By Clayton Udoh
In the past few weeks we discovered that some of us are
totally devoid of the ability to reason rationally as far as progressive mental forays are concerned.
It is not their fault, they just lack what it takes to think properly.
Hence we heard nonsense that echoed in the forums like “The Essential Umana Okon Umana” or “The Password UOU2015”.We shook our head in disbelief at the cost of hunger in the Akwa Abasi Ibom Community, both at home and in Diaspora. It reduces men to animals that attempt to speak like humans. People calling viruses passwords and getting angry when shown the invalidity of their statements.
People started the race before the gun was even shot. Nature in her infinite wisdom ensured that those with such madness ran completely out of the stadium into the streets.
Nonetheless ,we are grateful for these people to bring themselves forward as the players in a proverb that will be thrown for years to come. Yes we are grateful to the following for showing us what can happen when sycophancy tinged with a generous dash of buffoonery becomes a man’s moral compass.
Jimaimah Essien,.,Cletus Ukpong, Henry “Facebook ” Akpabio, Etim “Low rational ” Etim ,Esther “Hunger” Okono,Professor Lawrence “Hate Taxidriver” Etim, Ekong “Emotional” Essien, Iboro “Ranting” Orangutang,Kenneth “Security” Jimmy ,Marshall “Loyalty” Anako, Moses “Morally Bankrupt” Edem,White “Bad English” Bom Bom and the list goes on and on.
Please we must acknowledge the importance of these guys in the society ,for they prove the First Law Of Human Stupidity (Carlo M. Cipolla; Professor Emeritus of Berkeley)that states clearly;
“People we had thought to be rational and intelligent suddenly turn out to be unquestionably stupid”.
This is not an insult but a true study into why people support trends that are unquestionably asinine in nature to the society and indirectly to themselves.
Saw the Classroom venue meeting for “Facebook Friends of the Virus” and wondered why that horrific classroom was not part of the “Uncommon Transformation”. Watched how they were campaigning for someone whose thought process made the classroom to be as wretched as the pics we saw in the forums. Someone who was involved with several failed administrations and was an Inherent part of the problems we have in Akwa Abasi Ibom State (blatant corruption like building a micro-finance bank while in office). A person whose supporters would sing his praises without one single achievement of the individual in question singled out.
The problem was simply that he was a civil service God Father that had nine lives and like the political nabob that he was, had a knack for the dark art of survival in a place that careers are cut short at any moment.
Some people even bought the God element into why he is chosen to become the Governor of the state and were so inflamed about their source of Garri that they were inherently violent. People were infected with this virus.A virus that was truly beyond accountability towards the people and a despot in the making. His greed and mechanizations in silence that encouraged the first traces of abusive executive power was overwhelming and damning in nature.
It takes a lot of knowledge to understand that a trend can be a passing fad. Telling people sorry for dead loved ones then turning around to praise the murderers or going after people’s families and wives and in-laws to show Marshall Anako’s version of “Loyalty” is as asinine and archaic and Neanderthal as one gets. We began to see the loyalty game being played without consideration for a sector of the people of Akwa Abasi Ibom State that deserve the chance to produce a Gubernatorial candidate(ESD). Greed without limit.Which brings us to the Third Law of Stupidity which states clearly that ;
“A stupid person is someone who causes damage to another person, or a group of people, without any advantage accruing to himself (or herself) — or even with some resultant self-damage.
The group we saw in the forums were not interested in the good of Akwa Abasi Ibom State and were rather interested in the good of their stomachs. Disunity was their byword. Taunting people in Diaspora as unworthy of participation in the political discourse of their Fatherland because of the fact that they lived outside Nigeria. Soon we saw the beginnings of the discrimination and dehaumanization of a Senatorial district just for the sake of the justification of the UOU virus.
Special Thanks to Ukpong Ekam, Michael “Ankejem” Ekpo,Tony Udomkpa and all other Enlightened Ones that called for a standby in the background, while the system took care of the mess that was about to happen to the state by the action of hungry individuals pushing an agenda that was as dark as it gets.
Clayton “Bane” Udoh Mesa, Arizona