Rochas Okoroacha – the indomitable lion

Please do not take the title of this piece literary for my subject this morning is nothing near a lion talk less of an Indomitable one. He would rather be closer to a chicken than a proud and strong Lion.

The video of his mishap in a State where he was an imperial Governor has been circulating all over Social Media. A close observation of the various videos would show a systematic meltdown of the ‘tyrant’. He moved from being very bold and his arrogant self into a measly rat that had been cowed. From the ‘who are you’ stand to the meek and mild gentle man sitting on a bench in the front of what looked like a Police Station perfectly illustrates the fall of this gentleman who went around building statues all over the beleaguered state in a crazed attempt at immortalizing the madness that had come over the state with his administration.

Bestriding the political space with clay feet but ignorant of that very telling fact, he saw himself brought down to the dusty grounds of political infamy. I am sure when the gentleman confronted him. asking him ‘who are you’ he must have seen his powerless situation stare him in the face. It was over, the Executive powers as State Governor which allowed him push one of the most nepotistic, shallow faced and bare minded administrations in Nigeria’s gubernatorial odyssey.

But still being carried by the effects of an overdose of ego, he made to move against authority. Why not, Afterall he was authority, he was the Owelle. The one who built up the state and made it the world’s capital for statues. So why would they seal up his properties despite the fact that the said properties according to the State were acquired through public funds.

He had to show them who he was. Expectedly so, the State showed him a better picture of himself- a man who was as weak as they came and who could not stand the heat of a deprivation that he had caused so many people for just five minutes. We had seen a report of his human frailness although I will not laugh at that because that would be wicked, but the lesson still resonates and that is the lesson of a feeble joker who has bestrode our landscape simply by the conviction of his misplaced positioning in our system.

Sadly, this is the case with the generality of political leadership nationwide. Our issue as a Nation is not that of restructuring or economic malaise that continue to dog us but our expertise to throw up these kinds of leadership at the expense of secure and robust leadership and then sit down and wait for Uhuru.

Never happens people because what we will always get at the end of the day are clowns like this with long scarves hung over their morbid shoulders.

Am I angry?