Mike Wabali
Watching Chidi Lloyd on AIT Kakaaki on Monday, March 18 2019, and seeing through his display of shamelessness, there has not been any significant change in the man who picked up the symbol of the authority of the Rivers State House of Assembly in 2013 in a bid to murder a fellow member of the House. The disagreement then was over a failed impeachment plot against the then governor, Rotimi Chibuike Amaechi, the current minister of transportation.
That act of desperation beamed live on national television to the chagrin of the entire Rivers populace has not in any way been exorcised from the man despite the fact that between those short years, Lloyd has acquired a Doctorate Degree in law.
Since that inglorious act, Lloyd has stood in to be elected as a member representing Ikwerre/Emohua Federal Constituency but failed. His loyalty to the minister of Transportation and the Director-General of Buhari’s campaign organisation, Rotimi Chibuike Amaechi has done more harm than good to him and he should have a rethink than the show of shame he is made to exhibit each time he speaks in public.
Commenting on the killing of Dr Ferry Gberegbe, Llyod said the slain academic was acting a Nollywood movie, adding that he would not believe the story of Dr Gberegbe’s death until he sees his corpse. The video of his shooting has since gone viral on the internet. How can a man possibly fake his own death?
What Lloyd has perhaps failed to understand is that loyalty to a cause at the expense of personal integrity is more injurious than a viper’s venom.
My father will always say that a good name is better than anything in the world. That is why people still remember the likes of Chinua Achebe years after his death. How history will remember Chidi Lloyd is left for the future to decide. I don’t think that he has thought deeply about the legacies he will leave and how he will be remembered. But this is Nigeria, and especially Rivers State where people who should be in motor parks are walking the corridors of power.
At every turn, people will return to that video at the state house of assembly to take another look at the man. A simple Google search shows a man who has raked for himself, a series of bad names.
Has the man learnt anything? I don’t think so. If at all, he is getting worse. His perchance for beating war chests has come to frighten not even the faint hearted. Yet every Rivers indigene, more especially, the Ikwerres must have nothing but pity for the person that Chidi Lloyd is becoming – a poster boy for the justification of illegalities.
One questions the boldness of the man in defending an election that INEC and even the reserved European Union were bold enough to condemn. Not even the killings of Rivers people by invading forces could in a way deter Mr Lloyd from his dance of shame. This is all in a bid to acquire power. This is an election that his party, the All Progressives Congress, is not part of after arrogantly shooting themselves on the leg. Why not allow a spokesman of the African Action Congress to speak for the party?
Factoring into the ideology of the APC, the state should burn to satisfy the ego of one man. That is why 37 persons perished in Abonnema. That is also why Dr Ferry Gberegbe was shot in the stomach leading to his death.
It is time for Rivers people to retire these brand of desperate politicians who do not have remorse for their actions which leave trails of Rivers blood in their wake. These politicians have made themselves above the law and are answerable to no one.
Chidi Lloyd depicts all that is wrong with politics in Nigeria and the present day politicians who have no honour.
