Chief Okoi Obono Obla, who was, few months ago, appointed as S.A. to the President on Prosecution matters has recently been demoted to an ordinary member of the Nigerian Communications Commission, representing South South Zone. It will, certainly, beat the imagination of a sane Crossriverian that one who had risen to the exalted position of S.A. to the PRESIDENT could be celebrated when demoted to an ordinary member of a commission. An average enlightened Crossriverian should be in sobber reflection, rather.
Chief Obla, as revealed, was degraded for want of composure, as he was always engaging the National Assembly on serious diatribes, a development the President considers as “bad market” for his 2019 bid. The President, who had shown consummate discontent for Obla’s shabby conduct has had serious problem dispensing him, but decided to systematically degrade him so that Crossriverians will not feel bad about it.
Obla’s inability to control his tongue has cost Cross River to lost a very sensitive position in the presidency. Could it be that Obla himself does not know that he has been demoted? No. He should. There will be no need to quibble over it, as the milk has already been spilled. Maybe, if he had made it as a Minister, the effect of the disaster could have been great.
The grave consequence of an irrational tongue is always crippling. Just what one Ifere is doing, abusing people he cannever measure up with in the name of criticism, another sign of misadventure for a party whose standing in the state is highly wavering.