Ugwuanyi ifeanyi deserves every accolade,such a humble personality. The first time i agree with Sullivan decision.

If this heist had ended with treasury looting, once again sad as it is, it would have been somehow more tolerable. However, having become power drunk, he faced real and imaginary opponents. Determined to cut everyone to bellow his small political size, Ohodo, my community lost a lot of prime timber in the jungle he turned Igbo Etiti as he crudely applied his newfound power.

This often happens when mediocres found themselves in power. Inferiority complex breeds in them an insecure personality that can only be sure when the rest are cut down. Odo had a mortal fear of Barrister Kingsley Asogwa, the erstwhile Leader of Igbo Etiti Legislative Council. His ill advised removal, which gave Odo respite from the intimidation his rising profile engendered within his camp, eventually went on to cost the council millions in compensation to Asogwa.

He was to be mortified by fear when Prof Simon Ortuanya was appointment into the cabinet by Governor Sullivan Chime to man the education ministry. Ortuanya was from Ohodo. His erudition, charismatic personality once again induced an aspen dance on the Speaker who could only survive when no other quality person was around. He thus maliciously blackmailed the Governor to drop him. He sponsored his fringe supporters on a celebration spree on hearing the news.

In all, he believed he was paving his way to the governorship of the state. However, little did he know he was embarking on a crude show of shame that showed the entire political class in the state a frightening specter that could be their lot if such a fellow is entrusted with such a pristine responsibility as the governorship of a state.

People like Professor Ortuanya and Hon. Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi brought decency and finesse to political campaigns. They eschued acrimony and all the evil that thrived in other camps. As against those who were elevated through political calculations that served the expediency of the time irrespective of their glaring incompetencies and limited abilities, Ortuanya had capacity and urbane personality against the red eyed desperados that mistook accident of history for choice of free men that now has the opportunity to express such.

The Governor has spoken well. There is only one slot and as such there can be only one candidate. Professor Ortuanya is in the mould of Ugwuanyi. However, history became his albatross as Igbo Etiti has had a governorship and deputy governorship slots in the past among other plum positions. However, we know those who were never to have been chosen because they were never good enough. At least this much is evident in the way they manage the positions they hold.

AMAECHI UGWELE