Victor Umeh and the Fallacy of Voice Ndigbo
By Hon. Comr. Asikason Jonathan
Repeatedly, hired spin-doctors and vuvuzelas have argued that Ndigbo lost a voice in Chief (Sir)Victor Umeh’s failure to return to the 9th Assembly. Hence, they pleaded on him to throw his hat in the ring for the next occupant of the seat of Anambra Central at the Red Chamber come 2023.
While such theatrics comes with the territory of politics and elections in Nigeria, it is appalling that Umeh’s media managers failed to notice the pettiness of their logic and why it cannot flow.
No doubt, Umeh during his excursus in Senate was not a benchwarmer but his performance was neither mesmerizing nor sterling to be described as ‘the voice of Ndigbo’ at the chamber.
Victor Umeh and the Fallacy of Voice Ndigbo
The question is what happened to his voice outside the senate? It is only in the senate that Umeh can function as the voice of Ndigbo?
A voice is a voice irrespective of position or office. That Umeh had gone dumb on many issues affecting Ndigbo in the national politics vitiate the above argument.
No doubt, Sir Victor is a good party man but every party wants a candidate that will win an election. He can’t return to Senate by the cheap argument of being the voice of Ndigbo.
Hon. Asikason represented Enugwu-Ukwu Ward II between 2020 and 2021 in the Njikoka Local Government Council.
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