Dear
Publisher,
Permit
me to use this opportunity in your widely read online news journal to react to
an article published by www.247ureports.com. The
article in question has the aforementioned title which was purportedly
authored by one Onwubiko Emmanuel who claimed to be a writer, critic and an
activist from Bende LGA of Abia State.
This
article which from a very objective interpretation represents a public
relations piece meant to praise the current governor of Abia State Chief
Theodore Orji has attracted my interest particularly because of my strong
suspicion that it may have been planted to confuse my readers because of the
similarity in byline. Since it started running, I have been inundated by series
of disturbing calls from persons who wanted to know if I am the person behind
this work which more or less looked like a piece from the Abia state ministry
of information or from an affiliated organ to the current state administration
in Abia state.
I
have struggled to distance myself from this piece but callers have persisted
that I do a rejoinder to either raise alarm of possible cloning of my byline or
to simply disclaim the piece and put it in its proper perspective since the
so-called writer made claims of doing virtually the same work that I have done
in the past decades.
Following
some observations by my admirers, I have therefore decided to put the records
straight by disclaiming this so-called article and to state that first of all,
I am not from Abia State and secondly I have no reason under the Sun to praise
the Abia State governor whom by all accounts has failed spectacularly to
deliver effective good governance to Abia State in the last seven years plus.
It is also my wish to state clearly that I never commissioned any one to clone
my byline with the surreptitious intent of confusing my good readers.
* Emmanuel Onwubiko is Head, HUMAN
RIGHTS WRITERS’ ASSOCIATION OF NIGERIA (HURIWA) and blogs@www.huriwa.blogspot.com; www.huriwa.org.
25/4/2014
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