A political group, Ohafia Progressive Assembly has critized what it described as unhealthy development where politicians who now engage in character assassination of their perceived rivary in quest to actualizing their political ambition.
The Assembly in a release made available to journalists Tuesday in Umuahia and jointly signed by
Chief Sunday Igwe Onwuka, President and Hon. Ndukwe Uche Kalu, Secretary observed that ahead of 2023, some politicians in the State whose eyes are on the governorship position now engage in character assassination.
The group alleged that some politicians now use the Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) as their tool to undo others while it pointed accusing fingers at one of their sons who was a former Attorney General and Commissioner of Justice of the State under former Governor Theodore Orji whom they said is working against some politicians who are still relevant in today’s Political system.
“These political opportunists are the very reason certain properties today belonging to private citizens are distrained by the EFCC on alleged grounds of corruption, these persons now go about their interest in an inimical way writing and churning out volumes of reports against other political office holders because they have become the rejects of the system and are spent.
The release advised Abians to be wary of such “dubious, malicious, self-seeking and egocentric persons whose only interest is what will profit them – both in the short and long run – and their families alone.
“They are the players of “dog eat dog politics”, their trademark, which unfortunately is not a working ideology in God’s own state.
“Ohafia people are peace loving who believe so firmly in integrity, uprightness and trust. It is not in them to bite the finger that fed them. Sadly enough, 2023 political permutation unfolding before our eyes and under our nose has further revealed that these moles want to remove others not by the ballot but by barrel of gun, even through heightened arm twist. They now, for this petti ambition, turn against the same persons to whom their political elevation and ascent owe much. Sad.
“If truly Senator Theodore Ahamefula Orji was corrupt as they claim, which is not true, why did they not, out of integrity, reject the positions they hitherto held in the state and with which they did nothing for their own people, Ohafia included? Why did they have to wait until after 6 years or so when they have expended their appointed tenure to suddenly, in a volte face, allege corruption on their former principals with whom they served? If anyone should be arrested and prosecuted for corruption, it is their likes because they are not without complicity in the crime which they claim happened, if ever such crimes as alleged ever happened”.
“We advise those seeking to fell others to do so using the only legitimate means – election. This is no military regime and as such is not open to coup, so worthy course is for these persons to go try their popularity at the polls than resort to cheap blackmail and while at it, we wish them luck but resolute in only what is good”.
