1 May 2018
My call for Senator Rose Oko to step down has already started yielding dividends. How do I mean? It is already putting food on the tables of emergency hirelings as a dozen of them have been commissioned to come up with rejoinders. These lazy youth seem to be getting it wrong —this is not about me running the gauntlet of paid lackeys but about the well being and future of Northern Cross River. So I would advise the concerned parties to stop dishing out watery rejoinders and instead, team up with well meaning citizens like my humble self and come up with a suitable choice that would fly the flag of Cross River north in the senate from next year.
Like Senator Victor Ndoma-Egba, Senator Rose is truly a daughter of fortune. They’ve both been in the political space since the mid 1980s and have contributed their quotas to the society —but it’s high time Mama especially, calls it quits as it’s obvious from her poor outing in the senate that she has little or nothing more to offer to the political space.
You can’t call painting of secondary schools with cheap emulsion paint “renovation of school blocks constituency project”. And the word we keep getting is, her family members are the ones often awarded these projects to execute. How many are aware that she has over 200 Keke Napeps parked somewhere around Yala, waiting for a week to election to share to gullible constituents? They have been parked for over two years according to what I learnt —why not release them now? Isn’t that wickedness? So many have come to inbox to tell me of how she’s is so difficult to access and how it’s very difficult to get a recommendation letter from her.
Well, Imoke imposed her on the electorate and she was voted in absentia, so do we expect her to owe us any loyalty? We can go to hell for all she cares, isn’t it? Hitherto, I was almost tempted to take it easy on her, being the only female senator in the south-south, southeast bloc but I think I have to stand down on that resolve —there’s absolutely no need to sacrifice effective legislation on the altar of political correctness and ‘gender sensitivity’.
So I once again call on the good people and king makers of Cross River state to stand behind this moving train and ensure that Madam Rose Oko is eased out next year for a more sellable and charismatic candidate preferably from Ogoja, Bekwarra or Obanliku.
Simon Utsu
Is a Social Commentator
