Only God Can Exorcise Akwa Ibom From Demons Of Deceits

- December 17, 2018

By UbongAbasi Ise

“False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.” - Plato

Second week of December 2018 was quite a week with all its unimaginative hilarities in Akwa Ibom political terrain. Looking at the ensued events from the tail end of the week to the early start, we had bizarre fragments of narratives that uncover desperate shams machinated by the government of the day not for the common good of the citizenry but for the self-serving interest of clinging onto power beyond 2019. Indeed, weekend’s commissioning of rice processing mill, Agricon Rice Factory, in Ini local government area was another event that exposed rice productivity situation that, for some times now, is reeked by cover-ups, half-truths and outright deceits. Was it not in Akwa Ibom that the government announced, more than five months ago before the recent mill inauguration, that the state was producing over 10,000 tonnes of rice? To make the surreal claim has semblance of truth, according to media report, the state government had to re-bag imported rice for the world to see how rice-sufficient Akwa Ibom could be under the leadership of Mr. Udom Emmanuel. On Saturday 15 December, 2018, the same state government inaugurated its first rice mill but the gaiety and pomp of the ceremony was immediately spoilt by a miserable screenshot of Divine Mandate Media Team’s Whatsapp group that eventually surfaced online and gone viral. No one can conceal fire in the cloth of course: the group chats pointed to the fact that raw rice millets were not from Akwa Ibom despite claims of preponderance of homegrown rice. Whether the raw materials of the rice were sourced from Adamawa or not, the OnlyGod political canvassers’ attempt to redact from the Whatsapp forum the picture of a bag of rice with Adamawa tag indicates that there's more to this than meets the eye.

During Dr. (Mrs.) Aisha Buhari’s visit to the state on Friday 14^thDecember, 2018, yours truly was thinking Governor Udom Emmanuel’s wife, Martha, would be following the Nigeria’s First Lady to the APC’s campaign ground, hence the needless melodrama at the Victor Attah International Airport. Had Mrs. Emmanuel joined the APC campaign team to the venue, Senator Godswill Akpabio could have possibly welcomed her to the venue anyway, but he wouldn’t have stopped rattling her with a sort of introduction as the wife of the outgoing governor, whose husband lies about Fertilizer Blending Plant in Abak, where youths were hired and paid N2,000 each to wear T-shirts and parade themselves as the staff of the fertilizer company. Akpabio wouldn’t have hesitated to tell the Governor’s wife how deceitful her husband’s government is. Although Martha wasn’t there, the Senator had spoken his mind at the campaign ground.

Still in the second week, precisely December 10, Akwa Ibom was overtaken by tale of 20,000 APC members defected to PDP with the reception at Ibom Hall Grounds in Uyo. Some of the alleged persons listed to have defected, came out to vehemently debunk their association with the PDP. In the words of Engr. Uduakobong Okpo whose name was included as one of the defectors, "None of the people they listed defected. None of the people you've seen here today defected. I want the world to know that the purported defection is a figment of their own imagination. What you saw today on TV was advanced political fraud, it is a scam."

If Mr. Okpo’s words were anything to go by, then the PDP could be a palindrome interpreted as ‘People Deceiving People,’ whose meaning can never change whether you start reading it from forward or backward position. It is a shame and a height of insensitivity that cerebration would occur on a day that could have been set aside for a solemn assembly to observe the second anniversary of Reigners Church building collapse- an event that claimed many human lives in the state. The death of so many Akwa Ibomites didn’t worry Udom-led PDP government that has irrevocable obligation to safeguard the lives of its citizens. The OnlyGod PDP campaigners forgot to read Ecclesiastes 7:2 (NIV) which says, “It is better to go to a house of mourning than to go to a house of feasting, for death is the destiny of everyone.” Udom Emmanuel and co-PDP political sojourners staged a defection jamboree on faulty grounds and ignored the victims of church collapse on the day of mourning, OnlyGod.

Monday 10^th December, 2018 marked the second anniversary of the Reigners Church building collapse. The question is: does the world ever think how the aftermath of the sad incident affects the victims and the relatives of the departed ones? They have tear-jerking stories of neglect and abandonment to tell. On December 10, 2016, a lot of people from Akwa Ibom State and beyond were drawn to the Reigners Bible Church in Uyo to witness the bishopric consecration of Apostle (Dr.) Akan Weeks. What attracted the members of the public even more to the Golgotha of death was the presence of the State Governor, Mr. Udom Emmanuel. As the roof caved in, lives were lost, injuries sustained, families life pattern altered, and their lives will never remain the same, forever.

Yes! I am UbongAbasi Ise. For comment, please send SMS to 08189914609 | ubongabasiise@gmail.com

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