The Peoples Democratic Party has shown beyond the
slightest doubts that they are a really democratic Party,
whereby the desire of the majority is allowed to ride,
no matter how foolish or unfavourable such decisions
may look to certain interests within and even outside
the Party. For this, I say kudos to the leadership of the
Party, for they have really made me proud. I do not
regret my consistent support to the Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP) over the last few years. With
the transparent way these primaries have been
conducted across the Federation, I will not hesitate to
enjoin all true lovers of democracy to team up with the
PDP, for they hold the clearest hope yet, of leading
Nigeria to its dream destination.
I have got deluge of messages in my Facebook inbox
and phone lines from friends and foes alike. While
some of the messages are direct mockery for my belief
in the Ikedi Ohakim project, others were more polite,
while there were some from my friends in the Ihedioha
camp requesting me to return to the camp to help
push Ihedioha’s gubernatorial project forward, there
were others from some Ihedioha apologists telling me
to and die, because my permutation has been
defeated. I must not fail to inform you that my friends
from the BBIO have strongly advised me to queue up
with the PDP to ensure that Hon. Ihedioha is delivered
as Governor come 2015, my response to that remains
that if Ihedioha will be Governor of Imo State in 2015, it
will definitely be without any direct support from me. I
will support the Party’s programs and policies, but the
money induced choice of Ihedioha as the Party’s
candidate is wrong and will not become right
overnight. Let me make it very clear here, that Rt. Hon.
Emeka Ihedioah against my sincerest wishes and vivid
permutations came out tops in the best primary
election I have ever experienced since I became a
Nigerian. I was also proved wrong in my earlier belief
that the race was between Governor Ikedi Ohakim and
Hon. Emeka Ihedioha. Like I had always feared, Senator
Ifeanyi Ararume came out smoking, and got more than
one hundred votes better than Governor Ikedi Ohakim.
While some people from the Ararume camp insist that
there were some miscounting of votes, the final result
showed that the Deputy Speaker got ten clear votes
more than the former Senator from Isiebu. And I
encourage the Senator to follow in the footsteps of
Governor Ikedi Ohakim by immediately congratulating
the eventual winner of the contest. I do not think that
Barrister Nnamdi Anyaehie and his hardworking team
in the PDP State Working Committee deserve anything
other than gratitude for their efforts at ensuring that
the Party provided a fair playing ground for all
aspirants to contest.
Among the messages I got from my friends, the one
that most requires a response from me is: Why did
Ohakim lose? And I am going to try as fairly as possible
to provide an answer for that.
I do not have the slightest doubt that should these
delegates be left to freely decide on whom to vote for
without any form of intimidation and inducements,
Ikedi Ohakim would have emerged the clear winner.
While a good number of the aspirants were busy
dishing out millions to the delegates and Party leaders,
Governor Ikedi Ohakim went about with clear
messages of restoration, posterity for all, good
governance, equity, probity and Godly leadership.
While other aspirants saw the delegates as some
buyable commodities who could be swayed by money,
Governor Ohakim saw the delegates as fellow humans,
deserving of every respect necessary, he saw them as
responsible politicians and Party members who could
be interacted with and converted based on policies and
convictions. While the other aspirants were busy asking
the delegates how much they wanted, Ikedi Ohakim
was busy asking the delegates what they wanted done
right. Governor Ohakim was squarely interested in the
betterment of all and the State, but the other aspirants
were keen on personal development and securing
victory by every means possible.
You can accuse Ikedi Ohakim of any other thing, but
you have to give him credit for being one of the least
desperate of all the politicians we have got in this art of
the world. Ikedi Ohakim comes from a very Christian
background, hence, his absolute belief in God and
whatever plans He might have for humans. Ikedi like
President Goodluck Jonathan does not believe that his
political aspiration or that of any other person
deserves the smallest pint of blood to be spilt in
pursuing such ambitions. Governor Ikedi Ohakim is
one of the few politicians who let things go easily.
Whatever he cannot get on fair grounds, he lets go.
Other aspirants were ready and are still ready to
indulge in any form of dirty politicking and politricking
to ensure their emergence, hence, their usual refrains
of “Do or Die” and “Winning by all means”. To Ikedi, if
the majority of the people wish to give me victory, then
God has decided to give me victory, if they say no, God
has said no, and Ikedi does not believe in challenging
God’s wish. While Senator Godwin Ararume
immediately raised alarm about an alleged rigging or
miscounting of votes, Ikedi did not even wait an extra
minute to extend his congratulations to the winner,
and called all his supporters to join hands in moving
the Party forward and ensuring victory for the Party at
the general election. I wish we can have more of Ikedi’s
kind of politicians in our country and State, there will
be less bloodshed, less brigandage, less corruption
and less voodoo. Ohakim’s vision is to reform our
politics, reform the way we like to do things, that is why
his political organization is called the New Face
Organization. If our politicians have been winning by
exhibiting the most animalistic desperation, then,
Ohakim is not ready to win that way, he is ready to
sacrifice his personal victory for the victory of the
people, and the victory of sanity.
Another reason why Ikedi lost in the gubernatorial
primary election of the Party is his personal distaste
for anything fetish or cultic. It is alleged that some of
the aspirants, especially the frontrunners among them,
went ahead to administer oaths on the delegates,
forcing them to swear with the lives and talents of
themselves and their family members to vote for them
after collecting huge amount of monies from them. A
certain aspirant was alleged to have paid as much as
two million Naira to each delegate for vote, while
another was said to have paid as much as one million
Naira per delegate and a promise of some extra cash
after the result is announced. Ikedi is not such a wicked
man that he will want you to mortgage the future of
your generations on the altar of money. As a
responsible father who wishes his children and other
young people around him well in whatever positive
endeavour they are engaged in, he understands that it
will be unfair for him to swear away the future and
talents of other people’s children for any amount of
money. He also appreciates that the child whose future
and talents you may be swearing away today may be
the hope of Nigeria, tomorrow. Some of the other
aspirants do not care about such. Because he respects
the sanctity of human lives and the need to protect
human talents and the future of our generation, he
refused to administer dangerous oaths on our people,
he lost the primary election, but he won for our future,
he won the hearts of all good people.
Governor Ikedi Ohakim’s failure to clinch the PDP ticket
should also tell us one or two things about how corrupt
or not he is as a public servant. If there was any doubt
left about his zero tolerance to corruption, the
outcome of the primary election should bury all such
doubts. I can remember writing in one of my short
articles some days before the primary election that if
the battle eventually boils down to the highest spender,
then Ohakim will lose out. It eventually boiled down to
that. Once, when I reported that Ohakim told the PDP
delegates that they are each worth more than twenty
million Naira, if their sufferings and sacrifices to the
Party are to be considered in money terms, I was told
by one of my readers that if Ohakim believes that such
speeches will give him victory, then, he must be day
dreaming. I felt then that Ohakim’s speech should
attract the sincere support of the delegates, because
beyond being flattering, it was also very respectful. The
two hundred and thirteen votes he eventually garnered
came from such delegates, who appreciated his
sincerity and his respect for them as humans and Party
leaders. The two hundred and thirteen votes garnered
by Chief Ikedi Ohakim is also encouraging for our
democracy because it goes to show that there still
exists within our politics, conscientious individuals with
self esteem. Those who voted because they were paid
money and had oaths administered on them are not
better than dogs and other low animals that can be
bought from any local market and slaughtered for a
feast. Because he respects us, he respects the
delegates, he appreciates that no human is a so lowly
an animal that he or she will be bought with money,
hence, he lost.
Nigerian politicians are known to be ready to accede to
anything just for the sake of grabbing power. Some of
them commit to things they know they can never keep
to, others keep to the most slavish of commitments
just so that they may go by the titles and paraphernalia
of the offices they seek. We have had cases of some top
placed politicians being stripped naked before shrines
and other local deities, just so that they may affirm
their loyalty to godfathers and other interests. Ikedi
Ohakim is a man who cannot want to trade away his
personal freedom or the freedom of the people he
seeks to lead on the altar of any oath. He is that rare
breed of Nigerian politician who is ready to forfeit the
highest office in the world, instead of trading off his
personal freedom or writing off the future of the
people he seeks to lead.
There were credible reports of some demands made of
some top stakeholders in Imo politics from Governor
Ikedi Ohakim which he turned down without giving a
thought to it. A particular ‘monetician’ from my own
Ideato North was said to have sought to foist a running
mate on Chief Ikedi Ohakim as a condition for him to
sway the delegates from Ideato to vote for him. Ikedi
could have accepted this condition in desperation to
clinch the ticket and have his election fully sponsored
by this monetician, but he declined and preferred to
lose the ticket instead of having himself caged by
commitments he may not be ready to keep to. The
eventual winner of the primary election is alleged to
have immediately accepted such condition without
giving any thought to it. This made it possible for
Ideato delegates to cast their votes for him. Whether
he keeps to this commitment or he does not, he should
be sure of consequences for both himself and the Party
in general. I cannot imagine how a Governor expects to
function effectively when he has a Deputy Governor
breathing down his neck. You do not expect any loyalty
from a deputy governor who knows that his or her
presence on your ticket was a part of the conditions for
the election to have been sponsored by his or her
benefactor. Ikedi Ohakim is not ready to be a caged
Governor, he does not just want to be Governor, he
wants to be fully in charge. While Ikedi intended to
carry all leaders along as Governor, he did not need to
be encumbered by any commitment or godfather. For
the sake of Imo’s freedom, he accepted to be defeated.
He did not agree to trade off Imo’s freedom, hence, his
loss.
Ikedi Ohakim may have lost out in his bid to fly the flag
of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), in the
upcoming general election. But it is more of our lost
than his personal lost. The PDP in Imo State should
mourn his loss more than himself, because by this lost,
the Party has got more job to do in its now very
difficult bid to retake Imo Government House from the
Okorocha cabal. Ikedi Ohakim’s candidature would
have given the Party a smooth sail to Douglas House,
but an Emeka Ihedioha candidature requires extra
efforts from all Party members to sail. I will be writing
next on what Emeka Ihedioha’s candidature means for
the Imo PDP and Imo in general. Till then, KA IMO DI
MMA OZO!

Too long to read

Charlesdonald:
The Peoples Democratic Party has shown beyond the
slightest doubts that they are a really democratic Party,
whereby the desire of the majority is allowed to ride,
no matter how foolish or unfavourable such decisions
may look to certain interests within and even outside
the Party. For this, I say kudos to the leadership of the
Party, for they have really made me proud. I do not
regret my consistent support to the Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP) over the last few years. With
the transparent way these primaries have been
conducted across the Federation, I will not hesitate to
enjoin all true lovers of democracy to team up with the
PDP, for they hold the clearest hope yet, of leading
Nigeria to its dream destination.
I have got deluge of messages in my Facebook inbox
and phone lines from friends and foes alike. While
some of the messages are direct mockery for my belief
in the Ikedi Ohakim project, others were more polite,
while there were some from my friends in the Ihedioha
camp requesting me to return to the camp to help
push Ihedioha’s gubernatorial project forward, there
were others from some Ihedioha apologists telling me
to and die, because my permutation has been
defeated. I must not fail to inform you that my friends
from the BBIO have strongly advised me to queue up
with the PDP to ensure that Hon. Ihedioha is delivered
as Governor come 2015, my response to that remains
that if Ihedioha will be Governor of Imo State in 2015, it
will definitely be without any direct support from me. I
will support the Party’s programs and policies, but the
money induced choice of Ihedioha as the Party’s
candidate is wrong and will not become right
overnight. Let me make it very clear here, that Rt. Hon.
Emeka Ihedioah against my sincerest wishes and vivid
permutations came out tops in the best primary
election I have ever experienced since I became a
Nigerian. I was also proved wrong in my earlier belief
that the race was between Governor Ikedi Ohakim and
Hon. Emeka Ihedioha. Like I had always feared, Senator
Ifeanyi Ararume came out smoking, and got more than
one hundred votes better than Governor Ikedi Ohakim.
While some people from the Ararume camp insist that
there were some miscounting of votes, the final result
showed that the Deputy Speaker got ten clear votes
more than the former Senator from Isiebu. And I
encourage the Senator to follow in the footsteps of
Governor Ikedi Ohakim by immediately congratulating
the eventual winner of the contest. I do not think that
Barrister Nnamdi Anyaehie and his hardworking team
in the PDP State Working Committee deserve anything
other than gratitude for their efforts at ensuring that
the Party provided a fair playing ground for all
aspirants to contest.
Among the messages I got from my friends, the one
that most requires a response from me is: Why did
Ohakim lose? And I am going to try as fairly as possible
to provide an answer for that.
I do not have the slightest doubt that should these
delegates be left to freely decide on whom to vote for
without any form of intimidation and inducements,
Ikedi Ohakim would have emerged the clear winner.
While a good number of the aspirants were busy
dishing out millions to the delegates and Party leaders,
Governor Ikedi Ohakim went about with clear
messages of restoration, posterity for all, good
governance, equity, probity and Godly leadership.
While other aspirants saw the delegates as some
buyable commodities who could be swayed by money,
Governor Ohakim saw the delegates as fellow humans,
deserving of every respect necessary, he saw them as
responsible politicians and Party members who could
be interacted with and converted based on policies and
convictions. While the other aspirants were busy asking
the delegates how much they wanted, Ikedi Ohakim
was busy asking the delegates what they wanted done
right. Governor Ohakim was squarely interested in the
betterment of all and the State, but the other aspirants
were keen on personal development and securing
victory by every means possible.
You can accuse Ikedi Ohakim of any other thing, but
you have to give him credit for being one of the least
desperate of all the politicians we have got in this art of
the world. Ikedi Ohakim comes from a very Christian
background, hence, his absolute belief in God and
whatever plans He might have for humans. Ikedi like
President Goodluck Jonathan does not believe that his
political aspiration or that of any other person
deserves the smallest pint of blood to be spilt in
pursuing such ambitions. Governor Ikedi Ohakim is
one of the few politicians who let things go easily.
Whatever he cannot get on fair grounds, he lets go.
Other aspirants were ready and are still ready to
indulge in any form of dirty politicking and politricking
to ensure their emergence, hence, their usual refrains
of “Do or Die” and “Winning by all means”. To Ikedi, if
the majority of the people wish to give me victory, then
God has decided to give me victory, if they say no, God
has said no, and Ikedi does not believe in challenging
God’s wish. While Senator Godwin Ararume
immediately raised alarm about an alleged rigging or
miscounting of votes, Ikedi did not even wait an extra
minute to extend his congratulations to the winner,
and called all his supporters to join hands in moving
the Party forward and ensuring victory for the Party at
the general election. I wish we can have more of Ikedi’s
kind of politicians in our country and State, there will
be less bloodshed, less brigandage, less corruption
and less voodoo. Ohakim’s vision is to reform our
politics, reform the way we like to do things, that is why
his political organization is called the New Face
Organization. If our politicians have been winning by
exhibiting the most animalistic desperation, then,
Ohakim is not ready to win that way, he is ready to
sacrifice his personal victory for the victory of the
people, and the victory of sanity.
Another reason why Ikedi lost in the gubernatorial
primary election of the Party is his personal distaste
for anything fetish or cultic. It is alleged that some of
the aspirants, especially the frontrunners among them,
went ahead to administer oaths on the delegates,
forcing them to swear with the lives and talents of
themselves and their family members to vote for them
after collecting huge amount of monies from them. A
certain aspirant was alleged to have paid as much as
two million Naira to each delegate for vote, while
another was said to have paid as much as one million
Naira per delegate and a promise of some extra cash
after the result is announced. Ikedi is not such a wicked
man that he will want you to mortgage the future of
your generations on the altar of money. As a
responsible father who wishes his children and other
young people around him well in whatever positive
endeavour they are engaged in, he understands that it
will be unfair for him to swear away the future and
talents of other people’s children for any amount of
money. He also appreciates that the child whose future
and talents you may be swearing away today may be
the hope of Nigeria, tomorrow. Some of the other
aspirants do not care about such. Because he respects
the sanctity of human lives and the need to protect
human talents and the future of our generation, he
refused to administer dangerous oaths on our people,
he lost the primary election, but he won for our future,
he won the hearts of all good people.
Governor Ikedi Ohakim’s failure to clinch the PDP ticket
should also tell us one or two things about how corrupt
or not he is as a public servant. If there was any doubt
left about his zero tolerance to corruption, the
outcome of the primary election should bury all such
doubts. I can remember writing in one of my short
articles some days before the primary election that if
the battle eventually boils down to the highest spender,
then Ohakim will lose out. It eventually boiled down to
that. Once, when I reported that Ohakim told the PDP
delegates that they are each worth more than twenty
million Naira, if their sufferings and sacrifices to the
Party are to be considered in money terms, I was told
by one of my readers that if Ohakim believes that such
speeches will give him victory, then, he must be day
dreaming. I felt then that Ohakim’s speech should
attract the sincere support of the delegates, because
beyond being flattering, it was also very respectful. The
two hundred and thirteen votes he eventually garnered
came from such delegates, who appreciated his
sincerity and his respect for them as humans and Party
leaders. The two hundred and thirteen votes garnered
by Chief Ikedi Ohakim is also encouraging for our
democracy because it goes to show that there still
exists within our politics, conscientious individuals with
self esteem. Those who voted because they were paid
money and had oaths administered on them are not
better than dogs and other low animals that can be
bought from any local market and slaughtered for a
feast. Because he respects us, he respects the
delegates, he appreciates that no human is a so lowly
an animal that he or she will be bought with money,
hence, he lost.
Nigerian politicians are known to be ready to accede to
anything just for the sake of grabbing power. Some of
them commit to things they know they can never keep
to, others keep to the most slavish of commitments
just so that they may go by the titles and paraphernalia
of the offices they seek. We have had cases of some top
placed politicians being stripped naked before shrines
and other local deities, just so that they may affirm
their loyalty to godfathers and other interests. Ikedi
Ohakim is a man who cannot want to trade away his
personal freedom or the freedom of the people he
seeks to lead on the altar of any oath. He is that rare
breed of Nigerian politician who is ready to forfeit the
highest office in the world, instead of trading off his
personal freedom or writing off the future of the
people he seeks to lead.
There were credible reports of some demands made of
some top stakeholders in Imo politics from Governor
Ikedi Ohakim which he turned down without giving a
thought to it. A particular ‘monetician’ from my own
Ideato North was said to have sought to foist a running
mate on Chief Ikedi Ohakim as a condition for him to
sway the delegates from Ideato to vote for him. Ikedi
could have accepted this condition in desperation to
clinch the ticket and have his election fully sponsored
by this monetician, but he declined and preferred to
lose the ticket instead of having himself caged by
commitments he may not be ready to keep to. The
eventual winner of the primary election is alleged to
have immediately accepted such condition without
giving any thought to it. This made it possible for
Ideato delegates to cast their votes for him. Whether
he keeps to this commitment or he does not, he should
be sure of consequences for both himself and the Party
in general. I cannot imagine how a Governor expects to
function effectively when he has a Deputy Governor
breathing down his neck. You do not expect any loyalty
from a deputy governor who knows that his or her
presence on your ticket was a part of the conditions for
the election to have been sponsored by his or her
benefactor. Ikedi Ohakim is not ready to be a caged
Governor, he does not just want to be Governor, he
wants to be fully in charge. While Ikedi intended to
carry all leaders along as Governor, he did not need to
be encumbered by any commitment or godfather. For
the sake of Imo’s freedom, he accepted to be defeated.
He did not agree to trade off Imo’s freedom, hence, his
loss.
Ikedi Ohakim may have lost out in his bid to fly the flag
of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), in the
upcoming general election. But it is more of our lost
than his personal lost. The PDP in Imo State should
mourn his loss more than himself, because by this lost,
the Party has got more job to do in its now very
difficult bid to retake Imo Government House from the
Okorocha cabal. Ikedi Ohakim’s candidature would
have given the Party a smooth sail to Douglas House,
but an Emeka Ihedioha candidature requires extra
efforts from all Party members to sail. I will be writing
next on what Emeka Ihedioha’s candidature means for
the Imo PDP and Imo in general. Till then, KA IMO DI
MMA OZO!

It is welcoming to hear from you that you are going to promote the PDP policies Emeka Ihedioha not withstanding.

Bros, You are justifying your pay. Ohakim must be proud of you.
Jisike. I wish I can be this benevolent with psycophancy when I come under a politician's payroll.
You are doing your work, and you are doing it well indeed

Imo PDP and Things Fall Apart.
Senator Araraume Challenge Gubernatorial Result,
Goes to Court Over Irregularities. Results counted
more than total accredited Voters.
Aspirants Demand for Cancellation.
Consensus Option eminent.
PLEASE CHECK THE RESULT OF THE PDP GUBER
PRIMARY OF YESTERDAY. TOTAL VOTES CAST AS
CONTAINED IN THE BOXES IS 1017. TOTAL NUMBER OF
VOTES ANNOUNCED FOR ASPIRANTS IS 1021. VOID
VOTES IS 11. ADD THE 11 VOID VOTES TO THE 1021 FOR
ASPIRANTS YOU WILL GET 1032 VOTES . SO THE VOTE
WAS OVER BY 15 VOTES.
The process was rigged.

Charlesdonald:
Imo PDP and Things Fall Apart.
Senator Araraume Challenge Gubernatorial Result,
Goes to Court Over Irregularities. Results counted
more than total accredited Voters.
Aspirants Demand for Cancellation.
Consensus Option eminent.
PLEASE CHECK THE RESULT OF THE PDP GUBER
PRIMARY OF YESTERDAY. TOTAL VOTES CAST AS
CONTAINED IN THE BOXES IS 1017. TOTAL NUMBER OF
VOTES ANNOUNCED FOR ASPIRANTS IS 1021. VOID
VOTES IS 11. ADD THE 11 VOID VOTES TO THE 1021 FOR
ASPIRANTS YOU WILL GET 1032 VOTES . SO THE VOTE
WAS OVER BY 15 VOTES.
The process was rigged.

The process was rigged for who, against who?

PhockPhockMan:
The process was rigged for who, against who?

according to ararume he said he is the one who is been rigged