The Obong of Calabar: His Eminence Edidem Ekpo Abasi Otu

The story of the African Monarchical stool , which the very people and persons who are supposed to uphold , constituted the band of those wanting to bring the revered stool to ridicule.  From the days of former Governor Donald Duke and his adventurous show of power to the immediate past Obong of Calabar, the late Edidem  Elijah Nta Henshaw to the tussles of the present leading to the supreme court ruling. We have also been witnesses to the removal from office of professor Hogan Itam as the Muri of the Efuts and the creation of the seat called "the Paramount ruler of Calabar South. 

The desecration and intransigence hurts. All on the altar of political expediency and over bloated egos. In Efik ,Efut Abakpa ,Kiong and other heritable or hereditary stools we know ourselves ,and we know impostors and they know that we know them. A true son does not need any announcement , the family knows and the ancestors bear witness. It saddens my heart each time we take our sacred matters to the market square, wash our dirty linens in public and we want respect and dignity from outsiders. When the European merchants , missionaries and later governments came the Obong of Calabar was already sitted. Long before the amalgamation of the northern and southern protectorates of Nigeria., before independence in 1960.

 The Obong of Calabar collected taxes up to the territory of today's Equatorial Guinea ,his influence was enormous, today even his Land and wealth in present day Bakassi has been taken away  through a conspiracy, the little compensation called Bakassi stabilization fund of #500million paid by the Federal government of Nigeria since 2008  #84billion naira is stolen by the government of cross river state without trace. And everyone is silent, the traditional institution has to be muscled to pay homage to the inglorious political system and the politicians .

  No not in my time will such defamation continue ,we shall restore the dignity , pride ,integrity and reverence of our traditional institutions. The Stool of the Obong of Calabar , one of the most recognized in the country, a treaty king will be restituted. All hail the Obong of Calabar his Eminence Edidem Ekpo Abasi Otu. Long may you live and your reign continue to inspire other traditional institutions in cross river state and Nigeria, as I call on parties to sheath their swords ,embrace peace and good neighborliness. The back to south is beyond sloganeering. I am Effiong Nyong, governorship candidate of the African Democratic Congress ADC. Things can be done differently.

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