It is painfully obvious that one Nigerian state with a disturbing concentration of myopic, sycophantic, timid, docile, shortsighted, and politically irresponsible youth is Akwa Ibom State.
This is my position. It requires no debate, and I offer no apology for stating it. And sometimes, I’m left to wonder as to when these guys will be liberated and their minds restructured.
It is on record that after Governor Umo Eno defected to the APC and directed his appointees who were unwilling to follow him to resign, Comrade Ini Ememobong, against all odds, and to the shock of many, took the lonely but honourable path and resigned his appointment.
Let it be clearly stated: if there is one “juicy” ministry in government, it is the Ministry of Special Duties. That was the ministry Ini Ememobong resigned from. He walked away from billions of naira already budgeted, including funds tied to the Ibom Deep Seaport project.
Since his resignation, Ini Ememobong has remained quiet, focused, and committed to the responsibilities entrusted to him by the PDP at the national level. He chose dignity over noise. Silence over bitterness. Principle over convenience, unlike the “the food is ready” political jobbers we are in the state.
Even when repeatedly dragged, and provoked, he refused to trade insults or cheap relevance. He accepted the consequences of his decision like a man of conviction.
Yet, disturbingly, whenever Ini performs his legitimate duties as vested in him by the PDP, a swarm of hopeless, angry, and politically bankrupt individuals, mostly from Akwa Ibom, flood his posts with abuse instead of engaging the national issues he raises.
Take a closer look at those trolling him. These are people poverty has thoroughly beaten and abandoned. Individuals I know, who can barely afford a decent meal, yet find time to insult a man who has already made his mark. People living hand-to-mouth telling a man of substance in his own post things like:
“You are alone in PDP,”
“Your suffering has just begun,”
“God will punish you,”
“You will write press releases and get tired,”
“You left a juicy position to suffer”,
“You never even started” bla bla bla.
Utter rubbish. Intellectual bankruptcy on full display.
Rather than interrogate the substance of Ini’s press statements, most of which directly address issues affecting their own welfare carelessly orchestrated by the Tinubu’s Government, they deliberately ignore the message and troll the messenger.
What manner of people behave like this?
So Ini Ememobong said he would not leave the PDP, and that suddenly became your problem. How? Why? Did Ini ever force anyone to leave their party? Did he beg anyone to support PDP? Or is political freedom now a crime in Akwa Ibom State?
Whether PDP is dead or alive, how exactly is that your business?
You are in APC and Ini Ememobong stays in his party, what concerns you?
You that’s in APC or has defected to the APC, how has your life fared so far?
You and Ini Ememobong, who has a good and fulfilling living condition?
Let it also be said without fear: many of those trolling Ini today are people who benefitted directly or indirectly from his goodwill, and used to sing his praises.
When Ini served as PDP Publicity Secretary and later as Commissioner, he discharged his duties to the satisfaction of virtually everyone in the state. He was never found wanting. His record speaks loudly.
He became a ladder for many youths and civil servants alike. To date, no commissioner has developed, empowered, and uplifted ministry staff the way Ini Ememobong did. These are verifiable facts.
Yet this same man is daily insulted by ingrates and political misfits who behave as though abuse is a substitute for their achievement.
It is nauseating. Absolutely despicable.
In a political environment where integrity is scarce and decency is treated as weakness, Ini Ememobong’s greatest “crime” was resigning honourably and refusing to join the opportunistic stampede to the APC.
With this mindset, politicians will continue to exploit the people of this state with ease. They will keep selling empty promises, and the people will keep clapping themselves into poverty today, tomorrow, and until Christ returns.
So continue trolling Ini Ememobong, as if he owes you your miserable existence. History, however, will remember who stood for something, and who stood for nothing.
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