Edo: How Gov Wike Disrespects Our Royal Stool, sits braggadociously before Oba of Benin

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By Esosa Ewere

A dog about to get missing necessarily does not hear the whistle of its master; that is the case with the Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, the uncultured Presidential aspirant whose habit it is to denigrate traditional rulers; he recently dehumanised traditional rulers in Rivers, calling them unprintable names, this is same man who wants to succeed President Buhari

Seen recently is Wike’s braggadocious display and disrespect for the Benin Palace, sitting before our highly revered Oba in the most uncouth manner

Our Palace is a place of respect, sanity, discipline and comportment, visitors are expected to carry themselves in a manner that suggests humility before the Oba; no real Benin/Edo man crosses his legs before the Oba; that a very small section of our people now see Wike as their role model disgusts a sane mind

In Rivers, where Wike will be out of office next year, no one has summoned the courage to declare to succeed him as we approach the election because tyrant Wike has not given the order; Nigeria does not deserve a dictator and tyrant now at this critical time, what we deserve is one who can humble himself and be tolerant of his subjects and Wike does not fall within this class

In Edo, elements like Wike are not strange to us; self-styled godfathers who saw others as “political lizards” and saw themselves as “political lion” has brewed their heads in Edo before now, the strategy with which those self-acclaimed godfathers were managed is still very much intact

For now, Wike is the least of our worries as Godwin Obaseki continue to focus on providing quality leadership for Edo people

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