The Prof. Akubue They Don't Know
By Martins Chiedozie Ugwu and Raphael Agu (Johnmartinsworldonline@gmail.com) Just as the African Democratic Congress (ADC) concluded its congress in Enugu State with the election of Professor Uchenna Augustine Akubue as chairman, a defeated "faction" of the party went into overdrive on social media and even petitioned the ICPC. The orchestrated vilification of Prof. Akubue would have been less amusing if these self-styled political actors had chosen another weapon of character assassination. But why "forgery" in the case of a scholar and global technocrat who rendered 25 years of distinguished service to the United Nations? Comrade Chika Idoko and his associates must have set out to weaponize ignorance, but theirs is a glaring exhibition of intellectual bankruptcy. The ADC congress has ended in defeat of those whose relevance has long dissipated! Idoko's attempts to diminish a mountain through baseless litigation and poorly crafted press statements are futi...