UbongAbasi Ise

By UbongAbasi Ise “ Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide” ― Napoléon Bonaparte The overwhelming mammoth crowd that received the APC team at Ikot Ekpene township stadium on Saturday 21 st July 2018 has put a lie on the infamous claims that Akwa Ibom is PDP and PDP is Akwa Ibom. Maybe that was in the past. Unfolding events have shown that gone are the days when there was only one tree that made a forest in the political geography of Akwa Ibom. For the first time, there would be an opposition that would measure up in terms of resources, popularity and naked strength with the state’s ruling party. With Ikot Ekpene APC’s rally, the truth that Akwa Ibom is PDP’s has expired, and it shows that people are most likely to spurn every stratagem that would aid in sustaining the status quo.                 What would the majority of Akwa Ibom people gain if they a...

By UbongAbasi Ise “At the end of the day, we must go forward with hope and not backward by fear and division” – Jesse Jackson History has a way of reconstructing past human actions with the fragments of available evidences and then place judgment on the heads of those that play one role or the other in human existence. Today the whole of Nigeria is bedeviled with ethno-sectional chauvinism, and one of the terrible manifestations is political marginalization and domination of certain ethnic groups. This has led to stiff leadership struggles as political actors consistently look for a political platform that would guarantee both individual and collective prosperity. There is an oft-held claim that ethnicity is one factor that configured the nature of Nigerian politics but it is also believed in some quarters that it is politics that created and deepened ethnicity in the country. Many historians have corroborated the claim that there was nothing like ethnic division alo...

By UbongAbasi Ise “At the end of the day, we must go forward with hope and not backward by fear and division” – Jesse Jackson History has a way of reconstructing past human actions with the fragments of available evidences and then place judgment on the heads of those that play one role or the other in human existence. Today the whole of Nigeria is bedeviled with ethno-sectional chauvinism, and one of the terrible manifestations is political marginalization and domination of certain ethnic groups. This has led to stiff leadership struggles as political actors consistently look for a political platform that would guarantee both individual and collective prosperity. There is an oft-held claim that ethnicity is one factor that configured the nature of Nigerian politics but it is also believed in some quarters that it is politics that created and deepened ethnicity in the country. Many historians have corroborated the claim that there was nothing like ethnic division alo...