Ikedi Ohakim vs Sir Victor Umeh - It’s Over!

May 22, 2008 by User ImageOCI 

When the Governor of Imo State, Ikedi Ohakim declared in his recent Aka Ikenga lecture at NIIA, Lagos that ‘It’s over’ he was not un-mindful of elements like Sir victor Umeh.

In his lecture as reported by Ochorome Nnanna in the Vanguard he opines that some people within Ndigbo are acclaimed ’marginalisation cryers’ who have perpertually refused to see that the war was over decades ago; he observed thus

They have not accepted us back after the war. The war is still going on in their minds; it’s only the shooting that stopped. They are cheating us. They are killing us. They have enslaved us. We are marginalised. They have given us inferior ministries. They are doing this to us. They are doing that to us. 

I have no doubts, it is the likes of Sir Umeh that have not yet realised that ‘it is over’; Umeh’s purported reaction in today’s Vanguard leaves a lot to be desired. As much as one allows oppostion to his/her views, one does not just oppose for the sake of doing it , in other to be heard. Umeh still re-echoes the same old lines that Ohakim had earlier outlined. Sir Umeh, get it, it’s over! Just like Ohakim said;

It’s their fault. Fingers were pointed into the air, at them. But as it happens, when you point one finger at others, three are pointing back at you, telling you to search yourself first and be sure whether the fault is not really yours. Look at the mirror first. Are you sure the main problem is not that person who is staring back at you?

How many fingers are pointing at you? How much have you been searching yourself lately? Probably, you do not have a mirror to examine yourself.

The time has come and indeed, it’s time we start listening to the likes of Ohakim and other liberated Ndigbo sons/daughters out there so that we all can help deliver Igbo land from the defeatist physic that have beleaguered it since the war ended. We have what it takes to get ourselves out of this doldrums. We need to look inwards and rid ourselves of the marginalisation mentality as preached by our jobbers and buccaneers ( Ori na Crisis people ) representatives. They have not helped our cause and quest in the past nor present and the future holds nothing for them in Igbo affairs.

Let us rise above the defeatist mentality and invoke the Igbo unsuppressible spirit of enterprise and self preservation, with which we shall overcome and together we will establish the Igbo nation of our dreams. 

You may not agree with the messenger in Ohakim, but let us listen to him. He has got a lot to say. ( Okpu okwu n’onu! )

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