Egede Lawrence gives media insight into Ebonyi State Governor David Umahi's battle with his political foes.
Governor David Umahi of Ebonyi State.
From personal experience over the years in my public dealings with fellow human beings, there have been sometimes that saw me become a victim to those in sheep's clothing, but they were ravening wolves with pretence.
For the past seven years of Governor Umahi's tenure in office, his adversaries have developed multiple teeth to bite him with fictitious indictments.
You know what fictitious fault finders are like if they inflict a bite on someone. They even go the extra mile to accuse their victim of the bite and also pretend to be innocent of causing harm.
The most dangerous type of fictitious indictment is when those who are snakes under the green grass and are very close to someone use the name of such a person as collateral to foment trouble under a guise.
This is where some leaders are vulnerable to the public indictment, as a result of misrepresentation of innocent leaders who are not thereof involved in any way.
Another one is like hitting an innocent person with a stick and at the same time accusing the victim of unfounded faults.
In interpretation, it means a false accusation against someone in the bad books of the accusers.
Foes, pessimists, critics and bad eggs are the architects of misrepresentation of someone where nothing has gone wrong.
From all indications, where no enemy of progress is found, it means there is nothing yet fine with such a place because no place where bad people do not exist. Foes are very interesting.
Foes are unavoidable and very interesting to witness in action, where many good things exist.
But with all the happenings in the life of somebody who has no skeleton in his cupboard, or has no knife in her wardrobe, there will be a time of reward.
Whether good or evil there must be a time of rewarding good to the good and bad to the evil, in a situation where justice should prevail over wrong accusations.
That is where boomerang is to be expected against the foes of innocent persons, who have nothing to regret in accusations that are fraught with the filth of falsehood and also baseless.
The one I will live to remark as the worst experience that came to Governor Umahi was at the time his adversaries wanted to remove him from office with a court coup d'etat but crumbled.
It was exactly the time he was in the race for Presidential primary elections in the APC.
There was a gang up of those enemies from the Philistines in PDP and from the inner Syrians of APC, who plotted the coup.
They are still at large and are unknown popular gangsters in Sheep's clothing, but we're all ravening wolves pretending to be innocent of the harm done.
But Governor Umahi's bravery and his all-weather victories put them to shame at last, and as a result, it also became a deadly boomerang to the foes at large.
To God is the glory forever.
Egede Lawrence is our guest writer and public affairs analyst.
