KALU: One sure reality in human existence is that the journey of success always has it natural and man made challenges which must be surmounted in the process of attaining the height; thus, we encounter new devils on every new day, some will be good enough to be overlooked while some are prevaricating, duplicitous, perfidious and perjured.

For a while now, the Orji family have been put on the trajectory of malady orchestrated by detractors in a plot to cause miasma to the name of the respectable family. It is imperative to note that the Orji family have played their role in Abia State politics and therefore nobody should use then as a political ladder to seeking political relevance through mendacious and spurious concoctions just to score a cheap political goal.

The race for 2023 is going to be a different scenario that will not entertain any professional gubernatorial aspirations who may think that only rubbishing the Orjis can help them achieve their failed ambitions, to me that is not politics but a systematic misplacement of priorities because nobody grows by pulling others down.

It behooves on hypocrisy, bigotry, duplicity and insincerity to continue to petition someone without evidence to hold him responsible for you accusations, I’ll take an instance. After the perfunctory and superficial petition, did the traducers find time and dexterity to ask:

• Where is the account housing
  $124m allegedly stolen by the Orjis?
• Where is the one housing
  88B Naira as alleged?
• Where is the evidence of contracts awarded by the former Governor to his son?
• How can total turnover of over a period of 14 to 25 years of business operations suddenly become available Balance in an account?
  The rhetoric are endless, but the answers are in the consciences of the naysayers.

Suffice the grandiloquence of the malfeasance trying to establish impossibilities and remember that these said set of shameless plotters constitute the army of misdemeanors who received contacts on behalf of our state, used such money to chase their inordinate ambitions and fancy only to leave our state in greater squalor.
We will not allow these men to continue to have their field day by insulting our collective sensibility.

How has their endless meetings to destroy another person added to the life of the people they claim to fight for? What have they brought home, what industry, what presence, what?

I am calling on these people to desist from working hard to bring a good man down. If T. A. Orji did not do well, his constituents wouldn’t have let him go to represent them at the Senate. He has served meritoriously both as State Governor and now as a Senator and his legacies are scattered about to draw inferences from.

Hon Chinedum Orji did not rise to the position of Speakership of State House Assembly by sheer happenstance, it is a reward of hard labour of persistent pragmatism and therefore any politician who believe that pulling him down is the only way to rise do not understand the law or karma.

Every politically motivated petitions must stop forthwith because it does not hold any water. He that must come to equity must come with a clean hands. I assure everyone that the 2023 battle for the progress of Abia will not be business as usual because the game must change pattern and only the right people will be opportune to mount the saddle. Any professional aspirant casting aspersions and hoping on failure of another man to rise should have a rethink and find his bearing.

Chief Dr Emeka Kalu
DG, Global Initiative for Good Governance (GIGG), Abuja.