EMMANUEL UDOM – THE ANOINTED
You know I have a song for you: ‘When things like a river attempted my way, when things start to be funny, no matter what it is, just remember God leads the way, it is well, it is well with my soul.’ That is the song I sang when I repeated form four for the third time. As I looked at the letter they gave me to withdraw from the school and the tears as they dropped from my father’s eyes and also as I watched my mother getting ready to give me the first of 49 slaps, I just started singing that song. ‘…….It is well, it is well with my soul…..’. mbok the next time I heard that song was when Rev Chris Okotie sang it when he saw the results of the elections the first time he attempted to be our President. Only like six people voted for him. He just knelt down and wept, singing the song. So my brother you have conquered the lion of wherever he comes from. The one that calls himself uncommon politician. You have given him and his backers an uncommon defeat in an uncommon way and sent him straight into the dustbin of uncommon history. You were able to do this because of your uncommon stand against tyranny, your uncommon stand with the people of Akwa Ibom and with their destiny and that is why God has uncommonly stood by you. He has made you David against the goliath of our country; bound their mouth and render them unable to declare the elections in our state inconclusive. ‘Ettebong, Abasi adiong fi’. Now focus. The work just started, you have to deliver a legacy of performance no time to be wallowing in unnecessary celebrations. The people need immediate succor and development. We gave you