……….. BY THE LEADER/CHAIRMAN OF THE ALL PROGRESSIVES CONGRESS (APC) IN RIVERS STATE
RE: TO|{Y OKOCHA MAKES A U-TURN, COI\GRATULATES GOV.FUBARA, ON HIS SUCCESSFUL OI\E YEAR IN OFFICE ANDAPOLOGIZES FOR ANY WRONGDOING, IN A PRESS STATE,MENT HE
PERSONALLY SIGNED.
My attention was drawn to a viral post stating the above subject.
As may be correctly predicted by those who know me, my initial approach was to
ignore the puerile, jejune and cheap propaganda piece, so poorly couched by a
loony, who may have skipped his/her psychiatric medication and so, momentarily
prowls on the street, naked, spewing arrant rubbish on passersby.
On a critical thought, I decided to cave in to strong persuasions by superior
arguments, so clinically adduced by a myriad of sane minds, to “bury” (in the word
of Governor Fubara), the author, purveyor and paymaster(s) of the fat lies, in
succinct, clear and apt propositions, thusly:
1. That I bear the name and appellations; Chief Tony C. Okocha, KSC, DSSRS,
JP.
2. That I have never been in controversy with anyone else deliberately or
coincidentally on issue/clash of the name. In otherwords, there are no two
persons of the same appellations and names known to me.
3. That I am the Chairman of Caretaker Committee, APC Rivers State duly
appointed and inaugurated by the top echelon of leadership of APC Nigeria.
4. That I am not the author of the tripe as aforecited, in which my name was
put as signatory.
5. That I did not authorize anyone to write on my behalf on the aforecited topic or anyone at all, to latently or patently, overtly or covertly, eulogiseGovernor Fubara for any reason whatsoever. Not even my media aides nor
my sworn enemy.
6. That the concoction of the blatant lies, is another failed desperate attempt by
Gov Fubara of Rivers State and his acolytes, cronies and protege to “marykay” their battered faces by dishing out deceits and lies to entice, hypnotiseor hoodwink Rivers State People.
7. This barefaced falsehood, sponsored by Governor Fubara and his team, has
further buttressed and added vent to our assertion that tire presentGovernment in Rivers State, relishes and thrives in misleading Rivers peopleand Nigerians. This recent nauseating trend in our history, explains why ourdear Rivers State is now consigned to a cesspit of scandal in the comity of
States and ipso facto no more to be reckoned with. I enjoin ail to once more,be the incorruptible judge.
8. To address the trumped-up particulars provided as reason for my sudden
volte-face and pandering to a Government, the APC Rivers that I serve asChairman, has audibly, squarely, roundly and triangularly, condemned asbeing clueless and rudderless, the script replete with decrepit and archaic
creole conveying palpable stupidity as contained in the watery piece.
I depose as follows;
a) I confirm that I was present at the flag off of the commercial operationsof the Abuja light rail project at the behest of the Honourable Minister ofthe Federal Capital Territory, Chief Ezenwo Nyesom Wike, CON,GSSRS, Life Bencher (monikered, Mr. Project). (Day 2 after thecommissioning of southern parkway from Christian Center to ring-road,Abuja.
b) That the venue was well stocked with the cream of Nigerian personalities
and Ambassadors of Countries and Foreign missions representatives in
Nigeria.
c) That it vas Mr. President himself who performed the flag-off of the
completed project and as physical demonstration, triumphantly rode on
the Train in the company of the attendee dignitaries, so highly placed as
His Excellency, Senator Kassim Shettima, GCON, Vice President of
Nigeria, Hon Ministers of the Federal Republic, Leadership of the
National Assembly, Ambassadors, Captains of industry, etc, as
beautifully made out by the compere’.
d) That I frankly, couldn’t have made the list of those who rode with Mr.President on the Train, given that assemblage of creme-de-la-creme inattendance and so, never in my radar oi imaginations.
Of course, commonsensically speaking, not all the prominentpersonalities therein, can be allowed into the Train with Mr President,
GCFR (At least for Security reasons).
e) At no time did l even make even a distant attempt to get close to the Train
station, let alone grumble for not being mentioned as a personality to ride
with Mr. President on the Train.
f) At no time did I frown at the busy Hon Minister of FCT, for not
including me on the Protocol list, taik more of having adisagreement/quarrel/altercation with him.
g) That immediately after the heart-rending and emotional laddened andspirit enlivening commendation speech made by HIs Excellency,President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, GCFR, and the subsequent unveiling of the plaque, l joined the other Guests of the Honourable Minister in a bus provided by FCT administration, to a sumptuous lunch set up by the host, the Honourable Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja.
h) That whilst on the event venue and lunch table thereafter, I shared warmth convivialities with folks, None!, I repeat , none!!, had any reason to be sad.other Guests of the Honourable Minister in a bus
provided by the FCT administration, to a sumptuous lunch set up by the
host, the Honourable Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja.
h) That whilst on the event venue and lunch table thereafter, I shared
warmth convivialities with folks. None!, I repeat, None!!, had any reason to be sad.
Having stated the very obvious, it remains to reveal the reason(s) for this baggage
of lies which underscores the unfortunate embroidery of the present Government in
Rivers State and as weli, unmask the chief thespians in the cheap propaganda script.
The main reason(s) for the preemptive propaganda are viz;
My silence, which was strange to Governor Fubara and his goons, wasdeafening. They are well aware that I am never reticent nor taciturn to vogue issuesas Governance in Rivers State yet I never said a word even when the curious pressmade frantic efforts to get me on set on my take as leader of the opposition in
Rivers State.
Why, then would I not speak?, They queried. So, they elected to speak from their
wildest imagination, purporting in my stead, but widely missed it.
Instead of representing the perspective that genuine Nigerians can vouch for me,they pandered to sheer vagaries and inanities.. No wonder, my phones have been
buzzing every second with call from the entire globe, with the intention of
ascertaining the veracity or otherwise of the deceitful post.
My answer clearly and unambiguously and unequivocally, is that the document on
the front-burner of discourse, back and forth in which my name was criminally
inserted/embossed as the author, is FAKE and NONSENSICAL and blatant
FALSEHOOD.
My folks and foes know me as one who don’t like what I hate. I don’t thrive ineuphemisms or exaggerations. I am stubborn and fixated to my convictions andonly swayed by superior arguments.
That piece aims clearly to malign my character and bring me to collusion pact with
my fans all over the globe, who have consistently followed up my offerings. The
intention is to show me off as one who double-speak.
On another breathe, it was a “missed target missile” fired with the intention to
cause some rifts between me and the Political Leader of Rivers State, HE, Chief
E.N.Wike, CON, Honourable Minister of tire Federal Capital Territory, Abuja.
Unfortunately, the Minister is too experienced, cultured and cultivated, to discern
truths from falsehoods.
It failed spectacularly at prime facie.
Readers whether cheerleaders or naysayers should please not dissipate efforts or
waste their precious times in their curiosity in seeking knowledge of the truth offalsehood of this arrant nonsense. Take it from me that there’s not the least molerum of truth in the machination of the paedophile author, his assignee andpaymaster.
However, I can’t help the uncircumcised believers in shibboleths and purveyors of
asininities, who in continuing to ply their trade of hired goons, may still continue
to spread the cheap blackmail attempt as in this case.
Second, I can conjecture the attempt by the Gov Fubara’s failed Government in
Rivers State, to jostle for political mileage by adding my prized name and position(leader of the opposition and voice of the voiceless in Rivers State), to the bag ofgrandstanders who had in their usual practice, showered pseudo encomiums on acomatose Government of Governor Siminalayi Fubara.
For me it is a fruitless attempt to resurrect a Dead Lazarus.
This, too, is Dead on Arrival. My meat is too bitter for consumption.
Third, my surest hunch is that someone must have received huge sum of moneywith the promise that he/she will get me to congratulate the Paymaster, Gov SimFubara. So not knowing how to go about it but tasked to justify the lucre collected,hurriedly put out the rubbish, “Tony Okocha makes a U-Turn, congratulates GovFubara on his achievements in one year in office….”.
Governor Fubara is advised to seek means of recovering the State fund from this
emissary. He wasn’t atle to reach me.
Unfortunately, this is the thriving business in Rivers State today. Concoct any type
or kind of lies, especially as it seeks to massage the ego of a clueless government
and smile to a huge bank account.
No wonder why Rivers State has become a “Cash cow” and “conduit pipe” for little
groups, from a certain geopolitical zone and none existent, 60 members CUPPgroup in the National Assembly.
Who is the masquerade behind the piece of rubbish?.
“He who pays the piper dictates the tune”
Who does the tripe target to benefit?
Of course, it was orchestrated and sponsored by Rivers State Government in their
deliberate and inordinately desperate bid and penchant to silence my vocal and
audible voice of opposition.
Unfortunately, again, their approach should have beenproperly thought through, to meet contemporary standards but not the
degenerateand obscene style of attempting to cause/instigate disaffection and unintelligible
“homs-locking” of responsible Rivers and Nigerian people.
Conclusion:
To say that Gov Fubara’s One year in Office as Governor of Rivers State is one of
Stagnation and Horror, is an understatement fbr want of better sentence.
But may I note cursorily for the sake of letting Nigerians read and assess Governor
Fubara well. I ask innocuously, “was Governor Fubara celebrating 365 days (One
year) in office when in his voice and words, he has only taken charge ofGovernment for 4 months and in the 4 months, he boasted to have surpassed theachievements of many donkey years of administrations in Rivers State?
What virtues or achievements of a Government in an “Intensive Care Unit” (ICU),should I have applauded or should applaud?. The one without a marked out policy
thrust?
An administration replete with and dotting on the palpable and morbid fear of the unknown?
A Government that relishes in chicaneries and hoaxes to themselves?
A Government that doesn’t have respect for rule of law?
A Government that strives in conscious attempts to emasculate the Legislative arm
of Government?
A Government that sponsors and encourages nudity of Old vulnerable mothers and
shows them up on National Television?
A government that quipped through the Governor, that Rivers State is plagued by
lack of Elders who can stand firm and astutely intervened in his self-inflicted Rivers political crisis?
A government which the team lead, Governor Fubara, publicly beats the drum of
war and invites everyone to a macabre dance?
A Government whose only completed project in 365 days of existence, is the
traversing of the length and breadth of the 23 Local Government Areas of Rivers
State, in what is dubbed “Thanksgiving fbr supreme Court victory “?
A Government which is inflicting severe pains and causing deaths in Rivershomes, by refusing to release funds accruing to Local Government Areas from the
statutory allocation from the Federal government?
A Government that pulled down and is contemplating the pulling down of more
iconic structures in Rivers State built with tax payers money, construed as placeswhere elected Assembly members can use to perform their Legislative functions?
A Government that claimed it has boosted the Internally Generated Revenue ofRivers State b,v more than half yet unable to proudly explain the variables andindices and indicators to such bogus assertion?
A Government whose Chief driver epitomises ungratefulness and crassingratitude?
A Government whose activities anel gingering have thrown up ethnic dichotomy ina hitherto united State, with the Governor, leading the dichotomous few?
A Government that has relapsed the State into “Garbage City” defined as Statewhere rubbles line the streets and roads like decoration instead of consolidatingand surpassing the hitherto good sanitation arrangement that keep Port Harcourtafloat as “Garden Citv”?
A Government that cannot guarantee peace and security of the State but onlyspews innuendos and clap-backs, not in competition with his brothers inneighbouring Abia , Akwa Ibom, Ebonyi, Enugu, Niger (All first timers like him)in terms of projects delivery but come heavily on those who brought him out from
political dungeon to political relevance today?
I challenge the Governor and/or his administration, to point to just one project
initiated and completed by this administration in Rivers State in One year inoffice, and I will publicly and not surreptitiously congratulate him.
Just one project, I demand and I shall recant and shower eulogies on his
administration.
Finally, I am not reluctant nor too atraid to put in clear terms and in public spacethat Governor Sim’s 365 days in office of Governor of Rivers State, is a completesham. On a scale or ratio (1-10), he boards minus zero. It is regrettably so.
I wish it is possible to turn back the hands of the clock. No beneficiary ofunderserved goodwill, clueless and rudderless or “push anci start” personality oughtto mount the rostrum as Governor of Rivers State, going forward.
This one (present Government of Rivers State) is a sordid experience never to pray
even an enemy into.
Peoplesmind