My father has often told me as a child before his demise that passing standard six is not having sense or wisdom. My son, passing six is not passing sense, he said often.
I didn't understood what he meant then and never believed him. I thought he was wrong and never worked with it. I had always believed that procuring or acquiring many academic certificates amounted to having wisdom and character. Meanwhile, events before and after the 2023 elections in Enugu State especially the governorship election has made me to realise the truth in what my father told repeatedly many decades ago.
The desperation, deceit and delusion of the Labour Party governorship candidate in Enugu State, Bar. Chijioke Edeoga and his social media tigers has obviously proven that acquiring and procuring academic certificates for self-aggrandisement, recognition and status enhancement is different from having common sense, wisdom and character.
Bar. Edeoga, whom many claimed was once a journalist and a lawyer without practice or office, who is expected to be an exemplar, especially having been in the corridors of power for more than three decades now has shown that he lacks common sense, wisdom and character.
This does not mean that Edeoga is not educated, he is, but he lacks decorum and wisdom, simply because of his desperations and fixations. It would be recalled that before Bar. Edeoga was railroaded into the Labour Party by his mother-in-law's brothers, the Nwodos to contest the governorship election after losing the PDP governorship ticket to Bar. Peter Mbah and pledging to work with him, Bar. Edeoga and his hired social media hirelings did everything humanly possible on social media platforms to blackmail Mbah and others out of the race to pave for him to emerge as PDP candidate.
The plot did not only fail, it exposed Edeoga's desperation and character flaws and defecits that are inherent in him, which he has been deceptively hiding from the public for long.
While in Labour Party as a candidate, Bar. Edeoga and his allies continued with the campaign of calumny and concoction of lies against Bar. Mbah on social media platforms using different pen names and titles. Even in his media appearances, Bar. Edeoga often made Bar. Mbah and his party the major topic for discussion. Bar. Edeoga's manifesto before and after the election is Bar. Mbah and PDP. This is a man who claimed to be a journalist and a lawyer, but behaves like a motor park tout and illiterate.
This is a man Bar. Mbah has never for one day mentioned or discussed in public or private for any reason, not even during the electioneering campaigns.
This is simply because Bar. Mbah knows that Edeoga is not his match or problem to offering Ndi Enugu good governance.
Are people not wondering why after the election which Bar. Edeoga lost to Bar Mbah, despite Bar.Edeoga's manipulations to win by all means, Bar. Mbah has remained the major subject of social media attacks and incitements by Bar. Edeoga and his social media bandits. Why is it that despite having gone to the tribunal to challenge his loss to Bar. Mbah in the election, Edeoga and his cohorts have continued to engage in media trial of the case that is before the tribunal as if the matter will be decided in the media?
Is this not enough for people to know that Bar. Edeoga's education and that of his social media urchins is useless and questionable? Is this not a clear sign of desperation and madness of a bad loser that has nothing to fall back on?
If Bar. Edeoga is truly a lawyer who knows his onions, why is he and his fabricators and purveyors of lies trying to blackmail INEC and intimidate the judiciary on social media? How can Edeoga delusionally believe that he won the election and INEC did otherwise, without showing any evidence? If Edeoga has any admissible evidence to substantiate his phantom claim of victory, why not present such to the tribunal and patiently wait for judgment? If Edeoga has done so through his counsels at the tribunal, why not allow the tribunal to do their job instead of trying to preempt or induce them with continous media trial and propaganda?
It is quite shameful and unfortunate for Edeoga and his co-travellers that among all the fictious allegations they leveled against Bar. Mbah before and after the elections which they took to courts through proxies, none has yielded any positive result for them. This has been giving Edeoga and his sponsors sleepless nights. They have become so desperate, angry and confused, having realised that their plan of stopping Bar. Mbah's swearing in on May 29 by all means has failed.
That is why they have upped their social media attacks and lies against Bar. Mbah. To give false hope of victory to their supporters and sponsors, Bar. Edeoga and his cohorts have continued to run from one media to another claiming pyrrhic and phony victory that they never had in the election. They have also continued to engage in ultracrepiderianism, erroneously believing that such will sway people's perception of Bar. Mbah's victory and guarantee them victory at the tribunal.
