My brother state is in turmoil,and it has to do with politics.The PDP and ACN have been having a field day with fights in first,Ikot-Ekpene and then Uyo,the hometowns of the two respective candidates, Governor Obong Godswill Akpabio and Senator Akpan Udoedeghe.About 20 people have been feared dead and cars burnt. But the most sympathetic of all is what Governor Akpabio revealed,that the ACN 'touts' cut the genitals of about four of his members.
While Obong is a renowned king of exaggeration,of all the governors in the country,we could be forgiven for taking his revelation as a mere joke.But then,if they are true,I fret.The events in Jos make me fear the word 'deja vu'.
127 cars and 147 'keke napeps'(if it ain't an overstatement) could be replaced.Death,while irreplaceable,might be forgotten over time.But cutting of genitals?Ah,that is the mother of all cannibalisms.
What I find annoying,though,is the way our people fight for politicians so stupidly.It is annoying! That annoying!Let's just not put ethnic differences into this.It's just mere idiocy. I just pray our 'exaggeration master' is actually over-hyperbolic!