Okey Ndibe versus the Clique of Renegades 

By Emmanuel Franklyne Ogbunwezeh 

Nigerian politics is a diseased theatre of indentured roguery. Its manifestations today is consequent on the sins of Obasanjo, who spent 8 years in office siring inglorious bastards and hirelings whose vocation is the nourishment of their avarice over and above the peace, progress and development of the Nigerian nation. Nowhere is this plague more manifest like it is in Oyo and Anambra States respectively. These two states represent a stinking morass of political decadence, where thugs are approved and empowered by public timidity and party criminality, to wreck havoc on our institutions; defying and defaming our laws; not only by their audacious impunity, but equally by their outrageous criminality. A geriatric debauchee, Lamidi Adedibu, who prides his inglorious self as the “garrison commander” of Ibadan politics, is an eminent knave, whose stock in trade is “amala politics”, which summarizes an engineered Hobbessian state of nature, where the powerful are armed and fitted to celebrate the impunity of their caprice, in utter disregard of the commonweal, or the institutions of social legitimacy.  

Adedibu’s claws extends to all the rotten pies stretching from the Oyo State government house, seat at Agodi, to the furthest reaches of Aso rock; the presidential power base in Abuja. This explains why Adedibu is not only a cow in china shop as regards Oyo State, but a sacred cow at that, which is above the law, and never misses any opportunity of intimating whoever cares to listen that he is “untouchable”. His stock in trade is bribery, intimidation of opponents, extortion and blackmail, thuggery and advertisement of ruthless cunning and violence. This old man worships a god that is his avarice. The future of generations yet unborn are gobbled up with the mounds of “amala”, the sleazy and lousy porridge he distributes to his army of thugs, and hangers on, who do his dirty jobs for a fee. That ancient fools like this man is still breathing free air is thanks to the fact that all those pretending to lead Nigeria are themselves products of the same indentured roguery that has been the bane of Nigeria since independence. Who will bell the cat? Only when the people rise in anger to overthrow these prominent idiots, will Nigeria position itself on the path to development. The sins of Adedibu are many and seriously treasonable. This guy in collusion with INEC officials stole INEC Direct Data Capture Machines, in the build up to the 2007 elections, with the aim of rigging his anointed puppet into office. INEC neither investigated the claims nor prosecuted Adedibu for that infraction of electoral laws. Akala was the recipient of that heist on Oyo State. Not to be outdone in impunity, Adedibu has been sending his thugs to harass NAFDAC officials and prevent them from doing their duty of ridding Nigeria of fake drugs, foods and other pharmaceutical products. This may be because, he has some huge interest in this lucrative trade of death, where ordinary Nigerians unsuspectingly buy their death certificates, while buying drugs that were faked, imported and distributed in Nigeria through the active collusion of inglorious idiots like Adedibu.  I cannot understand that some hunger-stricken Nigerians prostrate before this fool, to get crumbs from his table. This monster was a creature of the Nigerian social clime, which canonizes unmerited privilege, while merit suffers. This explains why mediocrity plagues every dimensions of our national life.  

That is Oyo State. It is just an introductory aside to the assignment we have in hand, of reviewing the battle between a writer and a crook; Okey Ndibe versus Andy Ubah; and the fallouts of that war between the excellent integrity of convictions versus the timid impunity of roguery.  

Anambra State represents a comic circus for the mockery of decency in politics. It provides the theatre for the diseased justification of monumental corruption and its purveyors.  Just like in Oyo State, Obasanjo sired a clique of renegades, who believe that the State treasury is their birthright. Nigerians are by now apprised of what happened to an obdurate Ngige; who refused to hand over Anambra’s State treasury to the Ubah empire. He was kidnapped, slapped around, humiliated and eventually forced to hand over the mandate that the Ubah’s stole and clad him with. Ngige’s intransigence tore the curtains that covered our unconcern, giving all Nigerians a front row seat and a hirtherto inaccessible view into the crooked nature of the Ubah empire; and their strategic goals for Anambra State. Achebe, the Anambra born social prophet saw it and wrote out his concerns in a legendary letter to the August emperor Obasanjo. The letter was scathing. And like all prophesies, it essayed to expose the hypocrites as well as the patriots, consequent on the side one took on the issues raised by this illustrious son of Africa. What the sage Achebe saw sitting down, the idiots in power could never see even if they climb the tallest iroko.  

Today, Achebe’s apprehensions have been fully justified. The Ubah’s are not giving up. They want Anambra State for their sport and despoliation, at all costs. Not to develop it, because they have no agenda to that effect, but to plunder it like they have been doing since 2003. And anyone that stands on the way to the realisation of that dream; be he a Peter Obi, mandated by the people of Anambra State to rule them; or an Okey Ndibe, the Socratic gadfly from Anambra, are all to be cut down with unemotional economy, by the mighty armada of stolen wealth, that the Ubah’s consult and advertise.  

But surprise awaits the evil empire. Evil will never triumph over the forces of good. History has proven this fact over and over again. In the battle between good and evil, God does not reside with the heaviest battalion as Josef Stalin would love to have it, but on the side of innocence. This is why a David armed with a single stone and crude catapult will always floor a Goliath clad with all the armour, might, and arrogance of empire. This explains why Dora Akunyili will triumph in the end over the wicked opportunisms of Adedibu in the fight against fake drugs. This is why Ndibe will be the waterloo of the Ubahs and their campfollowers. The impunity of the Ubah Empire, just like Napoleon, will meet its Nelson in Ndibe. The battle line is drawn. Evil has all the money and equipment to recruit and conscript moral featherweights like Ikenna Ellis Ezenekwe, Jerome Azubuko or Okey Nwosu to its side. But the army of goodness would not be more than the insignificant 300 led by the Old Testamentary Gideon into battle. This inheres in the fact that no amount of equipment can arm evil unto victory. Justice will never allow that. Evil's triumph is only a short term enterprise. Nature allows this so that all the closet mercenaries of evil will out themselves, only to be destroyed when they must have all shown their faces for whom they are. The short term ostentation of Ubah's impunity has attracted men and women who are ready to sell their souls at the drop of a hat. They are showing us who they are. Their faces are seeing the day. On the day of reckoning, their support of evil will be their recompense. Their names will be written in ignominy whenever  our stories are told. I wonder where the former “almighty Abacha” is with his name. His name today summarizes all that is vile in our clime. He represent arrant knavery. All those that peddled his broken personality are today footnotes to the evil he purveyed. Where is Daniel Kanu? The debauched youth that earnestly asked for Abacha; and told Nigerians that he would make our land ungovernable if Abacha is not ridden roughshod to self perpetuation. He is now a shadow; a vulture that cannot show his face in any assembly of good people. His name represents treachery and betrayal to conscience. This is would be the lot of all traitors of conscience that are now gunning for Ubah and his sleazy loot.  

Okey Ndibe is a writer. Napoleon Bonaparte had people of his ilk in mind when he uttered his ageless words that “the pen is mightier than the sword”. He is not only a writer of excellence, he writes out his convictions in ways that make the ink walk on paper. This great arsenal of convinced integrity inflicts fear and loathing on all, whose vocation is falsehood and roguery. This is why all customers and patrons of cant see him as a mortal enemy, while those who know the truth rightly see him as a true son of his father, whose conscience is not cheap casino for the gambling pleasures of debauched privilege.  

Ndibe has with nothing more than words printed on paper, been battling the armada of consolidated thievery represented by Andy Ubah and the clique of Anambra renegades. And this one-man riot squad has been able to inflict fear on liars and those robber barons and their goons, who have held Anambra State to a ransom for a long while. Okey has been battling this vanguard of scoundrels, whose criminal rascality configured Anambra State into a theatre of absurdity. Okey has succeeded in creating subsisting insomnia in the camp of the Ubah’s. He has become their greatest headache. Okey is like a boil on Andy Ubah’s scrotum. He cannot be removed from where he rightly lodges. And he is a serious pain in the ass. Removing him is impossible because he is outside the confines of the crook’s deadly influence, where he could just commission a hit-squad to settle or find a final solution to the “Ndibe Question”. And bribing him into silence is impossible, because his convictions and integrity is beyond dollars. He is not on the market. He cannot be bought or sold. He is his own man, who speaks his own convictions, not minding whose ox is gored in the process.  

The debaucheries of the Ubahs’ have been threatening to torpedo the dreams of Anambra State; a home of illustrious Igbo sons.  This irascible clique of renegades was sired by Obasanjo’s criminality. Obasanjo true to type spent 8 years in power doing what all indentured rogues do when they corner power; namely robbing the people blind in an orgy of primitive avariciousness, and siring a bevy of hirelings, inveterate rogues and unvarnished scoundrels, who hang on to their privileged acquaintance with unmerited privilege to convoke abominations across our land. The man Obasanjo just like Babangida before him, caused a college of crooks to sprout out of the decadence of his own personal lack of character. 

But like all fools in the corridors of power, Andy Ubah has proven not only to be an ethically challenged midget, who dreams of imperial glories, but an eminent fool, who thinks that stolen money could buy him the  justice, which his character mocks at every opportunity. He is equally so very foolish to think that all men are as ethically challenged as he is. Not until Okey Ndibe rejected his pecuniary advances, did he realise that there are men in every clime, whose name and integrity remains what it is. Achebe defined integrity as the blunt refusal to be compromised. And Ndibe has dared the fool with loot, to go do his worst as he is not on the market. He cannot be purchased. That explains why pirates and intellectual dwarfs like Ikenna Ezenekwe of all failed internet websites, as well as Azubuko Jerome or their other brothers, have been essaying to tarnish the image of a man who believes in the truth.  
 

Andy Ubah wants to rule Anambra State at all costs, not because he loves Anambra State or because he has anything to offer Anambra State, outside looting it for his greed. He wants to rule Anambra State because he is  an eminent rogue. 

Okey Ndibe asked the Ubah empire to submit evidence that the impostor who appends a Ph.D to his name, earned that title. He asked Ubah and the conglomeration of touts that are parasitically attached to his loot, to show evidence that the money Ubah sits atop was earned, and not stolen. Ndibe dared these guys. He told them that he was ready to offer a public apology to Ubah and withdraw all that he has written against him, when he shows the pieces of evidence requested of him. Ndibe would not have had a locus standi to ask these posers, if Ubah chose to become a private citizen, peddling his rumour within the closed circles inhabited by himself and his  clowns. But since he aspired to public office, his character upon which this  aspiration is predicated, is sport for our consideration. But since this man and his thugs lack evidence and character, they have been involved in muckracking, thinking that if you rack up enough dirt that it can cover the truth. This is where their foolery reached its apogee. Nigerians know better.  

There are divides to Ndibe's position. There are those who are asking him to back off and go write fiction. But the unfortunate thing is that this camp is populated by men who are morally challenged; men who would prefer to see no evil and hear no evil, even when evil is consuming their heritage.  They are those configured by moral deficit to make themselves dogs for the sake of rickety bones. Some others contend that Andy is not the only thief. That all over Nigeria are thieves of Ubah's ilk. To that end, they ask Okey to go after those thieves as if to say Okey is the Nigerian police or the EFCC. Okey has a stake in Anambra State and Nigeria. His stand on Nigerian issues are public knowlege. He has never spared any public thief that crossed his crosshairs. But Anambra requires a chemotherapy; the kind that Okey Ndibe is generously availing her. Thieves should never be allowed to hijack the sources of our social legitimacy. That is Ndibe's battle. And this is a battle he will win, because truth, justice and goodness are on his side. 

All those purchased consciences and borrowed intelligences, who think that they can silence the voice of truth and reason represented by Okey Ndibe are dead wrong. Those who dare think about harming this voice of truth, will have their tongues sticking out of their mouths. Ndibe represents the millions of Nigerians who are daily taken for granted by the rogues that rule us. If Andy Ubah, Obasanjo, Etteh and their likes are not happy with the kind of message that Okey Ndibe and his likes are giving them free of charge, they should either go change their ways or rot in their insomnia and misery. 

Okey Nwanna, may your ink never run dry.