ROCHAS CAME, SAW, BUT WAS CONQUERED! By Ogu Bundu Nwadike, M.A.
ROCHAS CAME, SAW, BUT WAS CONQUERED!
By Ogu Bundu Nwadike, M.A
The saying is: "I came, saw, and conquered". Every waking, walking and working day, living people inevitably "come" and "see". What may not be similarly certain is the concept of "conquering". I mean that it's not all that "came" and "saw" that "conquer". I found a formula for that my line of thinking. "All must come and see, but not all that came and saw manage to conquer"!
Please, permit me to use the two-term, eight-year tenure of the out-going Imo governor, Owelle Rochas Okorocha, as a case study for clarification of my topic in this short essay. In the simplest summary, Rochas came, saw but failed to conquer. In fact, he was conquered!
That fact negates all nice cosmetic tags his media handlers may hang on him. They are on their. To them, Rochas is "Hero the Hero", "the last man standing", "the defending champion" and this and that. But all of those are not supported by the verifiable reality on ground.
Except his media aides are practising advanced sarcasm with their headmaster, Rochas at best would be classified as a tragic hero, who started his race powerfully but could not finish it strongly. No true hero waxes lyrical about their conquests and heroism. Ndigbo say, "Nwoke lucha ogu, nwanyi enwere akuko"! But Rochas and his media aides have so inundated Imo people and Nigerians with robust push to show people his achievements. What kind of hero is that?
Rochas and his boys refer to him as "last man standing". What does that mean? As an incumbent, albeit out-going governor, it's too obvious that Rochas is the "last man standing" in Douglas House, at least. I wonder why that should be a guy name, anyway! The saying, "the last man standing" connotes victory in an epic contest like in WWE matches where a dozen power men, for instance, deploy all sorts of American wrestling tactics to eliminate one after another with pin falls, until only one remains as the WWE champion for that category of the sports. He could then be described as "the last man standing".
The questions Rochas and Company must answer is, "who did Rochas defeat to become the last man standing"? "Where was contest he emerged the winner staged"? "With the visible failure of Rochas, is he standing or prostrating on Imo ground"? And where anybody answers those posers, let him explain, "Where is Rochas standing? In Owerri, Abuja, Ogboko or Gboko"?
I hear Rochas and Company describe Rochas as "the defending champion". It's such that one of his media aides compared him the World Boxing Association (WBA) Heavyweight Champion, Anthony Joshua. My dismay about was that while the author showed Anthony Joshua displaying his conglomerated belts, Rochas had nothing to show. I promptly marked it, "comparing of incomparables".
What contest and championship did Rochas win last to be dubbed "the defending champion"? I feel it's inappropriate to describe a massively embattled and roundly defeated, out-going governor as "the defending champion". Anyhow, the "white paper" or social media "defending champion" is in actuality defeated challenger. At least, that's the reality with the outcome of the 2019 general elections.
With very bad roads across the State, with abandoned projects all over the State, with unpaid workers' salaries and retirees' pensions, with entire basic social amenities vandalized and looted, with failed promises of factory, factory, factory, industry, industry industry, jobs, jobs, jobs, employment, employment, employment, with demolition of all strategic markets Imo State, with unemployment, poverty, disease, sickness and death on high rise, with joy and happiness destroyed in the State?
How would any right-thinking and well-meaning person publicly declare that Rochas is a hero, the last man standing, and the defending champion? It is like saying and insisting that "Rochas came, saw and conquered"! How was that falsehood arrived at? For his tumultuous and in fact tempestuous regime, 2011-2019, the appropriate thinking should be that "Rochas came, saw but was conquered"!
Every true Imolite at home and in diaspora is happy that the feudal imperialism, oligarchical, monarchical hegemony that characterized Rochas has come to an abrupt end by a well-planned defeat handed him by Imo people on March 9, 2019. Imo people are rejoicing because Rochas became too proud and arrogant about his occupation of the seat of power in Imo State. He was a saddist and a masochist. Little wondee, he was consequently tagged Pharaoh, Ahab, Nebuchadnezzar, Herod and other such very wicked leaders in ancient history of the world. In the contemporary realities, Imo people see Rochas as Hitler, Mussolini, Idi Amin Dada, Saddam Hussein, Ayotola Khomeni and other vampire leaders.
Little wonder the anthem of "Rochas Must Go" rend the atmosphere in Imo for many months before the final fall of Rochas via the decisive decision by Imo people to destroy his dynasty that was becoming a wall of Babel. Today, Rochas is a political orphan of ignominious antecedents and pedigree. Abuja hate to see him just as Owerri detests ebmverything about him.
For the evidence before Ndimo, Rochas doesn't in anyway qualify to be advertized as "Hero the Hero", "the last man standing", and "the defending champion". He is nothing like those! Rochas came, saw but was conquered!
*Nwadike is a journalist, author and public affairs analyst. Sms only, 08037146635 (Hotline), 08106819304 (WhatsApp). Email: ogubundunwadike@gmail.com
By Ogu Bundu Nwadike, M.A
The saying is: "I came, saw, and conquered". Every waking, walking and working day, living people inevitably "come" and "see". What may not be similarly certain is the concept of "conquering". I mean that it's not all that "came" and "saw" that "conquer". I found a formula for that my line of thinking. "All must come and see, but not all that came and saw manage to conquer"!
Please, permit me to use the two-term, eight-year tenure of the out-going Imo governor, Owelle Rochas Okorocha, as a case study for clarification of my topic in this short essay. In the simplest summary, Rochas came, saw but failed to conquer. In fact, he was conquered!
That fact negates all nice cosmetic tags his media handlers may hang on him. They are on their. To them, Rochas is "Hero the Hero", "the last man standing", "the defending champion" and this and that. But all of those are not supported by the verifiable reality on ground.
Except his media aides are practising advanced sarcasm with their headmaster, Rochas at best would be classified as a tragic hero, who started his race powerfully but could not finish it strongly. No true hero waxes lyrical about their conquests and heroism. Ndigbo say, "Nwoke lucha ogu, nwanyi enwere akuko"! But Rochas and his media aides have so inundated Imo people and Nigerians with robust push to show people his achievements. What kind of hero is that?
Rochas and his boys refer to him as "last man standing". What does that mean? As an incumbent, albeit out-going governor, it's too obvious that Rochas is the "last man standing" in Douglas House, at least. I wonder why that should be a guy name, anyway! The saying, "the last man standing" connotes victory in an epic contest like in WWE matches where a dozen power men, for instance, deploy all sorts of American wrestling tactics to eliminate one after another with pin falls, until only one remains as the WWE champion for that category of the sports. He could then be described as "the last man standing".
The questions Rochas and Company must answer is, "who did Rochas defeat to become the last man standing"? "Where was contest he emerged the winner staged"? "With the visible failure of Rochas, is he standing or prostrating on Imo ground"? And where anybody answers those posers, let him explain, "Where is Rochas standing? In Owerri, Abuja, Ogboko or Gboko"?
I hear Rochas and Company describe Rochas as "the defending champion". It's such that one of his media aides compared him the World Boxing Association (WBA) Heavyweight Champion, Anthony Joshua. My dismay about was that while the author showed Anthony Joshua displaying his conglomerated belts, Rochas had nothing to show. I promptly marked it, "comparing of incomparables".
What contest and championship did Rochas win last to be dubbed "the defending champion"? I feel it's inappropriate to describe a massively embattled and roundly defeated, out-going governor as "the defending champion". Anyhow, the "white paper" or social media "defending champion" is in actuality defeated challenger. At least, that's the reality with the outcome of the 2019 general elections.
With very bad roads across the State, with abandoned projects all over the State, with unpaid workers' salaries and retirees' pensions, with entire basic social amenities vandalized and looted, with failed promises of factory, factory, factory, industry, industry industry, jobs, jobs, jobs, employment, employment, employment, with demolition of all strategic markets Imo State, with unemployment, poverty, disease, sickness and death on high rise, with joy and happiness destroyed in the State?
How would any right-thinking and well-meaning person publicly declare that Rochas is a hero, the last man standing, and the defending champion? It is like saying and insisting that "Rochas came, saw and conquered"! How was that falsehood arrived at? For his tumultuous and in fact tempestuous regime, 2011-2019, the appropriate thinking should be that "Rochas came, saw but was conquered"!
Every true Imolite at home and in diaspora is happy that the feudal imperialism, oligarchical, monarchical hegemony that characterized Rochas has come to an abrupt end by a well-planned defeat handed him by Imo people on March 9, 2019. Imo people are rejoicing because Rochas became too proud and arrogant about his occupation of the seat of power in Imo State. He was a saddist and a masochist. Little wondee, he was consequently tagged Pharaoh, Ahab, Nebuchadnezzar, Herod and other such very wicked leaders in ancient history of the world. In the contemporary realities, Imo people see Rochas as Hitler, Mussolini, Idi Amin Dada, Saddam Hussein, Ayotola Khomeni and other vampire leaders.
Little wonder the anthem of "Rochas Must Go" rend the atmosphere in Imo for many months before the final fall of Rochas via the decisive decision by Imo people to destroy his dynasty that was becoming a wall of Babel. Today, Rochas is a political orphan of ignominious antecedents and pedigree. Abuja hate to see him just as Owerri detests ebmverything about him.
For the evidence before Ndimo, Rochas doesn't in anyway qualify to be advertized as "Hero the Hero", "the last man standing", and "the defending champion". He is nothing like those! Rochas came, saw but was conquered!
*Nwadike is a journalist, author and public affairs analyst. Sms only, 08037146635 (Hotline), 08106819304 (WhatsApp). Email: ogubundunwadike@gmail.com
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