Abimbola Davies was a name used in obtaining the injunction from the Late Justice Bassey Ikpeme by midnight to scuttle the June 12 1993 election
acclaimed the freest election ever in this country. This annulment changed the political equation ever in this country. Now the same cankerworm is rearing up
its head in Imo and the same agents are showing their leprous fingers in the political climate again, by calling for the perpetration of another annulment. Who
is this elusive Abimbola Davies? Where is he? Did he die immediately after his court action? How far did his association (Association for Better Nigeria) better
Nigeria? Beyond submerging the country into the doldrums of unprecedented military dictatorship has it done any more? Good or bad? (The world has gone

nuclear and annulment can be achieved by cancellation. Being digital therefore annulment can be done in total disregard to a pending legal action to justify the ‘I’ in INEC as against Humphrey Nwosu’s NEC – Analogue Annulment.After all both Professors are of Igbo extraction).

While Humphrey Nwosu conducted his election with the open ballot system by adopting his legendary option A4 in which every participant had the privilege of
the number of votes and also had the respect of the law before annulment at least he obtained an order from a kangaroo court; Maurice Iwu’s cancellation is
digital. The election was captured by camera, and the results were prepared in camera and any one that did not go down well with him or his masters remained in the Negative of the camera regardless of the feelings of the helpless masses who cast the votes. The Imo Negative must be developed and printed for THE REAL FACE to appear not a “NEW FACE” FROM A DOCTORED “OLD FACE”. Some whose pre-occupation has been the denial of their zone of prime positions in the name of patriotism are also up to it again; this time for a mess of potage.

One wonders how ‘Innocent’ some of these ‘Innocents’ can be in perpetrating crime and evil. No they cannot be innocent! Emmanuel must be with God not
teleguided by those who have power. The call to drop a Judicial Review of an abuse of power should not come from unchristian but highly respected people
with Christian names. It makes it more EVIL, CRIMINAL AND WICKED. Men we are yet to understand! People praised and honoured for their inglorious past.
Beneficiaries of FRAUD masquerading by night with caps in their hands and 2 appearing saintly by day like content and clean while remaining insatiable
mercenaries – Soldiers of Fortune, bestowed with undeserved honour. The Imo case is not an election petition; it is only questioning the use or misuse of power and office. It should not be personalised or sectionalised. There was an election on the 14th of April 2007, it was unilaterally cancelled and while the act was being challenged, a phantom ‘s’election was arranged and those who hardly made 3000 votes in an election were allocated well over 700, 000 “votes” to
justify the imposition. Please cry FOUL! IMO STATE: AS AT TODAY

In 1975, Imo State was created from the former East Central State of Nigeria. It is the heartland of the Igbo nation. Thirty-nine years after the Nigerian Civil war,none can still see the scars of the campaign in the deplorable physical and social infrastructure of the State. Successive governments did little to exploit the human and material endowment of the State for the benefit of its citizenry. Consequently, economic stagnation and deprivation have become endemic.
In some ways, the present state of Imo compares with the war ravaged Europe, after the Second World War. Imo State must have a home-grown equivalent of
European Marshall Plan. Indeed, no economy is under-developed rather what we have is under-managed economy. Four years of creative and dedicated governance is enough to turn Imo State from a comatose economy into an economic haven.

This assertion is possible because Imo people are homogenous, patriotic, peaceful, hard working, educated and ever willing to follow credible leaders, not self-serving people basking in the euphoria of imposed office. One needs to visit Enugu, Delta, Akwa-Ibom, Lagos and Rivers States to fully appreciate this statement - Imo is in dire need of Redemption. Only apologists and paid agents will contest this statement. My heart bleeds when I remember the carnage on Egbu Road from the heavy partitioning. I was taking solace from “a better road tomorrow”. Two years after we are yet to move no further from where we started, yet the state treasury is gaping wide. When I think of all the displaced people from their various businesses – I said to myself ‘if to save life there is need for surgery, 3 anaesthesia should be secondary. The surgery was done without anaesthetics and the patient still died; Double Tragedy’.Imo was once acclaimed the most beautiful state in the Federation – that was in the days of Onunaka Mbakwe and Sulo. Today Owerri is the cleanest city but like Zebrudaya would say – On Billboards!!! Imo has held more seminars and capacity building workshops than all the states put together – and one wonders what that has achieved for the health and progress of the people except giving us an unprecedented debt burden. Where do we go from here?

IMO STATE: MY VISION
A government that will apply its resources/time in accomplishing only those things it can do very well; A government that acknowledges the fact that it cannot solve all developmental problems of the state, at once; A government that encourages the private sector to undertake/participate in those sectors of the economy where government cannot perform efficiently; A government that can achieve its programmes with drama and ‘punch’; and A government that adopts the three senatorial zones of the state as areas to replicate its ‘model’ projects.We must evaluate the relevance of any government project or policy by its
measured ability to create jobs.Government that chooses the option of adopting ‘appropriate technology’ to its projects instead of sophisticated technology, that lands us in utopia.

The soul of development is human; therefore Capital Development should be a cardinal policy of government, carried out with honesty of purpose.Government must practice what it preaches as the surest way of achieving the moral and ethical re-orientation of the people.Government must not misuse or abuse the promotion of Information Technology in its operations.Government must not be vindictive, arrogant, self-serving and deceitful In order to create the ‘punch effect’ any government that comes to be should commence, within its first three months in power, by completing the unfortunate 4 partitioning of Orji and Owerri-Mbaise roads. This will send a clear signal to the people that the government is serious. In addition, solar energy technology should be used to light the streets of the urban areas of the state, particularly the entry points into the cities to save us from the danger imposed by these partitions nick-named dualization.

Simple hand pump boreholes should be sunk, in their numbers, in areas where the water table is high. This is the use of ‘appropriate technology’ to
serve/alleviate the water problem of the masses in hinterland. Government should ensure the functionality of the Umuna-Okigwe Mega Water Scheme, while
ensuring that Orlu and Owerri metropolis are fully serviced by their regional water schemes. Oguta Lake more than Otamiri or Nworie needs dredging. Our
priorities must be right. We must avoid photo-tricks and face realities.All these can be achieved when the court – the last hope of the common man
performs the surgical operation of excising the present cancerous growth. DR.CHRIS NGIGE was seen to have performed wonderfully well at least his road
projects were legendary but all that was done on a defective mandate – an imposition from the then power brokers – the court determined the tenure even
after 3 years of praiseworthy rule. Why not? Someone denied someone his mandate and Chris Ngige became a recipient of a stolen property. Funny enough
these mandates of the South East Zone are stolen from the same party APGA

.From a very independent position I make bold to say that Iwu and his cohorts deprived APGA her duly and freely given mandate of the Governorship on April 14th 2007.I am unable to mortgage my conscience by belonging to any political party in this country. Although very apolitical, I am very passionate politically; hoping that some day we will have a TRUE DEMOCRACY.