In modern warfare
industry or convention, asymmetric guerrilla warfare can be summed
up as “a situation where a group of militarily and militantly
organized people, whether in urban or interior take up arms against a
constituted authority, whether roguishly or saintly
instituted; using all unconventional methods known to them including
rape and other sexual violence, kidnapping, bombing and destruction of critical
infrastructures, looting, torture and killing of civilians and the uniformed;
with the aim of destabilizing or unseating the constituted authority or forcing
on the polity its selfish ethno-religious dogma”. A typical example of “an
asymmetric guerrilla warfare group” in present Nigeria is the Boko Haram
insurgents in northern Nigeria. This method is applied in a situation where
conventional means will be to the disadvantage of the antagonistic guerrilla
group because of its small size and limited resources and space.
In civil politics,
especially in opposition politics, the foregoing can be summed up as a group of
highly intolerant people in a political party, using all unconventional methods
known to them to propagate its quest to take over power. Deployment of these
unconventional methods by such a group is usually propelled by desperation and dry
thirst to occupy power “by fire by force” without following due processes or
universal enfranchisement best practices including issue based and peaceful
poll campaigns.
Such unconventional
methods include militant and combative poll campaigns, manufacturing and
spreading of dangerous rumors and falsehoods, destruction and defacing of its
opponents’ bill boards and posters, hiring of paid agents for the purpose of
promoting campaigns of calumny against dissent voices, general intolerance to
dissenting voices, promotion of ethnocentrism using sectionalized media,
planting of spies, booing and jeering crowds in its opponents’ camps, violent
poll campaigns, resort to “perfect crimes” including killings from within oiled
by outsider conspiracy with the sole aim of blaming them on its opponents and
creating bad blood between its opponents and the poll voting and observing
public, sponsorship of “media blackout” including “killing” the stories filed
by local reporters that represent the views of its opponents or “balkanization
and bastardization” of reporters’ stories or their bylines. A typical example
of such political group with “asymmetric political guerrilla warfare tactics”
in present Nigeria is the All Progressives Congress (APC).
Opposition politics in
modern world has no business with “asymmetric political guerrilla warfare”.
Rather, it is likened to “shadow cabinet or government” in other modern social
climes such as the United Kingdom. Social loopholes and unpopular policies of
the incumbents provide surest yardsticks for opposition parties to win popular
elections by offering the public convincing theoretical solutions to such
social problems to be practically implemented if popularly elected. In modern
history, foreign policy blunders of both Democratic and Republican Parties in
USA had cost them the loss of the White House seat of power during popular poll
times.
The ill policies of the
opponent of Mr. William Jefferson Clinton (Bill Clinton) in the State of
Arkansas provided an opportunity for him to be ousted by Mr. Clinton as the
governor in 1979. Mr. Clinton’s professorship in fixing such ill policies kept
him in office through repeated popular polls till 1991.
A popular opposition
political party in modern times is best described as “the best government in
waiting better than the worst government in power”. This is because such a
popular opposition political party researches and experiments on those infamous
policies that makes the incumbent very unpopular needing it to be changed
democratically. At the threshold of the ACN (APC) opposition political activism
in Nigeria, it started well, winning the heart of millions of Nigerians. But
few years later, just like the loss of corporate integrity of the Nigerian
media soon after the anti military struggle that ended in 1999; the ACN (APC)
derailed and decayed steeply and became an ethno-jingoist political opposition,
from where it transformed into “an asymmetric guerrilla political warfare
group” of present time.
It is important to say
that any elective public office in Nigeria including the Anambra governorship
seat can be won by the APC, but certainly not through “asymmetric political
guerrilla warfare”. Instead of taking over the entire Nigerian polity through
popular polls with intimidating and popular alternatives in matters of topical
social governance problems afflicting the country or any part thereof, the APC
embarks on “coupist” journey, seducing and inducing the occupants of some
elective executive and legislative seat of power in the country including those
the party say came through the windows at the point of their electoral
emergence. Some of these convert governors are celebrated crooks and brigands,
who used immunities to ward themselves of being guests of cocooned homes or
prisons with permanent toga of social ostracism.
In Anambra State, the
party went and canonized “the primus inter pares” of Nigeria’s “professors of
election rigging”; that is to say one Dr. Chris Ngige and crowned him as
“Anambra’s best governor in waiting” since 2007. After the party’s humiliation
in the all popular Ondo State governorship poll of 2012, the APC became more
deadly instead of being more politically professorial. This time around, it has
become more mean by going for the jugulars of the modern world’s “living social
saints and untouchables” (human rights activists) by massively deploying
“crooked and conformist rights activists and media writers” to rest them in
“pieces” or oust them out of social equation.
The common expectation
of average reasonable person from the APC in Nigeria or any part thereof
including Anambra State, is to tell and show them how and why the present
government of Anambra State has failed in public governance indices or
parameters, warranting its ousting through popular poll. Till date, the reverse
is the case adding to growing evidence of “worst to come if elected or
declared”. With the way things are going, assuming the APC wins or it is
declared; its governorship candidate will take over Awka Government House
without waiting to be sworn in or allowing the incumbent to exhaust his tenure
by the mid day of March 17, 2013. And if the incumbent responds in the like
manner, then the State will go up in flames.
Just the other day, we
read on the online media a statement credited to the APC, Anambra State chapter
with a caption: “Peter Obi Uses Intersociety Again To Cover Uke Adoration
Stampede”. Before then, the same APC chapter had issued a statement
with a title: “How Peter Obi Procured Intersociety To Cover Obiano’s Double
Registration”. Days later, one of our trusted friends, Mr. Okechukwu Nwanguma,
acting either within his self calculations or external inducement, announced to
the world reading public his artistry in character assassination with our Board
Chairman and Organization as his sole target. In all these, we acted
maturely by concentrating on “putting the records straight” and refusing to be
provoked or respond in a like manner including opening up on any of our
attackers.
English Language
professors usually say: “liars use passive voice and truth tellers use active
voice”. Till date, none of our attackers including theLagos and Anambra APC
chapters has laid before the teeming reading public any counter irrefutable
facts to rubbish all our public positions, ranging from the Ezu River massacre
to Obiano’s alleged double voter registration; and from the Uke stampede to
other spurious accusations so leveled. In the Ezu River saga, the APC and its
hirelings never saw anything wrong in the Senate Committee’s watery report that
killed it and set free SARS murderers, but they saw something wrong in our
in-depth and seminal report. Perhaps, Governor Peter Obi also
“offered bribes” to Dr. Chris Ngige and his senatorial colleagues to be
extricated in the spurious report.
In obiano’s case, the
destructive falsehood, propelled by the APC was put to rest by our
incontrovertible investigation grounded in the provisions of the Electoral Act
of 2010 (section 13 (1) (2)( 3) (4)). A High Court sitting in Otuocha, Anambra
State had few days ago affirmed our position by ruling that Obiano did not
involve in double voter registration. Obiano’s failed accusers wanted to turn
our laws upside down by punishing him solely on “actus rea”( alleged discovery
of two data of his in Lagos and Anambra) without finding out further why the
two data exist (mens reus). The doctrine of “hear the other side” was thrown
into the wind by the APC and its sectionalized media. It becomes “normal
practice” when they level spurious allegations and becomes “partisan” when
investigated and exposed.
In the Uke Adoration
Stampede tragedy, where a stampede orchestrated by politically motivated
intervening forces killed about 28 innocent persons, the APC’s artistry in
falsehood and dangerous rumors became negatively professorial when it
magisterially inferred that “Peter Obi killed the
victims”. Incontrovertible eyewitness accounts including that of the
Chairman of the Anambra Branch of the CLO, Comrade Aloysius Emeka Attah, have
since corroborated ours and that the Onitsha Catholic Archbishop. Anambra CLO
and Intersociety have at least ten adoration devotees who attended the fatal
session. Comrade Attah’s account is grounded in evidential law as “account of a
reasonable person”. Professionally, he is a political scientist, a student of
maters degree and a practicing journalist with the Sun Newspapers. He is also a
devoted Catholic faithful who usually sits in front of holy altar before the
beginning of every mass service. Totality of these makes his account nationally
and universally acceptable and legally admissible.
Not even a public
statement and lucid explanation offered by His Lordship; the Catholic
Archbishop of Onitsha, Archbishop Val Okeke could dissuade the APC and its
propaganda managers including Mr. Joe Igbokwe of its Lagos chapter from drawing
the wrath of God and his angel warriors by accusing the Presiding Priest of the
Uke Adoration Prayer Ministry, Reverend Father Emmanuel Obimma (Ebube Mmuo Nso)
of “taking bribes from Governor Peter Obi to maintain silence”; and insisting
that “Peter Obi killed the victims”. For the fact that the Catholic Church is
highly ordered and is not a mushroom megaphone ministry without hierarchy, is
not enough for the likes of Mr. Joe Igbokwe, who has chosen to lie against the
Holy Spirit in the name of playing “politics”.
The APC, which recently
drew a battle line against Igbo gods and goddesses, is yet to finish it, yet it
has now entered into a more consuming one by challenging the Almighty God and
His heavenly Angels and other Holy Spirits to a fight over the true state of
event at the Uke Adoration Ground.
Finally, in the immortal
words of His Royal Majesty, the Obi of Onitsha, Igwe Alfred Nnaemeka Achebe:
“Onye Merua Ala, Ala Achubiya Oso” (he who chooses to desecrate the holy land,
runs without ceasing or without anybody chasing him)! Our Armpits Are Still Not
Hairy!!
Signed:
Emeka Umeagbalasi,
Chairman of the Board
International
Society for Civil Liberties & the Rule of Law
08033601078, 08180103912
Comrade Justus Ijeoma,
Head, Publicity Desk
08037114869
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