Edu Etukakpan|4 July 2017
Udomism —a political school of thought that believes in the running of government on false ideology, and incompetence by a gang of Lagos returnees who have turn Akwa Ibom state to a refugee camp for Lagos political refugees!
Udomitizer —any substance that is capable of causing incompetence when taken, or acquainted to!
It is sad that our darling Akwa Ibom state, has become a refugee camp for Lagos returnees. It all started when our amiable Obong Victor Bassey Adiaha Attah, brought back the once-upon-a-time Leviathan, Obong Godswill Obot Akpabio, from Lagos, and made him a Commissioner in his two terms stay in office! He once said that Akpabio would succeed him as the governor come 2007, during a political outing in Ikot Ekpene, before he reneged due to his son-in-law's selfishness, that later transmogrified to a sarcasm to Obong Attah! Fortunately, even as he reneged, his prophesy came to pass in 2007; which led to the incessant killings, and kidnapping witnessed during the reign of a typical Leviathan in the person of Godswill Akpabio.
Political opponents were chased out of their homes, killed, kidnapped, including their children and wives. The atrocities even went as far as the kidnap and rape of the wife of Rtd Group Cpt. Sam Ewang , former military governor of Rivers State. The incident was sad; it shocked the people of the state, that a political fight could take such dimension, but it was true; we suffered insecurity amidst huge security votes from the federal purse, for eight years, and our most cherished son, ex-President Goodluck Ebele Azikiwe Jonathan, didn't voice out, he kept mute, and allowed the beast in a human clothing, kill opposition, and destroy human lives, and then expected us to vote for him in 2015, save the hoax that was done and called votes, in private residences! Anyway, that's that!
As if that wasn't enough, Akpabio, remembering his fellow compatriot in Lagos, went to bring a clueless, visionless, incompetent, semi-imbecile Udom, into the system. A banker that was doing well in his profession, I must say, but not a political imbecile, who lacks the intellectual sophistication to manage a political office of such magnitude. He was imposed on us, and we were chased with military personnel, paid with tax-payers' money from the state! It was an unfortunate situation, but we had no strength and the arsenal and artillery to deploy and fight for our collective rights as a people!
Upon becoming the governor of Akwa Ibom, Udom suddenly remembered, just as Akpabio remembered him, his fellow compatriots in Lagos, and brought them to 'serve' in his cabinet as Commissioners and SAs. And this strikes me, and I dare to ask: is this another way of bringing back another Lagos political refugees into the system for integration ahead of future elections? We must rise to challenge this madness; Akwa Ibom state is not a refugee camp for Lagos returnees, who lacks clear-cut definition of what governance is. 2019 is fast approaching, we in Akwa Ibom must shine our eyes, not only people from Lagos are wise, we are wise too! It is not enough to complain and criticize, get involved; register for your voters' card in the ongoing voters' registration by INEC, our voters' card, are our weapons, come 2019!
Comrade Edu Etukakpan!
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