National Confab As A Ruse

Folks, let us get it clear that President Jonathan’s National talk show (I call it so because the motive is to enhance his gamble in the 2015 Presidential election) is a ruse.

Like I suggested earlier, it is to settle diverse interests in order to garner secured support at the 2015 polls.

Why would the President, Governors, political parties, professional & allied bodies represent the adult suffrage of Nigerians when, in fact, what we really need is the representation by ethnic nationalities the country.

Well, I won’t quarrel about the N7bn scheduled to be spent during the jamboree, but I keep wondering why our political leaders & elites like taking Nigerians for an annoying ride.

The over 40 nominees of Mr President are surely going to this talk show, well oiled, as a gang of lobbyist for Mr President’s already failed ambition to return to Aso rock in May 2015.

Let me prophesy that the report of this Abuja “settlement camping” will produce another “white paper” for our archives like the panels we called: Oputa, Nuhu Ribadu, Lawal Uwais, Steve Orasanye etc. Endless black papers called white.

Make I chop lunch my dear pple

Ini Morgan

OUR DAY IS CONSTANTLY A ONE RENEWABLE DAY

Ini Akpan Morgan, architect, writer and social commentator

This is the truth:

Our “day” is one unchangeable entity, it remains the same, it only renews itself every midnight, because the earth emerged from darkness – time started at midnight.

My opinion (thinks that): when God called out the light, it took 6 hours of the “day” to unveil the “morning” – for daylight to emerge and make progress. So time started from when God called out the light. The systems of creation are revelational, and of a progressive process to establish the manifestations.

What truly changes is the human being, and every element of nature around him, which is given to decay – not enhanced with the ability to renew the mortal body.

For this reason, man, who is the reason for the decadence in physical nature, in his acquired, not given, “tend full” wisdom, created the human calendar to count for himself the renewed day each day, and he watches each day with the expectation to die “one day”.

Until he comes to understand how to renew his mind and live by the faith of God, overcoming the fear of death, man remains to count his days and expecting to die. Why do the things without blood live longer than those with blood?

Again, I say “death is a spiritual surgery – the process of filtering out sin from the human life, by the discharge of blood from the natural body (flesh and bones) brought to occupation in the after life.

A man who dies without Christ is like an animal who dies. They all return to the earth and their (human) souls roam until they are extinct – this is the “living in hell”.

God is in the process of eliminating evil on earth, as long as the blood of innocence, under a better covenant, is crying upon the altar, it is for, and to free us from death by his own death that God became a man to in human flesh and blood.

The blood is the instrument of sin in human life and it’s only through death – first, of our saviour, renewing the human mind, ensuring the possibility of living forever without dying the natural death, through the faith of God (John 1:26) and our human bodily death, to renew our “flesh and bones” – that the human blood is filtered from the human eternal body: for it is appointed for man, once, to die, and after that, the judgment.

When Jesus died, he rose again, when he rose from dead; he “stood up” and picked up his human body, without blood in it, wore it, and showed himself openly to his apostles as “flesh and bone” – what made him “the Last Adam” (Luke 24:39), returning humanity to the innocence of the First Adam.

Narrow is the way and strait is the gate that leads to life, few be that find it. Again he said “many shall desire to enter therein, but shall not be able”. The ability to die, get your soul to pick up your bloodless body and put it on ensures the begining of your eternal walk with God and the resumption of work with his Christ from the regeneration of the earth, as God intended it to be in the beginning.

It is possible to find the ability to enter into eternal life in this life, it is by the faith of God found in his words. Yes! You can die as many times as you desire to die before your actual death, if you must die at all.

I hardly count “days” this day (note! I did not say “these days”) because my day is one, as it is with the Almighty God, whose day is like a thousand years, and since I am not interested in living one day as a thousand years, my life remains in “one day” of the renewing 24 hours, living a renewed life until I am in God, living one day as a thousand years.

Our Lord taught us in prayer to say “give us this day…” meaning “in the renewed” day – what changes about the day is not the day in itself, but the human and natural contents of the day. The ability not to “live by human bread alone” is clearly established – more than food, it suggests that humans can live by communion too – of the word and spirit of God.

And until our day becomes 48 hours clock value in our present mentality, that is when we can have 2 days as 1 day – adding another 24 to span the time needed to make ready for the soul walk and work – the First Adam became a living soul and the Last Adam became a living soul. Where is our limitations?

This is how faith works: being able to see your day in every 24 hours as being in the same 24 hours day. You will struggle less because you would find that you are condemned to a repetition of the same thing every 24 hours of your life – a routine life. It’s like going in a circle until you are dazed.

It is well to understand that it is possible to live without dying – because each day you count to add to the ears you count on human calendar, makes you aging, old and decaying. This is the faith that leads to eternal life.

Controversial abi?

Wisdom is justified of her children. I try to learn on things that have not yet been exposed to human understanding. I have the power and potentials to create – to bring to being what is never being.

I am the creator who specializes in using the word of God as my tool for understanding my life and my mission on earth

God bless you all.

Ini Akpan Morgan
31/07/19

THE LIKELY SECOND TERM SELF AFFLICTED FAILURE OF PRESIDENT BUHARI

Let us all recall that in the first term administrati of President Muhammadu Buhari, from 2015 to 2019, and the challenges that era suffered, bedevilled by, as Mr President has been suggesting, the misrule of the erstwhile ruling party in the country, the People’s Democratic Party (5&65&55PDP)9

I AM IN THE NUMBER SAVED BY GRACE: MY SHORT STORY WITH SENATOR (PASTOR) AKPANUDOEDEHE, PhD.

Senator (Pastor) John James Akpanudoedehe, PhD with his Media Aide, Ata Etuk

The attached picture is of Senator (Pastor) John James Akpanudoedehe, PhD (my political leader and mentor) and his Media Aide, Ata Etuk (my boss).

Both men have given me the opportunity I needed for a lifetime. I remain grateful to both men for who I have become in the politics of Akwa Ibom State. I can say I am the fastest risen political steward in the State having started my march in May 2018.

I pitched my political tent with Senator (Dr) John James Akpanudoedehe because he is clearly the one among us in Akwa Ibom State who has injected morality in our politics, and my sudden rise in his camp stemmed from the fact that if you are a politician and want to grow, all you need with our distinguished Senator is to seek available space. This is what many do not see.

Those of us who are with him know that he calls nobody and he rejects nobody. He does not believe he should use money to lure anyone into politics. That is why majority of the who is who in the politics of Akwa Ibom State owe their political rise to him and my hope is to also stand on that same pedestal, and to the change the false and malicious narrative I inherited about my leader, spun first by my uncle, who now has a change of heart because I returned with a new narrative of the man I have met, from who he rumoured.

I testify also truly, that those who work with Senator Akpanudoedehe are those who station their interests in the overall good of the people and the land: he once said: “throwing money at the people makes them appear beggarly, and the leader who does this cannot be helping the people”. He also said “how can I spend my money to seek an office in which I desire to serve…what does it tell of me?”

So, if he is not a Minister of the Federal Republic of Nigeria today, we who follow him know why his name was substituted. However, one thing that “haters” cannot take away from him is his reserved portfolio as “the Father of Opposition Politics in Akwa Ibom State. The man whose political advantages ah an e been dimmed by the same men he made.

Never in the history of Akwa Ibom State politics has an opposition political party in the State been so attractive to the politicians in our State until Senator Akpanudoedehe sacrificially nutured the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) in our State, leading other smaller members of the opposition struggle in the State into the APC. During this time, I stand bold to say, none of the political office holders in the APC today who are from Akwa Ibom State was on the “merger” table with him. But what do we have today?

Many are the afflictions of the righteous but the Lord delivers him from them all. And they that know their God shall be strong and they shall do exploits. Our confidence is in the Amighty God, who was, and is and will remain God forever more.

Ata Etuk is a brilliant aide, an impeccable gentleman whose love for sound mindedness knows no limit. He has defined his boundaries and his measurements are quite strict and filtering. He would tell “Ini, I respect you because you are humble and intelligent”. I am grateful to a man who would sincerely place credit where it is due. He gives me free space to express myself and what else do I need among people? I am grateful to Ata Etuk for embracing me closely in the media team.

I will not fail to commend Austin Ekanem, Senator’s Ally, for always moderating my political views and guiding my political ascendancy. Austin Ekanem is the State Secretary of my party.I will not forget Nsikak Udo: he tooked me from my Local Government Area and introduced me to Ata Etuk. Engr Edemiko Ita Dan took my ascendancy from my ward to the LGA and Edet Tommy Ukpe took me from my house to my ward.

The Senator Akpnudoedehe’s team is a team where political following is induced by sound mindedness, contentment and service. We do not throw grains to chickens, we draw men to serve bearing morality in mind. We do not make promises, we create the space for talented men. If you know your salt, join us. However long the journey is, we will surely get there.

“To God be the glory, great things he had done, so love he the world that he gave us his son. Who yielded his life an atonement for sin, an opened the life-gate that all (who will) may go in…praise the Lord, praise the Lord, let the earth all rejoice, praise the Lord, praise the Lord, let the people rejoice. Oh! Come to the father, through Jesus the son, and give him the glory, great things he has done”.

No matter how long it will take, my name is Iniabasi (God’s own time). We are unstoppable., We are constant and can never be moved. There is so much we can become. We will persevere and we will suffer long, but we will never give up, neither our hope nor our faith in God’s plan for Akwa Ibom Stte in particular, and Nigeria, in general.

God bless President Muhammadu Buhari
God bless Akwa Ibom State and the government, and
God bless the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

Ini Akpan Morgan writes in from Uyo, Nigeria via “time.subsidaries@gmail.com

HOW THE LAST ELECTION(S ) WAS AN ALL ROUND VICTORY FOR THE PEOPLES DEMOCRATIC PARTY IN AKWA IBOM STATE

Ini Akpan Morgan

The call by my good good friend online, Kate Hensley, for an all inclusive reconciliation between Godswill Akpabio and his estranged political family is a very good call. A call to ask Godswill Akpabio to embrace his estranged family sounds like an invitation to a “welcome party”. I commend this call, and truly so.

When the Godswill Obot Akpabio’s APC journey started

However, I think we have a bigger problem than we seem to realize that we have, and this is in seeing “the cat” and “the mice” frolicking together in an embrace that looks dangerous – “Tommy and Jerry” like romance, it’s either the kingdom of God has come, and there is unity of purpose on earth, or it is that “the cat” is entrapped spiritually, under a spell.

It is necessary we reexamine the integrity test of President Muhammadu Buhari, more than the success the PDP has secured in Akwa Ibom State, both at home and abroad, so far, I think our reconciliations should drive us to answer an urgent national question on dedication, loyalty, and long suffering on our hand.

Indeed, shortly before His Excellency, Senator Godswill Obot Akpabio left the PDP for the APC, in a rally in his behalf at the Ikot Ekpene Stadium, he had profess that he can win elections “on any political party platform in Nigeria”. And this he has tried to demonstrate and he has proven himself so.

Presidential nominations into a presidential cabinet is usually the last set of winning in every elections. Like it or not, Senator Akpabio is the biggest winner, thrown up from the 2019 elections, in the APC in Akwa Ibom State. How did it happen? And he came into the party with no political structure whatsoever. Well, for me, I do not see myself earning such unwholesome privilege any day – I have learnt to reject “money doubling” to get rich.

There is a price to pay for every distortion. It must not always be “me alone”. It must have been a long drawn struggle for the erstwhile governor and senator, now minister in waiting. Indeed GOA has become GSM.

More than the incumbent celebrations of all who have returned as winners from the last elections, we need to ask some questions on the true nature of our national recruitment process. It has been a very sad one so far. Let us tell ourselves some truth. National life should transcend personal political ambitions. We should “think Nigeria” some times, and how to save her from her visible slide into mental and spiritual anarchy. Decisions of our elites and how they go about themselves is very scary to ordinary watchers: only Nigerians can save Nigeria.

I stand by, and on my decision #istandwithbuhari, and on my honour, it was my decision and I will follow it through, but now I know that #changebeginswithme on this #NewLevel in which @MBuhari frolicks with those we erstwhile thought would be his strange bedfellows. #changebeginswithme seems to be very far fetched for @MBuhari in his #NextLevel administration as it now seems.

This is politics, dirty and propaganda driven politics, a market place for ill ideas, and we must embrace it as it is because this is all we presently have, until we would realize that we are all digging out our own national graves. “Who digs a pit, falls in it”: scripture cannot lie and it cannot be broken.

It is very easy to see “out of wits” lobby, nomination racketeering, monetized elections, established open and black markets for commission entrepreneurs to trade “candidates” for political offices. More than congratulating His Excellency, Senator Godswill Obot Akpabio for his presidential nomination into the incumbent administration’s First Team, I congratulate him more for understanding our incumbent politics, seemingly better than those who play with him.

However, more money seems to do what money cannot do, but every beginning will one day have its ending. A time will come when money will not mean anything again in whatever the erstwhile senator would become. I truly do not envy his brand of politics. I have a mind of my own. No matter how much our politicians fight to stay put in office, and doing their best “to serve us”, we pray that they can reach us at our “polling units” always, and not during elections only.

Congratulations the PDP Akwa Ibom State, a vivid case of what Akpabio said “I can win on the platform of any political party”. He came into the APC 11 months ago, and today he has become the First Man in the APC in Akwa Ibom State, and this shows how intellectually hungry the APC leadership is, as a party, in our State. An inept leadership drunken to stupour with their shame.

I am waiting to see if the party will disintegrate after President Buhari’s second term in office as it is being speculated – it can never be – we will only sieve out unwanted men and women. I feel the need to start an intellectual revolution – something better than holding up traffic and robbing citizens rights and their times, to score a sectional goal, no minding the sanctity of life.

Nigeria is a crazy country! In the network news yesterday morning, it was said that an American stabbed a Nigerian driver with his car key between his ear and his jaw, and said “nothing will happen because this country (Nigeria) is a lawless country”. This is how bad it is with us. “NOTHING WILL HAPPEN”, and I am watching out to see how that “unhappens”.

I only need Nigerians to make my opinions viral on the social media, and I will, on behalf of all Nigerians make positive demands on the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari. We will not sit and watch him fail again. So we will begin by asking this government to build, equip and employ manpower to man “National Centres” in all equivalents of our electoral polling units across Nigeria.

I will be elaborating on this policy direction where government will take responsibility and reside among the people at the grassroots on a day to day basis, and not only on election days. It is an insult to Nigerians to meet them close by on the day you need their votes, but make them pay to file simple complaints at our police station far detached from them. Let government bring itself closer to the people.

I am appealing to Nigerians to assist me push my intellectual “terrorism”, I am putting my life on the line in my bedroom to fight this government to ensure it reaches the people without making the people pay a dime to meet government anywhere. I know they do not know what to do. They are all bereft of ideas, and all they know to do is pilfer our commonwealth. I will draw up policy frameworks for good governance and Nigerians will make it go viral.

It should not be business as usual for every one who supported President Mubammadu Buhari to win his second term in office. It is our responsibility to ensure that even if he fails at the end, Nigerians would forgive us for supporting a man whom my younger colleague, Uko-Obong Efiok, clearly called “a fake prophet“.

Until I come your way again. Remain blessed

Ini Akpan Morgan writes in from Uyo via “time.subsidaries@gmail.com”

THE PERSPECTIVE OF THE EARTHLY LOCATION CALLED EDEN

Ini Akpan Morgan

When this revelation first came to me, in order not to miss it, I went off to seek a pen and paper. I did not trust that I could play it back in my memory after then. I had lost so many like it before, when attempting to retain them in memory severally, but this one was too special for me to lose – that the “admission into heaven is sought and given here in this life and on this earth”. Unction revealed that the steps taken by mortal men to “make heaven” cannot be taken in death. It is not possible to do so in death. So we will now look at this fact concretely:

When the reality of the admission into heaven dawned on me – I used the example of our academic/school systems to illustrate this revelation, how that admissions into schools are sought outside the intended school, and efforts made outside of it to get into it. So the option of making the efforts at making heaven outside of this life and on this earth is unimaginably impossible – I wrote this revelation all up, printed many copies and walked the streets of Port Harcourt in 2005 distributing the copies, only to wonder at how many who received these copies actually read. I was not earning any income from anywhere when I was doing this.

I have had several harsh times like this present one I am having: when God would lock me up in the “Isles” of my own “Patmos”, making me physically jobless and in severe material needs, just to get my attention to draw his will from heaven to earth. I would, normally, be giving in everything I have to make a difference wherever and whenever I get appointed into a government office – like I have had to occupy 3 times already – any time, any day. God knows best.

I am an instrument of service, in spite of how I live physically. Yes! In spite of me (bodily), God is ME (mentally and spiritually), he owns me (wholly). Where he leads I follow and what he gives, I issue out freely without charge. I, also, can run a mega church and also freely “rape” women too, believe it or not – it is not easy to set yourself up to take the power over peoples’ spiritual lives and over their finances. But how can I flourish in a calling that is not mine? I can only enjoy the material things it throws, but I would carry a burden of the lying deceits inwardly until change embraces me or I embrace change.

As an irresponsible Church leader, if I NEED to take a woman to bed, I will first win her heart lovingly, make her feel relaxed and compliant to my wooing. Why should I use my office to achieve that? It’s always easy and sincere when two walk together in agreement. I am not promoting immorality, but we cannot run away from some of the cases we have on our hands, and would I be wrong to put myself in some brother’s shoes – I should feel his pains?

The shoes may not fit on me because I have my own, not too good too, but I can feel some of the warmth inside it. This helps us to sympathize with the weaknesses of others – thinking from the human angle. Like I tell my friends always when the need arises, that after all I was unmanifestly made naked and manifestly born naked.

So what is the big deal about nakedness – being naked? What is “shame”? We need growing up from these. Lets take responsibilities with our bare faces looking bold at it, and be ready to move on. The attitude where a man is dying inside of him from attempting to prove his piety outwardly is absolute stupidity – if you can do it secretly, own up and do it openly. It is God we must please and if you cannot please him from nature, please him by the faith he supplied you for the purpose.

What believers ought to know is that “the heaven” is the “throne of God”. The heaven is his judgment seat of God, his administrative headquarters, where every being will confront him to account for his periods during this transient life. God does not reside in heaven. We are the residence of God: the collection of the minds of believers working out the purpose of salvation is where God lives. Yes! God lives on earth where his word lives. God and his word are like the man and his wife living together as “one flesh”.

Do we then wonder why “the Church” is called the bride, and God’s word appointed the “head” of the Church? We are the inhabitation of God, we are his bride. The oneness of God – father, son and the Holy Spirit – resides in the believer, in his mentality. This is why Christianity is about the renewing of the mind. God has chosen us as his habitation and has adopted our praises as his hiding place – he inhabits our praises.

So let us stop thinking about dying and “going” to heaven. Why do we always desire to “go” when Matthew 24: 26-28 says “go not”, “believe it not” to avoid being a victim of false prophets and false Christs. We “go” to Church to prepare ourselves to “go” to heaven – whattt!? Always on an endless move from place to place, uneasy, unsteady, searching, still searching until it is “dust to dust” and never finding what was sought. This life is so empty but it is so filled up with the unseen and the unheard of. Let it be known that the man in Christ lives on but the man without Christ returns to the dust finally (Genesis 3:19).

For anyone therefore to make heaven, he must take the entrance examination here in this life, pass the interviews and await the result for his shortlisting. Period! Strait is the way and narrow is the gate that leads to life, many there be that shall desire to enter in but SHALL NOT BE ABLE. There is no restriction to entering into heaven because it takes a personal ability to enter therein. It needs spirtual exercises and mental well being. Nothing physical is required.

Now God made the heaven and the earth in the beginning, and we know the rest – this means he made his throne and the habitation of men – how things were before this time is not open to earthly knowledge.

Now, it is understood that when he rested, his spoken word – the Lord God, which Christians call “Logos”, the “spoken” word – went on to accomplish what God spoke, after he (God) took his rest, revealing himself as God’s word. God created everything that is a constant in nature in the beginning but left everything that needed to be material for his word to accomplish and reveal.

God’s word, the Lord God, came upon a desolate earth, which is depicted in the beginning as being without form (inexpressible), void (uncontained) and in darkness (without a dint of knowledge). This darkness, which covered the waters (in every conception, water is an embryoic enabler, representing the mobile nature of the Spirit of God, present to refresh, relieve, revive – contended with the Spirit of God over the deep (the revelation of knowledge). The Spirit of God watched over the earth when it was under conception.

It was the Lord God who activated the seasons on earth by choosing a portion of the desolate earth and causing the scientific process of evaporation, saturation and condensation to begin, in order to water the earth. From the provisions of the earth he planted a garden in “Eden” after making Adam. Eden is a traceable location defined by existing rivers on this earth. Eden was made an example of human habitation and how God spoke forth the earth to look like.

God made the man in order to establish his rule on earth, and the Lord God (God’s word) who, from time to time, like a school teacher, taught Adam and scored him, trained him (Adam) in his duties. The whole earth is an expanse which God intended man to develop from Eden out – the intention of planting Eden was to use Eden to replicate Eden all over the earth. You see how far we are from this reality? Then this work is remaining to be done according the “word” that will never fail. No be so?

Man was to live in houses carved out from the interlocking of trees, shrubs and grasses, making a comfortable home for man’s resting place. Man was to sleep naked on lush green grasses more comfortable than any man made bed – at least, not getting beyond this to know the overall plan, this is what we are left with to imagine. You can imagine the stones of those era, they still had the touch of God, such that a man could use it as his pillow and enjoy the best dream ever recorded in human history.

Unfortunately, man acquired a new knowledge that activated his physical senses, his sense of the ordinary, cutting him off from his extraordinary spiritual connection. This is the point to which every mortal man must return in order to rediscover himself, and start his journey back home to God all over again.

The cause of the activation of the physical sense was the introduction of blood into the human system, the result of the eating of the forbidden tree. Look well, every human problem stems from the blood in the human body. The blood inhabits cells whose corruption limits and deteriorates the human life. The eating of the forbidden tree caused an internal bleeding in man which is contained by and in the human flesh.

Man had no blood in his body in the beginning, the personification of God in the man, as originally designed, enables the man to live as flesh and bone (Luke 24:39). Man lived by the unction (breeze) of God’s breath flowing through his flesh in a network of internal organs not supported by blood until “that” haemorrhage happened after Adam joined Eve in eating of the forbidden tree.

God had no problem with the man taking what was pleasant to the eyes and good for food (Genesis 2:9) but it was man’s destiny to learn God’s wisdom in the works (light) of his word. This was the problem – acquiring a knowledge that “tends to make one wise” (Genesis 3:6).

Sin, simply put is the attempt to tell yourself the lie you don’t want others to know about – defacing the truth, as the law of Moses did, having the inputs of men, as the “tradition of the fathers”, because Moses carved the “stone” of the law with human hands. Apart from this, there is no sin – this is why Jesus said it plainly that adultery and murder are established and accounted for from our thoughts. However, you are, if you are under the light, you will either improve yourself or inhabit, not inhibiting, the desire to improve yourself.

The abode of God in man today is called “the conscience”. Our consciences are the situation room between the heaven (God’s throne and administrative office) and the earth. And the conscience of the believer, after the fall, transformed to having the Godhead residing on earth in the Church.

Has the Church lived in the world as the presence of God? Why do we have wars, why do we have storms, why do we have famines, why do we have radical religions gaining grounds in our world, why is our evangelism not progressing toward the salvation of the Jews (Romans 9)? Why has the Church seemingly failed at working out Eden?

If religion therefore does not target the transformation of the human conscience by the transformation of the mindset of men for the development of our earth, then the objective is sinister and only seeks economic advancement of a few who only prosper by delimiting others better than them through violence and cun.

Eden is an example of human habitation, a place prepared and kept for man’s learning in the wisdom of God through the light of his word. The place from where all things earthly went wrong, the place to which God is expecting us to return. A place given under two deadly guards, the Cherubs, to protect the enterance to and the source of eternal life.

Do you have faith, it is about what you keep before your spiritual eyes, if you are not spiritually blind. If you would need to “go” to heaven when you die, remember that there is one heaven already made on earth, as the example of the habitation of men. God is not the author of confusion, if he left us in Eden with his word, then the word has gone nowhere to expect us than where he followed us from when we exited that example.

So we have a duty to walk ourselves back to the point where the Cherubs were positioned to guide the tree of life, from where we can feed eternally as God has designed it to be. Our “going to heaven” is our journey back to Eden, where Christ has gone to prepare us a place, to help us finish our own work, left in the middle of it. Abi no be so?

We have a work to accomplish on earth, and God does not speak and it fails to come to pass. He will not allow any man made heaven anywhere for man to die and go to – dying and going to heaven is another one taking from the “tradional” thoughts of “the father’s”. If you die without Christ, Scripture says, you return to the dust from where you were taken.

For surely, we must bring the will of God to pass on earth, as it was in the beginning. Stop thinking of dying and going to heaven. Show how you deserve to be a part of the Edenic Project, and prove yourself worthy of the admission by your service here in this life. The spirit of God is upon us to preach, to heal, to bind up, and to declare liberty.

Where are we NOW? This is what matters ooo, not whether you are spoken of as good and righteous. I don’t need the testimonies of men, let God judge me innocent of what I am seen to do, because I am given the ability to do all things in Christ, I won’t limit myself and I won’t judge any man who cannot be like me. Person dey old pass some things.

Grow up!

God bless you all

Ini Akpan Morgan is called an Apostle to Teach truth with the vigour of a Prophet.

THERE IS NOTHING COMPENSATORY ABOUT BUHARI’S MINISTERIAL LIST

For those who think that the Next Level “cabinet designate” of President Buhari is compensatory should rethink it. There is nothing compensatory about President Buhari’s list.

Take this from me, and I am saying this because if there was the need to compensate loyalty and dedication, every politician who emerged from the “mega merger” knows those it should fall on. I just do not like President Buhari appearing as tolerating disloyalty in partisan politics and nodding on the nomadic nature of some politicians – politicians who are always smelling political appointments. A few, maybe likely, are compensatoey, but the sense of their compensations was robbed by the delay in releasing the list:

Niyi Adebayo, Timipre Sylvia, Olorunimbe Mamora, Muhammed Dingyadi and a few others like them may have been the reason the list was delayed. For these ones, their compensation was overdue and gone stale. Some prominent politicians who led their various states into the mega merger and who still hold the largest stakes of party members in their states have been sidelined for mediocres. The rascals were at it again this time but thank God for men of good reason who remembered some excluded men of yesterday: the souls of the APC.

No one also was compensated for leading the last campaigns for Mr President and losing their own elections: anyone in this shade must have won on the capacity of his lobby. Yes, lobby of such calibre requires a war chest. This is one very sad aspect of President Buhari’s output in forming the list before the senate.

I am surprised that some mediocre political dramatist and political circus performers found themselves nominated into our expected federal executive council. Sometimes noise making helps in political reckonings. I pray President Buhari get his acts well and right. I may not be sounding nice any more, but I will continue to make my contributions on the side of honour and the will of God.

For me, I am happy I gave President Buhari my benefit of doubt in the last election. I still pray he can organize himself and use this last term he has to gain on the losses of the last 4 years. I must confess my disappointment in the time it took President Buhari to make this list available. I commend the 9th Senate for shaking Mr President out of a seeming slumber. I am surprised he was this “slow” again this time. Let’s assume the 9th Senate watched on like their 8th counterpart…!

It is unacceptable that it was for this list, now out, that Mr President was at mental (psychological and emotional) war with Nigerians. If it took President Buhari 4 years + 2 months to draw this list, then he needs to muzzle himself up to contain 8 years in 4, as it seems, as it were, and he is clearly losing on time very fast.

I pray we get it straight in spite of this unnecessary “slow” start: this is now like assigning a problematic vehicle, allocated to drive good governance to Nigerians, which drive will endure engine fatigue, intermittent tampers, roadside checks and some “push to start” momemts. We just need to arrive safe and to end well. I pray that Rtd General Bashir Magashi will end the shameful blood watering of our land, branded in so many code names.

I pray that President Buhari will not major in time wasting and poor profiling of his ideas. The “Next Level” has shown to be a little better than the “Change” level we had for 4 years ONLY in the kind of Senate we have in the 9th Senate. The 8th Senate never knew that sometimes Mr President needed a “wake up” call. The 9th Senate knows, and now, we all know.

I wish all the ministers-designate well in their output and in thier pursuits of good governance for equity, and for the benefit of all Nigerians. We all expect those who have corruption cases among them to help the government’s “integrity” tag and extricate themselves from “guilt” by bracing their time(s) in court.

In the spirit of the war against corruption, we pray President Buhari will not be the one to personally mock himself as “Mr Integrity” because mockery can seek and find its human personification. Like the Hausas would say “Munafunci dodo, yakan ci meshi” meaning “the mischief of keeping a monster is that it can consume it’s owner”.

God bless Nigeria.

Ini Akpan Morgan writes from Uyo, Nigeria via “time.subsidaries@gmail.com

THE PARABLE OF THE PROSTITUTE AND HER HUSBAND

Ini Akpan Morgan

Among the inhabitants of a faraway city on an eastern peninsula lived a prostitute, who many in her neighbourhood knew openly, in spite of her being a prostitute, because of her neighbourliness and transparent affection. They all wondered why a woman so richly blessed with character would choose to be a prostitute.

She lived among others like her in a brothel in the neighbourhood. Those who frequent that brothel would usually see desperate fun seeking men enter and exit this woman’s cubicle within the brothel.

Uniquely, it was she alone who knew why she was a prostitute, and when her circumstance threw this reality at her, she could not pretend about it and so she made a vow to accept her circumstance of being a prostitute and asked in prayers for her deliverance from the profession of shame.

As seed, she vowed never to tell anyone her story except the man who will meet her as a prostitute and marry her as such. Her story, she determined, will await her husband because, to her, since she is no “virgin”, she will deliver her story to her husband a “virgin”, as hers has been taken away before he arrived.

Because she had kept her story for herself, she never minded how the world outside looked out at her. Nevertheless, her strength was found in the sound thoughts that made her, in spite of what she was into, to await on God, whom she believed was abundantly able to change her story from physical shame to spiritual beauty.

What she was on the external did not bother her, as long as she was breaking good grounds from her inside. She believe that God can change her story from what it was, what it is, to what it was destined to be. So her focus was not on the past, nor the present, her focus was on her future. She never missed her moments with God.

Wisdom told her “believe in yourself, and believe in what you are presently doing, occupy in the expectation of the coming of Christ Jesus, and serve in whatever capacity you find, for the upliftment of humanity. You will win a sure reward”.

So when a customer enters her cubicle for her attention, she would attend to him faithfully and committedly give herself to him. But before she asks for her fees, she would humbly ask the customer to kneel with her in prayers. Some who have some moments to spare comply, but others would mock her.

In her prayer together with her customer, she would say “I thank you heavenly father for making my path to cross with my brother. Thank you for the benefit we have consumed together before you. Help him and help me. Thank you for giving us our bodies, amen”.

Usually, her customers were taken aback: “what manner of a woman is this?” And when asked why she prays after every bout of immorality, she would answer, “I am on an assignment, and I am doing my best to upgrade myself”.

From the reverence she drew by her character, and her not disclosing why she was into the business, many offered to help her start a business but she was focused in meeting the vow she made. She made a difference in her community and many of her customers favoured her and some undertook to help her. Finally one married her.

Now, when she was telling her husband why he found her where he found her, the husband wept bitterly and uncontrollable, having understood the suffering the wife underwent and how she stayed put, unweavered, until he met her. He looked again at her, and said to her “you are an Angel sent to me”.

However, before her husband found her, the weakest point in her faith to hold on strong was whenever she was in Church. When she is discovered to be a prostitute, they would asked her not to attend church any longer until she denounces her profession. Nobody knew her vow with God and her story remained for her husband only. As it is, her story changed for God. She became the wife of a Minister of the gospel and they both did well with her husband. It was about saving souls.

Lesson:

Faith is unique in that it does not see the present – faith is dysfunctional in the present. Faith is about a sure future a man determines to end with. Faith is a future God’s word takes you into. Faith comes by hearing what the word of God tells you you an become, mouth to heart, in order to contain and control the issues of the heart in spite of what happens around you in the present.

Every believer is working for the perfection of his soul by his submission to the Holy Spirit. Again, faith is impotent to the present, it is rather about one’s visualization of the future by taking the substances and evidences for the future; as God has predestinated it from the beginning in his word.

Therefore, we do not live for what we were, or for what we are, we live for what we will become. Faith transcends time, it is the power that pools the future into a present evidential reality. Faith does not make you accountable for what you are now, but for what you will be in the future. You are accountble to God for your now, but your faith makes you accoutable for your future.

This is why “time and chance” happens to us all.

I pray this revelation from the throne of heaven would bless and heat the universal church into the gold she was meant to become. Amen!

God bless you all.

Ini Akpan Morgan is called an Apostle with the mandate to Teach on the liberty of the Spirit with the vigour of a Prophet.

WHEN WILL THIS VICIOUS CIRCLE OF HATE, TRIBAL AND RELIGIOUS BIGOTRY CEASE.

Olajumoke, A.B

“In quarreling about the shadow we often lose the substance” – Aesop (620-560 BC)

In 2016, when MP Aman Khan became Mayor of London, a Nigerian Pastor sent out a post, that it was the culmination of a 25 years plan to islamise London by the worldwide Muslim organisation. Unknown to him, Khan is as British as they come. He was born in the U.K, and went to the best British schools, has been an MP representing Tooting, 2005-2016, and shadow Minister in the Labour Party, 2010-2015.

After Theresa May’s recent resignation announcement, several members of the Conservative Tory Party announced their intentions to seek the office of Prime Minister, among whom is Sajid Jarvid, current Home Secretary, since April 2018, and former Director of Deutsche Bank, and a Conservative MP since 2010.

Again another Nigerian pastor posted on social media his outrage at such ambition of a Muslim to become the British Prime Minister.

I responded that he is ignorant of the British political system, culture and way of life. Over 85% of those who elected these two Muslims MPs are white British Christians.

But to a typical Nigerian Christian with our zeal to show off our Christianity, a Muslim should never be allowed to hold such sensitive positions in a predominantly Christian country. They regard it as an abomination. Our prevailing “Hate Muslims siege mentality”.

I have even heard some Nigerian claim that the white people are not as religiously pious as we Nigerians, when all factual evidence shows that in all our actions, and speeches, there is nothing godly and loving, the two most important tenets of Christianity.

I lived in Riyadh Saudi Arabia, from 2011 for a few years. I like to share two narratives.

It is often a source of wonder to us Nigerians living there; when any time the Prophet Mohammed is depicted negatively in Europe, we hear of riots, burning of churches, killings in the Northern part of Nigeria, and not a whisper is heard in Riyadh; whether the Muslims in Nigeria are more Muslims than those in Saudi Arabia, the kin of the Prophet.

The second is Boko Haram claim that Western education is taboo; education is free at all levels in Saudi Arabia, and intelligent and interested students who wish to pursue further studies in any western countries are given full scholarship. So if the seat of Islam accept western education, where did Boko Haram come up with the taboo ideas?

I cannot remember in the history of Nigeria, any period of length, that is devoid of hate, bigotry and hypocrisy.

Hausa/Fulani hegemony; Ibo sharp business practices, domineering attitude, kidnapping, money rituals; Yoruba laziness, money rituals, betrayals; Niger Delta laziness, warlike stances, threats of mass expulsions of certain tribes, the list is limitless.

It seems we are forever at war with each, we are forever blaming each for the same evil we ourselves perpetuate, we are always looking to outsmart each other politically, economically and physically.

There must always be something to fear out there. Rituals killings, snatching of women panties for rituals, kidnapping, religious killings, cultism, fuel shortage, strikes, road accidents, building collapse, ethnic and tribal scrimmages and the last recent, herdsmen killings.

To listen and hear the narratives, you will think Nigeria is the only country in the world that is perpetually at war with itself, and sometimes for the most stupid and mundane of issues.

If these extremely nagging and negative narratives is only carried out by the poor and uneducated, you could excuse their ignorance, but to hear supposedly well educated people spew out the same poisonous garbage is destabilisingly disheartening. It makes one wonder if one is living in a country of the insane, the dead or the half living.

At one time, hate was directed against the Ibos, then we were all against the Hausa/Fulani, then the Niger Delta avengers and now we are all against Buhari and the Fulanis.

The Christians leaders will incite their followers against Muslims, the Muslims Imams will incite their followers against Christians. Both religions will condemn the traditionalists, who can’t openly condemn either religion, because a lot of the members of the two religions also worship at the alters of these traditionalists, so I guess they are caught in the middle.

Surprisingly, none of the leadership of these religions ever impresses on their followers that God never created any religion, because for the followers, the desire is not to seek after knowledge of God and His ways, but to seen to belong to “a living church”, the orthodox churches are believed to be dead. Hmmmm.

It is universally accepted that most actions of human beings, are based on two factors, fear and greed. That we all exhibit this traits in varying degrees, is also universally accepted.

But in exhibiting these two traits, one must recognize that there are always two sides to any issue, no matter how thinly it is sliced.

One must therefore in all we do, factor the fear, and greed of the other side. That is the only way to have a balanced and objective approach to issues.

It is also universally known that religion is man made, and not God made.

Anything made by man is subject to manipulation, misrepresentation and evil. Since the average Nigerian is not willing to do research and discover things for himself, and only rely on what others say, he is easily hoodwinked. He would neither study his bible or Koran, yet, he will talk and act as if he has all the knowledge.

When finally, the scales fall off from his eyes, and he finds out that he has again been taken for a ride, he simple shrugs it off, unperturbed and goes about his business to repeat the circle all over again on another issue.

The situation is most often repeated in each individual states and zones. In Ogun state, the Egbas and Ijebus are sometimes at war! In Kaduna State,the Hausa/Fulani, against the Bwari tribes/ southern Zaria. In Ondo State, my Ondo North Senatorial District, the Akokos will gang up against the Owo/Ose for political and economic dominance and vice visa.

THE QUESTION THEN IS,

When would all the hate, tribal and religious bigotry end?

When would we see that there is progress and success in numbers if there is love and cooperation? When would we understand that merit bring progress and success? When would we understand that parochialism, tribalism and religious intolerance retard the progress and success of a nation?

UAE, Dubai is an Arab Muslim country, but their development is better than most European countries, because they have refused to allow radical Islam to take hold in their country, they have attracted western investors, who have invested massively in their development.
Compare their development also to their radical Islamic Arab neighbouring countries!

The Chinese have over a billion people in population, with diverse ethnicities, and no official religion. They don’t pray to start meetings, and don’t allow any religious sentiments in their society. Today China is the second most successful country in the world. The USA itself, the number one nation in the world is made up of all peoples of the world, with diverse languages, religions, cultures, and race.

What is the use of all our religiousness, when it does not reflect in what we do or say to our neighbors? What has been the benefit of our tribal bigotry if it does not bring development to our preferred enclaves? What is benefit of our hate of others if we are truly serving the living God.

I leave you with this quote: “There are two kinds of light, the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures”.-James Thurber.

Which of the light do you follow?

AB Olajumoke is an international public speaker and a life coach.

FROM ATIKU ABUBAKAR TO BOLA AHMED TINUBU

Still an unfinished draft pls:

I have been an ardent follower of Atiku Abubakar before late, and I am now following Your Excellency, not for you, per se, but for your being the channel God has placed for the progressive development of Nigeria, ably demonstrated and represented, in personification of divine attributions, by Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the man Atiku handed us over to when he led us into the Action Congress as Presidential Candidate.

I refused to join him back in the PDP, though I was only a political follower then, and not a politician, as I am now. I don’t go back to my vomits. So for me, Atiku Abubakar has cancelled out himself from my vision of who should be my president and he seems the only alternative to you sir. I am with Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu because he has clearly shown to be the most successful politician of our time. He has shown sound sense of leadership recruitment and we owe the advancement of our opposition politics to him. So if he stays with you, Mr President, then there is something about you, sir.

And this is where Bola Tinubu outclasses every politician sir: when Bola left the Alliance for Democracy (AD), which he led in funding, he did not “defect” to another party, he created his own political party, and gave Atiku Abubakar the leverage to contest his first presidential election, the privilege that he, Tinubu, has not yet attained, though he has the capacity to, if he so desires. He is selfless. Listen to him sir.

Bola Tinubu is the biggest founder and singlular funder of political parties in this countty. He remained the leader of the opposition all the years of our democracy until you became president. He funded the opposition struggle right from June 12 1993. For him June 12 has found space in our history and national monuments. Yet he has taken no reward. He is selfless.

And here is the “end of discussion”, and I love Toyota Camry Your Exvellency: dare any politician in Nigeria to stay out of political office holding and test his strength in political followership and national politics. Every politician has been a local champion with a loud mouth. Bola Tinubu holds no office in Nigeria, neither in government nor in the party in which he has the greatest stake.

THE RULE OF GOD, THE RULE OF MAN: AN OPEN LETTER TO PRESIDENT MUHAMMADU BUHARI

Ini Akpan Morgan

16 July 2019

Dear President Muhammadu Buhari,

Permit me Mr President, as usual, to vacate my responsibility as a loyal citizen of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, who is concerned for, and about the direction our beloved country is presently heading. I do not have to be an erstwhile President to write to you, Your Exvellency. I appeal to you to appreciate my stake in the Nigerian nation and the need for you to also hear me out.

ON YOUR LIST OF MINISTERS

Mr President, as long as time will not stop ticking, it means that it will wait for no mortal man sir, time will not wait for any man to avoid permitting it’s wasting. You have confessed that you have done your best for our country in the last administration, and you have also accepted that you need to do more this time around. But Mr President, the symptoms of your challenges of 2015 are beginning to manifest again with your running your government without a cabinet in place, 12 days going into the second month from the day of your inauguration into office as president sir. This is sad sir.

I am not wrong supporting you as a “promising leader” from 2013 Mr President, I still hope against hope that my believe in you will not fail this time because you have no other opportunity to redeem any misadventure you may suffer: we are not gods to know your true intentions and you hardly feel responsible to being open to your citizens.

And so I have decided to write you again, to shake you out of your present retarded approach to your second term administration into the vigour and the energy it demands. This was exactly how we started counting the months of your inactions in 2015 on minor issues of governance, and God will not let you take us back that way again, this time. I am now in a crusade against your taking us back to your last administration sir. And this calls for the collective communal national prayers for you Mr President.

There is a spiritual stronghold against you and he is somewhere around you, holding you down spiritually Your Excellency. The ominous signs are everywhere, sir; but I still believe that no other politician in this country can help Nigeria at this time, very sad to say, than you can. You are the President sir.

There are many basic adjustments we need to make to our laws Mr President. And you cannot afford to start with making us count the months of your inactions against you sir, especially on a very simple matter as releasing your list of ministers for confirmation by the 9th senate sir.

I know that you fear to recruit another sets of political “booby traps” who would distabilize your efforts at good governance this time, but you have absolute powers to do as you should with your appointees, and this explains out how your fears for an eventual poor recruitment are misplaced, misguided and dodgy.

You just cannot explain your delay in passing on your list of ministers to the Senate Mr President, you have no good reason sir. What have you been doing for the 4 years of your last administration if you could not identify the prevailing recruitment problems you encountered and putting the blueprints of their solutions in view. In the last 4 years, you should have identified the men and women who would assist you in vacating good governance during your second term when you desired to run again for your office.

This is how serious this matter is, Your Excellency. My expectation, as I would if I was wearing your shoes, sir, would have been to hand my list of ministers to both Ahmed Ibrahim Lawal, the Senate President and Femi Gbajabiamila, the Speaker while the inauguration dinner was ongoing on the night of May 29 2019, and by the very next morning, Nigerians would have had a new cabinet in view, “hitting the grounds” of your next 4 years “running”. Prayers will always help a nation Mr President.

Your Excellency, by holding back your list of ministers – if you truly have it with you – you are behaving like a pregnant woman who attempts to hide her protruding stomach from public view when she is in the public. How is that possible sir? You can only succeed at that when you have delivered your baby, sir – so send your list of ministers to the senate if you have it at all. If the list of your ministers is with you, why should you be under “intense pressure” to release it?

Surely, the list is not with you, for if it is, in my opinion Mr President, you are not helping the psychological and emotional health of Nigerians. You are in a mental and spiritual war with your citizens and it does not look like you care, sir. But I still say that there is no better leader than you. Only you can deal with the laws our business men and their lawyers are using to lock us up, making us prisoners in their economic cells.

INSECURITY IN NIGERIA

Mr President, I am sorry to say that we are dealing with the federal characterization of official rascality gone sour. When criminality is considered on federal character, the possibility of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) being rewarded with the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) also makes it possible for the “Boko Haram” to be rewarded with the North East Development Commission (NEDC).

I fear, Your Excellency, that with the brutal murder of Chief (Mrs) Funke Olakunrin Fasoranti, strengthening the fact that our highways in the South West of Nigeria has been overran by criminal elements, methinks you are slowly losing your grip on security as Commander in Chief. You are failing woefully Mr President and this is very sad. Look clearly, you may soon have to reward the South West with their South West Development Commission (SWDC), always very easily predicted and will come to pass – and na us, poor people, go still dey suffer am!

In the submission of Ms Christiane Amanpour, the veteran journalist covering the wars across the globe for the Cable News Network (CNN), by her experience and exposure, has allegedly accused you of being culpable and seemingly supporting your kinsmen, the Fulanis, in terrorising and killing Nigerians who overwhelmingly gave you the mandate you are enjoying as President.

Let me tell you Mr President that social crimes undertaken for economic reason has its common and traceable trails, but the calibre of the strategy used by alleged “herdsmen” on our highway to waylay commuters does not look like the venture for economic gains. It clearly portrays the “cleansing” of a people. The intentions are to kill and not to rob.

Let it be known to you that instead of degrading Boko Haram as your government claims, you, your security apparatuses and the communities habouring criminal elements have failed in proactive intelligence and civic duties. Clearly Boko Haram has changed name, their mode of operations, and have left the north east for the south west, like MEND left the South South to the North East, enlisting as Boko Haram. The Yoruba race appears very smart. Killing Chief Funke Olakunri Fasoranti is very disingenuous if it is for securing a “development commission”, Your Excellency. We cannot continue like this sir.

The recent letter from your senior colleague, Olusegun Obasanjo is timely and eye opening and I think you should wake up from your present inactions. Yes! Mr President, you have appeared to me snoring upon your presidential desk – a very bad timing for such dereliction Mr President.

MY EXPECTATIONS

For me it was unforgivable when you said you were “under intense pressure” to do the simplest job on your table – submitting the list of your cabinet members. If this was as I expected, you would have released the list at your inauguration dinner on May 29 2019 and I subsequently thought you should not fail on the day the 9th Assembly resumed on 2 July 2019, it means you are indeed a “slow goer” about governance, and as the leader of government, you are inspiring hopelessness.

Mr President, should you be under “intense pressure” to form your executive cabinet after spending more than 4 years as President? Mr President it is a shame I cannot fathom nor comprehend. As your ardent supporter, I have watched many, with whom we started fighting for you in 2013, deny and reject you. I stood my grounds without any good reason from you for me to so do, because I felt a leader should be supported to succeed. But Mr President, you appear hopeless and tactless, and this is frightening.

I expect your list of ministers to reach the 9th Senate before the August body retires to their yearly recess. And I expect that the leaders in the communities where crimes are actualized should be questioned. What is happening to the air and road patrol units of the Nigerian Police, and those of all other agencies that service security in this country and the military, Mr President? Why are they all locked in, in there barracks?

How can we have criminals build camps in the forest around communities in this country and we cannot trace them? The other day, Mr President, Pastor Sarah Ina Omaku, narrating the kidnap and molestation of a father, mother and a daughter in tears before her congregants in Abuja, openly begged you to do something about the killings and the molestations of the helpless. People have been kidnapped, ransomed paid, got released, and they reported to the public how organized the criminals are, Your Excellency. Nobody cares about intelligence gathering.

Without your Ministers in place, your operations are unconstitutional sir; and how do you march on with policy making and directing alone?

Get our helicopters flying over our forest regions to locate every criminal hide out in the South West. Extricate yourself from the heinous tag you are wearing Mr President, dig out this criminals and prove to the world that they are not “Fulani herdsmen”, and if they are, do the right thing – use Sharia law of an eye for an eye for all of them. That way, you will bleach yourself off the stain of supporting terrorism in Nigeria.

God bless you my President,

I am yours,

Ini Akpan Morgan

Uyo, Nigeria

“time.subsidaries@gmail.com”

WHAT MANNER OF MAN IS SENATOR AKPANUDOEDEHE …

By: Wills Wilson

Throughout history, only people of mettle, have found the strength to shrug off the compelling, yet perfectly-normal human demand for revenge, or retribution, against an injurer or aggressor, over unwarranted ill, persecution, injury, or tragedy.

Such people exercise the ‘heroic’ option called forgiveness; which in practical terms qualifies in every ounce of weight, Alexander Pope’s claim in his book: ‘An Essay on Criticism’, that: “To err is human, but to forgive is divine”.

Among those noted in history for the rare grace of forgiveness, are ordinary folk, truly reverent of Godly (or religious) instruction; and not necessarily those who occupy the topmost rungs of the ecclesiastical ladder in our societies.

Permit however, mention of our Lord Jesus Christ, because Christians and humanity, are urged to emulate Him; and attempt to live out a like, if not greater degree of His same standards in ‘Love’ and ‘Forgiveness’.

It was our Lord Jesus Christ, who taught us the ‘Model Prayer’ to His Father, (who He knows best); and which contains the petition ” … And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us”. (Luke 11:4).

During His Crucifixion also, it was our bruised and battered Lord, who cried out to God to have mercy on His torturers, in the words: “Father, forgive them, for they don’t know what they are doing!” (Luke 23:34).

Take heed therefore, of the full import of ‘ Forgiveness’ within the last three paragraphs of the Model (Lord’s Prayer); which imply that whoever does not forgive another, would be breaking the bridge over which he or she must one day travel (or would not be forgiven by God).

Within contemporary society, the actions of several people have qualified them as ‘Heroes of Forgiveness’; but on account of constraints which border on convenience, only three will be discussed.

POPE JOHN PAUL II

The late Pope John Paul II (1920-2005), was the serving Catholic Pontiff, at the time he was shot at twice, and wounded, at St. Peter’s Square, Vatican City, on May 13, 1981, by (now late) Mr. Mehmet Ali Agca; but then a 25 year old Turkish Muslim activist.

The bullets, fired at the Pope from a pistol, while he was being driven through a crowd of about 10,000 people, during his
Weekly General Audience, pierced his colon, abdomen, and small intestines multiple times; luckily missing his mesenteric artery and abdominal aorta.

The Pope lost nearly three quarters of his blood, and underwent five hours of surgery, which included a colostomy that temporarily rerouted the upper part of his large intestine to allow the damaged lower part to heal.

This must have been an ordeal for the then 61 year old Pontiff.Thankfully, Pope John Paul survived the assassination attempt; while Agca was caught and restrained by a nun and other bystanders until the Police arrived.He was arrested, tried, and sentenced to life in prison.

While serving out his sentence, a fully recovered Pope John Paul, paid Agca a visit in his prison cell on December 27, 1983; where he spent about twenty minutes privately with him; prayed for him, and told him he had forgiven him.

He later told the world: “What we talked about will have to remain a secret between him and me. I spoke to him (Agca) as a brother whom I have pardoned, and who has my complete trust”.

NELSON MANDELA

Late Nelson Mandela was a South African, who suffered lengthy ‘State-sponsored and sanctioned’ incarceration and humiliation, with hard labor in prison, for more than half of his life.

His ordeal began from July 1962, after his arrest, trial and sentencing to life in prison; and ended 27 years later (in 1989), when he was released.

Five years later, he was prevailed upon by his countrymen and women to run for the Presidency of his then badly-racially polarized country.

Mandela won the Presidency, and stunned the world throughout his tenure between 1994 and 1999, with actions that portrayed him as being something of an ‘out-of-this-world’ character.

He NEVER sought revenge, or retribution against his persecutors, but instead, began his term in office by initiating a Government of National Unity, with Frederick De Klerk (the former ‘racist’ Prime Minister of the country).

He went on to invite Mr. Percy Yutar to lunch! Yutar, a Lithuanian immigrant, was South Africa’s first Jewish State Attorney; and the same man who headed the Prosecution against Mandela and his co-accused, and asked for the death sentence against them!After that lunch-session, a ‘broken’ Yutar, described Mandela as “a saintly man”.

Mandela also paid a Courtesy Call on Betsie Verwoerd at her Retirement Home in the ‘Whites-Only’ enclave of Orania. Betsie was the widow of Hendrik Verwoerd (the architect of apartheid, and inflexible Prime Minister of South Africa, at the time of Mandela’s incarceration)!

Nelson Mandela left such a strong legacy in ‘Love’ and ‘Forgiveness’ that cut across race, creed, color, religion, tribe, or other bias so profoundly, that he remains an unimpeachable authority in instruction on both virtues.

It is the same Nelson Mandela who said: “Forgiveness liberates the soul. It removes fear, and that is why it is such a powerful weapon”.

There are many other people in society, who have risen beyond the human promptings for revenge or retribution for ills committed against them, and permitted love to flood them into unconditional forgiveness.

One of such people is Distinguished Senator John James Akpanudoedehe.

This is Senator Akpanudoedehe’s story.

After almost single-handedly, installing the government of Akwa Ibom State, in 2007, and nominating many of its functionaries, fate served Senator Akpanudoedehe, a cruel twist in fortune.

The same government and its functionaries, turned around, to persecute him to the cruellest and most savage extents of his entire political career.

They conspired to rig him out of his victory in the 2011 Gubernatorial elections, and subjected him to everything, from being framed; to arrest; detention; torture; and persecution within other grievous contexts.

His businesses suffered; his family’s peace was shattered; his wife suffered health challenges; and every semblance of civility and order was denied him; his family members; friends; loyalists and just about anybody connected to ‘Akpanudoedehe!’

It was God, and not man that brought Senator Akpanudoedehe, respite.In 2015, when Senator Akpanudoedehe made his second bid for the Governorship of his State, the same conspirators from 2011, set out to dent his credibility.

Carefully crafted falsehoods were spun against him and disseminated with dubious precision throughout society, by people who for an ignoble fee, elected to distinguish themselves as proficient, mechanical, pathological, and compulsive liars!

Considerable damage was done to Senator Akpanudoedehe’s name, which caused him very weighty public opprobrium, and helped greatly to frustrate his gubernatorial bid, which was the objective of his antagonists.

He became a pariah of sorts, and his public rejection was extended to his supporters, none of who was considered worthy of any appointments in the Party and government they built and supported at the exacting cost of sweat, tears, and blood.

Through the humiliation of being ignored, while decampees from the opposition PDP were gifted with juicy appointments, Senator Akpanudoedehe kept his cool, and urged his supporters to remain committed to their Party, no matter what tribulation they suffered.

Later revelations acquitted him of the falsehoods he was accused of.In his third Governorship bid in 2019, the same agents of blackmail and falsehoods from 2011 and 2015, resurfaced. Their alliance and conspiracy worked to frustrate Senator Akpanudoedehe’s ambition, but thankfully, spared him extreme damage.

At the end of the day, he was left with much of his integrity intact!The fact to be noted is that today, Senator John James Akpanudoedehe has forgiven all of the people who caused or contributed woe or ill directly or indirectly to him!

He has forgiven those who ambushed and killed his supporters, as well as burnt and vandalized his vehicles on March 22, 2011, when he went to campaign in Ikot Ekpene.

He has forgiven those who told lies against him, in personal communication with others, or through the media, to ensure he is reviled by his supporters; or incarcerated by the authorities, and kept out of political circulation.

He has forgiven those who plotted to eliminate him by invoking a powerful deity to snuff out his life at a public function.

He has forgiven those who he helped along in life, but who turned around to betray him for pecuniary or other benefit.

He has forgiven the architects of, and contributors to every evil plot orchestrated against him and members of his family; as well as against his friends and supporters.

What manner of man is Senator Akpanudoedehe, if not a man who has attempted to act (especially within the context of ‘Love’ and ‘Forgiveness) in consonance with the Biblical instruction that true Christians should be Christ-like?

I doubt if any would construe him to be any less.

Wills Wilson is a season lawyer and a practicing journalist and writes from Uyo

PASTOR CHRIS OYAKHILOME GOT IT ABSOLUTELY WRONG

Ingesting erroneous teachings, taught about the principles of our common believe as Christians, distorting our spiritual essence, is one of the evil consequences of “going to church”. It involves you taking your entire being, life and eternity to a man’s validation, a man who made you believe that he represents God to you and you to God from a “calling” he got – were you there, so what is your business with his call?

This is the biggest stupidity in “church going” – that a man rules over you and your finances – is that not hypnotism? Democracy even forbids such powerful hold on another’s destiny, while guiding yours jealously. I have long ago recommended that every believer “stays in Church”, for it is idolatry to “go to Church”. This is a mystery revealed, but it is not under our searchlight in this review, howbeit, some light will come upon it at the end of this exposé.

Pastor Chris Oyakhilome truly got it totally wrong in suggesting that the being of the woman was a creative afterthought, that the woman was not a part of the “good” result God earned for his activities at creation, as expressed in Genesis 1. Pastor Chris Oyakhilome said “the woman was not in the original plan of God” (please pardon me if I did not quote him rightly), and here, on this, he lied; and we are looking at it again under the great light of scriptures.

Now, the allusion of Pastor Chris Oyakhilome negates 2 strong revelations in the design of the man. The name “Adam” was given to both the “male” and the “female” genders God created as a part of the “…all that was created was good” score God earned for his works of creation. This truth is what Genesis 5:1-2 reemphasizes clearly and cleanly. You can observe and feel the writer of that passage struggle with emphasizing the creation of man as it was “in the beginning” in Genesis 1:26-27, in the Genesis 5 passage.

Now let us go back to Pastor Oyakhilome’s “original” creation in Genesis 1:26-27 – it can be seen how Genesis 5:1-2 reveals segments of what happened in Genesis 1:26-27 – both passages speak of the making of the male and the female genders; and their being called “Adam” together: here is why Adam woke up from his sleep, and finding the woman, he called her “Woman”. What makes the man and the woman distinguishingly unique are their genders. Why the man is man and the woman is woman is from their genders which God himself instituted from the beginning.

The earthly (bodily) coverings only physically distinguishes and manifests the gender of each partner of that “one flesh and bone” body it, for we should understand that the bodily coverings of the man and the woman were not “originally” from the beginning, but their soul and essence were from the beginning, and was made according to their genders as one “living soul”.

How God locked the woman and the man together into one soul, giving them a single essence and name is still to be revealed to earthly intelligence. But my personal unction reveals the “unlocking” of the “Lord God” in Genesis 2, whose individuality also demonstrates the resultant “taking out” of the “Word of God” (the Lord God) from the personality of the Almighty God, and this showcases why the woman was “taken out” of the man.

Scripture says that after 7 days of creation, the Almighty “God rested from all his works…”, and then in the next verse of scripture, the Lord God took over in continuing to “make” and “put” according to the “intentions” of the Almighty God. This is what scripture reveals.

By this we understand why God said “let us create…” in Genesis 1:26 and not “I will create…”. When God rested from speaking out all he spoke, his residual word took over to accomplish, finish, and fulfill the “works” of the “word” at creation. Scriptures say when God speaks, the word he speaks “goes out to accomplish all he has spoken”.

This was what was in action from Genesis 2, until Jesus hung on the cross to “finish” the works of the Lord God, because in between the lines, Adam fell from innocence and he, the Lord God started his walk with man on earth seeking a body among men to vacate his own works: the works of the word of God. Jesus said “I work and my father works also”.

So what happened between the Almighty God and the Lord God, his word, was what the Lord God caused to happen by “taking out” the woman from the man in order for the woman to take and accomplish the deposits from the man’s divine delegation on and over the hiearth. Even after the “taking out” of the woman out of the man, scriptures still account them as “one flesh and bone”.

When Jesus manifested God and his word, he said “I and my father are one”. Against the position of Pastor Chris Oyakhilome, the Lord God only accomplished what God “intended” originally, and for which he (God) had demonstrated by his “taking out” of his word as his deposit on creation, to work out the physical materialization and the realization of who was, in their initial essence, the spiritual creation – a living soul without the consciousnesses underlined in nature.

Scripture says “the words that I (God) speak to you, shall not return to me void, but it shall accomplish that which I sent it” and this is imperical and sacrosanct in disproving Pastor Oyakhilome. The Lord God did not return to God after his being “taking out” from him in Genesis 2 until he had paid the price for the redemption of man, and by that he returned the man to his original creative status, as “flesh and bone” (Luke 24:39). He did not ascend back into heaven until the last Adam became “flesh and bone”, having dealt with the problem of sin – the human blood. When the Lord God accomplished his work, he, himself, said “it is finished”.

It is very clear how Pastor Chris Oyakhilome erred in not touching the lines of scriptures correctly. Was he trying to sidetrack to score a personal point? Such error is unforgivable. Wisdom is justified of her children. This is the same error the Church is engrossed in, in the taking and giving of the tithe in the form of money given and taken.

Absolute rubbish! “Stealing in the name of the Lord”. We must remember that the first tithe was given in appreciation of the bread and wine – the body of our (common union) communion – by Abraham, the father of faith, when he saw the redemptive plan of God for the purchase of the souls of men by Christ Jesus.

Now, let me briefly deal with this erroneous concept of “going to Church” instead of “staying in Church”. When a “body” is said to be one and you are a member of that “one body”, you do not “go to” the body, you rather “stay in” the body as a member of the body.

And so that God will remain righteously unassailable and every man the liar: Matthew 24:23-28 are words expressed personally by Jesus Christ when he was talking about our present day, when revealing what believers should look out for in order to identify the dangers of eternal damnations in our days.

In those passages, Jesus revealed two things a believer ought to, first, watch out for and then to do. Matthew 24:26 is very clear about being “pointed to” the place you should go to “find” Christ. Jesus clearly said “go not forth” when you are shown – ignore them. That is his instruction. Now, every bill board, sign post, leaflet, pamphlet, banner, or any other means of advertisements you find showing where to go to find Christ fulfills Matthew 24:23 and 26. In this lies the possibility of being deceived by false Christ, false brethren and false prophets.

Now what did Jesus encourage us to do rather than seeking him at “locations”? Matthew 24:27-28 is explicit about what we should do. Having used the analogy of the stroke of lightening to discourage the act of searching to locate Christ, it is certified that all eyes that look out to see Christ will see him like the lightening is seen by all exposed to it, not by the testimonies of men but by a certain undeniable visitation due to our deliberate “waiting upon the Lord” in his word, and in his accomplished works.

So he says “where the carcass is, there shall the eagles gather”. Scripture says “unto the Lord shall the gathering of his people be”. The carcass here in this pasaage is establishing the “flesh” of Christ, the “bread” of our communion, the “Logos” of our spirituality and the word of God – the scriptures – our Bibles. It was Christ that died to bring forth spiritual men, and we gather at his carcass when we study the scriptures individually or in great companies. The Bible before you, as you read is “the (true) Church”. She has no name because she was given none, but you can call her by every home, family, city, nation in which she is present.

Each moment in creation, when as many believers open up their Bibles to study, this is how they gather unto the “body” of Christ, as the vultures gather over a carcass, and this is how the Holy Spirit goes about in a network of universal communion sealing those chosen for whom the blessings of spiritual growth is apportioned. For these are they who live also on the word of God and not by bread alone. The true Church is your Bible – stay in the Bible until the Holy Spirit visits you. Jesus said, when he comes, he shall teach and show you things to come.

Some people quickly jump upon the attempt to prove a point in “church going” by saying “scripture says forsake not the fellowship together of one another”. We must therefore take note that the instruction is on “fellowship” and not on “worship”. In fellowship, believers are to gather and discuss community actions they should take. In worship we meet at the throne of heaven to be fed for spiritual energy. As for the number of men for worship, Jesus made it clear that “where two or three are gathered in my name, there I am in their midst”. Awesome!

If scripture says the “word of God is quick and living…”, it means a man with an open Bible before him is in the assembly of two living souls: himself and the “revealed” Christ, gathered together in the name of Jesus, the “glorified” Christ. What constitutes the Church is the presence of Jesus, the glorified Christ, as the head over two or three or more people gathered together unto him. However great the number of those gathered, if Jesus, the glorified Christ is not in the midst, that gathering is not the constituted Church.

I pray that the entrance of God’s word will give light and understanding to the simple hearted. Amen!

Ini Akpan Morgan writes from Uyo via “time.subsidaries@gmail.com”

13/07/19

THE ROLE OF A GODLY WOMAN

INTRODUCTION:

The subject in perspective is a vast one. It does not deal with the role of just any woman but the role of a godly woman in all spheres of human existence, so to say. Before the introduction of sin to our world, distinguishing between the godly and the ungodly woman was not in any way necessary, as everything God created in the beginning is recorded as being “good” and being without any evil.

For this subject to be adequately vacated therefore, it is important that the understanding of the divine design and the nature of the woman, as it was established in the beginning, should, here, be considered in order to enlighten us on the process of the development of the woman mentally and spiritually; and her indelible contributions to our world.

Genesis 1:27 reveals how both the male and female gender were created into one body as “one flesh and one bone” being that both the man and the woman were initially “clothed” in a single bodily covering, bearing one soul and one name – Adam (Genesis 5:2): this was how God Almighty created the human race as at the time he took his rest from his works (Genesis 2:2).

However, when “the Lord God” – the word of God, as it were, took over the physical establishment of all that is earthy and earthly, he (the Lord God) found that “it was not good for the man to be alone”, and so, by his unction, he “took out” the woman from the man, making her a separate entity.

It must, here, be understood also that because scriptures identifies 3 entities as having the power to create through thoughts and words: God Almighty, his word and the man, it therefore means that if God was at rest, and the creation of the man was still been finalised, then it was the word of God that Genesis 2:4 called “the Lord God”.

THE DIVINE DESIGN AND NATURE OF THE WOMAN

The principal objective of taking the woman out of the man was, principally, for her to be the “load shedder” for the man – to help the man in the administration of the earth as delegated to the man by God himself (Genesis 1:26-28). As the last being in creation, the woman was created to be soft, kind, motherly, affectionate, caring, considerate and she was made God’s minister for world peace. She was made the help meet for the physical man and also his comforter.

By this analogy, the godly woman is physically responsible for the man, just as the Holy Spirit is spiritually responsible for every believer. A careful consideration of the role of the Holy Spirit in a believer, it would be discovered that it is the same role the woman plays in the life of our world – the woman helps the man, she comforts him, she teaches his generations, and bears the burdens that makes the burdens of the man light and his yoke easy.

At the turn of earthly events, we discovered that the human habitation, which began with the man and his wife at the individual level, grew into a family, and then into a nation and finally establishing our present world, as constituted.

And just as the divine plan for the salvation of the fallen man was vacated, beginning from God giving “a ram for a man” (Genesis 22:13), progressing to God instroducing “a lamb for a family” (Exodus 12:21), to “a lamb for a nation” (Leviticus 16:33-34) and finally, Jesus came as “the lamb of God for the world (John 1:29). So has God given the world the woman to be a help meet for the man, a care giver for his family, a supplicant for his nation and a pillar for our world: she is “the bearer” of the human race, giving birth to all in the human race.

As our world developed and community participations expanded, the role of the godly woman also expanded to include her participation in the development of politics, the reengineering of the socioeconomic life of people and in facilitating human religious inclinations.

THE WOMAN AS THE FOUNDATION OF HUMAN PROPAGATION

Women have been seen to be good managers of men and resources, excellent home builders and dedicated housekeepers, caring wives and dutiful mothers, gifted leaders and born drivers of universal justice. The godly woman is given for the cushioning of the harshness of men for which our world is known.

From Eve to Sarah, from Rebekah to Tamar, from Deborah to Ruth, from Hannah to Bathsheba, from Esther to Mary, every godly woman, though tainted by their human limitations, all were examples of dedicated support, faithful companions, tools for success, definers of our divine systems and channels for divine fulfilments, on behalf of the man.

It is usually said that a woman can raise 10 children but 10 children out together cannot raise a mother. Another saying goes that “if you train a man, you train an individual but if you train a woman, you train a nation, and it is the nations that makes up our world.

Therefore, the role of the woman is first to be the channel of propagation for the human race, the trainer of undeveloped minds, the carer of the home, the pillar of her husband, the peace initiator in conflicts, the burden bearer for families and the most vulnerable and easily exploited of all the creations of God.

As much as we have examined the role of the godly woman in the family and nation, we ought also to examine the role of a godly woman in the Church. It must be appreciated that the Church is another world of it own as every believer is a special of human who live in a dual world – the natural and spiritual worlds.

This is made possible by the baptism of the Holy Spirit and the renewal of our human minds. So apart from the physical and natural responsibilities of the woman, she also has duties to vacate as the anointed of the Lord.

THE WOMAN AS A SPIRITUAL ENGINEER

The human being was at creation designed as a “living soul”. He was created a soul-being with an earthly body which he wore as his cloth. The initial making of the man made him “flesh and bone” (Genesis 2:7, 21-25). We must take note of Genesis 2:25 how the man and his wife were naked and we’re not ashamed.

This is to show how the woman shaped our present spiritually by the happenstance of Genesis 3:6-7. The man and his wife were created naked but were not ashamed, but when the woman went out apart from the man, she brought home food that changed the entire spiritual design of the man, robbing him of his spiritual essence and making him a natural man.

Fear and apprehension was introduced into human living at this point, and the woman became the first in all human history to communicate with and to manifest the devil; and she also testified that he exists as an adversary of God (Genesis 3:6). Anything contrary to God is against him (Matthew 12:30).

So the same way that the woman caused the sinning nature of the human race, she was also responsible for being the channel through whom the redeemer came to earth, taught the way of righteousness and died to purge man from sin and to give him victory over death, which was brought about by the eating of the forbidden tree.

God knows the end from the beginning and until we, human beings know as we are known, we would not understand the dimensions of why God allowed the progression of human existence from being soul-being, to being a natural being and finally to being a spiritual being.

In Church today, the woman has shown much vigour as the caretaker of the house of God. It is clearly indicated in Luke 8:2-3 that the earthly ministry of Jesus was roundedly supported by women, most of whom were not even godly when Jesus met them. If God can use anything, then he has used the woman for his glory on earth.

THE ROLE OF THE WOMAN IN HUMAN EARTHLY EXISTENCE

As we have considered from the beginning of this discussion, the role of the woman on earth has been as follows:

The channel of human propagation, the trainer of undeveloped human minds, the caregiver to the human homes, the pillar for husbands, the peace initiator in earthly conflicts caused by men, the burden bearer for families, she is soft, kind, considerate, saceificial and the most vulnerable, denigrated, abused, raped, hurt, deceived, excluded and exploited, yet she is the most enduring, patient, preserving and long suffering. The woman was made to be the burden, yoke and pain carrier for our world. She is the Divine cushioning for the human race.

The entrance of the word of God gives light and direction to the simple, unlike the recent position of Pastor Chris Oyakhikome, suggesting that the creation of the woman is an afterthought, and not in the “original plan of God, let it be known that Genesis 1:27put a lie to his recent assertion. That the truth might be told, Genesis 5:1-2 questions Pastor Oykhikome’s position.

God bless you all.

A Conference Paper prepared by Deaconess Emem Nkanta

SENATOR AKPANUDOEDEHE IN THE DOCK …

Distinguished Senator (Pastor) JJ Akpanudoedehe, PhD

By: Wils Wilson.

The six friends seated across two tables in the eatery, looked upwardly mobile, and comfortable, if their dress sense was a parameter to go by.

The subject of their discussion was Senator John James Akpanudoedehe; but then, their views about him, were either frightening distortions, or audacious falsehoods.

They labelled him: “stingy”; “troublesome”; and a “sell-out”; among other indignities … and their indictments held beyond their tables, until I eased into the discussion.

I acknowledged their rights to their views; cautioning however, that views generally advertise a person’s depth, intelligence, logical reasoning capacity, or otherwise; etc.

I then submitted that no “sell-out” would agree to suffer the total weight of (largely unrecompensed) loss, and frustration Senator Akpanudoedehe had, in his 2011, 2015, and 2019 gubernatorial bids.

In 2011, he spent a fortune against the incumbent PDP government; at a time when Akwa Ibom enjoyed its highest revenues, and massive Federal goodwill.

His bold challenge invoked his arrest, detention, torture, and trial, for some of weightiest crimes in Law, including: Arson, Treason, and Murder.

He was labelled a “troublemaker” for defending himself against unlawful attack by undemocratic elements who barred him from campaigning in their home territory.

(Press) – elements who are, presently, leaders and elders of the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC) but he did not cower, and this, in defence of our democracy, which has constantly needed a standing-up-for.

He’d have been more peaceable to his
accusers who’d rather he and his supporters stood still to be slaughtered; or turned tail, ran, and got mowed down from behind.

Because this didn’t happen, they rested their expectations on his certain conviction; having meticulously crafted designs to subject him to a skewed judicial process

Contrary to their expectations however, Truth and Justice sided with Senator Akpanudoedehe; absolving him of guilt, and quashing all the charges against him.

The reprieve of discharge and acquittal didn’t however spare him the cost of repair and replacement of his, and his supporters damaged vehicles, and other properties.

He bore this cost alone, as well as the huge moral burden of defraying the legal, medical, and funeral costs for his detained, injured; and murdered supporters.

(Press) – and constantly, he records the highest number of supporters gruesomely murdered for standing boldly for democracy and the tenets of democracy in Akwa Ibom State since 2009.

In his 2015 bid, he also spent huge funds, but lost out to Party intrigues which favored his rival – a former Budget Director; Finance Commissioner; and then immediate-past SSG (in an unbroken chain of service).

(Press) – and presently the managing director of the Oil and Gas Free Zones Authority from 2016.

The intrigues of 2015, were replayed against him in his 2019 bid; but this time, his rival, and beneficiary of the Party mandate, was a former Board Chairman; Deputy Governor; and then immediate-past MD of NDDC.

In none of his three ill-fated gubernatorial bids, did Senator Akpanudoedehe ‘sell-out’; and so, one can only but wonder at the propinquity of the “sell-out” labelling.

The assertion also, of stinginess against Senator Akpanudoedehe, does not sit on solid legs; because it contests against common sense.

Wisdom would not dictate that a private individual (excluded from public office, and official government contracts, patronage, or empowerment since 2009) should dole out his private funds like a ‘slot machine’.

Prudence would never also suggest that the individual should attempt to match in any way, incumbent political officeholders in donations, launchings, or other charity, etc.

Senator Akpanudoedehe has advertised enough generosity in always funding his political bids (even outside public office), alongside those of some of his loyalists.

In these instances, he also accommodates expenses for Consultations; Campaigns; Travel; Party Dues and Levies, etc. Nobody
can issue a factual counterclaim to this.

He has proven to be large-hearted by opting to pay, till date, school fees for the children of his supporters that were killed in 2011; as well as upkeep to their widows.

He’s showcased enough public spiritedness, in funding private Charities and related obligations, which include a Scholarship Scheme to service brilliant, but financially handicapped students in his community.

He has provided infrastructural amenities in his society, and periodically disburses cash and material handouts to enable youths in his locality and beyond, engage in or sustain entrepreneurship initiatives.

He has built and equipped an Ante Natal Ward at UNIUYO Teaching Hospital; and donated the largest single sum to facilitate an upgrade of the Library of the Sociology Department of UNIUYO (his alma mata).

Senator Akpanudoedehe’s charitable contributions are by no means exhaustive; but should by now, be worthy of positive acknowledgement, because he’s prosecuted most of it from his private purse.

Right-thinking should not fail to note that Senator Akpanudoedehe has a wife; seven kids; and countless kin to feed, clothe, school, and otherwise cater financially to.

Logical reasoning should not overlook the fact that he also retains the services of several-score domestic and official staff in more than one State, who he pays monthly salaries, and other benefits.

“Liveth there a man with soul so dead” as not to acknowledge the fact that Senator Akpanudoedehe has played enough of the ‘Father Christmas’ role to deserve even a simple “thank you?”

Finally, I told the six friends that Senator Akpanudoedehe is simply a successful businessman; astute politician; born again Christian, and ordained Pastor, whose travails originate from peers, envious of his achievements; and political rivals who can’t fathom his financial stability, in spite of the political hitches they’ve plotted against him.

Their strategy has always consisted in employing dubiously-crafted falsehoods, woven and spun on the wheels of hatred, into a blistering campaign of calumny, targeted at tarnishing his image.

(Press) – falsehoods passed on by the proselytes of the haters, many of whom have never seen the distinguished senator in their lives, unfortunately, many of these are Esau-elders of his very own tribe, the Ibibios.

By this time, a deep hush had descended across the two tables, and beyond, as none could utter any arguments in disputation.

I knew I had secured my objective in that eatery; and hope I will achieve the same result with any reader(s) who may have been otherwise informed about Senator Akpanudoedehe.

Wils Wilson writes from Uyo, Nigeria

IS GOD NOT WONDERFUL?

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo in a handshake with Legion Amuda Aluko

National Legionnaire Amuda Aluko

When God, by himself, takes care of a government’s restitution. Amuda Aluko, the 104 years old member of the Nigerian Legion, who recently received a meritorious award from Lt General Muhammed Burutai, the Chief of Army Staff, during the 2019 Army day celebrations in Lagos.

Prof Yemi Osinbajo met him while representing Me President, who was on the same day in Niamey, Chad for the African Union Summit. Should Mr Vice President share my mindset, this blessed child of God would be a part of my official monthly overhead. He deserves privilege, this brothers and sisters.

God kept him alive for this day. Abraham began his at 75, but here is one on whom God has poured out his favour, and has kept him to begin his own walk at 104. I will be disappointed if this man does not have a message for Nigerians.

Just don’t let us see this man’s pictures here on the social media. If Mr Vice President has met this man, he should bring him to us on national television to talk to Nigerians.

I am praying that the blessings of Hezekiah rest on this baba…may he choose when he shall leave us. Yes! Brothers and sisters, you can choose when death should happen to you. Let’s all be ready to say like our forebears in faith “I have fought the good fight of faith, I have ran my race and I have kept the faith…”

Eternal life is first attained by the right persuasion, the right confession, then the right knowledge, and lastly the right attitude. Like Paul, may we say “I KNOW that there awaits me a crown of life that the Lord has made ready for me” – Amen.

This post is a strong message on divine favour locating a man. Believe me I am moved…President Buhari is blessed. Believe me God gave us this man. I don’t care if he is a “whip”, if he is a “bigot”, if he has an “Islamic agenda” or if he is a “wicked” man, all I care is that some very simple providences throw him up as a very lucky man who has a stage with destiny. If God can use anything, then he is using President Buhari.

Obasanjo had his chances, but he wasted them upon the altar of (over bloating) his (already) complex arrogance. Yar’Adua and Jonathan were opportunists: pulled by their noses. And as it should be noted in this providence, at any time Obasanjo rules, Buhari comes to govern correctionally. It took Buhari 4 years in 1983 to take over government after Obasanjo. And again it took 4 x 2 years in 2015 to again take government after Obasanjo

I am still thinking about the restitution of this our remaining national debt in the “Muslim/Muslim ticket” of June 12. Can we avoid it? Hmmm! I don’t think so ooo, and I see NOW as the appropriate time when it can be paid so so easily. If Prof Yemi Osinbajo resigns from his office, and Asiwaju Bola Tinubu takes up the office of VP, Paraaam!…the debt is paid and our New Nigeria begins free of spiritual debts, like this one lurking.

Our 4th Republic is built upon the foundation of the June 12 struggle, and we have demonstrated our intention to refund that era. Should we be pretentious about it? If Obansajo was assisted to be President in 1999 to satisfy June 12 being a South west mandate, let us accept that June 12 is a watershed in our history.

If Abiola and Kingibe have been so recognised as President and the Vice President that were not, then let’s accept the truth plainly. And if we now have a national holiday to commemorate that day, let’s just accept it…that the “Muslim/Muslim ticket” was a part of that mandate so much in need of restitution. And I have offered the simplest way out.

Now, we have shown to love this restitutions, government has shown so much zeal and commitment at restitution. And it is a blessed act of our national faith. Lawan Ahmed came from 2015, Femi Gbajabimila also came from 2015. Why should we forget the man that our enemies robbed of his reward. Did Muhammadu Buhari nominate Asiwaju Bola Tinubu as his running mate?

Then what happened na?

Are we still restituting? Then let us remember that there was another “Muslim/Muslim ticket” opportunity we had that was crushed by our enemies who pretended to be our friends, just because they wanted to destroy us: Atiku Abubakar, Bukola Saraki, Yakubu Dogara, Aminu Tambuwal, Rabiu Kwankwaso and Rotimi Amaechi. They all resisted our chance, and they “cut Tinubu to size”.

Are we still restituting?

Let us all think the “Muslim/Muslim ticket” and the continued denying of Asiwaju Bola Tinubu his reserved reward as a successful player in the ruling team. He deserves to be Vice President, if Lawan and Gbajabiamila have been. Let’s satisfy the pending mandate that will be problematic in the future. It is a national debt

God wants to kill this “Islamic agenda” in the spirit and consciousness of Nigerian christians forever – the agenda is an impossible one – the Almighty God has not yet allowed it and our laws forbid it – it is anarchical, the end of the lying Unity.

Until we lose something, we can not gain something. For us to win the war, let the focus be on God, let us lose to gain. Jesus taught severally on this, and that is why salvation is about losing your human nature to gain your spiritual nature. We can do this. It is a Christin sacrifice to lose the office of the Vice President for the Moslem man who nominated his Christin substitute

Like my friends, Roseline Udosen and Esther Okono, would say “IS GOD NOT WONDERFUL?”

Ini Akpan Morgan via “time.subsidaries@gmail.com”

ZION ENO UMOH: THE CONVICTED ARMED ROBBER WHO ATTEMPTED TO POLARIZE TWO LEADERS OF THE APC IN AKWA IBOM STATE FOR HIS FOOD

It was just impossible for me to swallow and digest the constant media attacks on my political leader in Akwa Ibom State by one “Da Zion Umoh” in his commentaries on Facebook. My leader is a man I clearly walked into while seeking the moral tribe in the politics of Akwa Ibom State at a time that I was already giving up on finding an adaptble political platform that would embrace my belief system and my lifestyle as a god-fearing man. It must be understood how in Nigerian politics, apart from playing politics on a political party platform, every member of a political party has a political tribe he follows within his political party.

It is usual, especially at a time like this when political appointments are in view that there would be competing partisan interest amongst the tribes within a political party. This competing interest is a normal phenomenon. I have written severally on why President Buhari should choose his minister from Akwa Ibom State wisely, and my point has been on discouraging politicians who have constantly being the continuous bane against our political development from holding office perpetually when they have done nothing to change our ugly narratives.

The pitiable role that money inducements play to compromised the ideals of our democratic polity and it’s economy makes it impossible for me to support President Buhari in recycling politicians who, rather than help our political growth, have caused and contributed to our political deterioration and economic woes as a people. While some of us, who are reasonable and fair players, collate the aggregate lifestyles and political antecedents of our politicians, Da Zion Umoh chose to play dirty by attempting to play one leader against another.

Playing a leader against another has been a trade some hungry, underdeveloped mindsets have engaged in, in order to put food on their tables. And unfortunately, my leader had always been on the receiving end and edge because he is a peaceful man. We have decided that it should not be so any more. There is a terminal point for every social nuisance.

Now, in making contributions on, and as to whom President Buhari should rest his ministerial nominations on, my friend, brother, colleague, and political kinsman, Thomas Tomas, had recalled his dilemma as a journalist in the years of the making of the APC and his near death situation in the hands of the incumbent government, at that time, as his “nay” to the appointive consideration of a particular leader of our party. And there is absolutely nothing wrong with that – he wore those shoes that almost took his life for standing for what he believes.

Though this did not go down well with the principal of that brutish regime, he, unfortunately, went back to his yesteryears and dusted his threats boots against Thomas Tomas, which he (Thomas Tomas) could not fathom, stomach and cried out very loud against him. We felt that the principal went too far with living in the past in his incumbent present, and we variously rebuked him for forgetting his past and attempting to repeat it. Our contributions were not aimed to disparage any leader but to call for justiciable and fair considerations in our democratic pursuits.

For God’s sake this is a democracy and we have guaranteed conventional and fundamental rights, especially that of holding political opinions. It was therefore not expected that any leader should, because his antecedents are played back to him, attempt to subjugated the rights of other people to recall their past experiences. It was at this stage that “Da Zion Umoh” decided to introduce gutter attitude into a pure desire that called for a change in the attitudes of political players in our State.

Thomas Tomas raised genuine points that should have been tackled or handled, but Da Zion Umoh decided to make it a war of lords by importing a false imagery that brought an innocent man into a pure literary exchange of ideas to map out a better political future for our people. He churned false allegations against my leader in a way that engaged us to prepare for a media war, and we were bent at holding no prisoner captive in our exposing the criminal nature and nuturing of these people.

Politics in a democracy should be about ideologies and policies to drive good governance to the doorsteps of the governed. It is in this regards that some of us have assembled behind our leader to fight to change the sad, unholy and the unwholesome political narratives in our State. It was for this struggle that we decided to engage the man who threatened our brother and colleague: we have had so many of our people killed, tortured, dismembered, raped and harrassed for political gains, and we feel this must stop and we are speaking out loudly against this ill and immatured politics and attitudes.

Our efforts at defending our leader, interestingly, earned us severe rebuke from our leadership, whose thinking removed our advance from joining an underdeveloped mindset to disparage any leader in our party, however weak he appears to us. Our leadership looked more and forward to a cohesive and a united political party than the war we were arrayed to fight. On their advice, we decided to sheath our swords and to cancel out the bad apple from our bunch by investigating their pedigree.

Being an investigative journalist with international links, Thomas Tomas went down to search out “Da Zion Umoh”, who, interestingly, had worked on his side during the years of his travails, and wondered why he should now be his attacker for holding up the tenets of democratic ideals. Thomas Tomas later found out that for his constantly hungry mien for the absurd, Da Zion had been compromised and enabled to cross many rivers into the United States. We have results at our disposal and now we warn…that any politician who attempts to include Da Zion Umoh on his payroll to hang out their dirty linens should understand how that can construe to his sponsorship of a convicted armed robber to distort reasons and healthy political practice in our State.

And let this be told, that it is God’s will that the sad narratives of our local politics be changed and for this reason, our leaders must understand how they no longer have hiding place to conceal their nonentities and bad political behaviours, as we are bent to expose every evil they perpetrate internationally, so that the righteousness of God would rule among our people.

Affliction shall not arise a second time. Below is the story of the criminal record of a polarizer of good men with good intentions. Enjoy your reading:

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=2091016661010556&id=100003067270068&ref=content_filter

Ini Akpan Morgan convenes the Akwa Ibom Patriots Grouping (AKPG) and writes in from Uyo via “time.subsidaries@gmail.com”

#COZA MUST NOT OVERSHADOW #RUGA

The subject of this essay is drawn from Kate Hensley, a Facebook contact’s wonder on how the trending #COZA #IstandwithBusola thing is overshadowing the very disturbing other trending #RUGA issue, and I asked her among other things: “and do we have a National Assembly oversighting this #RUGA issue?

I think we need a revolution!

1. ON #RUGA:

I don’t care where any Fulani man lives, and I don’t care what he does for a living, but if the federal government cannot fund my children’s academic pursuit, give us portable water and nominal public power as a citizen, then I care that the government is already funding the settlement of foreign nomads in Nigeria with our collective resources.

Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association (MACBA) is a corporate body (entity), registered in Nigeria and is responsible for supplying cattle owners across the length and breath of Nigeria with commissioned and well arrayed herdsmen to herd their cattle. The leadership of this association is made up of Nigerian indigenous Fulanis only, majorly semiliterates and illiterates, who themselves only herd their own cattle because the literate indigenous Fulanis are amongst our well placed and oiled elite politicians, like Mr President, and high level government officials, with nomadic kinsmen across some North and West African countries.

This is how criminal the #RUGA settlement issue is: the nomad recruits of MACBA are not Nigerian Fulanis and the ranches already being executed by government are to provide shelters for the cattle of our elite citizens who are cattle owners in every state of the federation – so what I see is a government delighted in funding the infrastructural provisions for the privte businesses of our big men who own cattle across the nation, and helping the foreign nomadic kinsmen of Mr President to officially settle across the length and breath of our country. On this matter, the presidency is acting illegally and unconstitutionally; and our lawmakers are “shedding” bogous allowances – if blood is shared, as Pat Jonathan said of Boko Haram, so are our lawmakers “shedding” money in the face of the trampling of our constituted laws. Which way Nigeria…?

I told Kate Hensley that we need a revolution on this matter. I remember challenging Victor Effik when he first brought this matter up, insisting that it is a constitutional matter – monies the executive spend are approved for them by our legislators, so how did the budgets for the establishment of ranches by government pass? The question is, what is the position of our laws on this #RUGA issue, do our laws permit and provide for this?

Clearly, if this abberation is allowed to find existence, one day, Nigerians would be forced to remit “equalization funds” to compensate people like President Buhari who himself has a private ranch. And so for all others who have existing ranches the federal government did not allocate. I am prophesying what all these will draw for us in the future. And I wish to believe that all members of the national assembly, except their “newbies”, all have heads of cattle herded by foreign nomadic Fulanis. We are finding those who should serve us helping themselves and their business out with resources meant for the upliftment of our present communal sufferings.

We must all rise, all vulnerable and suffering Nigerians, against this usurpation of our communal lives and ownership of ancestral rights under the universal convention. I am not against the foreign Fulani nomads having settlements in Nigeria, I am saying that the federal government should leave the responsibility of local settlements in the hands of our local governments, and our state governments should be responsible for ensuring social infrastructural provisions for these settlements.

The federal government should hands off #RUGA and allow MACBA deal with our local government councils, and our state governments are then notified of necessary provisions to be made available to ensure the human dignity of those to live the the settlements.

#letmacbademandlandsfromlocalgovernments

2. ON #COZA:

And on #COZA issue, no rape is fine! It is a disgusting act. Pastor Biodun Fatoyinbo has become very notorious with assaulting those who have given him (self and financial) powers over them. He is rich because he collates his followers offerings and “gifts” – what they “pay” as tithe is not “the tithe”, they give “gifts” not tithes, though tithe is very scriptural and it is a New Testament principle. Let’s consider the following liberating understanding of “the tithe”:

Hebrews 7 is very specific on the New Testament tithing, it is summarized from the 6th to 11th verse. So it is important for us to learn to sit up, crawl, stand up and walk in the new spirit of tithing by dropping the stench of Malachi 3:10.

No new wine can be contained in an old wineskin. Both the wineskin and the wine will be lost. Teaching on tithe with Malachi 3:10 is archaic, parochial and stale. The Bible book of Malachi is not telling us what we should do, it points to the fact that what was to be done by Israel was not done well enough! Malachi exposed the need for the taking away of the Old Law, burdened by the “traditions of the fathers”.

For if, according to Hebrews 7:9 and 8 respectively, Levi, who was given the privilege to take tithes from his brethren, gave tithes to Melchizedek through Abraham, and just like Levi was in the bossom of his great grand father, Abraham, giving tithes to Melchizedek, Jesus, likewise, was in the bossom of Melchizedek, as the Prince of Peace, receiving Levi’s tithe from Abraham. Levi gave to receive just like Jesus received to give.

Now the understanding of Hebrews 7:8 says if Levi gave tithes to Jesus, who has the everlasting priesthood, to obtain his (Jesus’) permission to take tithes on earth in a temporary priesthood that has been rested, Jesus, who received the tithes from Levi, now, by his receipt of Levi’s tithe, gives everlasting life to a dying world – this is what is meant by “he receives them of whom it is witnessed that he lives”.

Jesus receives “whosoever” wills to “come unto” him – the New Testament tithe we give are the souls of saved men we bring to Jesus. So let us drop the infantile teaching and learning on tithe because of the wealth it generates. This was why I did not found a Church when I received my ministry in February 1997. I will not encourage any one to “go to Church”, I encourage people to “stay in Church”. God is with us now and he is no longer “there” as he was when the Temple of Solomon was standing.

Truly speaking, there is nothing wrong with Biodun Fatoyinbo being “randy” – it is in his human nature defining his mental weakness to deal with this nature – he deserves sympathy. Every fertile, momentous dick erecting man is randy: and who is he who will cast the first stone at Pastor Biodun?

His being weak to his sexual passions does not make him less a pastor or can he loose his commission with God because of his uncensored sexual weakness – God does not repent of his gift and calling, he only calls for everyone to be accountable – God is interested in what we do with what we are given. Remember the Parable of the Talents?

I put it to all that Biodun Fatoyinbo may not be wrong in being an “unfaithful” husband or an “exploitative” religious herdsman, if only he obtains the approval of those he “abuses” and “exploits”, and his wife is happy to live him as he is.

Do you know we have willing “slaves” in our world today – people who love shackles and chains around their necks? They are always uncomfortable when they are out of chains. I am sure that Busola Timi Dakolo may still have been? calling Pastor Biodun “Randy” Fatoyinbo “daddy” even after her alleged “defilement” and “molestations”. Can two walk together except they agree?

I taught on “justifying your justifications” – every of my teachings are hereon, on this blog, including my opinion on the first “scandal” between “Efe Walters and Biodun Fatoyinbo”. That Epistle was based on the dynamics and the functionalities of our common “faith” – every human being lives in a 3 dimensional world, but there are some human beings who have acquired the ability to live in the 4th dimension – likely Pastor Biodun lives in a consciousness other humans have not yet accessed, so, they cannot understand his bodily misdemeanor, QED!

Uzzah touched the Ark of Covenant and was smitten to death, but David ate Shew bread and wore the Ephod – food and raiment dedicated to the Levitical priesthood – which carries the same consequence as that of touching “holy things” illegally, yet he went about as “the man after God’s heart”. So what was it that killed Uzzar but spared David’s life? Why is there no where in scriptures where Moses was questioned for killing a man? This is the mystery of grace and faith – God moves in a mysterious ways, his wonders to perform. Scripture says for by grace we are saved through faith. Grace works with faith. Grace cannot stand alone without faith – here is where spiritual depth eludes many.

Pastor Fatoyinbo lives on the liberty of Romans 14:22, especially the “b” part of it: “Happy (blessed) is the man who condemns not himself in what he permits (allows). The major success of Jesus, in his accomplished salvific work, was to give life to the lifeless rules of the Mosaic law. He gave mobility to what was static.

Jesus converted the potential energy within the Mosaic law into the kinetic energy that drives the New Testament scriptures. The law kills, but grace and faith ensures an endless life – this was why Uzzah died and David was spared. Is it that God is partial? God forbid! We all have our works and their rewards. This is why we are not permitted to judge any man but ourselves.

Pastor Fatoyinbo may have lusted in his heart for Busola, Efe and others like them in his congregations, and went on to commit fornication with them – listen now, every sexual commitment without a spoken or written vow between the man and the woman, is fornication, and any sexual exercise in which two people with each of them under a previous marital vow is adultery – the marriage of two already married people is adultery and any sexual union which is not processed under any vow to leave father and mother and to cleave together (have sex)8, is fornication.

However, every sexual engagement before God is a “marriage” – they shall “join (cleave) together – that is sex – and the two shall be one flesh”. This was what Jesus said to the Samaritan woman in John 4:17-18: on the first 4 parts, she was in adultery, and on the one last part, she was in fornication, yet, what marked her out for a place in scripture was that she longed to worship God and she did, and God “seeks” such to worship him, according to scripture. Jesus saw the Samaritan woman, likely, differently from how others saw her.

It is important for everyone to come to divine knowledge. This is eternal life: if you can see your body as the clothes you wear and your soul as the body you are carrying, and to know that your body never dies but is recycled, like worn and torn clothes turning into manure, you will understand how it is the soul that dies – becoming eternally non existent in “hell”.

Who cares what anyone does with his clothes, and why do we care what anyone does with his body? What is known as the human body in the 3 dimensional world is cloth to those in the 4th dimension – see Genesis 2:25, compare with Genesis 3:7 – surely, what you see as a 3 dimensional being is consciously different from sights in the 4th dimesion. What shall a man give in exchange for his soul? This is what Scripture asks.

Keeping physical and social rules, than living in the liberty of the Holy Spirit, only helps to build nothing into eternal life. Yes! There are people whose sins are forgiven, and God would not impute sin on them, because righteousness has been imputed already. This is what Romans 4:6-8 says. Pastor Biodun’s faith in Christ can make him soar over storms effortlessly like an eagle. No one can understand spiritual things with a natural mind. If Judas Iscariot did not give up, he could have been saved. It is not over until it is over.

So many men who look pious outwardly have had sexual engagements with several women in their hearts. It is better for them not to burn that way because whether they do it at heart or bodily, Las Las, na the same thing. So I respect Fatoyinbo for showing himself worthy of his weakness, let those who do it at heart find his kind of boldness to own up or quit that dark side of them. Pastor Fatoyinbo’s deeds are done under light as given in John 3:19-21.

I say it again, what may be wrong in what Fatoyinbo did with those ladies was his “forcing” them against their will, but if they all still called him “daddy” after all that, then they are the hypocrites here, not Pastor Fatoyinbo. Know this, that a servant answers to his master.

Ini Akpan Morgan

01/07/19

DONT BLAME SENATOR AKPANUDOEDEHE FOR YOUR LEADER’S CHOICE OF LIVING IN HIS PAST – “WAKE UP AND LIVE NOW”!

A friend said “Akpabio cannot win this media war upon his recent threat against Thomas Tomas, and upon his past dealing with the man. The fighters in this war are unequal, and the war is unjust and unruly”.

And that was exactly what I told Akpabio’s erats about attempting to make a small media “rough handling” – considered in police terms as public nuisance – a war of political giants. With Senator Akpanudoedehe’s press statement, the Akpabio erats should understand how he has justiceably exornerated himself from that unethical war and his views on the matter MUST BE RESPECTED.

It is now left for Senator Godswill Akpabio to call his electronic rats to order in regards to respecting Senator Akpanudoedehe’s sincere position.

I told these hangers on before now that bringing Senator Akpanudoedehe into the Akpabio/Thomas Tomas ombroglio is a big market that will surely overwhelmed their principal. History will never be on his side.

There are wounds that have healed, there has been forgiveness freely rendered, but the scars of yesterday and the regrets inherent still remain. People must remember that it is possible to forgive, but no one can rewrite his own history howbeit possible to relive it: people do not learn from history – arrogant people, who the gods want to make mad by making them blind, do not.

Let nobody dig dry bones until Christ gives them life again at his appearing, as Ezekiel prophesied. It will be an idolatrous act – idol worship – to advance before God’s time!

If Akpabio’s boys want this war, I can bet, we will make it an international embarrassment for him. He has more to lose than Thomas Thomas and their always illogical and criminal fabrications against Senator Akpanudoedehe put together.

With Senator Akpabio’s “threats” on an Android device, whose memory card is already saved away, Amnesty International will be too happy to lead an investigation to Akwa Ibom State and Senator Akpabio, with his footants, would only see the report about him on public media calling the government of the State to protect Thomas Tomas from any harm.

Then he will know that he has an international indictment to deal with. Witnesses will be citizens of Akwa Ibom State who have stories of dehumanization to tell. I know about a Rtd Major General. The capacity to do is hereby reserved.

The Senator Akpanudoedehe Senator Akpabio knew before now, is no longer the same person they knew him to be ooo! They need to understudy him again, otherwise they will be outdated on him, as they have proven to be. The man has rebranded and this is his moment. He has an undeniable, and an accomplished time on his hands.

They laughed at him when he rebranded, but time is now when they will believe him by force. This is also about “the kingdom of God” and the “violence” suffered.

Believe me, we are the good ones. We are the righteous ones. We are the long suffering ones, we are the victimized, the stigmatized, the excluded, the ones who feel pained and robbed, yet we are the foundation of the APC in Akwa Ibom State – where is the justice in this war with involving Senator Akpanudoedehe? A push to wall has being achieved, and we await the need for our rebound.

The JJA team are capacitated to goodly rid bad rubbishes, and to ensure spiritual decency into the political economy of our State. If Senator Akpabio thinks Senator Akpanudoedehe instigated Thomas Tomas’ views, it is expected that he should have consulted our leader, than to call and threaten the journalist. His involving our leader after fueling a war is therefore an afterthought – a very sad narrative for a leader

We will force Akwa Ibom State away from the calibre of PDP’s inherent political rascalities, as seen encultured in the APC. Whether head or tail, the PDP in Akwa Ibom State, as presently constituted, is the left over of Godswill Akpabio’s last lunch in the Hilltop Mansion. A continuation of a bloodstained regime.

We will not forget the contributions of Obong Etukudo Ekpro to our politics. We will not. Like MKO Abiola, there is a family the Akwa Ibom State government owes compensation for the untimely death of their breadwinner, the consequence of the political rivalry Akpabio’s predecessor ensured, the kind that brewed in the 8 years of Akpabio’s ruthless rule, now being brewed again – the target has always been to bring down the true power bank of Akwa Ibom politics – our JJA. Or was Senator Akpanudoedehe not near death in 2011? We can remind the Vice President about this.

Desperate times demand desperate acts – while Senator Akpabio has no other mission in Akwa Ibom State government house, after the uncommon self glorification of a mortal man for 8 years, there are those who must get there as the wages they deserve, the wages they are owed and the wages they should earn for their untiring labour. If Godswill Akpabio was ever assisted by anyone to ascend the seat of governor, he owes such a man a deserved “turn” to make his own good. Otherwise, he is a wicked and an unfaithful man.

Any other attempt by the “play-dirty-for-food” hangers on of Senator Akpabio to bring Senator Akpanudoedehe into the Thomas Thomas issue, after he has issued a press statement, will be a call for an open media war, and I bet, Senator Godswill Akpabio will be responsible for attempting to help the PDP to destroy the APC in our State.

Godswill Akpabio’s interest in the APC cannot be different from those of his forebears – Atiku, Saraki, Tambuwal, Dogara, Kwankwaso and other political nomadic herdsmen of the PDP stock. Truth is, there are good and stable politicians in the PDP and there are also the bad and unstable “bunch” spoilers. A very bad cult of political opportunists.

Would we now begin to recount the same attacks Senator Akpanudoedehe innocently suffered in our recent past from these despicable men, how many of these erats did he call and threatened? Attitude matters ooo! We will defend our brother Thomas Tomas – he is our own – we will not throw away the bath water with the child.

Journalist Thomas also has his human weaknesses, and we must sympathise with that. Lest no one remains in ignorance, Thomas Tomas does not draw a battle line and retreats – no matter whose ass he gores – he deserves sympathy not a threat.

Yes! A man who is weak in handling his anger deserves pampering: Godswill Akpabio has some lessons, in civility, to learn. It was for the same battle line drawing of Thomas Tomas that drove Senator Akpabio, some years back, to take presidential powers to deal with Thomas and almost killed him. Should Thomas forget that? Thanks to Journalist Fejiro who fought that war on Thomas’s side.

So if Thomas got there in the peak of Akpabio’s invinsible power, you can imagine the simple victory Thomas sees now with Senator Akpabio’s present lameness. If Akpabio does the same today, Thomas will poke his (Akpabio’s) nose politically and bloody it without consequence. He must reap what he sowed in us, or he humbles himself forthwith. Him own don too much joo!

Our past defines our now, as our now would define our future. It’s time for reminescence, and like Apostle Paul, some people must learn how not to kick against the goad. Unan asi aba – there is always an inflicted wound – nse owo adara ki’bak – where is a man’s pride in his wickedness?

So join me brothers and sisters – “edara ndito mmi, mekan mkpa ooo ndito mmi, edara oo ndito mmi, mekan Satan mboukpohore”

Let those who are notorious for inflicting pains on others understand how that is also a sowing that would cause the harvest they should reap.

Akpabio’s erats should leave Senator Akpanudoedehe alone! No one should expect our leader to kill his followers because they disobey him. It is this liberty of spirit that I enjoy, allowed and permitted, that drew me to align with the political ideology of Senator John James Akpanudoedehe. He has no bait to use – we are not in politics ti be served but to serve, he coarses nobody – he understands that in a democracy, the free spirit defines the rule of law. I am the testimony of Senator Akpanudoedehe’s political stewardship, and I am in (the) March – without its destructive ides – to the Hilltop Mansion, embedded in the Uyo ravine.

I came around seeking a platform to make my contributions freely in upturning the old narratives of our political economy in Akwa Ibom State. We are working to expose the ugly sights and the unwholesome sounds of political party defectors, whether they are common or uncomkon. If that was in place before now, we won’t be sharing the APC platform with some people today: our yoke would have been easier and our burden lighter.

We are working to eliminate the childish implanting of the love of money in the politics of Akwa Ibom State – the rude source and the root of all evil in our politics – cultism, gayism, kidnapping, prostitution, diabolism and human sacrifices.

They scramble for political offices, steal enough from our treasuries, because of the erroneous political ideology of the PDP already imbibed – that money is everything in politics and Senator Akpanudoedehe, insistently puts a lie to that lie of the devil.

We will now work so that no one will steal away our collective patrimony and launder it as election expenses anymore without accounts to render. We will deal with that attitude as an economic crime.

People who have roamed our political landscape promoting servitude and self propagation will be forced to take intermittent breaks. No one has the monopoly or mastery of leadership. Akpabio would not have been who he is today if he had no opportunity to become governor. Those in glass houses will be fools to throw stones. They always suffer the hugest damage. So, Senator Akpabio should thank God that some people are not like him – learning from the wrong people.

What is there to learn from Adolph Hitler’s ways and manner? This is the mental challenge that arrogant people mistake for tutorials. And when they quote despicable examples, they make it excessively more arrogant than the originators.

Until Godswill Akpabio publishes a Press Statement addressing his erats like JJA has done, it will be taken as a covert approval for his boys to continue in their slander of a man I met last night, who sadly called my attention to what Thomas Tomas has caused him. And I told him that I will join deal with it. You do not pursue a harmless man with dangerous image renting arms. No! You don’t.

If Godswill Akpabio will not issue a press statement to rein his erats in, and they continue to disparage my boss, causing him unnecessary heats in the relationship he freely accepted and moved on, taking the bitter pills they administered to him, then even I will disrespect the pleas of our leaders to sheath our swords, major among whom is Austin Ekanem, the State Secretary of our party, Victor Edet Okon, a close ally of our political leader, and Pastor John Udoedehe himself.

Just like they have asked us to ensure our party’s unity, which is our responsibility because APC has a concrete foundation that supports the party, Senator Akapbio should be instructed to call his boys to order.

We will not destroy the stability of the “structure” of our party, but we would not bother if some of the building blocks fall away. This is our building, tenants will never take it from us. We will break the failing blocks to save the stress upon our foundation.

If the PDP deadly herdsmen in APC’s grazing fields cannot obey our rules, let them return to their traditional hamlets roofed with umbrellas.

This is my story, this is my song – leave Senator John James Akpanudoedehe out of the battle Godswill Akpabio fueled for Thomas Tomas to drive, otherwise, he will not know from which direction his public image is hit internationally – there is an excess capacity to so do now.

Many Akwa Ibom sons and daughters are aggrieved and they seek vengeance for their unnecessary haranging in past years. Humility will heal all that and the acceptance of godly fate will help the sense of a great, pitiable, shameful and/but a “temporary” electoral loss.

A word is enough for the wise. We are watching out!

Enjoy a spirit filled Sunday folks.

Ini Akpan Morgan convenes the Akwa Ibom Patriots Grouping (AKPG) and writes via “time.subsidaries@gmail.com”

LEAVE NIGERIAN YOUTHS ALONE AND FACE YOUR LEADERSHIP STRUGGLES IN THE RULING PARTY, APC.

I think it is now the right time to write my 4th Epistle to President Buhari. Because he left the APC to some greedy politicians, now he is left with negotiating the leadership of the party with these selfish men and women. Those who read this notice and are close to Mr President should submit this advance warning to him: he should not plunge this country into anarchy, God had a good reason for making him come out of retirement to truncate the anarchy that President Jonathan’s term would have become. Mr President must know that Nigeria is not yet out of this possibility during his remaining stay on office. Nigeria has been set to burst by the failure of 19 years of democratic rule, and we, the people, are now combustible. I will do my best to support Mr President and wishing him his best fortunes from the Almighty God, until I find that he has lost composure completely, when it becomes obvious that he has wasted this God given opportunity, which he sought all his active years in politics and failed but only succeeded after retirement. It can only be God – Buhari had before now been serially rejected: I want to be known for been very bold and very truthful. Mr President has lost Nigeria and Nigerians to some political rascals but not completely yet. He needs to stand up on his feel now, and now! He has sat up no doubt, by his rejection of the tenure elongation of the APC leadership, but that generated a raging struggle for the institution of double standards – all these men clamouring for their best political interest, after having failed, were complaining like we ate doing before now – we trusted some lying deceives. This fight does not need President Buhari’s buttocks on his seat nor his back on his bed; it needs Mr President’s feet on the ground, in military fashion. When did Muhammadu Buhari GCFR, +psc become a bloody coward?. Nobody respects himi any more. He has become lame and a pitied man, and he will have only himself to blame after he has been disgraced. His honour and rating as a past president depends on what he does now and I will help him. Yes! President Buhari was very wrong to blame Nigerian youths for their laziness and illiteracy. And to add a lie to hos false accusation, President Buhari alleged that these set of Nigerians “eye oil money” – I am still not sure he said that. The category of Nigerians Mr President refers thereby as lazy are busier than members of his cabinet. I blame him for allowing the clearing of roads when he is applying them, sitting under a this noted screen, even when his citizens have been cleared off by his transit, like lepers in Israel, otherwise Mr President would see young men and women on our highways running after vehicles, selling items of needs to tired commuters inside vehicles – service delivering for those held up by our bad toads and police system for long hours. Some going about with hand trucks scavenging at our gabbage sites! It was wrong for President Buhari to blame our youths who are illiterate for laziness. It was a big lie. I have a very sound mind and those who have not yet met me sometimes mistake my status, especially when they try to assume who Ini Akpan Morgan is, because I have observed that so many of my social media contacts have varying expectations from me, I sometimes seek boldness to say I am helpless too. Mr President in London has classified me as lazy because I have just shown how very busy our illiterate youths are, maybe our President meant to say literate youths in Nigeria are lazy seeking oil money – yes! correct!!. I stand in the gap for the youths of this country in this category. I will tell Mr President with my own story, as a “lazy” Nigerian from when I was 25 till now that I am 53, why I have been lazy. I will let President Buhari know why I am “lazy” though not “an illiterate”. Its a lie he told on our illiterate youths Nigerians. It cool though that I am still “lazy” but I keep keeping on in life pursuing my life with my well deserve respect accorded me accordingly. Mr President, so that Donald Trump does not confirm his “shit hole” accusation against the black man, MUST as a matter of fatherly decency apologise to illiterate Nigerian youths. I am sure it is this kind of mind frame that made Mr President to refuse his assent to the Nigeria Peace Corps bill sent in for the employment of not less than 20,000 Nigerians. Not only would Mr President apologise to the Nigerian youths, he has to revoke his veto on the bill and sign in the Nigeria Peace Corps Act 2018 or explain to Nigerians why he would not. Mr President’s frame of mind is now challenged by his utterances and dispositions and we want this be sure this is not so. I am still with Mr President, I can forgive his political naivety but would fight him if he submits to political satanism by allowing a few failed men perpetuate themselves illegally and greedily. Mr President must as a matter of fact choose decisively whether he will go into the 2019 polls with Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu leading him into it and standing by him as his running mate, or he goes with the team of political rascals, in the hands of whom he left the APC until his rejection of the tenure elongation they seek for themselves. Now what these men could not get through being smart, I wish they were clever, by admitting why they should not openly disgrace Mr President after rejecting their plan A, are desiring to ease him out with a fake honour. This would have been more honourable if President Buhari had not announced his second term bid for the presidency. There is nothing left for President Buhari to renegotiate with the APC governors concerning the released convention committee list and a timetable. He should reject anything Oyegun does. What is left for Mr President to do is to take the leadership of the APC by force – I regret not having Obasanjo wear this shoes – all of them would have humbly returned to their roost, and they would pray you get there alive. Okadigbo would tell when met in the by and by. Mr President, now is time for you to either cast your lot with the Asiwaju or you let him take his political “break” in peace: yes! the Ask waju has been on political break and Mr President is now pretending he did not ask for a Tinubu reconciliation – by this his mind frame is hereby also under question. And dies Mr President know what that would do to him? It will throw him up as an opportunist, a traitor and an ungrateful man. The situation is already very bad, almost very difficult for the Asiwaju to redeem, but I know he knows his capacities. He has lost so much time since January when Buhari appointed him to begin a reconciliation in the APC, now I wished he did not start this. President Buhari personally announced this appointment to Nigerians. Is he now surprised that till now the Asiwaju has not been allowed to do the job he was assigned to do? Has he not noted how the formerly dormant leaders of the APC, who lived lame for 3 years became active after he announced the settled ng up of the committee? They started with tenure elongation and now trying to force the party’s national convention, which they foresaw earlier as potentially rancorous and meaning no good for the party. They are not people Mr President should trust. Nigeria remains President Buhari’s responsibility for now. In my letter, I will ask Mr Preaident to either allow Tinubu proceed with his reconciliation work and advising him on the dates for the convention and congresses, which in my opinion can hold in the 4 weeks of June, holding weekly, giving the Tinubu committee the 4 weeks in May to stabilize the APC, or you allow him lead you out of the APC. Yes! Mr President should consider leaving the House of Greed for them – Atiku Abubakar won a court case as a sitting Vice President flying the president flag of an opposition party. Mr President you can do it. Tinubu is a master negotiator, if you trust him, you will land well. This way you will pull the carpet from under the feet of the grabbers in APC, and they would become obvious losers. Mr President must know that the APC has its soul, the components of which include Muhammadu Buhari, Bola Tinubu and the legacy parties made up of ACN, CPC, ANPP and APGA. These are what President Buhari needs to stand with at this juncture. Today strange men are yarning nonsense in the party where he is the supposed national leader – let’s watch them muzzle him and make him become helpless to fail his 2019 Presidential bid. These men and women are used to killing their landlords and taking rents from their illegally acquired “properties”. Mr President is politically naive and only Bola Tinubu can cure him of this naivety. God punish all political criminals in Nigeria! Amen!! I am still Ini A Morgan

CAN PRESIDENT BUHARI MATCH PRESIDENT TRUMP’S AUDASITY IN DEALING WITH POLITICAL ENEMIES?

“…you can’t have nuclear weapons. And other than that, we can sit down and make a deal. But you cannot have nuclear weapons…not in my presidency…” – Donald Trump to Iran

– this is national leadership!

Can Muhammadu Buhari say same when closing his door on every member of the APC who joined the opposition party after the Mega merger?

It is very clear to Nigerians that the evils of the Buhari administration are perpetrated by politicians who have never spent up to 1 year outside political office. Some of them have been roaming our faces as government officials since 1999 and we are still the way we are, descending further down the global socioeconomic drain?

I am awaiting the Next Level cabinet nominations of President Buhari, to see…whether he is Rotimi Amaechi ooo or Godswill Akpabio…if President Buhari will mistake them again for his friends. If he loves them that much, he has more than 50 vacancies attached to him personally: he should apply them to those “aide-end” offices. He can make Amarachi his Special Adviser, Presidential Amnesty Programme and send Akpabio to Thailand as Ambassador.

Every PDP bloodied present APC member must be given a bloody nose in the Next Level cabinet – they must not come near our federal executive chambers. Thank God they have all been flushed out of the leadership of the 9th National Assembly, it remains for President Buhari to insist on a CPC, ACN, ANPP, APGA composed federal executive cabinet to run the next 4 years. Let every politician who has held office in the last 10 years return home for a political break, building up his people for the next election out political office.

If these politicians were as good as they make out themselves to appear, we would not be here today descending hopelessly as a people. Rotimi Amaechi serves his ego in political office and many have died from his political childishness in Rivers State. Democracy is not meant for military interventions. Amaechi is the worst living democrat in Nigeria. He pulled APC supporters in Rivers State out of the 2015 presidential elections, giving the PDP a walk over as an incumbent governor, and was rewarded for that political childishness. This time – 2019 – he led an army into an election…what again should we say – that President Buhari should associate with such a man?

The political character entrenched in the PDP is known and called “impunity”. The manner and brand of politics Godswill Akpabio deployed to provoke the larger than life image he acquired as an “uncommon” political homosapien in Akwa Ibom State, and his disgusting kind of “replacement” politics at national level should be symbols of the warnings President Buhari must heed about the “uncommon fall” Godswill Akpabio has recorded in Akwa Ibom State. President Buhari should ask Godswill Akpabio what happened to Obong Victor Attah, Ufot Ekaette, and other major leaders, who laid the foundation for our greater Akwa Ibom State. He brutalized all of them. He cannot be trusted to represent us.

I say it again, if the Next Level administration of President Buhari gives any post-merger member of the APC a federal executive status, that will be the cancerous indication that the regime will struggle with success aginy, because it will begin with being ail and sick minded. If President Buhari’s cabinet begins with “sick” people, their low efficiency and lack of mental energy will make Nigerians suffer more.

Let Nigerians pray that this administration recognises why it took a mega merger to dislodge an impossible 16 year regime of despotic men and women, which included Rotimi Amarachi and Godswill Akpabio as front runners. The last administration – the first term of President Buhari – was greatly disstabilized by men who ensure APC remained a divided house for 4 years: how could that house have stood with Atiku, Saraki and Dogara? This is my plea for this Next Level.

Amaechi and Akpabio, men who, only them, know their ways, cannot be comfortable in the APC without political office – Mr President should test my argument and prove me wrong. They are full blooded PDP men, and like Atiku, Saraki, Dogara, Tambulwa, Kwankwaso, et al, they will also leave when they cannot get what they seek in the APC. They will go. They all fear political irrelevance and we must force them into it, bye and bye.

Ini Akpan Morgan convenes the Akwa Ibom Patriots Grouping (AKPG) and writes in from Uyo via “time.subsidaries@gmail.com”