Hope Alive Again In Imo!

By

Jesutega Onokpasa

In spite of all the hype with which the Labour Party assaulted us in the buildup to the just concluded gubernatorial elections, Imo State Governor, Senator Hope Uzodinma, somehow succeeded in making the party look like a pathetic aggregation of very noisy neophytes, full of sound and fury signifying absolutely nothing other than their crass ignorance, perplexing arrogance and political illiteracy.

As if as a metaphor for their shocking lack of manners and rather quite worrisome addiction to brigandage, the Labour Party’s agent in Imo, a fellow described as a lawyer, flew entirely of the handle and proceeded to break the law by basically trying to disrupt the collation of results.

Indeed, this quite obnoxious character, effectively held up the results collation by repeated deployment of shamefully thuggish actions which profusely disclosed breach of public peace significance.

I do not know the name of the Labour Party candidate in Imo but apparently, simply because he is “Eluu Pee”, he must win?

Then, where does that leave Hope, who has brought much hope, sanity and development to the state since he became Governor?

Some people have been insinuating that Senator Uzodinma’s comprehensive triumph has “rehabilitated” him from what they refer to as his erstwhile status as a “Supreme Court Governor”.

Hope Uzodinma never needed any rehabilitation because he was never a “Supreme Court Governor”, in the first place.

Contrary to the sensationalist bent of a section of the Nigerian media and the gullibility of those they have been able to gaslight for over three years now, the Supreme Court declared Uzodinma, Governor, because the apex court found as a material fact that he actually came first in his first election and was only declared fourth by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, because the results from 388 polling units, which he swept, had been illegally omitted from the final tally of that election.

What Governor Uzodinma has done again is precisely what he did before, except that this time around, he defeated his rivals even more comprehensively than before!

I don’t know what the Labour Party (or even the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, for that matter) is planning to do regarding the outcome of the election.

The PDP, on its part, is clearly dead in the South-east, and I think its candidate, being a seasoned politician, knows better than to waste his time on a petition without basis.

As for the Labour Party, it is the headquarters for gaslighters, greedy hunters and Yahoo Boys.

I wouldn’t put it past its conscienceless leaders to take its delusional supporters on another wild goose chase as it did to them regarding the presidential election.

If they choose to go to court, they would do well to hire Kenneth Okonkwo as their lawyer so he can retrieve their nonexistent mandate by tweeting from the court room, casting aspersions on the Judiciary, and, insulting judges because he knows there is no case to argue and no mandate to reclaim.

As for the good people of Imo, they can look forward to another four years of actualized hope from a Governor called Hope.

Onokpasa, a lawyer, was a member of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Presidential Campaign Council, and writes from Abuja.