EFFECTIVELY AKWA IBOM, WHO BEWITCHED THEE?
Part 1

Itoro Udotim

Amidst the uncertainty of the next victim of Corona virus, right thinking persons all over the world are in their sanctuaries seeking the face of God.

It is justified because the disastrous, pestiferous and pestilential virus threatening the entire globe with death is blind to race, religion or status.

In Akwa Ibom State the tension and panic arising from the virus appears to be lifting a ban against political campaigns.

The attention against the pandemic is loosing focus to political activists, vigorously determining who is fit to be in a certain position and who doesn't.

This idea is conspicuously eating deep the thick layers and we are not bothered to ponder on the hazardable effects of this insensitive cum hatred mentality on the next generation.

When other climes are celebrating creativity, we are here nodding our heads for mediocrity, or perhaps clapping for those whose duties are to blackmail, reprimand and mislead the general public just to gain cheap popularity or to satisfy their paymasters who have continually idolised themselves as political El Doradoes during the election periods for crumbs as wages.

Our dear state is fast becoming a taxonomy where; people consider politics as a lucrative profession, thereby creating animosities among friends, families and communities. Less than few is interested in building a career for themselves, others rather analyse politics everywhere without substance.

Because election didn't favour you, therefore; “Must you appoint yourself an agent of reprehension?
Or myopically recruiting some gullible juveniles in to throw dummy spit on their supposed teachers to make you a leader?”.

Some go for elections as civil war, such that after being defeated even the ancestors will be censured. And a non supporter would be tagged ‘an enemy of progress’. Is this the Akwa Ibom our forbears collectively agitated for?

Some will make themselves perpetual sycophants even at old age without emancipation, always metres behind rational reasoning, continually defending cluelessness, creating a very strong odious for themselves just to be called ‘loyalists’ narrowly gravitating towards life time slavery or political and social mismarry.

Many will even be in the political corridor of decision making, but effortlessly sabotaging the progress of the same government they pledged allegiance to protect with their best Arsenals, secretly perforating the gallery they openly vowed to defend. And each time I come across this kind of fellows I am tempted to ask “EVEN THOU BRUTUS?”.

Sometimes when you look at the sets of vain conscience demanding accountability or castigating the people at the public offices, you realize that even though some of them were to be messengers in offices, they would have always delivered destructive messages.

Akwa Ibom who bewitched thee and fractured thy sense of humor?

Itoro Udotim is my name, this is my humble opinion!