Ortom Would Have Been Flogged If … – Senator Uzamere

We Have Nowhere To Go, PDP G5 will support President Bola Tinubu’s re-election in 2027 – Samuel Ortom 7th January 2024

I really love Gov Samuel Ortom. He is a man after my heart. With the death of Fela Anikulapo Kuti, and although his music remains evergreen, I have not listened to his track “VIP” in a long while. With Samuel Ortom informing the country of his vagabond status as he followed his leader – a man young enough to be his son, to a function in Rivers State, I had to listen to Fela’s “VIP” again. Fela seems to have had Ortom in mind when he composed some of his hit songs.

On your own, you called yourself a VIP, having nowhere to go, and from your antecedents, you are indeed a VIP. You’d be roaming around Nigeria like a political sokugo. I don’t know if you have read Cyprian Ekwensi’s novel, “Burning Grass”, but coming from one of our savanna belts, I’m sure you know about the illness – sokugo.

You came to the limelight on the PDP platform. You seem to have forgotten your unenviable beginning in the motor parks of Gboko where you started life as a motor park tout after dropping out of school in primary one.  You matured so fast under PDP, from pupa to butterfly, and suddenly you became a bird. Despite being a governor for eight years and having mingled with polished men and women, the motor park mentality is still sitting comfortably in your psyche. I remember asking that you be allowed to take a bow and leave on the floor of the Senate when you came for ministerial screening.

I was touched when you identified your humble beginning as a commercial cab driver – a job I did in the US as a student to make ends meet. In all honesty, I am not too surprised that you still have that motor park mentality as you’re not the only one in your clowning group that had a stint in a motor park.

Coincidentally, many Nigerians do not remember you were once a cabinet minister as you left no enviable and indelible mark(s) in the ministry you served.

Your eight years of leadership in Benue State gave your people a regular trademark  – sorrow, tears, and blood (Vintage Fela). But there was a regular pattern. Towards the end of most months, the Fulani herdsmen would strike, leaving your people unfortunately in sorrow, tears, and blood, while you left them without salary.

It became so constant that some of us believed it was orchestrated. In your vagrancy, are you aware that since Gov. Alia took over from you, there’s been no farmer-herder clash in Benue? Please dey your dey and don’t patronise the killers so that Benue citizens can enjoy their newfound peace.

Your reason for fighting PDP was that Fulani herdsmen were killing your people. In your little mindedness, you forgot to remember that the Fulani you hate so much had one of them, then President, Mohammadu Buhari, in office. You embraced the Fulani fully by identifying with President Buhari. You were like a man who raced into a raging battle, forgetting that war is death.

During the last presidential election, you danced Labour Party tunes against the Party that made you. You lost. The fact that you couldn’t cash in on the Obidient movement to deliver for your newfound love Peter Obi shows that you are really a paperweight in Benue politics. The fact that you, a sitting governor lost your senatorial election to your erstwhile staff Titus Zam, shows again that for your people you are of no reckoning.

Think about it, your former adviser, contested against you and defeated you. What a shame.

For more than a year now, you have revelled in abusing PDP and undermining the Party that made you. A political party is like a church, to which all are welcome and free to leave at one’s volition. Being a member of a particular church and sharing in another church’s offering, is an anathema.

If you are man enough, decamp to APC and let us see if APC has been reduced to an IDP camp for nomadic politicians or decamp to Labour Party. Why are you waiting to be dignified with a sack. Have you really thought about the saying that the best answer for a not too intelligent person, is silence? I guess in your moments of sobriety you know that no political party would want to welcome a belligerent person to its fold. Who needs a troublemaker to create factions within their party? If I were you, I’d be more quiet and grateful that the present government has not dusted probe files on you. Do not please, delude yourself that you’ll have any electoral value for Tinubu if he decides to run in 2027. What you could not do as a sitting governor with all its associated powers, you cannot do out of power.

Your confession of your VIP status is something we have always known. It became evident when you became dancing circus clowns. Your group really left me wondering about the level of accommodating endurance of your immediate families that watched you entertaining Nigerians with your clowning. With a ministerial post in your kitty, we hope some of you would get ambassadorial positions so you can hone your clowning skills from countries outside Africa.

Listen to Fela’s “VIP”, and you’d agree with me he had you and your type in mind when he sang that song. Thank God we are not in 16th century Elizabethan era, or you would have been so flogged and your ears severally pierced, for being a vagabond in power (VIP).

I come in peace.

Senator Ehigie Uzamere

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