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The news that some members of the National Executive Committee of the PDP have
dragged Chief Audu Ogbeh and members of the National Working Committee to the Economic and FInancial Crimes Commission
(EFCC) gives cause for a great perturbation. It is a great idea to uncover fraud wherever we find it, moreso, in
Nigeria where the fabrics of our entire society are drenched in fraud. However, when the revelation comes from
one side against the other of a controversy wherein a party is split down the middle, mutually antagoniastic and
each side having its daggers drawn ready to stab at any time, then interested and intelligent observers become
perturbed.
Observers are worried not just because of the apparent bias inherent in
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such a revelation but also because of the glaring hypocricy that surfaces. In Nigeria there are two types of politicians.
One is kettle, the other is pot. They are both black. Now, if the two are engaged in a fight (usually over their
political booties) and the one calls the other black, observers worry because of the troubling assumption of the
caller being whiter than the receiver. But the kettle cannot fairly and reasonabley call the pot black without
facing charges of hypocrisy.
When some members of the National Executive Committee dragged Audu Ogbeh before the Commission we, the people,
(neutral observers) roam our eyeballs raising our eyebrows. We see those in glass houses throwing stones. We do
because we know that those msmbers of the National Executive Committee may be no less corrupt and fruadulent than
the people they are bringing the charges against.
Be that as it may, we need to inquire into the motive of these charges. We know that Audu Ogbeh recently warned
Chief, General, President Olusegun Obasanjo of the impending doom if he continues to play his hide and seek game
with Anambra state. We know also that Obasanjo flared up quickly and began to spit fire. He called for Audu Ogbeh's
"head" for daring to let the cat out of the bag. We know further that this situation caused the giant
PDP to split at the middle-- the pro Ogbeh and the pro Obasanjo. Then all of a sudden the pro-Obasanjo group remembers
that Audu Ogbeh's accounting is irregular and dragged him before the Commission.
Knowing what we know, it is hard for us to believe that the pro-Obasanjo
group bringing the charges acted in the national interest, not even in their party interest. Could they then have
acted in the parochial interest of their many wives, concubines, children and grandchildren? Observers are worried.
We want to know the answer.
In a nation that tops the list of the most corrupt nations of the world nobody can in good conscience defend any
politician or cannonize him a saint. Not even Audu Ogbeh. However, some members of the National Executive Committiee
have chosen the wrong time to expose Ogbeh's possible wrongdoing. Observers refuse to go along because as long
as the taunting bufoonery of the Anambra people and Obasanjo's game of the ostrich in the Anambra episode are concerned
Audu Ogbeh is only a whistleblower and cannot be punished for it. Count Ogbeh out of the disgrace of the Anambra
saga for he played the role only of a statesman. Intelligent observers would doff their hat and applaud him for
playing an admirable role for the first time in his political life.
Count Ogbeh Out!
Kenax Law Offices
Charleston, WV
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