By Tonye Banigo
When he claimed he had
joined the All Progressives Congress, APC, a little over a year ago, not a few
members of the APC especially from his Emohua Local Government Area grumbled.
Their grouse was that they know the man Chief Emeh Glory Emeh too well.
According to an Emohua
indigene (name with-held), Chief Emeh is like a tiger that can never change its
spots.
“We told our leaders
that those of us from Emohua know this man very well but we were ignored. They
welcomed him with open arms but today, like the typical political bird of
passage, he has moved back to the PDP where he believes he has the opportunity
to scam the governor of huge sums of money in the name of conducting propaganda
against the APC,” he revealed.
It does not take much
to realise that Chief Glory Emeh has already started work as a self-acclaimed
propagandist and lie merchant. He seems to have nothing else in his propaganda
scabbard to please and scam Gov. Nyesom Wike and the PDP than to create and project
a singular agenda of an imaginary division in Rivers APC.
For the man who prides
himself in being a ‘media’ man’ on account of planting gotcha stories in
newspapers, started by planting a story of how the APC in Rivers State is
divided along different lines. Two weeks after, he has just sent out another
story under a pseudo name (Iheanyi Ezinwo) titled “Crisis of confidence rocks
Rivers APC....as members move in drove[sic] to ruling PDP.”
This line of
propaganda or narrative serves Chief Emeh two purposes. He uses it to
accentuate his imaginary dooms day for the APC in Rivers State, something the
right thinking public know is not true. The second reason is to try and justify
his ignominious and shameful defection to PDP in search of filthy lucre, a
movement even his Personal Assistant (PA) refused to do with his boss. There is
no gainsaying that his closest associates rebuffed his persistent attempt of
luring them to leave the APC and join the PDP. Tuth is that the man who regales
in having made a fortune from former Governor Peter Odili through propaganda
went alone to the PDP.
The real battle for
Chief Glory Emeh should not be against Rivers APC, the uphill task before him
should be how to launder his image as a notorious liar and serial betrayer
before his old pals in PDP. He is known to have betrayed everyone else that has
crossed his part in life. The list of his victims is too long for the space
available here.
Undoubtedly, Chief
Glory Emeh has a penchant for big ideas and sees opportunities to make money
from propaganda where no one else does. He confesses to anyone that cares how
he made so much money selling media-related dummies to former Gov. Peter Odili
when he served under the latter. Emeh often narrates how he created some local
tabloids, cloned existing ones all for the purpose of propaganda according to
the textbooks of Chief Emeh.
While in APC, he
attempted to lift from his old scripts but did not find easy victims to sell
his dummies to. His motives were carefully studied, uncovered and ignored.
Obviously his failure to sell those dummies for big money contributed to his
decision to return to his old PDP camp where the Rivers State governor could be
made to buy his schemes while Chief Emeh smiles to the bank.
However, he may face a
huge stumbling block as there are already several handlers of the governor’s
media activities. Beyond trying to personally bulldoze his way to secure
something for himself directly from Gov. Nyesom Wike, Chief Emeh is likely to
find out that like the good old saying goes, ‘all that glitters is not gold.’
By far, the most
daunting challenge for Chief Emeh Glory Emeh is having to extract the
confidence of most of the PDP members and Gov. Nyesom Wike who know Chief Emeh
so well and perhaps more than they know the back of their palms.
Given the opportunity,
I would advise members of Rivers APC not be worried with the planted articles
and other lies under all types of pseudo names emanating from Chief Emeh as he
has only one objective: to paint Rivers APC as balkanised and diminishing. When
the public fail to see that happen, he will naturally run out of ideas as his
only objective is to eke out big money from his new victims. Nothing more.
Tonye Banigo is a Port Harcourt based social
commentator and political analyst
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