“Those Who Support Evil In Any Guise, Do Not Know How Powerful Is The Authority Of The Lord Over Its Word.”

Citizen Ekanem Essien or what you call yourself, I have seen what you wrote attacking me for cautioning you against being hasty to start an unnecessary media war over what you’re not mandated to do by throwing abuses to our political opponents using Prince Otu as a cover to give vent to your gross incompetence in a precise manner over the delivery of your vague arguments.

As what you said in that maladroit writeup against the Governorship candidate of the People’s Democratic Party, Senator Sandy Ojang Onor, made no political sense at all to inspire the acceptance of the man Prince Otu you purport to project for endorsement now that he has emerged as the candidate of our party, APC. If indeed that was your aim.

I don’t know when Prince Bassey Otu inaugurated the office of the Director General of his campaign Organization, for which you have Chief Sunny Abang now functioning. Can you remind me of it?

Nor have I heard when Alhaji Ahamed Bola Tinubu inaugurated the office of the Director of Media and Communication of his campaign, chief Bayo Ananuga, veteran journalists, former managing Director, editor-in-chief of theNews group, both of whom are functioning.

It is so because these particular offices evolved with the candidate from the inception of his aspiration inspired by their conviction of what they both inversion to be a noble cause to invest their time on could be as friends or associates in the party, homogeneous to themselves bonded to actualize a set dream initiated by the former; leading through the Primary Elections and subsequently.

Especially the Director of media, publicity, and propaganda usually professionals in that field whose assistants being sort to project their friend come-principal, as suitable candidates to the public from the party out. And that’s exactly what happens between myself and Prince Bassey Otu to be specific.

Having said that, I wish to reiterate the fact that Prince Bassey Otu’s candidacy is not an Odupkani, nor an Efik affair. And noise-making will not make Prince Otu win, despite the euphoria. It requires hard work from the genuine hearts of those who are competent to deliver.

Those of us old members of APC who started with Prince Otu do so out of conviction for what he represents. And the confidence he reposed on us from inception, especially my humble self.

Everybody knows the effort I put in doing what I am still doing in furtherance of Prince Otu’s candidacy. And Prince Otu has not given me a reason to do less.

I also wish to inform Ekanem Essien that I am the third son of a Princess in the Efik kingdom, late Madam Ewan Edem Offiong Effiwatt of blessed memory whose mother is from the royal family houses of Adogase and Odikom families of Big Qua Town in Calabar Municipal. And not alleged illegitimate sons of an Akwa Ibom mother, claiming to be Efiks of Odukpani, Akpabio, or Bakasi.

So I have a stake in Otu than your baseless claim of being an Efik, the driving instinct behind the insinuations of those of you who had stayed behind to make a mockery of Prince Otu, while some of us who see through his circumstances as temporary setbacks stay glued to his aspiration to date.

Now that the light seems to flicker, you people have arisen trying to link whatever I do genuinely of being either Senator Sandy Onor’s mole, Senator Owan Enoh’s ally, or Chief Agara’s surrogates, even when I displayed such state-fastness, devotion, and love in my support for my candidate being, Prince Bassey Otu and my party, the APC. And never for once wavered.

For your information, for who I am both in politics and the public eye, if I want for any reason to support any candidate in PDP or any party apart from APC, as you tried to insinuate, I will resign my membership of APC and decamp to that party and not hide behind any guise in support of such candidate.

Wherever I am I take the initiative to do what I know is right. Except for Prince Otu whom I am working for; now comes out to say I shouldn’t do what I have been doing, then I would stop. And decide on what next to do. It is not over, not until it is over.

I speak often to Prince Otu on the phone when he is not in town about what is needed to be done. And we do discuss how I feel over certain matters. He hasn’t one day told me to stop doing what I know is good for our success.

I appreciate the unwarranted pressure on him, by certain forces beyond his control, nonetheless, I doubt if he would want to succumb to accept somebody less to present him, the party, and his good intentions in the light and manner which I do with such sophistication and grasp of the terrain and what luck ahead and how to defuse it.

This is a purely professional field to be handled by the best, not junk writers of no reputation or news reporters still serving in some government employment, hungry men or women coming on the plank of sentiments or feminism.

If you are not a member of Prince Bassey Otu Media and Publicity Campaign Organizations as you’ve rightly opined, then you should exercise restraint, keep quiet and say nothing else, and don’t use that premise to incite. That’s what I am saying. I have nothing personal with you. And there are no bases for that.

Whoever is playing the drums for you to dance in the market square knows I am bigger than those pranks. I am an opinion molder with a massive readership across every stratum of our society.

People seek to know what Obi Ojage is saying on a matter, here and beyond, especially about our local politics and theosophy. That’s a plus for me. And I gain that through hard work. I don’t think I should bend over backward to embrace persons whose actions are a product of malevolence. Not for anything.

You’re just trying to be noticed over what you cannot do much in a manner that can fetch you any recognition in a descend society. Publicity, communication, and political propaganda have evolved. It is not by abuse.

You must have some intellectual bite and exceptional writing skills to attract readership from the trodden and elites to dabble into the terrain especially in the fight to gain power and political power. Nobody has a monopoly over abusive language done unprovoked.

I thought what I said by cautioning you from dragging the name of our candidate Senator Prince Bassey Otu of the APC, in a manner that does not sue for peace should breed soberness in whatever you want to say linking it to Prince than otherwise. I don’t know how to place you, a journalist, critic, opinion molder, or attention seeker to get baleful, I mused.

But because your motive is disingenuous, unethical and my rebuttal to it tern to diminish your ill intentions to forcefully assert yourself on the pretext of defending Otu, you now cry Woolf, and by trying to insinuate about my attempt to stop you, you sound tremulous by drifting out of the subject matter putting my appellation to scrutiny which I surmise would be the contention from now thence having now made public the office I hold as Director of Media, Publicity and Propaganda in Prince Otu’s campaign organization to encourage expediency, which now calls for insinuations misinterpreting my good intentions by Woolf in sheep’s clothing such as you now represent, will sure be elicited. And now you do so under pretenses.

How I wish you do listen to yourself whenever you engage in those your infantile use of language to attack those you do, lacking depth and enough information to make sense of what you say. Especially at this time.

I want you to re-read what you said about the candidate of the PDP, Senator Sandy Ojang Onor which you tried to link to Prince Otu’s candidacy. And also what you wrote accusing him, using derogatory language if any of what you said has any semblance of criticism in it as you claim rather than an outright attempt to assassinate his character unduly. Is that what a citizen is meant to do?*

For your information, that wouldn’t have attracted my attention as most of your senseless write-ups turn to portray.

But I reacted because you tried to link your outburst to our candidate Prince Otu, which is my concern, to stir up unnecessary controversy over nothing as those whose principal you mention in your meaningless writeup, would not stay aloof and watch you abuse and say things that are offensive to their principal. And especially when it is uncalled for and is of no use towards the buildup of the campaigns.

And so too would those of us who have labored to get our candidate Otu where we are now, even when you tried in your shallow reasoning to put your abusive and incisive language in reported speech. You were not even bold enough to say that this or that, is what I know of him, Sandy’s alleged bad act.

But rather you were reporting what others said. And you said it in an unprofessional manner. It would have been alright if you ended it as your findings and did not link it to Prince Otu whose image I am to protect as far as the campaigns are concerned.

There is a structure meant to do that. And I head that structure. Whether you believe it, like it or not. Prince Otu’s campaign group cannot be rudderless.

What you find as an anomaly is caused by the disparity that seems to exist between the old and new members of the party. People no more recognized those with the skills to do the job. They rather favor those of their kind.

The new members are clamoring to occupy every sensitive position available. But this particular position I hold is different. It is strictly the prerogative of the candidate to decide not the party.

These are persons who were entrusted with the responsibility to carry out certain functions from the inception of the group. I work directly with Prince Otu as his Director of Media for his victory. That’s what it is. I am answerable to him. It is not a tribal affair nor that meant for mouth service, mediocre, or an opportunity course.

If you want to attack anybody you feel does not worth what he or she claims, do so on your account and not drag the name of our candidate to it especially when campaigns have not commenced and more so you’re not in the position to do so as you rightly said of not being a member of Prince Otu media team.

I caution you as the Director of Media and Publicity for the Prince Bassey Otu campaign which rights I have. And I gave reasons for saying what I said. Therefore your insinuation is baseless.

If the new members who just left the PDP are not known to be supporting those they left behind, is it me who has been in APC ever since I joined it come rain, come shine, would, you’re talking rubbish meant to crave for sympathy, matters nothing? Everybody knows the problems I have with the PDP members who are now with us in APC and whatever misgivings I have about them I say it out.

However you want to classify me in the light of who I am in Otu’s project to win the Governorship election, that is your headache. I don’t reap where I did not sow.

I show capacity not insinuation, backbiting nor blackmail to be reckoned with. And I have never been known to play anti-party. The rule I am playing is what we agreed with Prince Otu I should do.

I have to keep this on till the campaign period when every other thing would be formalized. It appears you’re hankering to be co-opted. That’s not the way to go about it. This campaign is bigger than those things I see you say or write.

You don’t even have the mental capacity, intellectual dept, and writing skills to measure up with those who have been positioned in PDP to start a media war with their opponents that which you’re trying to impress and being nasty about it unprovoked.

If you want to support Prince, do so decently. If you have anything critical to say against his opponent and you think you must, then it must be subjected to scrutiny and certified good enough for publication in line with our standard of engagement, period.

GOD WITH US…..

Comrade Obi Offiong Ojage, Director Of Media And Publicity, Prince Bassey Otu Campaign Organization, APC, Cross River.

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