Gov. T.A Orji In Gandhi's 'Seven Deadly Sins'

Mahatma Gandhi sees these below as 'Seven Deadly Sins"

(1) Wealth without work
(2) Pleasure without conscience
(3) Science without humanity
(4) Knowledge without character
(5) Politics without principle
(6) Commerce without morality
(7) Worship without sacrifice.
As if Gandhi had the government of Gov. T.A Orji at heart; the recent development in a place like Aba, where every building is tagged with an abhorrent paper, demanding that landlords should pay outrageously nothing less than One Hundred Thousand (N100, 000), is in the items that Gandhi cries against. What about the so-called Infrastructural Development Levy of not less than Eighty Thousand naira (N80, 000)? These payments were coming when every citizen in Abia is so rich? Is this not wealth without work?

Gandhi cries against peoples and governments that operate like swindle-artistes. These types of peoples of governments like taking praise on titular projects, even the ones that were being done by Non Government Organisations (NGO). Do not dare challenge them on any issues that do not meet the eyes, their assemblage of gangsters christened aides would shout you down. 'Do you not know that it is a governor that you are talking to and asking questions like that?' the aides would retort. Is this not Politics without principle?

In Abia State, if you criticize Gov. T.A Orji government, these aides would open more and more Facebook, Yahoo, Gmail accounts and blogs with fake names just to malign you. They have been doing to me and writing one article with over seven names. Does this habit not show

that they are not writers? They like saying that my articles are 'Incoherent and the syntax are poor'. But these are the same articles that our editors and their foreign counterparts use without rewarding me with blemish. This has proved to these aides the Igbo saying that if a rat escapes the grip of a child, that child characterizes the rat by 'it is a small rat of no use'. Is this not Knowledge without character?

A friend of mine says that for anybody to build false appearances is a silly show. This is not far from Gov. Orji. His aides like building false appearances around him, according to my friend, by having sycophants sing his praises in public, and try to threaten and intimidate anyone that did not kow-tow to the orchestrated praises. My friend weeps: 'I am embarrassed on behalf of Nigeria to have such a bare ferry called a state governor ... Seriously embarrassed...' Is this not Commerce without morality?
The unsuspecting publics need to sojourn to Abia State to know who is talking about the state out of hatred: Whether it is the critics asking Gov. Orji to wake up from slumber or the aides asking him to sit down perpetually that he has done enough for Abia State. Someone dear to me characterizes the depravity of the governor in the state by, 'Abia is a tourist resort for Banana governance.

There is hardly any fitting epithet left in the vocabulary of failure to capture the performance of that pain-in-the-neck called T.A. Orji. I hate the indifference of Abia people' Did you see Pleasure without conscience?

Some revelations are of the contention that I am even lucky that the aides have not sent assassins against me. But they have though been doing and sending dire missives to me using pseudonyms - their trademark. Talking about the nuisance they have flooded the internet with against me will not contain here.
A friend calls this type of behavior and attributes same as, 'delusional psychos.' Why these aides chose the lazy man's way of trying to assassinate the character of critics is because they know that all of them joined together can't say what a non-sycophantic Abian would hear.

So, they resort to brickbats and slandering of the image of the people, yet their countless attempts cannot overshadow the indomitable voices of the true Abia people. Did you see Science without humanity?

In Igbo we do say that when you give a child something that is greater than him, he would ask whom the giver wants him to send the item to. This is the case with Gov. Orji. He unexpectedly found himself in a conspicuous position, having mounted the saddle straight from the

gulag at Kirikiri. Somebody was asking if his coming from the prisons is why his government is vision-less, purposeless, plan-less and bereft of focus. Is this not a case of (Position without work?)

The good people of Abia state are still at amiss why this Gov. Orji government has failed not to wake up, owing to the enormous monthly allocations to the state that have improved overtime since the governor came to power. However, our people are saying that no evil person shall go unpunished.

They are saying that evil has never triumphed over good. 'If T. A.Orji and his spiteful cronies had the competence and morals to preside over human affairs, they wouldn't take their unabashed and pettiness to this disgusting and appalling level; but what does one expect from a governor who has become a hero of mis-governance? T.A. Orji and his boys can only get worse on a daily basis; it's an embarrassment my dear state of Abia and its people are the victims!' cries a renowned public affairs analyst.

Because of the rot that Abia has become, somebody was especially suggesting of another 'Aba Women Riot' or that the civil liberty organisations should take the state government to court. These suggestions may be good, but this is a state where lawyers have been desecrated for rising up against the anomie that is called governance in Abia State.

The lawyers even protested, wearing rain-boots. Yet, somebody is answering Ochendo in Government House, Umuahia. Did Mahatma Gandhi not talk about Politics without principle?

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