Prof Pita Agbese tears Ortom apart

Ortom is Pulling Himself Down With His Failed Leadership: My Response to Asom D. Jerry

I have come to expect scurrilous pieces against me for taking a strong stand against Ortom’s satanic leadership but I think this piece today by Asom D. Jerry takes the prize in its outright lies, fabrications, innuendos and idiocies. I am amazed that Ortom’s defenders can not counter my criticisms of Ortom’s effete leadership with facts and figures but can only resort to ad hominem attacks on me. Those attacks are irrelevant to the issues at hand: Ortom’s failed leadership.

Jerry, please cite just one example of the supposed exchanges between you and I on Ortom where you claimed I was praising Ortom and you were criticizing him. Just one. I expected you to lie but not to do so so unashamedly. Even in my dreams, I have not once praised Ortom for anything. It is not that I am miserly with praises. Ortom has not done anything worth praising. Zilch. Nada. Zero. The closest I came to not pillorying Ortom was a piece I wrote, titled, “Clapping for Ortom with One Finger.” This was long after he had left the APC and as the title would indicate, it was a sarcastic piece.

As I noted two days ago, it is Ortom himself who is pulling down his administration and Benue State with it. I have no interest in pulling Ortom down. He is already in the pit of the stench of poor governance and if I am doing anything at all, it is to pull him out of that ignominious morass of the shameful hole that he dug with his cruel, inept and mendacious leadership. No retiree will tell you that I was the reason why Ortom has refused to pay them. No Benue teacher will blame me for the inhumane and sadistic manner with which Ortom has treated them. Rev. Peters Ichull is your fellow special assistant. Ask him if I was the one who asked Ortom to owe him his 2017 salaries (five months of them). Ask any Benue civil servant if I have anything to do with Ortom owing them a five-month salary. Ask the victims of the recent flood in Makurdi if I was the one who urged Ortom not to construct drainage channels. Many roads in Benue are now not navigable. Ask any road user if I had anything to do with Ortom being unable to build roads. You should be ashamed to celebrate an “Audio Governor.” I was not the only who gave Ortom that befitting name. I was not the one who coined the name, Kanshio, by which Ortom is popularly-known.

I am amused that you were interested in my mother’s funeral to the extent of lying that I was not at her funeral. My mother was a superlative woman. She was a virtuous woman of many accomplishments. She was the biological mother of only six of us but she was a mother to virtually everyone in Agila. I am sad that she is no longer with us, as she has succumbed to the fate that awaits all living creatures, but she lives on in my heart and in the hearts of countless other people. My mother never went to school a day in her life but at her funeral, there were more than fifteen professors, including some from the United States who came to sympathize with us over our loss. We gave my mother a befitting funeral, as Nigerians often put it. I am sad that my parents are no longer with us but I am glad that they did not live to see the infamy of Ortom’s leadership. My parents were extremely generous people and there was no way they could have fathomed how a human being could be so callous and so wicked, the way Ortom is. In a way, it is a pity that both of them are not here to provide for some of Ortom’s victims in our village. They would have served meals to hungry teachers and retirees. They would have paid the hospital bills of some of Ortom’s victims in Ado Local Government Area. If the dead could turn in their graves, I am sure that my parents would be turning in their graves with respect to the level of inhumanity and insensitivity of the Ortom leadership. They would have been amazed at the crass narcissistic personality of Samuel Ortom. They would have been baffled by the extent to which neither Ortom nor his supporters like you have any sense of shame and decency. My parents would have been very proud of me that I have the courage to stand up and speak for the many victims of Samuel Ortom. They would have asked me not to relent, not to pay attention to silly ad hominem attacks on me for fighting for old men and women, too feeble, too sick, and too poor to complain about Ortom’s deprivation of their worth and their humanity. My parents would have nodded their heads and say, “yes, our son is carrying on our noble tradition of helping the helpless and tormenting their traducers. We are proud of him.”

I do not have any special relationship with President Muhammadu Buhari, and I am afraid, I cannot convey your messages to him. Tell Ortom to do that for you. He has a direct line to the president.

Thanks for your diagnosis of my supposed medical condition. And you did that free of charge, something that would have cost me at least one million Naira here in the USA. Unfortunately, you behaved like a quack doctor. You did not provide a remedy for the supposed malady you diagnosed in me. More fatally to your case, you did not link my supposed medical condition and my “unkept appearance” to why Ortom is owing teachers ten months of their 2017 salaries and why, after five years, there is not a single infrastructural project that he has initiated and built. If my “unkept appearance” is the obstacle to Ortom’s performance, I would be happy to clean myself up. I won’t have a facelift though because then, you would not recognize me as your former imaginary sparring partner.

I know that some of Ortom’s supporters are inebriated with noxious fumes from Ortom’s foul mendacities. I was hoping that you were not one of them but I am beginning to have serious doubts. For you to claim that you and I used to jostle from opposing spectrums on Ortom with me being the praise-singer and you, the implacable critic, could only have come from inebriation from a very potent hallucinogenic substances or from having your head shoved too far into Ortom’s down below cavity. In any case, you should stop quaffing or injecting whatever substance induced your hallucinations, otherwise your fake medical license would be yanked away from you.