ARCHIVE: Letter To The Executive Governor, Emmanuel Eweta Uduaghan, CON

Below is the letter that 'touched the heart of the governor'. About two months after this letter was written, he personally commissioned the Centre. Happy reading...


Dear Executive Governor Emmanuel Eweta Uduaghan

INVITATION TO TENDER - BE OUR VAL!

SIR,
I write you this love-letter on behalf of all the Positive Isoko Women and hope it gets to you before Valentine's day so you can put smiles on our faces by being our val ... at Emede Arts and Craft Centre, (hereafter referred to as EACC).

This may be the longest love-letter you ever get, so I will advice you please sit down, sip a Chai Latte and be
my guest.

Unarguably, there cannot be true democracy unless women's voices are heard. I am a woman who believes Isoko will be a mirage if the women are just left in the kitchen because in the unpredictable
years that lie ahead, it has never been more important to breed leaders in our women. So, how do we do it? In comes Orezi Esievo!

Orezi is a huge advocate of Women's Rights and a role model for women at their finest. And because I have a certain kind of respect and admiration for intellect and good intentions, I trust Orezi's ability to represent Isoko South Constituency 1 in the DTHA. But she has something on her campaign plate that makes constituents tear at her from all sides ...the UNCOMMISSIONED EACC, now meanly termed Emede Witchcraft Centre because it has been overtaken by overgrown weeds.

SIR, 'works' is all the campaign tool needed in this part of the State without which a politician's entire campaign will be open to mockery and ridicule. Constituents excoriates Orezi that she doesn't embody the 'charity begins at home' cliche because of her inability to get the one thing she influenced to her hometown, the EACC, commissioned with all her supposed 'connections' to you and all the other ogbonge ogas at he top.

You see, we have always campaigned for her that she has all the 'connections' to bring development to the constituency. Sir, please, don't let our campaigns turn to one hilarious lark that will grindingly become trivial at the end of your tenure. You can never know what the pulse of the regular constituent who sees the Centre overtaken by weeds is; you can never imagine how much of bad faith it gives to her from her townspeople and you can never know how much of a weapon that is to the opposition who uses it to smash down the very foundation of her campaign.

The opposition is outsmarting the Party by saturation and propaganda. The minds of the people are being fed with emotional fear-mongering that must be turned around. Get the Centre commissioned and you would have helped in slashing all the extraneous stuffs that are bogging her campaign down as well as reverse the fears being fed to the gullible. If the Party fails because of this, e concern me no dey there o, na una be politicians, me I dey my husband house jeje.

You must be wondering why I feel this strongly about kick-starting the EACC. I will tell you. As a woman, Orezi is working too hard for this campaign (she don black finish o) mainly because the EACC, like the Mariner's albatross is hanging on her neck and campaigning loudly against her and the likes of my sister, May Ubeku, who walks with her under the hot sun. And I must tell you, May is one online enemy I pray nobody should have. She opens an ‪#‎OccupyUduaghan‬ trend for you on Twitter for just two hours and your career is finished, lol. Just joking, she is sweet like that...a very nice and understanding fellow and can't think of doing that to a listening Governor like you who hopes to 'finish strong'.

Your post on the plans to commission Umeh road with just a week's notice few days ago set tongues wagging and somebody asked, "what's the Governor's personal interest that he should personally make a post about commissioning Umeh's recently-finished road and leave the EACC that has been ready for aeons", and another replied, "the Centre will not give him the publicity he needs at this straw-clutching moment". You see bad-mouth? I was almost forced to tell him to shut up but then I remembered I am a lady and that language was unlady-like. So, I simply told him that it was a lie, that you are a staunch believer of DBO and are motivated by a sincere desire to do what is best for the interest of the majority who needs Umeh plantain to cook Ukodo. That you are as much the governor of Umeh Road as much as that of the EACC which will help old and young alike to become enterpreneurs.

Your post simply aroused 3 emotions in me:
First, SHOCK. I have always had 'observation of some protocols' as a defence for the non-commissioning of the EACC whenever the argument comes up.

Second, ACCEPTANCE. Acceptance that when a sitting and listening Governor is personally involved in any matter, protocols can be broken for positive results.

Third, HOPE. Hope that with the overwhelming love you feel for the Isokos this valentine period, there would be hope for commissioning the EACC same day as Umeh road as a val gift to not just the Positive Isoko Women but the entire Isoko nation to guarantee the future of the Isoko child who will be forever grateful to you for the lasting monument.

And so, sir, don't look at the number of likes and supporting-comments this love-letter will get before you take it serious, for it may not get much because all the strong voices in UNR have partially decamped to APC because of interest. Openly supporting that you commission the EACC to boost Orezi's campaign and get the youths off the street is not their idea of advocacy now. They must be silent to be consistent with their support for APC because they have become more selfish and biased than the mother of a guilty criminal. So, I beg of you sir, that like Nike, just do it.

We are not asking for an elaborate commissioning, we are only asking that you make it a condiment to the main dish - Umeh road commisioning. We are only asking for the cutting of just a ribbon to give the Centre life. Dazzall!

Do this and write your name in gold in our hearts. Do this to immortalize your name. For in the end, it is the people who got taught how to fish in the EACC; who got employed through it; who became enterpreneurs through it that will be our daily reminder that a great Governor once touched our lives.

Yours-in-Valentine
Peaceful Peace