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The Reason Why Dr Nwobodo Asked Chief Mbazulike to Keep Quiet

 INTRO: The war of words between Chief Mbazulike Amechi, a First Republic Aviation Minister, and Dr. Jim Nwobodo, a Second Republic Governor of the Old Anambra State, reached a crescendo with Dr. Nwobodo telling Chief Amechi to keep quiet and respect his age. It all started when Chief Amechi criticized the Governors of the South East States as weak. Dr. Nwobodo, maybe because he was involved replied Chief Amechi in defence of the Governors saying that they were “agile”. In his reaction to Dr Nwobodo, Chief Amechi described Dr Nwobodo as inconsistent a politician and the origin of the problem between the North and the East in Nigeria, and Nwobodo told him to keep quiet and respect his age.

He explained his reason for telling Chief Amechi to keep quiet saying that he was not inconsistent but Chief Amechi was instead, because as a politician, he achieved more than Chief Amechi whom he said was never elected and knows nothing about governance.

In his words, “Mbazulike Amaechi said he doesn’t take me serious, and I was his elected governor for four years. He came to see me as his governor on several occasions for one favor or the other and when he looks around his town, he will see my legacies in Ukpor, yet he doesn’t take me serious? Something must have gone astray. I don’t believe he is the same person saying this.

“He had neither contested nor won an election before in his life, not even councillorship. He has not governed before in his life and don’t even know what governance is, so he should please keep quiet and hold his peace. He is talking about inconsistency; it is him who is inconsistent.

“On one hand he wants an alliance with the north and on other hand he wants the governors to fight the north and the Inspector General of Police, in order not to be seen as weak. Is that how the presidency of Igbo extraction would be achieved? Yet, Mbazuluike wants to be taken seriously?

“He wants an alliance with the north, to the exclusion of other parts of Nigeria, the south west, south-south and the middle belt. When I talked about a president from the south-east, I meant a Nigerian president from the south east and not a south eastern president, in alliance with the north only. The president must be in alliance with the north east, north-west, north central, south west, south-south and south east.

“Mbazuluike said I was inconsistent because I brought Awolowo to re-unite with Zik in my House. Is Awolowo not one of the foremost Nigerian leaders? A highly respected leader, who governed the old western region, with legacies that contributed to what south west is today. Now Mbazulike Amaechi, is already dividing Nigeria by talking about Zik and Bello alone, forgetting that the leaders then were, Zik, Bello and Awolowo. This view is his alone and does not represent the views of the Igbo.

“Mbazulike seem to be ignorant of what happened in the second republic. I never contested for governorship nomination with Chief C. C. Onoh in NPN; it was Dr. Alex Ekwueme and Dr. Chuba Okadigbo who contested for governorship of old Anambra state with Onoh in NPN, and Onoh won.

“Chief Onoh contested the Larger Enugu Local Government election with my elder brother, John Nwobodo, under non-party basis, and my brother won.

“Mbazulike has never governed before; he does not understand what governance means, so he is not qualified to speak on governance. He is ignorant of how parties were formed, so he does not understand what happened and I can forgive him. He was meddling with Club 19 that was supposed to metamorphose into NPP.

“He could not achieve it and could not fund the party, until T O S Benson and Chief M.T Mbu invited me to take over the Club 19, I funded it with my personal resources and build it up into a political party; and that was how NPP was formed.

“He is now calling for a meeting of both APC and PDP leaders from the south east in his home town at Ukpor, where he would sit down in his bedroom and select an Igbo president for Nigerians. I don’t know how many Nigerian presidents were selected in one man’s bedroom; this is what he is working on. And this is the man who wants to be taken seriously.

“APC and PDP do not belong to the Igbo alone and are not the only parties in Nigeria. He claims he is going to start making contacts to achieve Igbo presidency, was that how Presidents Obasonjo, Ya’radua, Jonathan and Buhari became presidents? Yet he wants to be taken serious.

“I have respect for age, but Mbazuluike should please speak like an elder. I would not talk about this issue anymore and would not want to join issues with him. I have made my points and they are verifiable.”

All I can see here are just a jumbo mumbo of words that do not help the people of the Igbo land and Nigeria in general. The elderly should be better mending a lot of mess they made in the past in the country instead trading words like market women. It is completely out of the plan of the Almighty for Nigeria. The young are no longer happy.

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