Ikechukwu: Which Owelle are you talking about? Which Rescue mission? There is no longer complains because the PDP has really come to rescue the people. Can’t you see it is PDP people especially those contesting that are giving out money to the people?
Amos: Is it the money they have stolen? They are now using it to buy the people’s conscience to vote for them. We will collect it and vote for Owelle in 2015
Ikechukwu: Are they the only ones stealing? If you say they stole money, at least the people are now benefiting from it. They are feeling the PDP touch. In your Owelle case, what are we benefiting? Is it the China roads and Taiwan projects scattered all over the State?
Amos: Oh! You admit there are projects scattered across the State. I thought you said we have not done anything.
Ikechukwu: What is the essence of these projects when they are of low quality and will not stand the test of time? Why waste money on substandard projects when they have no quality and cannot stand the test of time. Is it the flyovers that are built with hollow blocks. That is a death trap. Due Process is not being followed. Contracts are awarded without Due Process.
Amos: This PDP people, you can never see anything good in whatever Rochas does. Can’t you see the new roads in Owerri. Is the one leading from warehouse junction to Amakohia, what about the new International Convention Centre, the one at Akanchawa, New Owerri, And we have said it, we are not Due Process or Process Due, this things delay us and we are…
Ikechukwu: Please let me hear abeg. Stop allowing yourself to be deceived. Do those substandard projects put food on the table? Wont’ you eat and be alive to enjoy road projects. There is no money in the State. Are you not starving? Besides, what good has he done? This is a man that said his generations yet to come will no longer see poverty. How can he say that in a State where hunger is ravaging the people? You said you do not like Due Process, hmm,.., Do you know the implications?
Amos: When did he say that? You just do not like the man. What do you people want? Ohakim came here and planted only flowers and tress and left, and now we are seeing someone that is building projects yet you are complaining.
Ikechukwu: Why won’t we complain? The salaries of civil servants are deducted for no just cause. Some contractors have not been paid for jobs done, the free education is a hoax, and in addition to this you are giving money to school pupils which is wrong.
Amos: Who told you free education in Imo State is a hoax. You are not being fair to him with these barefaced lies. Are they paying school fees at IMSU. Are primary and secondary school pupils in Imo State paying tuition? What is your problem?
Ikechukwu: Stop deceiving yourself. How can you say tuition at IMSU is free when the school is charging acceptance fee for N70, 000. Tuition in IMSU was far less than this during the last administration. What is the moral justification to pay little kids going to school? Are they going to school to acquire knowledge or are you teaching them to lust for money at a tender age.
Amos: That is your problem, my friend. Look we have done so much. This is the first time a Governor is taking along with him Keke riders to a foreign country on a visit. Has that happened in Imo State before? Soon, investors will start coming to the State. Did you not see the Isreali farmers that came to the State to invest in the agricultural sector?
Ikechukwu: We cannot be fooled by all that. How sure are we they are Isreali farmers. I thought you guys now have a new way of attracting investors to the State. You told us that the reason the governor went with 175 people to Turkey was to woo investors to Imo State. So, why did they not go to Isreal, why invite them to come here.
Amos: Look, you better stop these non constructive criticisms. They are baseless. Leave the man alone. He is working and will continue to work. I know your problem; the genesis of these political brickbats is because he refused to share the State allocation on a monthly basis to PDP politicians.
Ikechukwu: Which allocation is there to share in the first place? The future of Imo State is gone. We have been sold to the banks through phoney loans. The next governor of the State will have to deal with a worse situation when he comes in. Look at you; despite his confession that there is too much money in the state you look scruffy now that you are serving him. Take a look at your shoe, the tin don bend for one corner, you were looking better then than now.
Amos: I am not interested in looting state funds to better my life. I m rendering service to the State. Public office is not for looters like you and your co travelers in the PDP. Stop dreaming, there is no vacancy in Government House in 2015. There will be no other governor except the one we have.
Ikechukwu: I thought he said he is going for the presidency. Is that area now a go area? Abi, una dey fear Jonathan? (Loud laughter). You said you are rendering service to the State that is why you are looking hungry. let me remind you public office holders do not look hungry and scruffy.
Amos: Leave me alone. I am not complaining. I like the way I am. we are on a rescue mission, rescuers make sacrifices. As for 2015, we are still consulting. This man is qualified to be American President. You know his vision is awesome. We are bidding our time, for me I want him to come for a second term as governor to continue the good work in the State.
Ikechukwu: keep on consulting. I wish you and him well. I also agree with you, let him contest for a second term so that we will defeat him at the polls.
Amos: Defeat who? ( Laughter) A man that sent an incumbent governor of a ruling party packing is it the man you going to defeat easily. You are dreaming. You better wake up.
Ikechukwu: We know what happened in the 2011 elections. It will not happen again. We are going to give you the Ekiti treatment. You saw what happened in Ekiti State that is what will happen here in Imo State even if a goat picks the PDP ticket we are coming back to the seat of power.
Amos: We shall see. You are relying on federal might, abi. But remember this man has the peoples might. In Ekiti, Fayemi was an elitist governor that disconnected his administration from the people. That is the sole reason why Fayose of the PDP who is a grassroot man won the election. Who is the grassroot man among you in Imo PDP that can wrestle for power with Owelle.
Ikechukwu: We shall see. When the time comes, you will see our candidate. Do you think we are going to bring an agbero as our candidate? Let me tell you, go and tell your rescue disciples that their boss has disconnected his administration from the people with all this make believe type of government he is running in Imo State.
Amos: He has not. Don’t you see the applause from the local people that trail his speeches and comments. Come to his events with people, you will see the glee and happiness they say our governor, our governor when Owelle says my people, my people.
Ikechukwu; You are fooled with that stunt. So, you do not know the response to his my people my people slogan has began to change. The other day some aggrieved Imolites made a caricature of that slogan. When he said my people, my people on radio, they responded with we are hungry, we are hungry. Things are beginning to change. Shine your eyes.
Amos: It is PDP people that made that caricature. No market woman, no keke rider will do such.
Ikechukwu: Look at the people you are mentioning. The low class people?
Amos: Those people are our strength. They are the ones that vote and wait for the votes to be counted, not those fat bellied bigmen in the PDP that want money to be brought to their houses and on election day they will not come out to vote. That is our edge over PDP.
Ikechukwu: This time it will not work. We have enlightened the people to see the deceit in this government.
Amos: Big grammar no dey work for poor man o!.
Ikechukwu; Let me tell you, the odds are against him. You mentioned keke people as those that will vote for him. What about Owerri indigenes whom he has forcefully taken their lands without compensation. What about beneficiaries of the 10,000 Jobs the PDP government of Ohakim gave to Imo youths which your Owelle cancelled. Is it the Local Government Chairmen and councilors whom he sacked from office despite the fact there is a court ruling reinstating them. Look, keke riders alone cannot decide who wins Imo governorship election. I can tell you there are different layers if aggrieved Imolites who are not happy with him.
Amos: Stop all these dirty propanganda. The man is working. These lands you are talking about are used to build infrastructure for the State. Those land have been bare for years, now that we are making good use of it for the betterment of the people you are complaining.
Ikechukwu: So in your village, you take peoples land without paying them?
Amos: We have paid for them.
Ikechukwu: You cannot fool me. If the lands were paid for, why is that on a weekly basis, Owerri people are on the streets protesting over their lands. Answer me.
(To be Continued)
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