APGA: Karma Has Finally Caught-up With Victor Umeh?

Posted by African Examiner Articles/Opinion, News Tuesday, February 19th, 2013

Odimegwu Onwumere, In “Reincarnation and Karma”, Stephen Knapp educates us that
Karma is one of those topics that many people know a little about,
but it is often more complex than most people realize. The second
law of thermodynamics is that for every action there is an equal
and opposite reaction. On the universal scale, this is the law of
karma. The law of karma basically states that every action has a
reaction and whatever you do to others will later return to you,
either in this life or a future life. Furthermore, ignorance of the law
is no excuse. We are still accountable for everything we do,
regardless of whether we understand it or not. We cannot escape
it, even if we do not believe it. Therefore, the best thing is to learn
how it works. If everyone understood the Law of Karma, we would
all be living a happier life in a brighter world.

I was too sure that a day like this would come against the
embattled and estranged All Progressive Grand Alliance’s (APGA)
National chairman, Victor Umeh, because the founder of the party,
Chekwas Okorie was hounded out by those he brought to the
party. Okorie was crying and shouting above his voice, but the
powers that felt they were in the party did not care to listen. All they
cared about was ‘politics’. Nothing more! They could say that
Okorie was removed as chairman by the court of law. But in ernest,
was the court not adduced?

I don’t know Umeh neither Okorie except as I read about them in
the newspapers like other Nigerians. One person that is
conspicuously in the scenario that I have met one-on-one is
Governor Peter Obi of Anambra State. It was during one of the
Press Conferences that he held at Government House Awka, and I
was among the invited pressmen.

Umeh reminds me of how people in our country talk about religion
so much, but hurl the word Karma around nonchalantly, as if it
belongs to the Traditional Believers they regard as fetish,
periscoping through the self-acclaimed Godly people’s inadequate
and prejudiced lens.

There would always be karma! Umeh who is a Knight in the
Catholic Church had in different interviews talked about how “God”
has helped him to the ‘level’ he is today. He rather forgot that there
are always the principles of Karmic Justice, which provides deep
lessons to learn. The God of Justice (pls, not Jehovah or Yahweh)
but Karma, has given Umeh a wonderful gift to use as he was
disgracefully chased-out as the national chairman of APGA, by the
same court they used against the good-natured Chekwas Okorie,
whose tears of how they intimidated him has not dried from the
ground the fell. How I wish that Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-
Ojukwu is alive today! Remember? Okorie brought Ojukwu to
APGA and made him the Leader of the party and latter, the
founder of the party was made the feeble.

It was a long encounter between Okorie and the forces that
hijacked the party he founded from him. In an appeal instituted by
the former National Chairman of the party, Chief Okorie,
challenging the decision of an Abuja High Court, which validated
his ouster from the Party by the Umeh faction, the tussle came to
an intimidating end on 13th January 2010, as a Court of Appeal
sitting in Abuja, delivered its judgment against Okorie.

The stubborn confrontation for the Chairmanship of the party didn’t
start in 2010; it started in the year 2004. Umeh faction met and
sent out Okorie from the party. They gave a good dog a bad name
in order to hang her, mouthing that Okorie was shooting to sell out
the party’s mandate. Governor Obi was then seeking to retrieve
the state from Dr. Chris Ngige, who was the candidate of the
Peoples Democratic Party.

Umeh and his splinter group gave all sorts of names to Okorie.
Apart from their shamefaced claim that Okorie wanted to sell the
party, when they saw that that was not saleable, they said that
Okorie embezzled the party’s fund, and converted same to his
private use. How true was it that Okorie was the sole signatory to
the then party’s accounts? They even expelled Okorie from the
party that he founded! Humiliation, upon humiliation!!

Umeh did not remember Karma or respect the “God” he has always
boasted of serving. Upon that the National Working Committee of
the party latter met and ratified Okorie’s expulsion before he
moved towards an Abuja High Court, to challenge his eviction,
Umeh and co was busy playing ‘politics’. But still Okorie has face to
present today in Nigeria than Umeh. Okorie was able to file an
action before the court seeking to have his expulsion quashed and
sought for an order of the court dismissing this Umeh.

It is today palpable that the victory that Okorie could not get then,
Umeh has finally gotten it but in the opposite and is disgraced out
of the party. Even though that Okorie failed in his pursuit at the
High Court and talked to the appellate court to set aside the lower
court’s judgment, Umeh is straight away disgraced, not only by the
court that he used against Okorie, but by the same forces that he
was boasting with against Okorie, and Maxi Okwu has replaced him
in acting capacity.

Umeh is today suffering in the APGA that his team suppressed
Okorie in, and the latter’s matter suffered series of adjournment
including applications for stay. Umeh was then thanking the
judiciary for the unanimous decision reached by the court, which
upheld the decision of the trial court and held that Okorie’s ouster
from the party was authentically done, in line with the stipulations
of the party.

While a cost of Seventy Five Thousand Naira was awarded against
Okorie in favour of Umeh then, the case is different today. A
national shame has been awarded against Umeh in favour of
Okorie. Not even the Supreme Court can save Umeh, as he has
started to talk ills of the judiciary that he was once full of praises
for. How I wish that this Victor Umeh could lay hand on the work
entitled “Eckankar: Ancient Wisdom for Today” by Todd Cramer,
he would understand that Karma applies itself in the most exacting
and clever of ways. If we deprived another human being of
freedom in a previous life, we’d probably have our freedom
curtailed in this life. This experience would give us time to
reconsider our views and learn the Law of Love.

Odimegwu Onwumere, Poet/Author, contributed this piece from Aba, Abia
State. Call: +2348032552855. E-mail: apoet_25@yahoo.com