By Prince Tony Okoroji
From comrade to renegade’, Prof Wole Soyinka’s The Man Died said, ‘there was no longer a question in mind that we had witnessed the mere prelude to a wider anarchic terror.’ The concept (and reality) of friendship has been reflected by many thinkers over the ages, and many came out like Soyinka with certain convictions on the awful nature of degeneration of amity. Like him also, Robert Bolt noted that it is easy to transit from amity to enmity, and as such it is an uphill task trying to discern who is or will be a true friend or comrade from the unset of any interhuman rapport. Not even the great theologian, St Augustine of Hippo or the contemporary writers on friendship, George Orwell, was able to trace the link between enmity and amity. This degeneration of friendship to friendship is always there even at the beginning of the human interaction. It is innate. This makes such questions as: Who are my true friends? How do I know my enemies? This thing, this game or deal we are embarking upon, is it friendship? How long would our friendship last? When does a friend ceases to be a friend?, etc., have no universal and stable responses.
The problematic with the modern conception of camaraderie is the association, the equation and tagging of every interhuman relationship as friendship. Certainly there are various types of human association: Companionship, solidarity, company, fellowship, colleagues, associations, gang, group, couples, gossips, etc. But these differ by their very originator instinct and intentions, aims and objectives, modes of operations, size and quality, nature and style of self-contracting, which make the realm of the interhuman a contractual foundation and an interest or target-bound human act. This sounds abstract but it is not. You bet?
Hardly one year after Chief Ikedi Ohakim’s temporal exit from the Douglas House, his (administrative) ghost, like that of the Shakespearean Hamlet’s father, which is a Natural Law agent, has entered amidst all human associations that falsely and unjustly alleged plots for his departure from the Douglas House. One of these associations was that that existed between the Agbasos and Okorochas cum Anwukas, (the AOs). The recent upsurge (stories, plots, silence, claims and denials) that led to the impeachment and removal of the former Deputy Governor, Sir Jude Agbaso, are outcomes of the roaming ghost’s activity for natural justice to take its own pound of flesh.
It may be true that Jude Agbaso was plotted (as the whole process of accusations, investigations and impeachment processes were hurriedly done like performance artists putting on life stage their rehearsed assigned roles). Yes it may be true! It may be true that the truth uncovered about the #458 Million scam as proven, is so. Yes it may be true! It may be true and possible that Sir Jude Agbaso may make it with EFCC and in the Tribunal, and also help we Imolites know how more corrupt Rochas himself is. Yes they may be true! It may be true that the stories fabricated as Rochas’ arriere-plan for Sir Jude’s removal was to retain leverages and strong loyalties in the Douglas House after his doubtful exit come 2015 for Vice Presidential bid (as well as guide positions for himself in case he fails as he had done before: A good perspective planning and characteristic of African system of leadership, Leadership for life and life presidency syndrome in the African, Nigerian, Igbo and Imo polity). Yes, these may be true! Many assumptions may be true at this regard but they are of a second order interest.
The paramount truth is that every “earth’s proud empire” as J. Ellerton said, “Will pass away” but God’s Kingdom (truth and justice) stands and grows for ever. The truth is that “every tongue that shall rise in judgement against the just (Ohakim in this case, the me), as Prophet Isaiah declared, has been condemned. The truth is as Christ told Peter son of Jonas that who kills by the sword dies by it. The truth is as the Biblical Wisdom Literature puts it that ‘whoever digs a pit shall fall into it.’ The truth is that whatever goes up shall come down. The truth is that nothing is hidden under the sun. The truth is as the Golden Rule stated, “do to no one what you would not like another do to you! The truth is that you shall reap whatever you sow. Yes, these are the truth! The truth is compounded of nemesis, of retributive justice, of karmic laws, of natural justice. The truth is that Sir Jude Agbaso and Owelle Okorocha had unholy alliance against the wishes of Eternal Divinity and owner of every alliance, and now receives the scourges of a provoked deity. The truth is that the duo never allowed Court cases to be won naturally; he (Sir Jude) will certainly return not winning his own. He is embarking on a lost battle; that is natural justice: You reap whatever you sowed.
The assumptions are many but the truth is just one though multi-phased. Chief Martin Agbaso, Sir Jude Agbaso et al, entered an unholy (and a non-God’s instituted) alliance to unseat Chief Ohakim. That was politics and its game, but never politics at the blindness of nemesis. They discovered and uncovered what they disseminated to the uninformed Imolites as Ohakim’s shortcomings. But shysters we know discover shortcomings and frauds easier than anyone else. Check those that prosecuted Sir Jude Agbaso, you will discover that he may be more than 50% “holier,” better than them in cleaner hands. I remember Prof Protus Nathan Uzorma’s article during the 2011 campaigns published in the Announcer Express- Na the Same People! Prophetically he asserted, “yet we know that sooner than later, they will return as loose cannons and sooner than later again their grand larceneries we’ll decry and cry foul upon.’ What a prophecy! How far back now and it is happening? Oh, what a prophecy!
In their grand unseating plots, the Agbasos then played some games but most types of games of that sort always backfire. It could be remembered that it was rumoured then that Chief Martin Agbaso went to Abuja to obtain gubernatorial form as agreed with his party, APGA. Then he went with Chief Peter Orji (Big Do) who had earlier on gone to the PDP as a member of the Alliance facet to obtain same electoral form. As Alliance for Good Governance defected from the PDP to the ACN, Chief Peter defected with them too and later secretly stepped aside to APGA; reneging his masters- Chief Udenwa and Senator Ararume. It was rumoured then also that Chief Martin Agbaso collected money from his sponsor, Chief Athan Ogu for the gubernatorial bid in APGA for the 2011 polls and later secretly agreed with Chief Orji that he will step aside for him Orji without letting Chief Ogu know. What type of politics did the Agbasos play then if these rumours were true? Was it not pure treachery and renege on sponsorship pact? Has Chief Martin Agbaso not received same coin-pay from his pact with Rochas? How is today, the relationship between Rochas and Chief Ogu (and Peter Orji), severed or still ‘pally’?
It was (Prof) Okechukwu Mezu that stated (in his Behind the Rising Sun) that “human intentions are several and unclear; so too are states of mind changing.” The Agbasos smartly sold off the Imo APGA to the Alliance group that defected to the party and has not stayed as party members for even one week, just to get contracts, IGR, and some appointive positions ceded to them alone; for their Samuel’s anointing function. Rochas being desperate and in search of where to put his head and come out for the Governorship race, promised them alone to be at the left and right hand of the master in his paradise. Onu e jiri bie aku! Did they then think of the other Imo APGA faithful and regular stalwarts? Their smartness and self-centred ambitions ever since then created facets in APGA, and that is still tearing the party apart today. Unholy alliance! Ogbu nma,…! But all now are to the glory of PDP, CAN, etc.
After this plot, there were those of Prof Anwuka (from Ohakim’s New Face), Hon Uwajumogu et al, etc. Each of the plotters has received or is still to receive in turn the strokes of the unseen ghost and Natural Law agent. From the Agbasos, there is a reward of unfaithfulness to pact, by public disgrace. Uwajumogu has received his first phase while the impending ultimate phase will see him like Sir Jude Agbaso. It is also speculated that the next stroke before Rochas ends his tenure will be Prof Anwuka- that will really be cataclysmic as the ghost may reach his office doors and first instigate disaffection and vouch for justice. Do to no one what you would not want anybody do to you! Judas plotted to sell Christ, succeeded and later suicide came (- even, the disgrace on the Agbasos is more than suicide). Such acts as Judas’, Esau’s porridge, Portiphar’s wife promises, etc., are acts that are retributive. They end up making one a disgrace and disappointment to his generation, says Prophet Ejike Nwachukwu of the Rhema Deliverance Mission Nnewi.
