By Reginald Okafor
Chidi Odinkalu has cut a niche for himself as a critic of the
intellectual hue in the last few years in Nigeria so much that his views are
well regarded. His place in advocacy and as a former Chairman of Nigeria Human
Rights Commission (NHRC) place him in a privileged position. They confer some
credibility on whatever he says. But, in a recent piece he wrote titled ‘Ken Nnamani:The Man Who Sold His Conscience’, Odinkalu missed his shot by a mile!
*Chidi Odinkalu
Odinkalu, in what is understandably his frustration with the state of anomie in the southeast, where killings and unexplained kidnappings have been the lot of the people, took umbrage with the current administration and dragged some persons in the ruling All Progressives Congress into the sordid affairs in Anambra State, one of them former Senate President Ken Nnamani, a man who has earned his badge of integrity even in the murky waters of Nigerian politics.