Ekweremadu and his wife were arrested for allegedly conspiring to harvest the organs of a 15-year-old boy they had brought from Nigeria to the United kingdom for the purpose. As you read this husband and wife are cooling their heels in detention pending their appearance again in court on July 7.
The question on every tongue has been how a senator and a lawyer with his over two decade sojourn in the Nigeria senate acted ignorantly. I can say with certainty that Ekweremadu is not slow-witted. An encounter with him in the recent past revealed to me a whip-smart character. I don’t want that to be misconstrued as absolving this man of culpability in the rot that has befallen Nigeria. For good measure, Ekweremadu and his ilk, are the reason the Nigeria health care system like everything else in the nation collapsed. His sort are not only self serving, they careless about the survival of the nation or the people they claim to represent.
While the trials and tribulations of Ekweremadu persist, the supporters of Obi are making song and dance of it. The social media which is now their turf, is the highway they are having a ball over the fallen man for throwing a jab at their anointed Obi. Ekweremadu incurred the wrath of the supporters for saying that Obi doesn’t have the capacity to win the presidential election next year.
Like most of the supporters, one vlogger on Facebook said all those against their man are falling one after the other (referring to Fr Mbaka and Ekweremadu). Obi himself when asked for his reaction to the Ekweremadu saga, he turned prayer “warrior.” What Obi’s supporters are failing to tell their candidate is that he missed the opportunity to tell Nigerians how he will arrest capital flight running into billions of dollars expended on medical tourism annually by the political establishment. He failed to address the rot in the health care system occasioned by years of neglect aided by corruption of course. He failed to assure Nigerians of his readiness to reverse the decadence in the system. He failed to give the assurance that the likes of Ekweremadu will never be allowed to bring shame to the nation again.
I know Obi’s supporters love the stories he tell them, but the real voter want substance. All the sound and fury signify nothing until we see for ourselves how the yoke on the nation will be moved. Of course sound bites are good as they help galvanised the base in an electioneering period but Nigerians are not seeking a “messiah” but a “surgeon” to surgically empty the bowel of the nation of all the ills that had plagued it. We are tired of “messiahs” who have occupied the space for so long to serve themselves, their families and friends.
Did you ask him this question and did not get an answer or you assume he will campaign with every situation. And what do you mean by “turn prayer warrior”?