Efio-Ita Nyok|24 October 2018
As the 2019 general elections drags closer and closer by the day, politicians and their sympathisers particularly in Cross River State are at their game again —their usual schemes, permutations, calculations, and the like don't seem to amuse me. I guess some of you are in my similar bewildering circumstances already. Hmmm!
The incumbent Deputy Governor of Cross River, the astute Prof Ivara Ejemot Esu is the subject of the center of a political decision crisis —who will be the Deputy Governor of Cross River?
Should we 'choose' the distinguished Professor to occupy Government House, Diamond Hill come 2019 and beyond? To even begin with, has the outing of the Professors-Governor between 2015 and 2018 been excellent enough to justify a second term? This is a debate for another day anyways.
Again, has Ivara Ejemot Esu satisfied Cross Riverians? Or, to put it this way: has Esu, beyond being from the Southern Senatorial District of Cross River, been of any relevance to the south so much so that his political capital will garner votes for the gubernatorial candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Prof Benedict Ayade.
While some political bigwigs in the Central Senatorial District of the state, currently in the 8th Cross River State House of Assembly, CRSHA, are busy tussling for who become Speaker for which some incumbents are already being disqualified by the party for newbies, it's already a given that the south will produce Deputy Governor —no thanks to the high handed 2014/15 Liyel Imoke.
Already, Otuekong Orok Duke of Calabar South, Hon Nkoyo Toyo of Calabar Municipality, Oqua Edem Oqua of Odukpani, Dr Emile Inyang of Biase, Arc Bassey Eyo Ndem of Akpabuyo, Chief Ani Esin and Sen Florence Ita-Giwa of Bakassi, and George Oben'ecchci and Ntufam Okon Owuna of Akamkpa have been considered.
There has been considerations to kick out Calabar South and Akamkpa from the shopping spree on the basis that 'these two LGAs have already been settled' with the offices of Senate and House of Representatives, etc; that the other four, namely, Akpabuyo, Calabar Municipality, Biase, Odukpani, should be prioritised. Concerning Bakassi, she's not even in the equation of the PDP guber candidate and his handlers for obvious reasons of her not harnessing political bigwigs with profound electoral value.
But, who do you the reader think is worthy to be Deputy Governor of Cross River State? Let the debate begin…
Nyok
Blogger-in-Chief, Editor-in-Chief & Publisher of NEGROIDHAVEN
