
Fayemi, a former SA to Tinubu is now a two time governor of Ekiti state after being a Minister.
Aregbesola, a former Commissioner under Tinubu is now a Minister designate after being a two tenure governor of Osun State.
Fashola was Chief of Staff to Tinubu then two time governor of Lagos State.
HE is immediate super minister of works, power and housing and again a Minister designate.
Mamora a former senator from Lagos State is now a Minister designate.
Yemi Osibanjo was Attorney General and Commissioner of Justice under Tinubu. He is now Vice President of Nigeria (No. 2 CITIZEN) .
Ben Akabueze from Dunukofia in Anambra State was Commissioner of Buget and Planning Lagos State. He is now Director of Budgets and Planning in Buhari's government.
Fowler was Director of Internal Revenue in Lagos state. He is now Chairman of Federal Internal Revenue service (FIRS).
One of Tinubu's boys is now Speaker of Federal House of Reps. (No. 4 citizen of Nigeria). There are numerous current and former senators, Federal House of Reps members, House of Assembly members.
Directors in federal ministries, MDs, DGs, Executive Secretaries, etc.
Even in the Private sector,Tinubu has people as MDs, Chairmen, Directors, etc. Why would he not Be The POLITICAL Jagaban of Nigeria?
I looked at Igbo Politics and Politicking and it makes me wanting to Puke because we simply practice Blind and unprogressive brand of Politics.
TINUBU is not aspiring to be a Minister today, he makes President , infact he can't even touch it with 50ft pole because he has grown leaders that he can cede the position to and be rest assured that they can deliver and create followers who lined allegiance to same Boss of thier Boss making Tinubu OGA Ndi OGA.
His Political mates in Alaigbo ka na agba oso afia na Politics, because they refused to use the known spirit of an IGBO MAN.
We are the only Tribe that bring out unknown Boys, train them as Nwa Boy, settle them and in few years, both of you will be meeting in China, Hong Kong, Dubai on business trip as Ndi Oga and that's how every Family in Igboland has at least somebody with Million Naira in his business even though that doesn't make one a Millionaire in the actual context of the word.
That was what made us to be above our peers, but look at our politics, those at the Helm believe ka Ogwe Gbajie, NDI Ozo dakpue na Mmiri,making one to ask, a man who saw igwurube (Swam of Locust) and refuse to call his kinsmen, the ones that escaped into the Wild, whose gain?.
Biazienu na Alaigbo, every one of our Politicians still struggle for any giving position, I was shocked that you (Dr Ngige) still contested GUBER many times and the ones you didn't, you work against the candidate of your party , sought Ministerial Positions and fight for SGF,whereas you should've given any of those who carried your Political Cross the chance to become a COME, and it will make you a Power BLOCK or Broker .
I was troubled when DR TONY Nwoye name was removed dying minute from the Ministers list, well either it cost 2.5B to get it changed or not is not the issue, but what gives one goose pimple is the fact that those who we should place at the Table of Discuss with Young blood and hope of tomorrow have been used as Pellet for the Catapults that can never be recovered.
The future of our tomorrow seems go be more Utopian that realistic.
Idenna, I can be frank with you because anyi bu Nwanne, when I knew that sometime is wrong was when I observed that the Position for the Chairman of NSITF: National Security Insurance Trust Fund. (That is Nigeria's equivalent of social security system for workers), was suspended by you for 9 months, while you have a Brian who served you as DG for the Senatorial Race, then Chief of Staff and he has the expirience requisite for the Job, as VP in a Blue Chip Company in USA for 22 years, but instead to give it to him, iwelu the position tuba Swell, which oburu onye OFE Nmanu he would've done the needful and make people who will have his back after.
Then, one area that makes me actively angry was when ever some of this Minion refer to you as Liberator of Anambra Politics, as in the Tenure which the court said "It never happened and to make sure it was erazed, they returned the entire day's you spent to Peter" , it is silly to be candid when they make reference to it as credit to you..
There is nothing liberating when Gang of people went and Steal Mandate and along the line, the sharing Formula became problem, until Dr OUK advised that the keeper of the Mandate should do something to buy the mind of the masses, Thanks to an Uncle who provided the Master Plans made by JIM NWOBODO on how to better Anambra Roads, but he had a fall out with VP ALEX EKWUEME on who shall take the glory, as one is in NPP and another on NPN, then the pissing contest actually screwed Anambra as a state,but moving on.
Atimes they will say you build 380 Kilometers of Road in your 3 years Stolen Tenure, which Okwute trashed when he got back his Mandate and within 3 years he build 600 Kilometers of Road in Anambra North where Political eyes can use it for Political plus, a terrible and treacherous terrian, but he made no noise about it.
If there should be Political Liberator in Nigeria, it should go to Peter Obi who..
1)Waited 2 years and 6 months to recover his stolen Mandate.
2) was impeached and he came back through Court and
3)Whose Legal Interpretation of Tenure is now a Judgement on merit, for it is being used to determine many cases, making many states to have different dates for Gubernatorial elections..
Idenna, I employ you and other Igbo Politicians to look at Tinubu as Focal point, build up your base, so that whenever push comes to shove, you can have people who can come out strongly behind you or who can always be indebted to you.
We should approach Politics same way we approached Trading, that way we can conquer and become Izuchukwu Motors that said "We lead and others followed"..
Just from my remote position and observation spot, I can tell that those who I can say made you thick anachago ka Akwa..
FRED CHUKWULOBE, Senator Ikechukwu Obiora, Chibuzor Obiakor... this are Men who you must, not should, carry along and place them in a rewarding Federal places, like Tinubu will do, then oburuzie na fa anataro Okuko Mkpuru Akwu, then posterity will say you did your best.
Happy Birthday from Idenna
Mazi Odera POg JP.
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