By Chidiebube Okeoma
Owerri zone can’t be laying claims to the governorship diadim in Imo state in 2028 on the basis of equity when it has deliberately refused to address the unjustly manner and antics in which Okigwe zone was blackmailed out of office in 2011, after all he or she who comes to the equity must come with clean and upright hands.
January 2028 is not the political birthright of ndi Owerri zone. On the basis of political Justice, Okigwe zone ranks high above Owerri zone on the arguments on which of the two political zones produces Hope Uzodimma’s successor in 2028.
In 2011, it was Owerri zone who led the most destructive rebellion to chase Okigwe zone out of Imo seat of power( Douglas House) echoing “no zoning in Imo state. Fourteen years after, it is best described as political deceit of the modern days contemporary politicking for Owerri zone people to be laying claims to the state’s biggest political stool on the shabby illusion of Imo charter of equity.
Owerri zone can’t be a beneficiary of the same political arrangement they spare headed its destruction in 2010/2011 political season in the state.
Owerri zone, like every other zone in the state has the constitutional rights to canvass for the Imo’s political pendulum in January 2028, but doing that on the basis of political equity and Imo charter of equity are amounting to insulting the political sensibilities of ndi Okigwe zone who were betrayed by their Owerri zone brothers in 2011.
As the political activities for Imo governorship race unfold in future, let it be said that we have not forgotten how Owerri zone betrayed Okigwe zone in 2011 and vowed and succeeded in truncating the Imo charter of equity which would had seen an Owerri zone indigene ascended the state’s highest political rank of power in 2015.
Okigwe zone will duly contest for the governorship of Imo state in the last quarter of 2027 and will strongly lay claim to it constitutionally, morally and politically. We are students of political history and we will not watch Owerri zone lay claims with two hands what they don’t politically deserve on the basis of Imo charter of equity.
Owerri zone should contest on the basis of constitutional leverage not moral or political basis. Okigwe zone ranks high above Owerri zone on the basis of Imo charter of equity, political and moral justifications as the 2028 political dynamics hots up.
Okeoma, an indigene of Imo state, writes from Owerri, the state capital.
