Centuries past, expert physicists on Dynamics, in their thesis on Unstable Equilibrium asserted that a body is said to be in unstable equilibrium if when slightly tilted and released, it tends to topple over. Such unstable body has as characteristics a high body, to which the resultant weight to the body tends to act (that is, a high centre of gravity) as well as a narrow base and low potential energy due to decrease in height of the centre of gravity when slightly tiled.
This little brim-light on dynamics-thesis is also applicable to the phenomena surrounding the wise saying that a rolling stone gathers nothing, and involves both man and objects as dynamic entities. Truly, it gathers nothing, the rolling stone! But this nothing is purely no-thing, as npn-achievement, as no-result and never as an entity, which is similar to Parmenides and Heideggerian nothingness and Saints Augustine of Hippo and Anselm of Canterbury’s ex nihilo nihil fit (out of nothing, nothing comes) than ex nihilo tanquam materiam (out of nothing as a material entity).
Rolling stone in its dynamics defiles the stable equilibrium or inertia status of the stone-matter and its uniform motion, either by having force(s) acting upon it or by being under an observable motion downward from a higher inclination to a declined or narrow base. In either of the cases: Exerted force or natural declination, the Speaker of the Imo State House of Assembly, Rt Hon Benjamin Uwajumogu, has for quite sometime now been a dynamic matter.
It is an obvious and still fresh in the memories of Imolites how he emerged first as the PDP candidate of Ihite-Uboma for the 2011 elections into the IMHA, after lobbing his way and fraudulently forcing his PDP counterpart in the race to step down for him. It is an obvious fact also that Rt Hon Uwajumogu is now tensed up by the daily unveiling realities surrounding his emergence as the number one legislature of the Imo House of Assembly. The dynamic circumstances that brought him to the position have also returned the tide that brought his ascension, back to its source; thereby affirming Isaac Newton’s dynamics declaration that whatever goes up must come down. But apart from this dynamics, which he is wrapped and enrolled into; one should ask whether Uwajumogu is right in what he is doing? Every Imolite knows that the Ihitte-Ubom legislative member won his seat in the Assembly Chambers under the platform of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) and only decamped to the All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA) at their inauguration ground on June 16th 2011, together with his two other colleagues and cohorts (Hon Ihuoma and Hon Acho Ihim) who were promised the Majority and Deputy Majority Leaders respectively while he, Uwajumogu was given the Speakership as his pay for the betrayal defection. But as the Holy Writ says, ‘the days of the wicked are numbered, and he has at present exhausted his counted days for Divine Grace.
This rolling stone’s cross-carpeting act was politically a betrayal and sabotaging antics. As a result of it, the People’s Democratic Party went to Court for the removal of the three traitors who dumped the medium and Party that brought them to power as Honourable Members of the IMHA as ‘sourceless achievers’. Yet, while the case is still in Court, the PDP went ahead to notify the Attorney-General of the Federation on the need to invoke the power of the Electoral Act, on the erred PDP members as the Electoral Law stipulated. Reacting to this, the Attorney-General alleged to have instructed Prof Attahiru Jega, the INEC Chairman, to issue letters of Vacancy on these three seats in the IMHA. In his rolling stone’s dynamics, the Speaker Uwajumogu has devised some crooked strategies, very unbecoming of a Legislature, as means of avoiding the Hammer of the Law.
First, it was alleged that he smartly rolled down to the Chairman and Executive members of his Ward to obtain a signed letter, proving and testifying that he is still a PDP member. But the rolling stone forgot that since they (the trio) decamped to APGA, that the PDP has become minority in the House of Assembly than it was after the elections and before their inauguration, and that it is impossible for him to be a Speaker of a House while on the minority platform. The same thing is also applicable to his escapee-colleagues who were made Majority and Minority Leaders respectively. But let me ask; is it true that Members of the Legislature, even in the most primitive world can head the majority? Is it right for Uwajumogu to insist that he has never for any time decamped from the People’s Democratic Party, while audio-video tapes of his defection speech are watched by the interesting public on rehearsal basis?
Secondly, is it right for a Lawmaker to adopt strange means in order to obtain the PDP membership card, and impersonating non-PDP members to endorse him as an active member of the Peoples Democratic Party while the endorsers on their own side claim being PDP Official? Thirdly, the entire Imolites have heard the voodoo of the Vote of (implicit) Confidence passed on Uwajumogu: How it was framed, forged and the series of disclaimers from some forged-in Honourable Members of the House denouncing their knowledge and involvement in the Vote, which everybody knows was planned and executed by his Aide.
Is it right for a Lawmaker, a Speaker for that matter to engage in such debasing forgery? Is this right? Fourthly, it was alleged that Uwajumogu with the forged PDP membership card and letter, corner-crossed some INEc Officials in Abuja claiming that the proposed vacant seat letter is defective as he is still a PDP member. If Hon Uwajumogu sincerely does not want to loose his position as the Speaker of the House, he must never claim PDP and wait on the Hammer. On the other hand, if he still wants to retain his Membership in the House, he must admit his membership to the PDP. He must loose his speakership, which entails dumping APGA for the PDP. Similarly, it was alleged that he has mutilated all official documents and audio-visual records in the House of Assembly containing where he publicly read his resignation letter from the PDP at the inauguration ground. Is it right for him to mutilate such records; did his predecessors in the House do like that? Other stories went that he has sponsored several protest letters from priory inexistent groups and governmental organisations who have now come up to existence. The protest letters were written to the INEC against his removal, which also culminated in the instigation of disaffection and irate thoughts in the Youths of Umuihi Ward against their Part PDP Ward Party Chairman as threats on sabotaging his erring rolling-stone kinsman, the Speaker of the Imo State house of Assembly, Rt Hon Benjamin Uwajumogu. But is this right? This has ed to threats on lives and properties of the PDP officials in the affected Wards and Local Government Area from where the errant trio legislatures came.
The problematic here is the dead conscience with which Hon Uwajumogu plays his politics of rolling stone, a politicking that not only has a dead conscience but is consolidated on lies, deceits and betrayals. The grand questions in this problematic are: First, on the ethical purview of right and wrong. Is Uwajumogu right in all these dirty meanderings of a man and leader of his calibre? Is he right in his forgeries, impersonating antics and strategies, etc? Socially, too what has Uwajumogu gathered in his rolling dynamics? Has he achieved any peace of mind? Now that his seat is at the brink of the grave, is rolling from one debasing antics and strategy to another in a catena malum, the rightful thing to do? So far, are his plots and strategies worth his legislative status and speakership? It is clearly evident that such a thoughtfully-debased high ranked legislature can never produce anything praiseworthy in the Assembly leadership, and one will never wonder any more why the Imo State House of Assembly errs always in most of their activities in the House and extra-Legislative functions.
