2023 Elections: The Tears Of Ndokwa Ethnic Nationality

As the 2023 general elections is almost here with us, the focus question is, how prepared are we as a Clime for the seamless election?

If you ask me, I want to put it to us that we are not there yet but should be involved and not leave the stage for the Old ways of playing politics across Ndokwaland to reel its ugly head again.

If we must expect good governance for the sole purpose of experiencing sustainable GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT across Ndokwaland, the  elites and leaders in position of influence, must come out from our COMFORT ZONE and take RESPONSIBILITY.

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Accordingly, may I propose we embark/focus on the following measures amongst several others as individuals may deem fit:

1. We should ascertain our peoples level of awareness and readiness to participate in the forthcoming elections. More so, we should be concerned about the information that our people consume as to the benefits for Politics and Politiking.

Are the the people of Ndokwa ethnic nationality aware that making wrong choices or not even allowed to make choices of who represents them politically, COST the region the following?

1. Lack of good roads.

2. Worsening of Educational Environment by way of delapitated Structures, Facilities and Teaching Staff for their Wards and selves, for those who want to acquire Higher education.

3. Poor Agricultural and Fishing facilities for hitherto great practioners of these trades.

4. Poor or lack of Medical Structures and Facilities as it is today, will further be exacerbated.

5. Gross Unemployment of our qualified Youths will continue unabated.

6. Criminality/dangerous cult activities will become unmanagably.

7. The crave for Industrial establishment and entrepreneurship will be a pipe dream unending.

8. A poor and ignominious general wellbeing of the people will continue to be our lot instead of being Progressive people.

The above plus many other WOES as we experience today will continue to be the EXPECTED COST OF THE CHOICE WE WILL MAKE IF WE ELECT WRONG PERSONS INTO POLITICAL OFFICES TO MANAGE OUR COMMONWEALTH.

2. Have you educated our people especially the Women folks and Youths Population that collecting peanuts from persons seeking office and JOINING WORTHLESS GROUP in support of persons based on pecuniary gains, popularly referred to as STOMACH INFRASTRUCTURE, is more dangerous than drinking poisonous OTAPIEPIE?

Worst still, these women are gifted demeaning wrappers of #1,500 and head gear, cheap T-shirts, Face caps and other stuff, to go about dancing their DESTINY AWAY, UNKNOWINGLY and chanting songs in favour of persons that ordinarily should be their CHIEF SERVANT but Currently are and would be their Traducers -in-Chief immediately they get what they set their eyes on POLITICALOFFICE.

Have you risen as a blessed public influencer and out of your comfort Zone to educate our people that these bad habit must stop? Tell them to dance after the best for Ndokwa is Chosen by them Voting RIGHT.

3. The common form of rigging elections in Nigeria and in particular, across our Ndokwaland from 1999 is via thuggery, Ballot box Snatching and Stuffing.

Intimidation of Voters by ensuring they are scared away from Voting centers and making way for their purchased/enslaved followers to only have access go vote as well as the common wicked acts of manipulation of Voters results to reflect the wishes of the masters and leaders as against the people’s preferred.

Most disgusting of the
cases is, using horrible influences to hand our Political offices to who the GOVERNOR OR HIS WIFE FROM ASABA SAYS SHOULD GET IT BECAUSE HE OR SHE IS A SYSTEMS PERSONS or PARTY LOYAL PERSONS or ESTABLISHMENT PERSON and other mundane considerations.

These unproductive/unprogressive methodology of placing selected persons to Political Offices, rather than the international best Practices of electioneering have been checked by the new Electoral Act 2022, as Nigerian policy makers have found out due to the public outcry and international condemnation that we are made a bunch of JOKERS in the world Stage.

However, I want to shock us by saying that these our Political parties and persons, with particular reference to the very old hags, are negatively smart.
They have come up with EVIL PLANS to overwhelmingly COUNTER THE NEW AND ORDERLY PROCESS, ie supposedly gains of the new Electoral Act 2022.

For emphasis, may i inform us that given the innovative design/ measures put in place by INEC for a seamless elections, our Political Class from the BIG-FOR- NOTHING Parties have deviced a more dangerous way of circumventing the Electronic Voting system.

Be informed that the new rigging methods have since started in the country VOTE BUYING Ekiti State and Osun State off season elections was experiment field for them and Ndokwa version have been activated already.

It goes thus:
Some misguided Youths and some idiotically acclaimed women leaders ( who should be properly addressed for what they actually represent as Ogbome efifie) followers of the old and big Political system parties, go about inducing indigent persons (products of their selfish Politics) to give their account details for some blood money to be paid into in return they are to surrender their PVCs thus depriving them from Voting on Election days.

The PVCs will only be returned at the expiration of the Voting Excersis. Brethren, HOW WICKED MAN CAN BE in Politics in Nigeria?

Brethren, I call on you in the Name of our God Almighty, Ogagankwagidi, our gods, and deities and our ancestors, to please RISE UP AND BEGIN TO REACH OUT TO OUR PEOPLE TO STOP GIVING OUT THEIR PVCs in exchange for money (ego ela) and MUST GO FURTHER TO ASK THEM TO REPORT ANYONE WHO APPROACHES THEM FOR SAME PURPOSE TO YOU.

Yours is to take the matter up with the Authorities. GO ANOTHER STEP BY REACHING OUT TO YOUR CLAN HEADS to go out and Ma Ekwe on this evil plot. Asking people not to Surrender their PVCs no matter the circumstances and should report such acts to the Okpala Ukwu, King or any other leadership system in place in clan or Community in question. Take this as your on Contribution in bringing Sanity to our Electoral Practices.

People must be careful and should be told the importance of the PVC to themselves and generations unborn plus the criminal implications of surrendering their PVCs for money.

It will lead to imprisonment if you are caught and prosecuted by EFCC, POLICE, ARMY, CIVIL DEFENCE OR ANY OTHER PERSONNEL while buy or selling your PVC.

The instrument called PVC means power to live a fulfilled life by Voting Persons of integrity and trust plus those that will BE ACCOUNTABLE.

I do not know it all neither am I infallible. All I try at every turn to do is to make it greater for the greater majority of persons across Ndokwaland made up of the 3 LGAs of Ukwani, NdokwaWest and Ndokwa East. QED.

My emphasis most times on the RAPID GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT of our Clime, is because we have held the Short end of the ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT dividends stick in Delta State and Nigeria at large for far too long.

The reason from all indicators, points to selfish/incompetent Political representation from the elected/Selected to the appointed persons, since 1999 when Nigeria returned to Civil Democracy. We did fair better, though, still below par after Independence in 1960.

The old age tested philosophy of life is that A MAN WHO SWIMS IN AFFLUENCE IN THE MIDST OF VERY POOR PEOPLE IS POORER THAN THE VERY POOR IN THE REAL SENSE OF THE WORD!
This is our reality in Ndokwa!
Common good for all is better than individual wealth in society!

May i from get go, apologies to any Politically exposed person(s), who have in anyway, made efforts at curbing our abysmal poor State in the past but hindered by circumstances beyond his or her control.

Please bear with me. The backwardness of our dear Ndokwaland is most unfortunate and annoying and illicit write ups like this from me most times.

The extreme and excruciating poverty of all of us could have been avoided if we deliberately chose to call out our traducers early enough. 22 years of horrible lack of Development across our land is painful

Please please please, i enjoin us to seriously introspect and buy into the @NEWNORMAL @NDOKWAFIRST Mantra.

These way, we will see that dream of greater Ndokwa for us and our generation coming, fulfilled!!!!

I remain your humble servant.

Ossai Udom writes from Abuja