What will the composer write, sing, draw, create, perform or simulate for the Abia State opposition? How will the composer reconcile himself with the truth and reality of the state and the brief that pays his bills?
Oh yea! The 2027 campaign is heating up and aspirants are warming up. In my home state of Abia, intending aspirants are already in the field, reaching out to people, engaging in series of visitation circus, showing visibility in every public and social gathering and letting their presence felt within the party and the communities. The political parties are on the drawing board, mapping out strategies, rejigging important positions and offices and beefing up old structures and creating new ones. It is preparation time and a lot of inhouse rehearsals are ongoing.
But, I do, in all honesty and sincerely, pity the creative people who will be saddled with the job of creating campaign contents for the Abia State opposition. They will certainly run into a nightmare as they struggle to suppress the scruple of conscience (what Uthman Dan Fodio called “open wound”) and lie against themselves in building up a dummy of a campaign for their paymasters. Since creativity is original and flows from the inner being, the composers for the Abia State opposition will suffer the pain and auguish of sleepless nights in trying to manufacture or construct a message out of a void for their clients.
I continue to wonder: with the transformation that Abia has recorded under Governor Alex Otti, with the visible infrastructural revolution he elicited, with the total overhauling of the state, what will the opposition use to campaign with in the 2027 election? When they mount the podium and face the crowd, what will they say? What message will be inscripted on their billboards, posters and flyers? What message will come up in their electronic campaign on radio, TV and the new media? What electronic adverts are we expecting on radio, TV and social media? What will the state opposition tell the electorates? With what materials of fact will the opposition parties campaign with in 2027 in the state?
I know that career political jobbers hardly give up and that propaganda is their watchword. But, will the opposition Think-Tank sear their consciences, stand truth on its head, immune themselves against reason and construct falsehood to besmear Otti’s work in the name of running campaigns? This, it does appear to me, might be their last-ditch option in their desperate effort to sabotage the state and reverse the wheel of progress. God forbid!
I cannot wait for the campaigns to start in full-swing so that I can scorn and laugh at conmen and dupes as they try again to pull the wool over our eyes in a desperate manipulation to sabotage the state and reverse the wheel of progress.
But, what will tell Abians?
Adindu writes from Umuahia, the Abia State capital
