By Charly Onah

I stand to be corrected, one of the greatest undoing of social media evolution in Nigeria is that today every Tom, Dick and Harry is an expert, critic, analyst, public affairs commentator of everything and anything on earth.

Even stark illiterates that can barely write good English or their local dialects are on social media platforms pontificating on issues they lack knowledge or experience about. Individuals with questionable character and track-records, who can hardly manage anything under their watch are all over social media platforms ranting about government and governance in the name of criticism.

They are jack of all trades and masters of none. They cannot differentiate between armchair, malicious criticism and constructive criticism, even-though they have always claimed to know. They are always abusive of freedom of speech, latching on unregulated social media platforms to ply their trades.

Gullible and mischievous people have remained their greatest victims. They help them to recycle and circulate their falsehoods on social media platforms without fact-checking.

Among their victims are the most educated, illiterates, political jobbers, social media urchins and e-rats, who have out of laziness, political reasons, malice, selective and hypocritical amnesia swallowed hook, line and sinker falsehoods being peddled on social media by the likes of one Ovoko, Igbo Eze South LGA, Enugu State born sacked personnel, Celestine Okanya, whose rating in his village is to say the least encouraging.

Okanya was once a military officer of Nigerian Army Corps, but was unceremoniously eased out of service for engaging in illicit activities, insurbordination and unprofessional activism before 2015 general elections.

After his ouster from the Army as a young man, he became frustrated because what he fraudulently cornered while in service couldn't sustain his ostentatious life.

In 2015, he alongside some people hurriedly went and registered a non- governmental organisation known as Nigerian National Accreditation Service with Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) and made himself the Chief Executive Officer.

From there, Okanya quickly wangled his way and made himself President of ECOWAS Regional Accreditation System. Even with all these, which is more of a General without troops, Okanya is still living from hand to mouth in Abuja. He has been struggling to make both ends meet. He repeatedly lobbied Gov. Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi for appointment to no avail.

Okanya's organisation is not being patronised, because, apart from not putting it and its activities in the frontburner, no organisation or individual knows much about it and those behind it. Besides, Nigerians have since developed cold feet against Nigeria non-governmental organisations.

In his usual belligerence, Okanya angrily contested the PDP primary of Igbo Eze South State Constituency and lost woefully in 2019. Since then, Okanya has been bitter with Gov. Ugwuanyi for having not offered him appointment since 2015 and not supporting his political ambition in 2019.

Since then, Okanya has taken on social media platforms on daily basis to blackmail Gov. Ugwuanyi's government with fabricated lies laced with malice and bitterness.

Going through his facebook timeline and other social media accounts, no day passes without Okanya writing imaginary and negative write-ups against Ugwuanyi and his government in the name of criticism. To him, it is a routine. He sees nothing good about the government.

Reading through his malicious, petty, conjured and concocted write-ups, one will begin to wonder if Okanya has any other job, apart from maligning and impugning Gov. Ugwuanyi's impeccable character and his giant strides in office on social media platforms for selfish reasons. Even perceived opposition in the state is not engaging in such wild goose chase against Ugwuanyi's government in the name of strictures.

On daily basis, if Okanya is not attacking Ugwuanyi, his government or insulting the sensibilities of the good people of Enugu on social media, he is bragging about his truncated career in Army and how comfortable he is. One may ask, comfortable doing what when Okanya hardly markets or writes about his non-governmental organisation, its exploits and activities on social media platforms.

Since 2015, Okanya registered the NGO till date, not many Nigerians know about it and its activities. Many people don't even know what they are accrediting or want to accredit for companies or people.

This is because Okanya has completely abandoned the promotion of his obscure NGO on social media platforms to make a living no matter how small, to constantly attack Gov. Ugwuanyi.

What a misplaced priority by a frustrated, demented and confused man. So annoying is Okanya's display of sheer ignorance, lack of tact and poor writing skills on social media platforms, even, when he claimed to have earned an unverified Doctorate Degree.

What Okanya and his sponsors failed to realise is that governance is a serious business, that is and cannot be conducted on social media platforms. It goes beyond social media rantings and pontification by all and sundry as being done by Okanya regularly against the Government since 2019.

If Okanya is truly educated and has a Doctorate Degree as he claimed, he cannot be reasoning through the anus or being puerile in his armchair criticisms against the government on his social media accounts and pages without facts and figures. It is clear that Okanya by his actions must have been suffering from frustration complex.

Yes Okanya may have known the Governor when he was in the House of Representatives, just like most Nsukka people living in Abuja. That does not mean that he must appoint him into his government or support his political ambition in 2019. Okanya and his cohorts such from Nsukka should have known that the governor is not expected to appoint everybody into his government, not even every Nsukka person.

Ugwuanyi's government is not an Nsukka government nor government of Nsukka people. It is the government of Enugu State. How can a governor appoint every person into his government? Is government and governance all about appointments only? The likes of Okanya will be among the first to condemn such action if Ugwuanyi tries it?

Meanwhile, if Okanya is comfortable as he claimed on social media, why not concentrate and consolidate in his job and leave Ugwuanyi and Enugu people alone? Enugu people cannot all be foolish. They are happy with Ugwuanyi's delivery of good governance and peaceful environment. No government including that of Ugwuanyi is averse to constructive criticism, but armchair and malicious criticism typical of Okanya and cohorts is a virus that does no one any good.

Ugwuanyi is a leader with a lof of difference. He is humane and humble. He knows how to hunt for talents that can add value to his government. He is not emotional or sentimental about it. Just take a look at the number and quality of appointments he has made since 2015 and the values they have added and still adding in his government.

The likes of Okanya cannot fit into Ugwuanyi's government because he lacks manners and substance. This is the same reason he was ousted from the Nigerian Military prematurely.

If Okanya feels that he has something good or better to offer in government, he can seek for appointment in his darling All Progressives Congress (APC ) led- government at centre or
be getting ready to test his popularity again in 2023 elections in the state.

Okanya should know that he cannot achieve this by dissipating energies on social media platforms displaying incompetence and bitterness in the name of criticising Ugwuanyi's government.

Ugwuanyi is bigger and better than Okanya, his sponsors and cohorts in Abuja. Every politics is local and grassroot-oriented. The likes of Okanya are visiting indigenes with no political value or humanitarian impact in their communities. They are mere social media tigers with no political base or stronghold.

The people of Nsukka and Enugu in general have grown past Okanya and his allies' distractions and antics. They know that their governor, Ugwuanyi is a workaholic and performing leader, who has always put their interests above any other interest.

That is why they have been highly supportive of him and his government, and overwhelmingly reelected him with 95.5 per cent votes in 2019. What a people's referendum or verdict on their caring and passionate governor.

Gburugburu is a brand in politics and a movement in leadership. Every person is eager to emulate and identify with him, except of course the mindless traducers.

He is very unassuming and accomodating. It is time Okanya, his sponsors and cohorts should stop dissipating energies and wasting their time in trying to pull Ugwuanyi's government down. It is not possible, because it is the government of the people. It is not government of the cabal or few.

It is the government of all Enugu people that are enjoying sense of belonging and equitable distribution of developmental projects and appointments like never before. What else is government and governance all about, if not about the people and their wellbeing.

Charly Onah, wrote from Opi, Nsukka and could be reached on Udehnwamma@yahoo.com

This shade plenty ooo. He even attacked his credentials and made the guy as unfit to be tagged educated.

The only thing I love in this write up which applies to all is that the government cannot adopt everyone they know into their cabinet and the earlier we all understand this, the better.