It is indeed laughable that a shenanigan and a vitriolic blackmailer whose means of livelihood is subsistence criminal pursuits and sophistry calls Dr Ogah’s Governorship campaign a deceit. It is amusing that these character hide under pseudo names and social media accounts to tarnish and violate the image of reputational capital of leaders like Dr Uche Ogah, whose only sin is his quest to change the ugly story of his dear State.
In the spirit of oneness, but regretablly, we worked with these shenanigan as a team during the last 2019 Governorship election. These political urchins made of black blood also existed within Dr Uche Ogah’s Campaign Council because his master and sponsor (Martins Azubuike) was Dr Ogah’s biggest political blunder and miscalculation during the last governorship election. His sponsor was made a running mate to Dr Ogah to the dissatisfaction of the party members, Party leadership and to the people of Abia State.
They betrayed Dr Uche Ogah and the Abia APC. This betrayal started immediately Dr. Uche Ogah won and became the Abia State APC Governorship candidate against every Ngwa son who contested primary elections with him.
It’s on record that before the primaries, Dr. Ogah was begged by Abia APC to come and stand for the 2019 guber election as he was about the only person, who could make the party win that election in Abia and he proved it during the gubernatorial election by winning the majority votes at all the polling units in Abia State including that of the Government House polling unit Umuahia where the staffs of Abia State Government voted massively for APC/Uche Ogah but the results were later altered by PDP with the connivance of compromised INEC and security agents because of the lackadaisical attitude of moles Dr. Ogah trusted like this senseless writer called Damian Kamalu and his sponsor.
It’s also on record that Abia State Governor, Dr. Okezie Ikpeazu purchased expression of interest and nomination forms for the whole Ngwa APC gubernatorial aspirants and some of the Senatorial aspirants with the exception of Barr. FN Nwosu and Amb. Chief Okey Emuchay during the run up to the 2019 elections. The Ngwa plan from the beginning was not to win but to scatter APC and make it possible for the return of their weakling as Governor.
Records has it that, without Dr. Ogah, APC as a party could not have won a single seat in Abia State House of Assembly. Most of the candidates for that election had failed severally in the past contesting for same seats which they now won under Dr Ogah’s leadership as an APC Governorship candidate.
Further, Dr. Ogah’s entrance into APC changed the fortune of the party in Abia, being the State of origin of Nnamdi Kanu and also IPOB headquarters, before the Operation Python Dance which it’s aftermath, caused the APC electoral victory and valuable chances in the South East.
Before Dr. Ogah came into the party, APC in Abia State was like a leprosy camp where people avoided and could not dine on same table with others, it is on record that there was no house owner in Umuahia that agreed to give his/her property to APC to use as their State Secretariat, for the fear of being burnt down by Abia people until Dr. Uche Ogah joined the party.
Immediately the news of Dr. Ogah joining the APC filtered across the State, most property owners who earlier rejected renting their properties to the party, turned around to offer their houses to APC.
As a participant observer of Abia political activities, the biggest mistake that happened to that Uche Ogah’s ticket was the wrong choice of picking an empty Martins Azubuike as running mate through the manipulative influence of Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu. Some claim, it was a deliberate attempt to destroy the ticket while other merely rejected the arrangement. I submit to the earlier thoughts that it was a deliberate ploy to destroy the ticket because there were other Ngwa sons and daughters who are far better than brain dead Martins Azubuike.
It is known and also said publicly in Isialangwa North that Martins Azubuike has never won election before, rather has always benefited from results being written and announced for him by his then mother party, the PDP. It’s also a public knowledge, that one of his boys, Chuks Dennis Amalaha had in previous election, won him in Primaries but conceded to the party arrangement because Martins Azubuike was tipped to be the next Speaker by the retrogressive Abia cabals in that administration arrangement.
Back to the main issues; During the last APC Governorship campaign in Abia State, we experienced clannishness and sabotage from some southern Ngwa people. These factors had a negative impact within our party and thousands of our supporters from Abia South. The Party Chairman never joined Dr. Ogah to any campaign in Abia State because he was against the choice of bringing in Martins Azubuike as the deputy without the party making an input. He was angry that Dr. Ogah allowed Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu to handpick Martins. The party’s choice for Dr. Ogah’s Deputy was Amb. Chief Okey Emuchay, and was never Martins Azubuike whom every one attested to his clannish and treacherous lifestyle.
It was later revealed that Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu did not know much about the young man( Martins) but was carrying him along because, he had earlier promised his endorsement as the APC gubernatorial candidate before Dr. Ogah declared interest to run for the election. So, when Dr. Ogah declared interest, Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu saw a better deal for him and the Abia APC.
The blackmailer that penned that article could not even write a single article in support of the campaign, despite Martins sending his name to the campaign media team. It’s on record that one of Dr. Ogah’s aides who was in the same media committee with the same blackmailer, once asked this blackmailer why he hasn’t put up any post for the campaign team anywhere despite parading himself as a so called seasoned journalist?
Most of the people Martins brought into the campaign team were just out for the money they could grab from the Ogah campaign team. This same blackmailer sent in a budget of N78M for billboards across the State at N450,000 each while others quoted N140,000 per billboard. This was happening just 7 weeks before the election. The refusal to issue him the billboard contract got him agitated, probably because he had planned his rescue mission from poverty through the said billboard deal. During this time, Dr. Ogah’s billboards across the State where being torn and brought down by this same blackmailer cum aide of a supposed APC Deputy governorship candidate working in concert with PDP agents
In the course of that campaign, Dr. Ogah did a heart to heart touch campaign with Abians, he visited the college of Bishops and changed their perceptions about President Muhammadu Buhari and APC as a party. He went to churches to talk with Abians, he branded buses and shared to his LG coordinators, so when I read the line that talked about “no buses”, I wondered why such wickedness.
When Dr. Ogah constituted his campaign council in Umuahia, he told Abians that “If you won’t vote for Buhari, don’t vote for me!” That Statement caused serious media uproar in Abia and across the South East. One of the Senatorial candidates then, questioned the political validity of Dr Ogah’s statement but Dr Ogah stood his ground to the consternation of the senate candidate.
Dr. Ogah was the only gubernatorial Candidate in the South East, that won 5 over 5 in his Local government and senatorial zone for APC . I will challenge any other APC leader in Abia to show his Ward and LG result for the 5 conducted elections.
When people like me hear that the likes of Martins Azubuike and Prince Paul Ikonne are seeking to be made a Ministers or anything close to it, I laugh. What can they show as their bargaining chips? Martins Azubuike stage managed and concocted a harassment of himself by soldiers on the day of election, to justify the result that was to be written against his own party from his local government. This, he perfectly planned with the Abia PDP government.
Martins held various meetings with Sen. TA Orji to ensure Sen. Nkechi Nwaogu fails in Isialangwa North with the promise of giving him House of Representative ticket by 2023. It’s not a hidden fact that Martin planted his boys on Mrs. Blessing Nwokonneya’s camp to ensure she didn’t win while the innocent woman, who also funded Martins, believed Martins was with her. How treacherous people could be?
The gang of Ikonne, Emenike and Akomas went on public radio, asking ngwa people and Abians to vote for the PDP Governorship candidate against the APC candidate on the 7th of March 2019, barely 48 hours before the election. This was never a factor considered by the malicious shenanigan author.
It’s on record that during the Presidential rally that was to mark the endorsement of Dr. Ogah by President Muhammadu Buhari in Aba Stadium? The APC State Chairman Hon. Donatus Nwankpa disappeared in the name of being kidnapped, all in the bid to scuttle the President’s visit to Aba for Dr. Ogah, and also went as deep as conniving with the Abia PDP to block the Local government party faithfuls and pro groups coming from different LG’s to Aba Stadium to welcome the President. The intend was for the President to meet empty Stadium, but the turn over of the Aba people sent shivers into the spine of our guests that day when God played His Almighty hands’
This serial blackmailer didn’t also see the factor that is in the public domain, where after the visit of the Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo to Abia for a town hall meeting for the APC gubernatorial election, days before the election, the handful treacherous APC members from Ngwa had a close door meeting that night, in one of the APC leader’s house who was a former minister, and decided never to allow the governorship leave Ngwa, “that it was better they bring an Ngwa goat than allow Dr. Uche Ogah win that election”.
Of importance, Dr. Uche Ogah won in 14 local government out of 17 during the APC gubernatorial primaries to prove his popularity and wide acceptance in Abia State and those trying to defame his image can never match or come close to the towering personality of Dr. Uche Ogah.
Also, the gubernatorial election which is still subject of litigation where PDP and compromised INEC allocated second position to Dr. Ogah after he clearly won the majority votes across Abia State is a pointer that this serial blackmailer and his doomed sponsor are hallucinating.
One of the reasons why the so called elites had issues with Dr. Ogah was his refusal to share the Presidential logistic money to them, but, he insisted that, he will followed the tabulated manual given to him by the party national body, which stated inter alia “among other things” that the logistic money most be taken to polling units and Dr. Ogah delivered as directed by the NWC of the party. Instead of Martins Azubuike and his hatchet jobber indulging in this cheap blackmail, why not write petition directly to APC national if they have any case? Thus, needless to even dignify Martins Azubuike because it is a known fact that he is suffering from acute retrogressive syndrome and soon depression will set in…
Anyone in Abia will attest to the fact that Dr. Uche Ogah ran an issue based campaign and spent money where necessary. If the likes of that writer were truly out to win an election, they shouldn’t be seeking Dr. Ogah to equate the same spending with the government of the day in Abia. It is rather foolishness for them to wish for such.
The campaign of calumny and malicious statements that characterized that article can only define one thing, ‘A bitter man and one who planned to make money from Dr. Ogah’s pocket during the election but was nipped in the bud, hence his disjointed article is all about money without mentioning his sponsor’s financial contribution to the campaign’. He stated that Dr. Ogah owes workers which is totally false. Ogah is the biggest employer of labor from the South East. His Aku ruo ulo project in Uturu (Masters Energy Industrial City) can only define a man that loves his people. He has a viable factory in Agbara, Lagos and Mowe, Ogun State where every other person would have invested more to get more in return in short term, instead, he took major part of his business back to Abia to create such hope and base for employment! Politics or not, an urchin as that serial blackmailer shouldn’t for anything call Dr. Uchechukwu Sampson Ogah OON FCA names.
Dr. Uche Ogah has paid his dues as a good statesman in Abia and Nigeria at large and his records are open for verification.
Dr Uche Sampson Ogah, will always do his best for the Abia APC and the people of Abia State. Till date, his interest remains how to lift the people out of the poverty trap and bring prosperity to them. He is not interested in recreating himself or searching for public wealth or positions. He wants power to help build the State and Country but certainly not for personal use.
Clinton Otoro Nwaubani
Writes in from Umuahia
