IHEDIOHA’S SHOW OF SHAME Politics has assumed a riotous character. It is a pity it evolved in the land of undefeated warriors whose products from ancestry can boast of impeccable history of reverence to life and free competition and decency through its long written and oral history beginning with incursion of White entry into our land with religion and commerce. We may have been defiant to imposition of foreign authority, but we were not indecent in revolt. We are at this time in utter defiance of high-handedness in religion, but we are not pompous and inciting of friction and irreverence to constituted authority. I stand in condemnation of ridicule of elected authority over our land by one whose knowledge of the dignity of human person is inexistent with regard to power politics and decent conduct. It shows abysmal lack of parental upbringing. Worse, it shows utter absence of pedigree to dishonour guests at an event of humungous significance to repair trajectory of our corporate psyche in the midst of bombardment of neighbours over our rich significance in Nigeria and her checkered history. I probably would have swooned from shame, if I were physically present at the Ji Mbaise Festival. I have kept away since its reduction to orchestrated self-glorification of seekers of power and distortion of national ethos of Mbaise people. Perhaps I should have fought harder to ensure that Iriji Mbaise as name of the event should be changed, to raise the value of the event as an eating event, which it was not, and insisted on its pristine lore of examining ourselves for repair and honour to ancestors for their celebration of hard work and right conduct. Perhaps I should have fingered all those who have myopia of Machiavelli that the end justifies the means in pursuit of power and prevented them with contradictory campaigns to stop them from accessing power ab intio. Perhaps I should have hollered when the tiger was developing its spots to mark him out as a vile beast when he first dared the portals of power with sheep’s clothing. Well, I could not have since they all had a sheepish following that sang their praise for their belly’s sake following state induced poverty that has been our national inheritance from a militarized state. I would be dammed not to take them on now and explain to them in clear language that their cycles are bound to close sooner than later. Nothing, expropriated from the corporate psyche of a people, will not find closure in suffering of some sort no matter how apparently affluent such dirty humans show themselves off as. Deep within they live in fear of reaping the dirty fruits of their conduct. Good conduct cannot yield evil fruits and vice versa. Those who kill and maim on their approach to power must have unavoidable debilities that will show them off eventually as failures in Creation. An Igbo proverb holds that a plant cut does not immediately wilt. Wise people should set their gazes on all those who lack love and care in their pursuit of power. They soon have their hearths desolate and their bishoprics proper humans shall take. No leader worth his salt should disrespect a leader who arrived portals of power with popular appeal. It is common sense to give free rein to will of the people. He who seeks to bend the will of a people in any way ends up in the dustbin of history. I will not be a prophet to predict that all those who contrive less than honest and fair approaches to power will lose their relevance just ahead when Nature starts unwinding their dirty trajectory to their armies of vile followership, whose main desire is to gain access to public till to lavish its contents on their pleasures. Those on the other hand who enter power game to elevate the public good, find comfort in the end and invariably yield their places after fulfilling positive missions. Their thresholds remain object of awe and admiration through all ages. Chief Emeka Ihedioha has denigrated our land by dishonouring a leader, no matter his faults. I would not find rest if I did not howl out against his reduction of the dignity of our people. I see no merit in his conduct of denigration and dishonour to Governor Rochas Okorocha whatsoever. His conduct should require symbolic expiation sacrifice to our ancestors for using our event so wickedly, especially as it is bound to root some displeasure for populous Mbaise people in all parts of Nigeria. It is appropriate to sound it loud and clear that it was not a communal resolve to provide him unworthy pedestal to power of any sort. He is a disgrace to most people of this sacred land. His pedigree is doubtful.
Posted on: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 08:18:13 +0000
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