Livingstone Wechie: The Quisling of Our Time

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By Chibuchi Ezemonye

Vidkun Quisling was a Norwegian Military officer and diplomat whose name became a byword for treachery and betrayals when he collaborated with Nazi Germany during the occupation of Norway during the Second World War. So also has Livinstone Wechie become notorious for his serial betrayals, malfeasance, mischiefs and perennial anarchy.

In 2015, Livingstone Wechie emerged from nowhere. With a file on his head and a microphone in his hand he went everywhere announcing the rape of Rivers state.. Those conversant with Nigerian politics recognized his magical dance steps. and knew that a hidden drummer supplied the frenzied rhythm.

Livingstone Wechie, the self acclaimed founder and director of Anti corruption organization, colorfully named —The Integrity Group, stole into our consciousness. We assumed he was rich or his organisation had heavy grant from overseas to battle graft.

Don’t blame anybody who had such assumptions; when you open pages upon pages of newspapers and you see adverts on one single matter, the assumption is that the individual behind it must be rich. That was the thinking when Wechie’s adverts against Minister of Transportation Rotimi Amaechi took several pages. It was believed that it was all a bid to stop Amaechi from being made a minister by President Muhammadu Buhari, whose election he played a very critical role in.

He came before the Senate with teary eyes and a petition he wrote on behalf of the common people of Rivers State. Amaechi was too corrupt to be a minister in the government of a righteous Buhari, he loudly exclaimed.

He said he was a watchdog. He said he was acting in good faith. He threw enough tantrums. It was a mission nearly accomplished. Amaechi was confirmed but his reputation was sullied.

Time and questions here and there revealed that neither Wechie nor Integrity Group was rich. So, the poser was: Who was behind him? It was easy to assume who it was given the timing and the nature of the documents Wechie was churning out. They were stuffs he could not assess unless he was given.

Not soon after, Livinstone Wechie proclaimed on national television, that all the documents he brandished against Amaechi were all forged. In his AIT outing, Wechie blamed everybody but himself. His excuse for the evil he did was that he was misled. Many laughed and cried for this nation seeing a grown-up admitting lying on television and seemingly expecting the viewers to clap for him. The way he carried on, he obviously expected to be decorated with a national honour.

For his mischief, he was promptly, suspended by the Integrity Group, the same group, on whose behalf, he committed his verbal anarchy.

On the heels of his suspension by the Integrity Group, the Civil Liberties Organisation, an organisation which Livingston Wechie belonged to as at the time, promptly expelled him for mischief and gross misconduct.

His forays into other endeavors also ended in ignominy. He plunged headlong into the All Progressives Congress (APC). No sooner than letter, tired of his mischiefs, the APC in Rivers State, kicked him out. Since then he has been soujorning from one theatre of riotous disruption to the other.

Livingstone is back to television again. He is back with his usual bag of mischief. His present target for disruption is Ohaneze Ndigbo, the apex Igbo Socio-Cultura Organisation. In one media appearance after the other, Livinstone Wechie has unfurled his orchestra of lies and deceit. He has proclaimed himself the Chairman of Ohaneze Ndigbo, Rivers State Chapter. He did not stop there. He also proclaimed, Senator John Mbata, the president General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide. The authentic OHANAZE NDIGBO, Rivers State, chapter promptly expelled him.

How he gets the negative energy for outright lies beats the imagining. Is Livinstone not aware that Senator John Mbata is not and has never been a member of Ohanaeze. He had never attended a meeting of the GENERAL Assembly or IME-OBI, neither has he canvassed any known position on behalf Ohaneze or Ndigbo in general.

Is Livingstone Wechie not aware, that the current President General of OHANEZE NDIGBO, is DIMM UCHECHUKWU NNAM OKWUKWU, who for over 30 years had committed his life to the Igbo cause, and in the past rose to the position of the Secretary General, Ohaneze Ndigbo Worldwide.

Is Livingstone Wechie not aware that DIMM Uchechukwu Nnam Okwukwu was validly elected the President General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide at a General Assembly held in Port Harcourt, in accordance with the tradition, convention and the constitution of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, as opposed to the preposterous and bizarre assemblage at the governors lodge at Enugu, whose illegal and false mandate, Senator Mbata has been decieved to believe, that he is exercising.

But of course, Livinstone Wechie will not be aware as he has chosen to beguil himself with falsehood. His thoughts are the baseless concoction of a blackmail trader who hides under the cover of activism.

Livingstone is leaving no stone unturned in his quest for casuistry. He is digging up and throwing around brand new, wild and scurrilous claims.

The suspicion here is that the Rottweiller has been procured again and very soon, we will see him with more bags of fresh, well packaged lies, we won’t be surprised. We wont ask Livingstone whether he has been mobilized once again to do what he knows best, that’s a dead question. We know that as usual, he has been given something for transport, and in his warped mindset, that wont be corruption.

Veteran attackdogs never repent. Once they are well fed, they will serve whoever pays the bill. Livingstone has merely changed owner and this time, he is on a mission to destroy. One day the truth will set dogs and dog owners free. Time will tell.

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