Ohiri’s Confession: Lesson for Sowore

By Elempe Dele

Sowore’s excuse after Tracy Ohiri apologized and confessed to lying against HE Umahi, the Minister of Works, is an tepid excursion to the awkward. Sowore seems to be working to be seen as an activist all the time, and in the process, he now throws away decorum and due process and common sense.

If Sowore’s intention was to protect the vulnerable in this very case, what he would have done was to see that justice is done, not to take sides. He confronted Umahi in Abuja hoping to make a morsel out of the confrontation if Umahi had reacted likewise.

After caught pants down, he said he didn’t fight for Mrs Ohiri becausewe believe she was strong, “we fought for her because we knew she was vulnerable and lacked the privilege needed to withstand her adversary, a powerful Nigerian minister.”

I do not want to go into his tepid mental creation of #100 million which he claimed was set aside to settle the matter. He is a journalist, he should be the one telling us where the money came from – no need for unsupported speculation to sway the public.

Now that Mrs. Ohiri has agreed that she is a blackmailer and liar, logically, Sowore, without hindsight was protecting not a victim, not a vulnerable woman, but a weaponizer of gender, a liar, a blackmailer, a defamer and a deceiver. In this case, Umahi was the victim that Sowore was supposed to be protecting, not Tracy.

Sowore jumps into issues without due diligence or critical appraisal. This gives bone to the tale that he is a Cashtivist. He said the case was a personal one that was supposed to be civil in nature. This is another very poor offering by Sowore. Cyberbully and defamation are criminal matters and it is the duty of the police to investigate them based on petition by complainants. What Umahi did was to petition the Police that he was being defamed and being cyberbullied by Mrs. Ohiri, and it was on the strength of the petition that the police arrested Tracy to face the law.

Away from Tracy, is Sowore also defending the vulnerable by protesting for the unconditional release of Nnamdi Kanu, the convicted terrorist, while paying blind head to the victims of his mindless orders that saw his own Ibo tribes men and women, children and even security agents murdered? What kind of activist is he? Let him visit Orlu, Okigwe and those spots IPOB and ESN, like Boko Haram and ISWAP, stenciled their trademarks, he will not fail to see trails of wet bloods and deserted ancestral homes overgrown by weeds.

If this Mrs Ohiri’s matter does not teach Sowore a lesson in retrospection, in proper interrogation of thematic matters and reflection, it will be very difficult to convince anyone he is not a cashtivist – who earns a living through this very enterprise.