A PAID SAVAGE HACK JOB: NZE CHIDI OKOROAFOR’S PATHETIC LIES AND HIS PANICKING PAYMASTERS’ BANKRUPT SMEAR CAMPAIGN AGAINST DR. IKEDI OHAKIM
By Chima Ejiofor, Professor of Political Science and International Relations, Harvard University
Political hacks, jobbers, and intellectual prostitutes are crawling out of their sewers again. These faceless, spineless propagandists have resurrected their rotten trash in a pathetic attempt to smear a man whose very name sends shivers down their spines. Normally, we ignore such worthless garbage from hired, faceless, and jobless political hacks operating under pseudo names, but when these vermin peddle blatant lies to distort history and poison minds, they deserve to be dragged into the light and eviscerated without mercy. Nze Chidi Okoroafor is a nobody on his own — just another cheap, whimpering individual too afraid to use his real name — but the truth about Dr. Ikedi Ohakim must be rammed down the throats of him and his trembling paymasters, the same notorious cabal infamous for smearing every political leader in the state who dares to challenge their narrow and parochial interests.
Without AI, insects like Nze Chidi Okoroafor would remain voiceless in their obscurity. Now every idle jobber can churn out garbage and get platformed. But no algorithm can turn lies into truth.
Nze Chidi Okoroafor’s so-called article is not a serious critique; it is a toxic cocktail of distortions, selective amnesia, and naked political panic from a desperate propagandist and his backers, who are visibly terrified by the unstoppable momentum of the “Bring Back Ohakim” tsunami. The piece reeks of fear, bitterness, and desperation from failed political merchants and their shadowy sponsors, who will stop at nothing to drag Imo State back to the dark era when they held the state hostage for personal and selfish interests while masquerading as defenders of democracy.
This is not political analysis. It is a frantic propaganda memo disguised as commentary — the dying scream of political opportunists and cowards whose grip on influence is steadily collapsing under the weight of public reawakening and historical reality.
If Dr. Ohakim is truly the “faded political relic” this writer claims, why are these political hacks wasting precious time and their sponsors’ resources on such a frenzied and coordinated assault against him? Politically irrelevant figures are ignored, not obsessively attacked. Only individuals perceived as potent political threats provoke this level of sustained venom and panic.
The sheer intensity of the attack is itself an admission that Ohakim remains a towering political figure whose growing resurgence is clearly unsettling his opponents. Those who benefited politically from his manipulated and controversial 2011 removal now appear rattled by the renewed public conversations surrounding his legacy and relevance in Imo politics.
The way this hack attempts to rewrite the history of the 2011 election is the height of intellectual dishonesty. History is clear, and the verdict in the court of public opinion has long been delivered: Dr. Ohakim did not lose that election in any fair democratic contest. It was hijacked by the same political cabal and manipulative forces that are now visibly trembling at the growing momentum of his resurgence.
The same entrenched networks that benefited from that controversial outcome are still active today, recycling tired propaganda and manufactured narratives in a desperate attempt to sanitize history and conceal their political sins. But no amount of coordinated media spin can permanently suppress public memory.
Political history is filled with leaders who endured disputed defeats, survived orchestrated setbacks, and eventually returned stronger through public re-evaluation. Today, many thoughtful Imolites openly express regret over the direction the state took after Ohakim’s exit from office. That growing public awakening cannot be buried beneath official narratives, propaganda columns, or the noise of desperate political merchants.
Labeling the “Bring Back Ohakim” movement as “political necromancy” is the laughable drivel of a bankrupt political mind. Imo citizens have every democratic right to rally behind a leader whose visible footprints of development still define significant parts of the state: massive road infrastructure expansion, the legendary Clean and Green initiative that transformed Owerri into one of Nigeria’s cleanest cities, youth empowerment programmes, civil service reforms, and visionary projects such as the Imo Freeway initiative.
His strategic legacy of institutions and agencies — which, like the man himself, have remained relevant over the years — including the Imo State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission (ISOPADEC), Imo Road Maintenance Agency (IROMA), and ENTRACO (Environmental Transformation and Transport Company), still terrify his detractors today. These are not ghosts or imaginary achievements; they are tangible legacies and enduring institutions that many of today’s loudest critics could neither envision nor build.
The real political necromancers are the propagandists and hired hacks recycling decades-old smears because they lack the courage and intellectual honesty to debate governance records and measurable performance. Dr. Ikedi Ohakim brought structure, order, discipline, strategic planning, and developmental ambition to governance. What followed immediately after Dr. Ohakim in many respects was political chaos, policy inconsistency, and declining standards — and the people remember.
And the arrogant question “what did Ohakim leave behind?” is pure intellectual fraud and deliberate erasure by a paid liar. Ohakim left roads, he left environmental transformation, he left innovative financing through the N18.5 billion bond, he left youth schemes and institutional discipline, he left ISOPADEC, IROMA, ENTRACO etc. Even his bitterest critics choke on admitting the standards he set. The administration preferred and defended by these propagandists struggled under the weight of comparison with that legacy. He left benchmarks of excellence. These propagandists left excuses and failure.
The nonsense about “poverty of political imagination” exposes the real bankrupt minds — these hacks who think discarding proven warriors for untested experimenters is wisdom. Only fools and their sponsors reject experience in favor of fresh disasters. Imo people are tired of novelty that delivers poverty. They want competence, stability, and results. Ohakim has them in abundance, and no permission is needed from these jobbers or their godfathers.
The wild screams about “executive overreach” and “authoritarianism” are nothing more than cherry-picked propaganda from hypocrites and failed political actors desperate to rewrite history. Every Nigerian governor has had disagreements and power struggles with state assemblies — that is part of democratic governance and one of the mechanisms through which checks and balances operate. Singling out Dr. Ikedi Ohakim while ignoring far worse abuses by others is the height of dishonest and selective propaganda.
What these propagandists conveniently refuse to acknowledge is that Dr. Ohakim governed successfully despite emerging under the relatively unknown Progressive Peoples Alliance (PPA). Yet, he built and sustained a cordial and collaborative working relationship with a legislature dominated by 27 People’s Democratic Party (PDP) lawmakers under the leadership of the then Speaker, Goodluck Nana Opiah — a respected political figure with whom Dr. Ohakim still maintains a strong relationship to this day.
That reality alone destroys the lazy and dishonest narrative being pushed by political propagandists.
As for the tired allegation of media intolerance, one must ask: intolerance against what exactly? Against the era of sponsored blackmail, politically funded smear campaigns, and assassination journalism championed by paid propagandists and blackmailers such as Nze Chidi Okoroafor and other hired hacks who peddled the since-debunked propaganda that Dr. Ohakim assaulted a Catholic priest?
There are no court records validating any of these allegations, and no court ever convicted Dr. Ohakim of dictatorship, authoritarianism, or abuse of office because there was never any credible legal basis for such claims. These cowards knew this, which is precisely why they avoided the courts and instead resorted to peddling blackmail and propaganda — the classic strategy of giving a dog a bad name in order to hang it.
What existed then — and what continues today — was noise manufactured by political opponents, accidental media opportunists, and blackmailers like Nze Chidi Okoroafor and his sponsors, all seeking headlines, political relevance, and partisan advantage.
Innuendo is not evidence. Repetition of propaganda does not transform falsehood into fact.
On Concorde Hotel, Owerri could not have been repeatedly acclaimed both locally and internationally as one of the cleanest cities in Nigeria three times in a row, nor could it have remained the preferred destination for business retreats, conferences, and major events — with Concorde hotel serving as one of the most patronized facilities if the hotel had truly been in such terrible condition these hypocrites now dishonestly claim.
These propagandists and blackmailers clearly need their heads reexamined for deliberately confusing Dr. Ohakim with the failures and neglect associated with the administration that followed his. Blaming Ohakim for the later dilapidation of Concorde Hotel after his tenure is one of the most ridiculous and historical lies contained in this entire trash pile.
Pinning the later deterioration of Concorde hotel or any public infrastructure on Ohakim’s administration, while ignoring the years and government that came afterward, is the logic of political illiterates and intellectual infants. Their paymasters know this perfectly well — they are simply hoping that the people are gullible enough to swallow the propaganda without questioning it.
Mocking sanitation duties is the pinnacle of warped, shallow idiocy from a writer with zero values. Environmental management is serious governance. Ohakim’s Clean and Green delivered real transformation. Weaponizing it as ridicule only proves how empty these attacks are and how much they fear acknowledging his actual legacy.
The Reverend Father story? Exhausted, discredited garbage. Inflated for cheap emotion, but later recanted by key figures including Rev. Fr. Ejike Mbaka himself, with apologies tendered to Ohakim. All these issues — fraud claims, Ikiri metaphor, everything — were litigated, adjudicated, and thrown out in Ohakim’s favor in the court of public opinion. Recycling debunked lies only shows these propagandists have nothing left but vomit from the past.
The so-called fraud allegations are gutter-level character assassination by desperate merchants. Unproven trash remains trash until courts decide. Turning disputes into smear campaigns is what bankrupt hacks do when their paymasters run out of ideas.
The hypocritical call to “break the cycle” is comedy from the very embodiment of the disease: propaganda, manipulation, and elite terror. The Bring Back Ohakim movement is fueled by raw memory of real governance — not anointing from failed godfathers. What is causing sleepless nights for these political merchants and their sponsors is Ohakim’s undying relevance, his deep relationships with the current administration, APC leadership at state and national levels, and the thunderous demand from Imolites at home and abroad for him to return to Douglas House. They fear consolidation of progress instead of fresh looting experiments that wasted almost a decade.
This desperate propaganda assault will achieve nothing except confirm the strength of the Ohakim resurgence. It exposes how badly the hacks and their paymasters are rattled. History crushes propagandists. Imo people — not these cowards hiding behind pens and pseudo names — will deliver the final, brutal verdict. And when they do, the records of vision, achievement, and resilience will bury this recycled nonsense forever.
Bring Back Ohakim is not a request. It is an inevitability that these trembling jobbers and their masters dread with every fiber. The people are coming.
