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David Mark at 67: Birthday message to the senatorial monarch of Idoma kingdom by Enenche Enenche

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I write to join you to thank God today for the gift of life and grace to have come this far. I celebrate your ‘achievements’ and also wish to wish you a happy birthday as you turn 68.

These years you have spent on planet earth have been of great impacts to some extent.

As a young boy, you enrolled into the Nigerian Army, you fought hard to see a united Nigeria, your sweats wet the concrete that built a bridge of reconciliation across river Niger… you did this for the country you love.
After fighting a war to a standstill, you aborted another war when you brought maturity to a red chamber and stood to see a doctrine of necessity salvaging Africa’s largest democracy when a presidential jet was parked in Saudi Arabia for months.

My generation is grateful and would forever remain grateful to your patriotic credentials in service to fatherland… thank you sir.

All these good qualities of yours didn’t come with some negative qualities that are not glorious in the temple of posterity.

I use to be your ardent follower, I was among those who stormed a court in Jos to cry when an Alhaji took us to court; I say us because any move made by anyone to remove the gavel from your hand then, was seen as an affront on the Idoma race.

That zeal and drive that once propelled me to Jos, died on the 2nd Jan., 2011 when  I first came in contact with the mess at Otukpo/Otukpa road. I wept on this day, every hope I had in you to bring Apa State perished on this day.

I said to myself; ” Apa state cannot come from a man who can’t influence the speedy reconstruction of the only major federal road that dissects Apa.

On that day, I decamped. I decamped from the camp of  mediocrity and sycophants to the camp of sound judgement and posterity.

Those who are decamping today, are just seeing what i saw over four years ago.

I have no personal issue with you, you can be my father. When you first took an oath in 1999, I was in J.S.S 2… 

I grew so fast and this is because I grew up in an era where education and telephone are not for the rich.

My issue with you is ideological, I stand by my ideals and would forever do. When you were of my age, you have started asking questions and finding answers to national questions. Mine is not in different either.

Your last 8 years as the number three man in our college, has not been able to transform the infrastructural face of our great ancestral home.

The federal road that passes Otukpo today is a reflection of anything shame represents. If you couldn’t dualise the road with streetlights, I wonder what then is the essence of having a brother at the topmost top.

One of the qualities of a true leader, is to raise leaders, that is how Ahmedu Bello, Awolowo and others inspired and raised leaders.
Show me one Idoma son or daughter that you have raise and can independently fit into your shoes in your absence, and would show you 1, 000 Idoma sons and daughters that your Machiavelli style of leadership experiments have suffocated their dreams and aspirations.
You wired everything around family structures, you don’t like smart and intelligent people, you only use them during elections and discard them after victory.
I am not surprised that there is no smart and intelligent people in your camp now to sell your ideals and ideology at this critical dwindling moments.
You fall for eye service and vulnerable to anything that has elements of sycophancy.
You once told us at a campaign venue and i quote;
    ” There are three ways to win elections; i. By voting, ii. By selection  and iii. By announcement.”
I pray this ideology of yours that has been helping you through these years can once again work for you at the red chamber when 109 colleagues would converge to vote for the handler of the gavel.
You told us back home and I quote;
“Even if you people like don’t vote for me, the votes of my wives, children and birds in the bush is enough to make me win.”
Yes, birds can vote, birds fly close to National Assembly Complex, we can once again bring them in to vote as usual… who knows, their votes can eliminate the threats posed by the broom revolution.
You once told us in Church that your greatest weakness is that you don’t know how to forgive.
The truth is that no man has monopoly of weakness… I have mine too; I don’t know how to fear.
I celebrate you, and wish you well in life. I am not ruling out anything, because you have a way of bouncing back… You are a cat with 9 lives, i don’t really know how many lives that are left.
Since the level of sycophants have reduced from your leadership shrine, sit down, evaluate the journey so far and make amends.
I am only fulfilling the bible scripture that says; 
    “God uses the foolish things of this world to confound the wise, the weak things to confound the strong”.
I am just a mere comedian that shouldn’t be taken serious, but God Has done it otherwise.
Have a great celebration, once again happy birthday; UNCLE  D.
Enenche Enenche (Comedian)
8th April, 2016
8.00 PM GMT+1.
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