Birthday : Ihekweme expresses gratitude, ordeals , love to Imolites

Austin Okoro DDM NEWS

Dr Fabian Ihekweme

The former Commissioner in Imo state, Dr Fabian Ihekweme has expressed his gratitude to God and Imolites who celebrated him on his birthday.

Dr Ihekweme popular known as OMU also explained his ordeals in the hands of the authorities who arrested him on trump up charges.

He however pledged his dedication to Justice and good governance and firm resolve to keep fighting for the good of the people of Imo state without fear, favour or intimidation.

OMU stated this in a statement on 5th March 2025, which he released to the public to mark his birthday.

The statement read: ” I wish to express my sincere gratitude to all of you especially those who celebrated me publicly and privately on my birthday.

I thank Almighty God for adding yet another year to my life. I am grateful that am still alive today to be celebrated once again.

This is the most memorable birthday of my life.

And I dedicate today to the great people of Imo state who stood by me through their prayers, advocacy and support both privately and publicly during my travails in the hands of the authorities.

I will never wish my worst enemy to encounter or experience half of the ordeal that I went through.

But I thank our merciful God for sparing my life and for giving me another opportunity to mark my birthday once again.

I can never take this privilege for granted and I believe it is for a good purpose.

I was arrested on the 27th of November 2024 by a detachment of State Intelligence Department of Nigerian Police Owerri and I was bundled by road to Owerri on framed up charges bordering on Seditious publications and inciting the public by a pseudo and phantom group called the Imo Democratic Alliance.

Till date, no one has been able to confirm his or her membership of that group although as The Ancient Seer, I have already unmasked all of them and am grateful to their Alfa and Omega who made that possible.

It is important to make this clear, that FCT Police Command was approached to release 20 operatives to facilitate my arrest and to bring me down to Owerri, but this request was declined, turned down and vehemently resisted by FCT Police Command, and this prompted the Authorities in Owerri to seek the services of Imo State Police Command through the SID unit to undertake the operation of coming into Abuja on the Orders of the authorities to carry out the deadly operation which led to my incarceration for 62 days in the police custody.

Fortunately for me, a Court of competent jurisdiction declared my arrest and subsequent detention as illegal and barbaric and hence, Ordered for my immediate and Unconditional release from the police custody.

The Court further granted a Perpetual Injunction restraining The Inspector General of Police, The Nigerian Police Force, their authorized Agents by whatever name or body so called, from further disturbing or interfering with my rights to dignity of human person, liberty and freedom of movement by any further arrest, detention, intimidation and harassment or in any way infringing on my constitutional rights as guaranteed by law or from making any attempt capable of violating my rights as guaranteed under the constitution.

Everything that I passed through while in detention including the frameups, illegal detention for 62 days without trial and direct attempts to my life will still be determined by the Court of competent jurisdiction in terms of claims and compensations.

And of course, my own side of the whole episode will be heard and translated into a memoir someday.

I therefore, want to thank my friends, brothers, sisters, political associates and my team who stood by me throughout that turbulent period of trial and crisis that truamatised my entire family and my political friends.

I am so grateful for your support and prayers.

I cannot end this goodwill message without thanking my entire family especially my garlant wife who has proven to be more audacious and outspoken than Omu.

Nwanyioma gave me the strength to survive and graduate from that school of death. I am grateful.

All my life, it has been my prayer for God to bless the people of Imo state with good leaders who can bring prosperity and lead the people out from the depth of poverty.

I have been called names, dehumanised and tortured for defending my people and to the extent that I was terribly bruised for asking critical questions on governance and leadership in our state.

But I know for sure, that the Ancient Seer is undaunted and unflinching and my determination to fight for the emancipation and freedom of my people is not negotiable and cannot be compromised.

I will continue to defend Imo people till the last day of my life.

Anyone thinking that Omu has been silenced like others, may have to reconsider wiping away such thoughts fron his or her mind.

I am a man of justice and peace and I do not hate.

That’s why God has continued to spare my life and put confusion in the camp of those after my life.

I will continue to uphold the utmost truth and preach against injustice and recklessness in governance.

Those who think that they are not directly affected now by the current lording of our people and decided to stay aloof, watching and abating the ruthlessness of the system unleashed against their fellow citizens by one man, may one day experience the same hammer falling on them by the same prophet.

But for now, Omu needs justice and justice shall he get.

Fabian Ihekweme PhD

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