@ ‘Elder Victor KN’, Is He Sure He Is Not Naturally Mischievous?
Sunday (Orie) 28-12-2025.
Not minding that 16th Century English Playwright, Poet and Dramatist, William Shakespeare, had in one of his plays, Macbeth, asserted that ‘there is no art to find the man’s construction in the face’, the written postulations by this character who labels himself as ‘Elder Victor KN, Osinanwata 1 Of Owaza Anciet Kingdom’ outrightly exposed him as being intentionally horribly mischievous.
Ordinarily, I should ignore petty characters who are basically entrenched in mischief but when it goes beyond doubt that such a mischievous character only concocts his spurious narratives with the sole aim of tarnishing another’s hard-won image, no sane man should allow such a mischievous character go home with a sense of accomplishments in wickedness, mischief and falsehood.
To start with, the identity of this character is not clear to me. I have never met him. The much I heard of him was when someone on an Asa WhatsApp platform allegedly called him a ‘gigolo’ serving overseas. What that meant, I did not comprehend and have not laboured to know.
In the second paragraph of his write-up, he mischievously and falsely alleged that ‘when the then Abia State Government wanted to relocate the cattle market to your zone (most probably implying Asa land where I come from) that I spoke in favour, wrote many articles in support of it, and even criticized anyone who had a different view on that calamity that would have befallen Ndi Asa’.
I had a very good thinking process before arriving at my conclusion that this character is both wicked and mischievous. If after all I voluntarily and overtly did to make sure no cattle market was located at Obehie-Asa, actions that could have cost me my appointment as a Deputy Chief of Staff to Governor Okezie Ikpeazu, including using the Social Media to criticize the Government I was serving in, and sensitizing and leading Asa Traditional Rulers and Asa Development Union officials to Government House, Umuahia, to protest against it, this character could allege that I supported that agenda, it would not be well with him. He could mark the date he made that false allegation, and interestingly yesterday was Eke and he should know the implications of one being evil on an Eke Market Day in Asa land. If he is sure of his claim, he should be able to produce, at least, one article I ever wrote in support of Abia State Government’s attempt to locate a cattle market at Obehie-Asa.
It is important to state that when the rumour started gaining grounds that a cattle market was about being established at Obehie-Asa, I made enquiries and I was made to believe there was nothing like that. At that point I assured Asa People that such a thing would not happen. But when my attention was drawn to a signpost depicting a cattle market at Obehie-Asa, I attacked the proposal very aggressively, to the extent that a Commissioner in the State Executive Council, Chief John Okiyi Kalu, openly reported my altercations against the Commissioner for Trade, Dr Cosmos Ndukwe via Social Media, to the Governor. I had almost lost my appointment because of that patriotic resistance.
There is no doubt that Asa Think Tank stands as my brainchild. But I was compelled to keep aloof by circumstances that were avoidable, as they should not, in the first instance, have arisen. My reasons were properly communicated.
In the same write-up, the gigolo, no, not a gigolo but Victor accused me of ‘not showing commitment to Asa Day 2025 celebration and did not show up’. I do not know by whose authority he assumed the role of a ‘monitor’ for Asa Development Union. I do not know the type of mentality the man has. I am yet to be taught that someone who did not attend a ceremony but made one’s financial contribution in support of the ceremony should be vulnerable or subjected to public opprobrium. Probably, for purposes of mischief, this character resorted to selective amnesia, wishing to forget that I gave, at least, a widow’s mite in support of Asa Day 2025 Cultural Day.
To the contrary, the character, Victor KN, occupied no column in the register of donors to Asa Day 2027 Cultural Fiesta. A careful look at the list of 32 donors will, most likely, not point at his name. No body may be expecting any form of benevolence or philanthropy from him as what he does overseas may not revolve around legitimacy. Who even knows if he has legitimate documents? Can he come back to Nigeria and still have valid immigration permits to go back to his country of residence?
Let it be made abundantly clear that Abia-South Senatorial seat is not the exclusive entitlement of any particular individual or clan. Why then should he develop much headache because I said I will contest for it in 2027? Is he God?
The same character, in his imagination, alleged that the State Governor ‘retired me from politics in 2023, a shock from which I have not recovered’. This preposterous claim of his reinforces my doubt about his mentality. May be to him, politics is all about holding positions in governments and, once one is not holding a government position one automatically stands retired. This is a parochial way of reasoning.
I want to state it emphatically that it is only God that can retire me from politics. Apart from that, I will remain the decent Politician that I voluntarily opted to be. As long as my brain has something to offer, my tongue makes meaningful expressions, the ink in my pen ceaselessly flows, and I enjoy membership of a registered Political Party in Nigeria, I remain a Politician.
I only had to respond to this character’s mischief because of his deliberate desire to generate falsehood on my role during an attempt by an Abia State Government to establish a cattle market at Obehie-Asa. Otherwise, I would not have given him any attention, and I hope this is the last I would like to spend my very precious time on such a character.
Sir Don Ubani is a former Commissioner for Information and Strategy in Abia State and Publisher of Equity Global Reporters Ltd.
