2023: PDP DELEGATES ARE NOT FOOLS.

While responding to questions on issues concerning his leadership, Mr. Udom Emmanuel said Akwa Ibom people are fools and illiterates. Based on this his perception of us, he has been using similar pattern in his political leadership style and approach to winning elections because he sees us as fools.

As a routine strategy, he starves citizens till almost dead, then lures them with cash at the point of his need for their services, afterwards dump them to suffer again till next election in four years time. It is a known strategy which he is coming up with in 2023, but this time around because of so much evidences of failed promises and so much discontentment about his leadership, he has a mouthwatering package to offer each delegate as bribe - a whopping 5 million naira (N500,000,000), an irresistible enticement.

He wants to blind them from seeing abandoned projects scattered everywhere and they should ignore hunger torturing families and retired primary school teachers lamentations amonsgt many other leadership negligence. The conscience of delegates is so costly this time because they are tools he intends to use to continue punishing citizens by proxy when if he succeeds to impose a stooge to hold the seat for his "indirect third term" agenda.

His penchant for treating Akwa Ibom people as fools has been elevated to another dimension ahead of the forthcoming election. Apart from the usual sudden appointments of personal and special assistants in hundreds during this period to deceive vulnerable politicians to cross over and support his succession project, then dump them immediately after victory, he has taken "financial instrument" of a whooping 150 billion naira just to bribe his way through to advance his third term plot through his preferred aspirant.

Indeed, he thinks citizens and electorates are so sheepish to be led by him to butcher our collective interest in order to advance his personal interest. He deceived us before, but it can't be all the time, not especially in 2023 governorship election when we will reject his poisonous parting gift.

Mr. Udom Emmanuel knows politicians stopped buying lands and building houses as they did under past regimes because of lack of empowerment in his tenure. Students are suffering because there is no more busary, even scholarships. Primary school teachers have never had it so bad, as such, they are on strike. Retired one are dying without their gratuity and each time their dependants stage protests to Governor's Office they are teargassed. It is terrible to imagine that upon all these, he wants people to follow his succession direction. Really, he takes us as fools.

Unemployment is so pronounced that graduates with even Masters degree are competing to sell periwinkles, water leaves and crabs on the floors at roadside markets. It not a funny experience, as traders without formal education mock them for wasting years in universities only to come to dirty market environment to be struggling open spaces with them. But with the absence of job or business grants under this administration, what should they do with the little they have? Steal or hawk their bodies?

He has deliberately allowed suffering to persist so that when the news of 5 million naira filters out, delegates will be panting to grab it in order to escape suffering. He thinks this will make them senseless and stay clue to his succession plot. He is afraid that without giving such amount to them, 99%of delegates and electorates won't bear to hear a word concerning his stooge because he has failed woefully as a governor as such whoever he chooses will be a failure like him.

Mr. Udom Emmanuel thinks even if Satan appears himself to share the amount, delegates will line up in desperation to collect it, and go to hell if it attached with such condition. He has assured his stooge of victory, that is why instead of his stooge who admits he is the least qualified telling us his capacity and antecedents in political offices held, he is saying "l wont call Akwa Ibom people dogs". Imagine him joing his media hirelings to degenerate so lowly to the level of twistiing meanings to innocent witty words commonly used.

The other day he mocked Bar. Onofiok Luke by saying he won't abandon citizens to run to Harvard Business School. He said so just because the lawmaker said if he is not favoured by election,he would proceed to the school to advance his education. Let's not be deceived, delegates know those who have the capacity to rescue the state from the leadership mishap we are presently witnessing.

The delegates are not fools as the governor thinks.They are not also happy with the state of things ongoing. Of course, they know better politicians are aspiring for them to choose from, and even if delegates have to collect the 5 million naira, it won't stop them voting the popular persons.

They have between Bar. Onofiok Luke and Sen. Bassey Albert to choose from. These are people-friendly politicians who have been tested to be entrusted with leadership burdens because they understand the solutions to Akwa Ibom people's problems.

But l believe OBA,like most delegates do, is more experienced and has advantage of higher connections at national level. Also, he has occupied more sensitive positions in executive and legislatve representation which he used to touch more lives as he is going to use acknowledged capacity to touch the entire citizens with life changing programmes.

Moreover, micro- zoning which is to ensure, fairness and equity in Uyo senatorial district favour the senator too. Delegates are aware of these advantages and will consider them when voting.

©️ Culled from The Patriots Newspaper

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