AKPABIO just isn’t sensible… Akpabio just isn’t sensible… Akpabio just isn’t sensible…Akpabio just isn’t good… Akpabio just isn’t good… Akpabio just isn’t good…Akpabio is vindictive… Akpabio is vindictive… Akpabio is vindictive…Akpabio is … Akpabio is… Akpabio is…Akpabio just isn’t… Akpabio just isn’t… Akpabio just isn’t…That is some type of easy poetry uttered by sundry individuals as they understand Senator Godswill Akpabio, the President of the tenth Senate of Nigeria. Because the excellency’s fray or disagreement with Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan entered the general public house, I’ve been talking in confidence to totally different people and fellows from totally different, or numerous and diverse backgrounds understandably from the South-South geo-political zone. The poetry I’ve tried to recite above because the opening strains of the column at this time originated from my conversations with some peculiar Nigerians, as a few of us might name them.
I met them, at totally different instances, in beer parlours and mama-put joints. I didn’t go to these locations to booze or to wack. I went there primarily to search out out what or all of the issues or none they knew and know, each single factor or all of the issues or practically all of the issues with some notable or measurable diploma of accuracy, at their finger tips on our nationwide politics.
What got here to the fore, to my excessive astonishment, was the Natasha-Akpabio imbroglio, with gripping understanding and reflection. All of the quoted strains (and others I’m not quoting right here) I perceived – and nonetheless understand – upon my very own reflection please me as even higher than any logic or rule about poetry about His Excellency will or would.
Apparently, His Excellency the Senate President, who needs to luxuriate in his fame because the president of the present senate didn’t learn me final Friday. His fallacious advisers and legal professionals and acolytes and sycophants and deceivers seemingly didn’t pay heed to my column as effectively. As a result of I didn’t wish to be seen or denounced as a non-neutral within the tragedy that has ensued between two mates within the senate, I attempted to sue for truce and peace.
Something opposite to this could not however be ruinous to the understanding of the hearers and watchers of the Senate proceedings. The purport of my comment is that regardless of his monumental powers as Senate President, issues wouldn’t augur effectively for His Excellency in spite of everything that will be stated and executed. A sensible particular person, irrespective of how highly effective within the workplace he occupies quickly or completely, is to not be obeyed, revered or reverenced greater than the reality.
Anybody, any chief, who needs to earn fame in a rustic, in any nation, should know the data or be taught the data and reality and its act and artwork for the sake of the individuals and the non-public fame he should earn effectively, rightly, appropriately and honestly. I don’t need phrases to falter on my lips – or on the lips of my pen. I’ll now let a few of my readers and watchers of what has transpired within the Senate and the fall-out from there converse out. I’ll quote them verbatim.
A feminine reader who requests to be nameless:A number of factors to notice in your column of final Friday… “to discover a factual and truthful answer to what’s rising to be a sample of values between the Senate President Godswill Akpabio and Senator (Mrs.) Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan…” Certainly values although summary are palpable in our phrases and actions. Final Friday’s article by you, although seemingly placatory, has develop into speak from the lectern – the preacher or trainer’s each of which you’re. Final Friday’s morning, March 7, 2025, the tabloids had been awash with information that won’t be washed away quickly, particularly by the torrents of Akpoti-Uduaghan’s intransigence.
She bears the burden of half-year suspension, stopped wage, withdrawn safety particulars and different latent punitive measures. The weights of the chastisement or punishment in opposition to her are patriarchal and private, with undue and premature use of state or institutional equipment that may solely be mitigated by her apology! No extra, no much less.
Why was the committee saddled or un-saddled with the investigation not allowed to do its statutory jobs? Whither courtroom orders? Who’s afraid of dusty, sneeze-causing issues to be swept out from below the carpets? Is any political officer holder greater than extant nationwide legal guidelines? Let there be equity and libidinal issues delivered to equitable judgment no matter whose ox is gored. Nemesis is a goddess!
On a lighter observe, my era of ladies was weaned on the counsel to not swear to consortium innocence. That’s my candid recommendation. (Is Mrs. Akpabio there? Is she studying this?) The instruction goes additional that no feminine tag was hooked up to a male phallus on the day of foreskin removing. Subsequently, no spouse ought to defend her husband’s sexual constancy. Interval. I recall an article by Funke Egbemode in The Punch on the matter years in the past.
That is what one other reader (Mr. Joseph Ogbewe) says:Senator Natasha should not apologise.All these senators requesting undeserved apology from Natasha for committing no offence are naïve and disgusting to have even conceived that notion. A lady who stands up in opposition to oppression and frustration from the Senate Management for not yielding to apparent strain to succumb to amorous relationship needs to be honoured and never vilified.
Any apology from her will make nonsense of her profound allegation in opposition to the Senate President. I see her because the cross-bearer for ladies’s rights and she or he should stand resolute in carrying that cross for all oppressed ladies everywhere in the world. That is my submission.
One other reader, Professor Owojecho Omoha states as follows: A superb columnist is a nation talking to all, no extra, no much less. That is the place South Africa is healthier. Mandela taught the South African, when and the place to resign, if fame goes in opposition to infamy’s means. Right here we maintain to infamy, come what might; in spite of everything, we are able to bribe a complete nation to declare the responsible harmless, and the harmless responsible.
How is this case totally different from a stolen election? Even a spouse publicly declares a husband harmless and privately declares him responsible at bedside. I will likely be a insurgent for a cause: to inform our nation that males whose wives declare harmless are publicly responsible based mostly on info earlier than us. The face I see right here is that of Juliet; a Romeo dies privately. Solely within the public denials are dramatized. T. A., you have got spoken. Who’re there to hear and draft the suspension letter for a Senator, Senators? Not a real critic and literary artist such as you, T. A., columnist and author on immortality’s freeway. Sure!To be continued.Afejuku might be reached by way of 08055213059.
