IDEKE WE KNOW, GBURUGBURU WHO ART THOU?

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DEKE WE KNOW; GBURUGBURU, WHO ART THOU?

BY HILLARY UGWU

Distinguished Senator Okey Ezea, popularly known as "Ideke", is a  name that is synonymous with Nsukka both in business and politics. Some paid agents need to understand that the name IDEKE was earned genuinely with hard work and not the ROUNDABOUT (Gburugburu) type of name. Besides that it leads to no direction, the latter name is synonymous with fakery, sly, 419, waste, and looting of public treasury.

What it means is that, whereas *Ideke* is a household name in Igbo Nsukka and represents our people's core values, ideology and struggle, Gburugburu will forever remain a name that holds no value for the cultured Nsukka folk. Hence, his media e-rats should be told in clear terms that their mission to destroy the name *Ideke* because of the crumbs he is throwing at them like swine, they have made themselves dead on arrival!

 *Okey Ezea* we know; Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi who art thou?

Chief Barr. Okey Ezea, the Senator representing the good people of Enugu North district of Enugu State, can best be described as one of the finest stock of his generation in Nsukka. This is a man who is standing tall academically, socially and economically through his personal struggle and not government patronage. A first-class brain who made a double distinction (aggregate 6) in the WASC of 1980, Ideke later graduated with honours both in Political Science and in Law. A barrister at law, he's on the verge of obtaining his PhD in Law before Covid-19 struck.

 *Ideke* is one of the first-generation business moguls in Igbo Nsukka who selflessly named his business after Nsukka as a people, thus showing how committed and passionate he holds our people.

 *Ideke* can also be described as a political colossus who ventured into politics with his hard-earned money against the establishment just to liberate our people. Nsukka people paid him back when the right opportunity came in 2023. The vigilant electorate ensured that their votes were counted and protected for the first time since 1999. Ideke won by a landslide. And he will always conquer the saboteurs who traded Nsukka people for their personal gain anytime election holds! 

That these vultures and saboteurs are gathering again to attack our Most Distinguished Senator Okey Ezea, using non-existent palliative rice as a decoy to achieve their paymaster's 2027 senatorial ambition, is, to say the least, foolish and idiotic. Otherwise, how can you start criticizing a man who is barely seven months in office, whose first budget year was just passed and who has three more years to represent his people if not pure witchcraft and absolute madness?

Again, can you compare a man who on resumption of his legislative duties, among other salient achievements, stood tall on the floor of the red chambers of the Nigerian Senate to advocate against the age-long marginalisation of Nsukka people in the area of ministerial positions to a man who was in the green chambers or House of Reps for 12 years with no single oral contribution either by motion, bill or  even closed-door lobbying for human empowerment or infrastructural opportunities on  behalf of our people in Udenu and Igbo-Eze North whom he represented? He traded off all benefits of the 12 years for his personal gain with his ASHUA and NRASHI mantra. Yet, some who have the slavery mentality are writing trash against our general on the battlefield, Distinguished Senator Okey Nzeogwu Ezea.

We are taking records of those who are sharing looted funds. Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi's mission is to perpetually keep the good people of Igbo Nsukka in chains.

 _Chief Ugwu is from Udenu LGA_