I have observed with both amusement and concern the recent charade organized by The Mazi Organization (TMO), the campaign vehicle of one Chima Matthew Amadi, who harbors unrealistic ambitions for the 2027 Imo State governorship....CLICK HERE TO CONTINUE READING.>>
On Tuesday, May 13, 2025, at approximately 1:00 PM, my journalist friends alerted me that TMO was hosting a press conference with me as the sole subject. By Wednesday, May 14, 2025, my name was splashed across the front pages of Imo State newspapers with ridiculous captions, including one suggesting that TMO was recommending my dismissal to Governor Uzodimma.
Thank you for reading this post, don't forget to subscribe!The absurdity of an opposition aspirant presuming to dictate employment decisions to a sitting government reveals the profound emptiness of TMO’s leadership.
After careful consultation with political allies, government colleagues, and senior politicians throughout Wednesday, May 14, 2025, I have decided to issue this response.
The issues raised by this wobbling organization are ordinarily too frivolous to warrant attention, but silence in this instance might be misconstrued as weakness in the face of deliberate falsehoods.
The genesis of this desperate attack can be traced to Thursday, May 8, 2025, when Cardinal Robert Prevost from the USA was elected Pope Leo XIV. On that same day, TMO’s official spokesman, Cajethan Duke, made inflammatory statements on his official Facebook page, suggesting that an American Pope would precipitate a schism in the African Catholic Church similar to the Anglican breakaway.
He further made derogatory remarks about the impossibility of the Sistine Chapel’s white smoke ever producing a Black Pope. Screenshots of these offensive comments were preserved and are attached to this statement.
By noon on Friday, May 9, 2025, as bloggers began reporting that Duke was indeed speaking for his boss Amadi, TMO adopted a two-pronged damage control strategy: first, circulating insincere congratulatory messages to Catholic faithful, and second, desperately searching for scapegoats. The numerous anti-Catholic posts were later deleted, but my team had preserved two before then.
The same spokesman authored an article titled “The Baseless Attacks on Dr. Chima Matthew Amadi: A Desperate Attempt to Silence A Voice for Change,” in which he accused an aide to Governor Uzodimma, Ambrose Nwaogwugwu, of fabricating allegations that Amadi had called for “the abandonment of Catholic Church and plans to turn churches into nightclubs.”
The incoherence of TMO’s deflection attempts became evident when, by Tuesday’s press conference at 1:00 PM on May 13, 2025, they had switched their accusation from Ambrose to myself, while still failing to address their original anti-Catholic remarks.
Most telling was their inability to cite any specific publication, date, or title where these my alleged writings appeared, further exposing the vacuity of a group claiming readiness to govern Imo State. That they chose to attack me was purely as a result of what psychologists call “frustration-aggression”. I will explain below.
The desperation of Chima Amadi and his team to associate with me has a documented history. On Thursday, February 20, 2025, at exactly 5:00 PM, while I was seated with Nze Ray Emeana at Bromford Hotel’s bar in New Owerri planning his father-in-law’s burial, one Blyden Amajirionwu intruded on our meeting.
Meanwhile, Emeana had given me a 4-page handwritten contact list to help him create a committee of friends for the burial. He also requested me to permit that my bank account be used for receiving support for the burial. I told him that my First Bank account was available for that.
So, all those who contributed financially to the burial before March 22, 2025 paid to me. They were just two. One was N150,000 which was sent the the ushering service company called CLS by myself. And the other was N500,000 which I will explain shortly. So, those who contributed after March 22, paid to Prof. Goddy Onuoha.
So, that evening, the strange man named Blyden Amajirionwu introduced himself, admitting it was our first encounter, and confessed that the intelligence within his political camp was authoritative that, to track me down, Nze Ray Emeana needed to be trailed, and that he had trailed Nze Emeana to that place. He sat down and got talking. His mission, as explicitly stated, was to recruit me into Chima Amadi’s governorship team “by all means necessary.”
In a display of bizarre desperation, Blyden went down on his knees, begging me to help him accomplish Amadi’s directive. He said, Amadi had offered an immediate payment of N100 million plus any latest model SUV of my choice upon my agreement to join their campaign.
He even placed a call to someone he addressed as “Onyeisi”, saying, “I have finally seen the almighty Collins Opurozor. I will call you back after now.”
In the course of his lengthy speech, he went on to disparage Ikenga Ugochinyere as “just Chima Amadi’s boy” with no real influence, adding that Ikenga’s ambition to be Amadi’s running mate would be crushed once “heavyweights” joined their camp from Orlu zone.
He said he was personally bitter at Ugochinyere given that during the 2022 House of Assembly by-election in Ngor Okpala, Ikenga took huge amount of money from Chima Amadi to facilitate his loss in one ward. He said it was a painful and unforgivable experience.
Following this encounter, Blyden bombarded me with calls and messages. On Friday, February 21, 2025, at precisely 5:20 PM, he called three times within one minute on WhatsApp, then messaged: “Please call me. Blyden. Good evening.” I called Nze Ray Emeana to ask him how the man got my number.
Emeana told me it was him who sent Blyden both my phone number and First Bank details to redeem the pledge he had made the previous day of supporting his (Emeana’s father-in-law’s) burial preparations with N500,000.
On Saturday, February 22, 2025, at about 6:43 AM, four intermittent calls from him disrupted my sleep. Later that day at exactly 11:55 AM, I received an alert for N500,000, which was his promised contribution toward the burial.
He wanted to prolong the relationship, but as soon I spoke with him and acknowledged receiving his contribution toward the burial, I turned down his calls and ignored his torrent of messages till date.
The transaction history of this amount is fully documented: N200,000 was transferred to Nze Emeana at 1:32 PM the same day for documentary production on the deceased; N250,000 followed on March 13, 2025, at 8:39 PM for burial preparations; and on March 20, 2025, at precisely 6:25 PM, the remaining N50,000 was paid to Nwadike Precious Uwadi, the Publisher of Watchdog Newspaper, for the funeral announcement, which appeared on March 21, 2025, with the headline “Nze Ray Emeana, Odim Anya Loses Father-in-law” and a rider stating “Burial Slated for April 24, 2025.” All transaction slips and the newspaper publication, including screenshots of Blyden’s incessant calls, are attached to this statement.
On Monday, February 24, 2025, as Blyden intensified pressure with irrational financial offers from Amadi, I received a similar call from an influential figure from Ideato. At that point, it was necessary to act.
I immediately briefed my senior in government, the Commissioner for Information, Public Orientation and Strategy, Hon. Declan Emelumba, and we agreed on security measures. On April 15, 2025, at exactly 7:56 AM, a fellow APC member informed me that Amadi’s people were “desperately” seeking to speak with me, but I maintained my position that elections were too distant to entertain such distractions, and that the entire Amadi thing is a maze of antinomies that is irreversibly headed to its terminus.
Most alarmingly, on Sunday, May 11, 2025, Nze Ray Emeana called to alert me that Blyden had called him and revealed they were monitoring my movements, correctly identifying my visit to Gravity Hotel the previous day (Saturday, May 10, 2025) after the governor’s stakeholders meeting at the Palace of Eze Imo.
Their assertion that they had “recruited those to be monitoring me” represents a disturbing escalation from mere political overtures to potential stalking.
Two days later, on Tuesday, May 13, 2025, at 1:00 PM, they convened their press conference to attack me publicly, clearly frustrated by their inability to secure my cooperation. Ndibeanyi, elu uwa enweghi mmeta!
This pattern of desperate recruitment followed by vindictive attacks is nothing new in my experience. When I resigned from PDP on June 18, 2023, and joined APC on June 19, 2023, similar pressure tactics ensued. Senator Athan Achonu, the Labour Party’s 2023 gubernatorial candidate, called approximately 30 times without response before offering writing me a lengthy message to offer me a “blank cheque” to join his team.
Yes, he asked me to write any amount I wanted. I did not reply him till date. Suddenly, media hirelings of the Labour Party started insulting me every day.
Similarly, when the PDP’s national leadership attempted to lure me back with extravagant promises delivered through Acting National Chairman Amb. Damagum and National Organizing Secretary Col. Bature, my refusal triggered a five-month media campaign of character assassination. Rt. Hon. Emeka Ihedioha is aware of this, because in one instance, they came through him. It was my refusal to return to the PDP that motivated the attacks they levied against me. Nothing changed.
Regarding Chima Matthew Amadi himself, close observation reveals troubling patterns. His campaign team consists primarily of political rejects: candidates denied party tickets, officials removed for incompetence, or aspirants rejected by voters in 2023. A governorship project that aggregates the politically unfortunate will inevitably end in disaster.
More concerning is Amadi’s complete lack of any substantive blueprint for Imo State’s development, relying instead on publicity stunts like announcing N500 million Christmas giveaways or market cash distributions – tactics of bribery, not leadership.
His sole attempt at intellectual engagement through a town hall meeting exposed his ignorance of basic facts about Imo State, including its IGR, population, unemployment rate, GDP, and FAAC receipts – all fundamental to economic planning.
I understand that if asked to navigate from major junctions like Banana Junction in Orlu, Umueze Junction in Mbano, Ahiara Junction in Mbaise, or Mgbidi Junction to his native village in Ngor Okpala, Amadi would be utterly lost – revealing his disconnection from the state he presumes to govern.
Serious questions must be raised about Amadi’s financial background. While publicly claiming wealth accumulated through Julian Matt Agricultural Resources Ltd, Corporate Affairs Commission records show this company was only registered in 2024.
Where, then, did his supposed fortune originate? Leadership responsibilities affecting millions cannot be assigned based merely on a willingness to distribute cash.
If such were the criterion, the Benin people would have elected the notorious robber Anini as their leader instead of executing him, as he too was known for market cash distributions.
Most disturbing of all is Amadi’s documented anti-Imo stance. In 2021, during the height of the state’s security crisis, while a senior police officer was making crucial progress against bandits, Amadi was comfortably ensconced in an Abuja hotel room advocating for this officer’s dismissal, describing him as “a fraud” who “deceives his kola-eating paymasters with starched uniforms and cheat IT gadgets.” Such comments reveal the true character of someone now seeking to govern Imo State.
If Chima Amadi genuinely wishes to participate in Imo politics, he should return home and begin by contesting for councilorship in his ward.
Governor Hope Uzodimma had already established himself as a State Youth Leader of a political party in the early 1980s – over 40 years ago – demonstrating that political careers require gradual development, not sudden appearances accompanied by cash distributions to purchase loyalty.
Nearly all significant political figures in Imo today began their journeys by 1999, gradually earning public trust. Amadi represents an anomalous case, relying on mercenaries rather than genuine political capital.
As Sun Tzu wisely noted in “The Art of War,” “No true victory is achieved with mercenaries.” Amadi has surrounded himself precisely with such hired hands, and ironically, has become their primary victim.
A perceptive political analyst recently described him as Imo’s newest political “Mgbada” – the Igbo street term for a gullible mark in a confidence scheme.
This reality will only become apparent to him after the 2027 elections, when his purchased loyalties evaporate and his political mirage dissolves into the nothingness from which it emerged.
Signed:
Collins Opurozor
May 15, 2025
