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| Michael Okpo Onofiok, Guber aspirant and Maritime Expert |
Governorship hopeful and Marine Expert, Michael Onofiok has called on
Nigerians to leave in peace and unity with one another.
This was contained in the democracy day message issued by the Maritime
Expert and a guber candidate in the forthcoming election in Akwa Ubom State on
Thursday.
Onofiok called on every Nigerian to ponder and have a deep rethink
about our state and country, for the time is now.
The communiqué as obtained by IbomCelebs
reads.
I believe it is morally expedient for me to wake up every morning and
exchange greetings and pleasantries with friends and even others that I may run
into in the course of the day, the same way I wake up each day to give thanks
and adoration to my God.
But today's greeting has a bold underline and an ebbing tone like that
of a river returning to its source. I am consoled and so do I want you to be
consoled by the fact that it is only the river that forgets it's source that
shall surely dry.
I was almost tempted to flow with the notion that today can be
accepted by us (Nigerians) as a "democracy day" but I could hear that
little still voice from inside of me saying, that we need to understand the
basic rudiments of democracy, that it is a call to service, it is social
justice and equity, it is an attainment of social responsibility and respect
for moral values, that it must always wear a human face, it is a change from
the old to the new, from good to better, a complete change of attitude of
brutality and primitivity to love, care and the fear of God whom in His
infinite wisdom established this institution of democratic leadership.
It could have been better if today was named " handing over
remembrance day", but then, questions would still be asked, handing over
what? From who to who? From what system to what?
Let us at this point ponder and have a deep rethink about our state
and country, for the time is now.
Is today really a democracy day?
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