2015: Bishop Sam Akpan’s Aspiration Is a Mirage …Bishop, leave Udom alone, you have reap what you sow in Akpabio By Unyime Isemin Posted by Itohowo Williams at 23:25 No comments: Bishop Samuel Friday Akpan played host to the highest fruitless jamboree in the history of Akwa Ibom State since the beginning of the fourth republic in 1999. This jamboree came on his 57th birthday which coincided with the ceremony that marks his donation of a Presidential Campaign Secretariat to President Goodluck Jonathan through Jonathan Mandate Group (JOMAG). That jamboree commemorated a mere wish of the Brotherhood of Cross and Star’s bishop to become the governor of Akwa Ibom State in 2015. In a simple term, Bishop Akpan’s governorship aspiration as long as he knows his political antecedent is a mirage. It seems that it will be proper to define the word, mirage, so that some of the combatant in the Army of Bishop Sam Akpan will understand better what is mirage. Mirage, according to Oxford Advanced Learners’ Dictionary means an effect caused by hot air in deserts or on roads that makes you think you can see something, such as water, which is not there. Or a hope or wish that you cannot make happen because it is not realistic. So, the fact he claimed to have employed the services of AKPF in 2007 and 2011 to drummed support for Akpabio’s success does not means that he can be elected as governor of Akwa Ibom State in 2015. So, he should stop bragging that he is the next governor of Akwa Ibom State or “it is my turn to rule Akwa Ibom State” as captioned by the Insight Newspaper, because he may have nothing to offer the state even if he was to be elected as governor. Actually, it will be wise to advise him to stop reflecting upon 2007 Akpabio’s promises to him that he will take over from him in 2015, if he wish to join the race. Or he should not heed to the speeches of Barr. Onofiok Luke and Mr. Godwin Oton Charlie delivered during his 57th birthday. Actually, if Akpabio had ever promise handing over power to Bishop Akpan in 2015, the promise was like a story of a little girl who was busy bragging and as well expressing joy over the moon that her mother promised to give to her as a birthday gift when she turns eight years old. You may ask, why did the mother promise her moon, when she knew she can not give to her daughter? Yes! The woman promised her daughter the moon even when she knew that it was impossible give her a moon, just for the daughter to let her have peace as well as to keep the young girl focus and serious in her daily given assignment at home. So, if Gov. Akpabio had ever promised Bishop Akpan that he will hand-over to him as it is widely brag by his supporters, it was as a result of his constant selfish pleas to Akpabio to let him success him in 2015. So, for Gov. Akpabio to have peace of mind, he wishes him moon in 2015. It is an honest advise to Bishop Akpan that he should stop lashing Mr. Udom Emmanuel on every of your speeches. Take it or leave it, Udom Emmanuel is not part of Bishop Akpan’s problem. Do Bishop mean to tell the world that it was because of Udom that he step-down in 2011 for Senator Helen Esuene? Bishop Akpan should leave Udom Emmanuel alone, Udom and bishop Akpan has right to contest in 2015 gubernatorial just like any other son or daughter of this state. As long as democracy and politics is concern, nobody is a born politician. We only embrace politics at certain point in time in our life. Bishop Akpan and Mr. Udom Emmanuel to the best of our observation are professional in their chosen fields; Udom, a banker, while Bishop Akpan is a pine-apple farmer and a bishop of a church, but today they are politicians. Bishop Akpan never studied politics in school; he only learns it as he develops passion on it, so he should leave Udom alone. Mind you, Udom may end up losing even at the primary. It is obvious that in many occasion that Bishop Akpan is honoured to make speech, he keep saying, “Udom Can’t reap from where he did not sow”, and it will be pertinent to ask him, what did you sow in Akwa Ibom State other than pine-apple in your farm? However, it may be importance for his supporters to know that what you sow in Akpabio’s victory in 2007 and 2011, he had since reap it as adviser to Gov. Akpabio on political matters and as chairman of Road Maintenance Agency. Now, what else does he want to reap? Meanwhile, it will be proper to correct the fact that Bishop Akpan has never been the Priest of Akwa Ibom state government before as he brags last Friday; for there is no political office as “the office of the Priest” in Akwa Ibom State. However, Mr. Godwin Oton Charlie, the honourable member representing Onna State Constituency in the state assembly in his speech during the bishop’s birthday revealed that the bishop had sacrifice so much towards the success of the PDP in Akwa Ibom State in 1999, 2007 and 2011. Now, the question is, was Bishop Akpan a member of PDP in 1999? Truly speaking, no right thinking citizen will support any gubernatorial aspiration of any aspirant just for his ever-bragging speeches that he was made to the governor of Akwa Ibom State in 2015, instead of presenting his manifesto. Bishop Akpan knows it himself that before the polls that he may step-down for some other aspirant as he did in 2011. He knows very well that occupying an elected office looks like a spell on him, but if it is an appointed office, he is at the reach. It is on record that Bishop Akpan have aspired for every political offices in Nigeria except House of Representatives which it is believe that he may indicate interest in 2019. If he wish to contest that fact, how comes that he was unable to win the commonest election as the chairman of chairmen of the Akwa Ibom State Board of companies early this year. So, every right thinking citizens of this state are not surprise that Bishop Akpan’s gubernatorial aspiration may be a scam or a mirage. By Unyime Isemin Posted by Itohowo Williams at 23:25 No comments:
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