In order to shield them from public opprobrium, I crave the indulgence of my avid readers to declare that no name will appear in this reflective article. The attack dogs used by the former governor of Abia State, Mr. Theodore Ahamefule Orji, know themselves and are also known by discerning followers of Abia politics between 2007 and 2015. So, their anonymity here does not really matter.
Of course, their butt of attacks, demonization, criminalization, futile demystification and blatancy of spuriousness was Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu, who could not be caged by an erstwhile president of this country let alone some spineless blokes whose master and benefactor Dr. Kalu unilaterally enthroned despite unprecedented oppositional forces!
Now that the music is over, it will be interesting to know where the imbecilic fellows have moved on to or have stagnated, awaiting another Kalu for vituperative enterprise that throws up blood money in recompense for impolitic brazenness. We shall anchor this trip down memory lane with just an episode out of the multitudinous case of the rape of Abia by T. A. Orji. The incident under focus is the damning thesis on the state by billionaire Prince Arthur Eze.
One of the attack dogs, a journalistic rolling stone that has never gathered any moss right from his fleeting days in the old Daily Times up to his crashed misadventure in fledgling Hallmark Newspapers (recollect no nomenclatures),, sought to elucidate on Prince Arthur Eze’s unassailable declarations on the systemic rot in Abia State. In the fiasco, the asinine bloke displayed hollowness that confirmed his uncanny instability in the media.
The idiotic futility to reconstruct what was said by the Prince of the Niger was sheer demonstration of illogicality of the worst order. In the first place, there is no ‘puzzle’ whatsoever with Prince Eze’s re-affirmative avowals on issues already known by one and all in and outside the country. The subject is very clear to enlightened members of the society. Perhaps the only exceptions would be the rascally attack dogs whose desire for stomach infrastructure could make them twist just about anything as long as the economics is right!
Writing in THE NATION ON SUNDAY of September 14, 2014, one of the traitorous attack dogs said only Daily Sun carried the dispassionate summation of Prince Eze simply because the newspaper belongs to Dr Orji Kalu, the former governor of Abia State, who is at loggerheads with his successor, Theodore Orji, for reasons that bother on the latter’s legendary incompetency, ingratitude and witch-hunt. Can some of the treacherous attack dogs that I have known for the past 20 years afford to buy a newspaper as to know that only Kalu’s medium carried the damning report? For the bohemians’ civilization and benefit, The Moment, People’s Daily, Daily Champion and copious online portals disseminated the developmental information. In any case, I also read elsewhere that a lot of money was expended by the Abia State government on the day of the incident to ensure that the report did not come out the next day. And to a large extent, there was near-blackout of the critical event! This is confirmatory of the level of media corruption in the country. It is unfortunate that the hangers-on-for-life symbolized by these attack dogs cannot know some of these exclusive details.
The irresponsible attack dogs also talked about Prince Eze’s “Anambra State nativity and sowing the seed of discord among the good people of Abia State.” If the garrulous attack dogs were comfortable with the graveyard accord/silence in Abia State, most Abians were not fooled and would gladly welcome seeds of discord from sympathetic Nigerians irrespective of their states of origin—which is immaterial in the circumstance. Such anaemic distractions in the name of analyses by illogical attack dogs of this world can only appeal to those who cannot see beyond their nasal cavities. So, because someone is from another state he should not intervene in another state? What kind of brainlessness is this?
Do we have to sacrifice our dignity because of a pot of porridge from Government House, Umuahia? The attack dogs said equally that the only reactions to Prince Eze’s “diatribe and outburst” they found after monitoring were from persons and groups known to be critical of the immediate-past administration in the state. Did the loquacious attack dogs expect reactions from praise-singers and worshipers like themselves, ‘Abia elders’ as defined by Government House and members of Abia Patriots all of whom were undergoing a rehabilitative regime of the generous T. A. Orji locust leadership? Let there be some modicum of rationale in public discourse, Handouts should not make attack dogs unthinking animals! And to speciously cap the bovine ignorance, the attack dogs round off this aspect of their weird interjection by saying that only the same newspaper (veiled and cowardly reference to Daily Sun) reported the reactions. I advise the stupid attack dogs to join the free readers’ club present at major newsstands to pay N20 and hurriedly scan as many publications as possible. The former governor’s Chief Press Secretary’s office where the attack dogs hung on in the absence of gainful employment confided in me that they buy mostly “friendly newspapers” and the Sun titles for obvious reasons. Therefore, how can the vicious attack dogs have access to leading publications or other unfriendly media?
At this point that the party is gladly over, I advise the clownish attack dogs, some of them my good friends, to face pastoral work which seems to be their last port of employment call. Having failed abysmally in journalism on account of their mercantilism and holistic professional irresponsibility as certified hacks, the deviant attack dogs should, as a matter of last resort, concentrate on winning souls for the Lord—and this is hoping that they have the ability and anointing to discharge this onerous evangelical task they may compellingly choose as a last survivalist option. Communication generally and journalism particularly are not their forte. It is possible the depraved minds did not know until May 29, 2015!
The harebrained attack dogs also made allusions to their emptiness and foolishness by saying that drums were not rolled out in celebration of Prince Eze’s comments. When people are shocked to the marrow, there is usually little or nothing to add. What was anyone going to say that had not been said before Prince Eze’s contribution? It was not a revelation. The matter had been in the public domain since May 29, 2007. Why it was generally rehashed at all in the media was because of the personality of the eminent business mogul and billionaire philanthropist. Otherwise, not even Sun would have given it a mention! Who, apart from beneficiaries of the stench, does not know that T. A. Orji was a colossal failure and that Abia was under arrested development from 2007 to 2015?
Because of what the moronic attack dogs used to get from T. A. Orji for sustenance, they used gutter language in describing Prince Eze’s comments and rounded off by saying that the prince made those utterances because of his filial relationship with Dr. Kalu and went ahead to make betrothal linkages which must have informed Prince Eze’s position! It is only in Igbo land that this kind of blatant disrespect is possible. If the venomous attack dogs were from the Southwest or the North and made this kind of importunate, absurd and stupidly disrespectful vitriolic, they would have been in hot soup by now.
The lesson for the attack dogs, henceforth, is that they should not be indecorous in their choice of words especially when addressing a man of Prince Eze’s standing. There is life after Ochendoism. May God help us so that what we shall eat will not kill us. And so shall it be! The face-off between Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu and T. A. Orji cannot be resolved irritants like the attack tomfools who specialize in buffoonery!
Is it not an irony that one of the attack dogs who were inherited by Dr. Okezie Ikpeazu was recently dismissed on grounds of incompetency, incapacity and notoriety among journalists in the state and rudeness to commissioners! Food for thought: with politicians in power, you need to be tactful as a media aide. Relentlessly attacking the governor’s opponents foolishly does not guarantee employment when crises set in!
. Wabara (ewabara@yahoo.com/08055001948 ) is the media adviser to Dr. Orji Kalu.