On Udom’s Blasphemous Thanksgiving
By UbongAbasi Ise
Religious teachings are of
aggregated convictions that the Almighty God is a supreme being that is good in
nature; excellent in manifestations; positive in intention; truthful in
dealings; perfect in justice; and holy in existence. If these fine attributes
are exactly what defines the Only God most of the world believes in, then this
premise can lead to the conclusion that God is not a being that takes glory in
evil and negativities. In other words, it could be deduced that God can’t be
associated with bloodletting, bribery, election rigging, repression of the
peoples’ will by way of vote-buying, ballot snatching, manipulation of election
results, and couldn’t in any way, be a part of victory earned through cunning
and underhand ways. To those that congregated at Godswill Akpabio International
Stadium on Friday 29th March, 2019 at the instance of Governor Udom
Emmanuel to thank the Almighty God for granting their principal victory in the
just concluded contest, they knew better how the so-called reelection was
achieved: probably, those that exchanged their votes for Naira were there at
the thanksgiving arena; the ballot material snatchers might have been there too
to sing Halleluiah for job well-done. The local clerics at attendance might have
been aware of how they served as merchant of lucrative vote-commercialization
on the pulpits. Even the politicians there at the event probably knew how hefty
they paid to buy ballots and results, and at the end of it all, all glory was
returned to God. Was this not a blasphemy to the Holy Name of God and a shame
to Christendom?
The election that was the taproot of all manners of
criminalities could only be abomination before God and a horrible nausea to the
God-fearing. It was sacrilegious to link the supposedly Holy Name to the
outcome of elections that housed blatant malpractices which altogether eased
the subversion of the peoples’ will and their choice of leadership. The March 9
polls reminded one of the intent of Universal Studios’ 2016 movie called, Death Race, produced by Roger Corman, where the convicts worship at the altar of a brutal
game called death race – a fight to death in cars for a chance to rule the
sprawl, which is a penitentiary that covers over 138 square miles. Human lives
and conditions do not matter in the contest where the chief and obsessive
concern is power-grabbing. All nefarious machinations calculated to put out the
opponents in contest seems fair. This scenario was not absent in Akwa Ibom
gubernatorial race. According to the gubernatorial candidate of Young
Democratic Party, Arc. Ezekiel Nyaetok, who was peeved by widespread electoral
absurdities, “vote did not matter again, what matters was militarization and
monetization,” and he advised the winner not to even go to Church for
Thanksgiving because, to him, “God will not accept the thanksgiving of deceit.”
Nyaetok would later advise the winner to
“go and thank his Demon for directing him to buy the people and deceives them
instead of negotiating with the people's mandate, and plan on how to help the
people in return after election.” The election that was perverted to maim, kill
and scare away Akwa Ibom sons and daughters from polling units was nothing to
bring God glory, unless they were venerating a different god that has
approbation for malevolence.
Does it
really follow logic to run election against your fellow Akwa Ibom citizens with
their own common patrimony, then pulled through it, and you later deepen the
tension by using the same state resources to import clergymen from outside the
state to arrange a provocative thanksgiving against your own brothers and
sisters as if they were the alien, belligerent forces that were not permitted
by the law to contest for power? Wouldn’t it be more reasonable to have
organized a get-together party and extend the hand of fellowship to those that
would have been willing to grab it from the other divide, just for the strength
of unity, and the sake of all-inclusiveness needed for the rapid development of
the state? Instead of thanking God for ungodly dominance in the militarization
and monetization of the electoral process, wouldn’t it be much safer to arrange
a solemn assembly to beg God for forgiveness over untold tragedies brought upon
the citizenry in the name of electioneering? Perhaps the clerics couldn’t be
bold enough to advise the governor on this, and they were twitching to please
him by nodding to sacrilegious, hogwash thanksgiving ceremony.
So bad that Akwa Ibom has become a stony ground where
Christianity could no longer blossom; it has become where practices antithetic
to Christian principles are celebrated and glorified. Here, materialism and
love for money is emphasized over integrity and steadfastness; this is where
Christianity has lost its spiritual relevance to consumerism. The organizers of
the so-called thanksgiving jamboree might have either overlooked or, perhaps, were
ignorant of 1 Peter 3:12 in the bible which says, “For the eyes of the Lord are
over the righteous, and his ears are open unto their prayers: but the face of
the Lord is against them that do evil.” Probably, the celebrants of March 9
election’s victory at Godswill Akpabio International Stadium were not sincere
enough to read Proverbs 15:8 which holds that the thanksgiving of the wicked is
an abomination to the Lord, but the prayer of the upright is his delight. No
matter the good impression they might have created hoodwink the public and to
justify the means of the squalid victory, they should have come to terms with
Proverbs 15: 3 which says that “the eyes of the Lord are in every place,
beholding the evil and the good.”
Yes! I am UbongAbasi Ise. For
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