APGA Crisis: Okorie Calls for Probe of INEC Officials

 Mike Udah



In some recent newspapers and specifically on page 10 of the DAILY INDEPENDENT of September 29, 2010, there appeared a news story entitled APGA Crisis: Okorie Calls for probe of INEC officials.



According to the story, Chekwas Okorie has called on the Chairman of INEC, Prof. Attahiru Jegto immediately investigate shady deals perpetrated under the cover of the Commission by some of its top executive.  It goes further to say that he has also accused Governor Peter Obi of offering bribes to some officials of INEC for which reason justice was being thwarted in the ensuing legal tussle over the authentic leadership of the party between the incumbent National Chairman, Victor Umeh and the suspended Chairman, Chekwas Okorie.



It is bewildering that since the past several years, Chekwas Okorie has been wasting his time, churning out allegations, innuendos, invectives and all manner of falsehood against Governor Peter Obi and other chieftains of APGA without luck.



Is it not instructive that this character has not won a single case out of the countless litigations he has instituted against Governor Obi and others?  Is this Chekwas not the same person who had announced to the world his endorsement of Governor Peter Obi as the APGA candidate for the 2010 Gubernatorial Election in Anambra State only for him to turn round to sing a different tune?  How can someone who talks from two sides of his mouth be taken seriously?



The truth of the matter is that, having lost out because of his inadequacies, Okorie is full of regret regret that he has become irrelevant; regret that he has become a lone ranger, regret that he has fallen from grace to grass, etc.  Psychologically disturbed, he occasionally jumps out of his cocoon of ignominy, to make uncomplimentary, nay absurd remarks about those who cast him overboard when they discovered his follies.  Such remarks are usually made each time elections draw close because these are times when he extremely feels the pain of isolation, the agony of abandonment and the ostracism which are now his lot.



The public is advised to regard his utterances as those of a frustrated fello one who suffers from a self-inflicted injury, a rabble-rouser and someone who seeks relevance which had unfortunately eluded him since Noah was a sailor.