I read a news report where the Enugu State Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Barr. Ugochukwu Agballa, was saying that the party does not need Governor Peter Ndubuisi Mbah, claiming that he has misgoverned the state. Reading such a story made me understand that the rumors going around—that his dealer died—might be true, and his new dealer may have given him something that his head cannot carry.
Personally, I don't like Governor Peter Ndubuisi Mbah, but Barr. Ugochukwu Agballa has no right whatsoever to attack his person, especially linking him to misgovernance. Imagine someone who is synonymous with failure and only dwells on propaganda and manipulation to thrive. Someone who failed as APGA's guber candidate and killed the party even when it was prospering; he entered Accord and killed it to the extent that even to get a complete 6-man executive at the state level till date has become a problem. He entered PDP, was given contracts that he messed up, before venturing into APC, where he relegated the party to a mere beer parlour discussion object.
What Barr. Agballa doesn't know is that Governor Mbah is a threat to his position as APC chairman, and that except he isn't interested in joining, that can only make him remain as the party chairman. He has forgotten that his boss, Governor Uzodimma, is currently out of "ihe a na-eme na APC and Tinubu's circle," unlike before. Having failed to stop Tinubu's visit to Enugu, failed to foist an acting VC in UNN, and also failed to foist a gubernatorial candidate for APC in Anambra State, it is a clear sign of losing out and dwelling on past glory.
This is the same man who, rather than build the party, goes around acting like a rejected masquerade looking for sympathy dancers. A man who cannot conduct even a simple ward congress without turning it into a royal rumble should be the last to speak about governance. If failure had a face, Barr. Agballa would be its official portrait.
Agballa’s politics is like an expired drug—no longer useful but still capable of harming those who take it. Every political party he joins ends up in a coma; yet, he walks around with the arrogance of someone who just discovered politics. The only appointment he deserves is in a museum—under the section labeled “Exhibit of Political Misfortune.”
Truth is, if not for his noisy outbursts, most Nigerians wouldn't even know APC has a chairman in Enugu State. His only achievement in APC is turning it into a retirement home for failed featherweight politicians and a debating society for bitter men. Instead of insulting Mbah, he should face his unpaid executive members and address why APC meetings now hold under mango trees.
Once Governor Mbah declares interest to join APC, Barr. Ugochukwu Agballa's political career will be dead, and that's what he has seen and is working to dwell on. In fact, Governor Mbah doesn't even need to enter APC to retire Barr. Ugochukwu Agballa from politics; all he needs to do is just make a phone call to his master, President Ahmed Bola Tinubu, that he will deliver 45% votes to him come 2027, and Barr. Agballa will become a former chairman.
Sebastine Chukwuebuka Okafor Bookastro writes from Enugu