Icheoku makes bold to say that Okwesilieze Nwodo was used and dumped by President Goodluck Jonathan to reinterpret the word "zoning" to read "the presidency was zoned to the north but anyone can also run;" thus reversing a long standing PDP internal policy on distribution of elective offices.
This was the sole reason Vincent Ogbulafor was shoved out as party chairman because he would not play ball accordingly and refused to ascribe to such a condescending and humiliating equivocation which Nwodo has no scruples with. Nwodo bent and twisted every PDP structures, dissolved standing states party executives and ordered inexplicable re-organisations in an election year period; forcing governors who were sitting on the fence hitherto to comply with his marching orders to ensure victory for President Jonathan at the just concluded PDP presidential primaries. Mission accomplished, Jonathan is now the PDP's presidential nominee for 2011 election and like all prostitutes, Nwodo's services were no longer needed so he became expendable? Suddenly "the litigations and sins" of Nwodo became too worrisome and too visible that they now constitute a clog and distraction to the president, such that Nwodo has to go to make way? Icheoku says this is notwithstanding the fact that these allegations were in the public domain and publicly in existence prior to Nwodo's ascendancy to the seat of party chairman with President Jonathan's approval? There was even a court proceeding pending against Nwodo, but which Jonathan deliberately ignored; and accepted Nwodo as chairman of his party, the PDP. Nwodo's assignment, the concession for making him the party chairman, was to midwife a President Jonathan's victory in the primaries and boy did he deliver!
Icheoku however blames the ousted party chairman for overreaching himself by antagonizing his base, the South East PDP especially Governor Sullivan Chime of Enugu State; who personally engineered his ascendancy to the office of the party chairman. Also Nwodo conveniently forgot that he too was an illegal returnee to the party when he sat in judgment over his fellow returnee in illegitimacy, Abubakar Atiku's effort at securing a waiver and granted him a waiver, not minding what the party honchos would rather have him do; and he was never forgiven. Anyway, good riddance! However, Icheoku will remind President Jonathan to beware of the implication of having both northerners as the party chairman and vice president. It may be a political time-bomb waiting to go off and he too might fall victim to some northern political machination and manipulation; himself being equally schemed out of power. Also the entire South-East has nothing left now in President Jonathan's Nigeria political power structure - the north now has both the vice president, the party chairman (whether acting or not) as well as the senate president; the West has the Speaker of the House while the South-South has the presidency and the South-East Igbo has nothing. So long for a country that prides itself as united; yet no Igbo person is occupying any political position of relevance in President Jonathan's Nigeria? Shameful.
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Christy 'Apena' Essien-Igbokwe , the wife of Jegede Shokoya of the New Masquerade and Nigeria's lady of songs is dead; she was 51years old. Although her family claimed that "brief Illness" killed her like so many Nigerians; Icheoku retorts that it was most likely AKwa Ibom voodoo and remote control that was used to arrest her. It is on record that she had fallen out with the governor of her native Akwa Ibiom State and have been having a relentless war for political turf with the governor? So who knows whether she was sacrificed to Ekpe cult or even Alusi-Okija as an offal; afterall African science is still very much alive and portent. May her soul rest in peace.
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