ROTIMI BOY AND HIS CERELAC TATA REASONING. Kwame Nkrumah said, Seek ye first the political kingdom and all others will be added unto you. The Niger Delta which the European referred to as the White mans grave yard or Oil Rivers have a natural resentment to foreign incursion and dominance ..... So are the kingdoms and city states of this region (inter alia) New Calabar (Kalabari), Okoloba ( Bonny and Opobo), Nembe etc have been known for their resentment to foreign intrusion and interference in their internal affairs. Their various kings had running battles with the British invaders. Even today this region is the most volatile with the greatest proliferation of small arms and ammunitions. Further upstream, with what is now political Niger Delta, the Ogonis under their leader Ken Saro wiwa epitomized their resistance against the inhuman apartheid, wholesale stealing of their God given natural resources by the buccaneering Gambari and their collaborators, not forgetting the role played by Isaac Adaka Boro, myself and other patriotic Ijaws under the aegis of the INC and the IYC. Yesterday, I wept when I heard Rotimi Chibuike Amaechi at the APC/7years Anniversary Rally where he reeled out projects purportedly built by the buccaneering Gambaris to service their economic appetite for Niger Delta resources. The simple question is, how many of these projects have ever been headed by the Ikwerres, Okolobas, Ogonis, Ekpeyes etc. how many Rivers people are gainfully employed or doing business with these establishments. Every now and then, there has been this ritual of Turn-Around Maintenance in these establishment, how many indigenous companies have been engaged in these Turn-Around Maintenance. The cabotage law and the local content law is not local content of the Dumo Briggs of Kalabari or of the Olaka Wogu of Eleme or of the Ala Hart of Bonny or G.U of the Ake of Egi....It has been cabotage and local content for Dangote of Kano, Femi Otedola and Wale Tinubu of Lagos. This is what our jolly fellow CERELAC Tata boy wants us to celebrate. At the APC/anniversary rally, our cerelac boy Rotimi Chibuike Amaechi openly deficate on the grave of Saro wiwa and robbed the shit on the faces of those of us who are still alive with these profound statement glorifying the buccaneering Gambari and their collaborators in their economic occupation of our land...standing reasoning and morality on its head. Rotimis statement means that Saro wiwa never fought for any thing or died for anything for all these projects were completed in Ogoni land and functioning at the time Ken Saro wiwa led the Ogonis under MOSOP in confronting the Gambaris and their collaborators in the human, environmental and economic genocide against them. Ogoni land was raped ravaged and left desolate. Ken Saro wiwa and others paid the supreme prize for their affront in asking why the resources and industries on their land cannot benefit them and turn around their lives. Rotimi Amaechi statement yesterday means that the Kaiama Declaration is a mere toilet paper so were the painful sacrifices of the people of Umuechem. We saw this from the very beginning when myself, Felix Tuodolo, Ann Brisbie and Isaac Osuaka (Sankara) confronted Alabo Graham Douglas that power should not be manipulated in favour of Odili as he does not understand or appreciate the painful struggle of our people. Alabo Graham Douglas, carried away by vain glory and self importance, his touted connection to the Gambari northern oligarchy and the military thinks that these are enough to put Odili under check and control forgetting that power intoxicate and absolute power intoxicate absolutely. Today,Alabo Graham Douglas and those who reason like him are in a better position to tell us their story, that is if they are alive. What Amaechi did yesterday,is a conspiracy against those of us who are in the struggle to free ourselves from the stranglehold of the buccaneering Gambaris and their collaborators. Sitting at the head of this conspiracy is Dr Peter Odili who today is back to play a script that is not in the collective interest of our people or President Goodluck Jobathan. In 2007, Dr Peter Odili having prepared himself to take over the presidency of Nigeria in Abuja, decided to leave Rivers State in the hand of Ikwerre (Ibo) Amaechi in preferrence to Abiye Sekibo who is a top member of his kitchen cabinet / cabal. When Amaechis nomination got a k-leg, he went to Ubima and brought Amaechis cousin (Celestine Omehia) to straighten the k-leg. In the days leading to 2011 Election, Dr Peter Odili prompted Abiye Sekibo, Kenneth Kobani and others of his kitchen cabinet to decamp to the Action Congress of Nigeria. He himself did not decamp like his other counterpart like George Akume of Benue State. He was floating without a party. As the Rivers State leader of ACN before the coming of Odilis group, I kept asking Abiye Sekibo and Kenneth Kobani when will their leader Odili come to join us. Their reply was always, Very soon. I also posed the same question to Asiwaju Ahmed Bola Tinubu and Baba Akande, their answer was always very soon. I knew deep down in me that Odili had a sinister game plan and it showed in the primaries leading to nomination of candidates for 2011 election in Rivers State. Abiye Sekibo, Odili and the party leadership in Lagos and Abuja foisted Odili preferred candidates who can hardly win election in their units on the party. Just three days to the 2011 election Odili made the predictable summersault by declaring his support for the over dramatized estranged son Amaechi. All the the candidates Odili had nominated for the election deserted the party. It was a forgone conclusion. Some of us saw through the facade and the smokescreen. Odili had played with the head of Abiye Sekibo and people like Kenneth Kobani pursuing his agenda to exclude the patriot of the Niger Delta struggle who are mostly Ogonis and Ijaws. Today another drama is being played out by Odili, Amaechi and their cabal in fencing off those who are genuinely interested in furthering the aspiration of the Niger Delta people. This script being played out is authored by Odili and Amaechi to foist on us another senior member of their cabal irrespective of party affiliation as governor of Rivers State. What all of us should ask is, what caused the new quarrel between Odili and Amaechi. Why has Odili suddenly severe relationship with his master, Gen Olusegun Obasanjo. What is this new honey moon between GoodLuck/wife and Odili? What does this new found romance portends for us. The answer is not far fetched. Odili and Amaechi are playing sinister games with our heads. The end does not portend well for us. Sixteen years of recklessness and impunity....billions and billions and billions of dollars without anything to show for it, No! I forgot, sorry, we have a mono rail. What Amaechi did yesterday was not against Goodluck, it was against Ken Saro wiwa, myself and others who had risen against the buccaneering Gambaris and their collaborators in their unleashing locusts to feast on our land, to rub pepper to injury. Rabiu Kwankwanso, a Gambari buccaneer from Kano said we should remember the relationship between Rivers State and the Gambari north . What are the dividend of this relationship, a dead Saro wiwa and other comrades... economic destitution and environmental desolation. The plan of Odili and Amaechi is the continued perpetuation of this master/slave relationship. Rivers people, like Fafaa Dan Princewills gingle stated in 1991, Rivers people, our mumu don too much. What Amaechi said yesterday, is like asking Nelson Mandela and his comrades, who built Pretoria, Johannesburg , Cape town, Port Elizabeth , the nuclear reactors and all progress South Africa has recorded in science,technology and industry.
Posted on: Tue, 04 Nov 2014 23:56:52 +0000
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