Even if it was just for Ortom’s kaleidoscopic jackets and caps, the people of Benue State should have given their votes to the governorship candidate he supported. Those in the district he attempted to represent in the Senate shoulda done the same.
Their rejection of an Ortomatically-backed governorship candidate for a collar-wearing clergyman is 24-carat ingratitude. Benue people will, very soon, get to know that they have cut their noses to spite their faces and will bleed profusely for the next four years if the elections tribunal does not upturn things.
Where will Benue people get another person to follow Wike around like a sick puppy? Where?
The people in his senatorial district go hear am, too. He’s a big loss. Who trades an elite-level sprinter and possessor of a joyfully eccentric sartorial taste for a staid, collar-wearing clergyman or some agba-donning senator? Who, with his/her head screwed in the right place, would think of such?
Had Ortom won a senatorial seat and installed a successor, Benue people, already accustomed to a diet of sumptuous storytelling – with herdsmen, Fulani people and Buhari as tropes – would have continued having a swell time.
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It should have mattered little or not at all that Ortom was unable to pay salaries/ pensions for years and left no single project of note aside from his full colour spectrum apparels. Had his preferred candidate won, he’d most probably have been going around in Ortom-inspired get-ups and having had the chance to study his godfather, he’d have taken herdsmen/Buhari/Fulani-centric narratives to higher heights. A literary genre, perhaps. He’d probably, having watched Ortom being useless at close quarters, woulda become a paragon of ineptitude.
Their rejection of an Ortomatically-backed governorship candidate for a collar-wearing clergyman is 24-carat ingratitude.
Where will Benue people get another person to follow Wike around like a sick puppy? Where? I doubt that the governor-elect, who has a first name that calls to mind the freshwater weed, has Ortom’s capacity for uselessness. Who will now give out wheelbarrows as an empowerment initiative? Benue people have suffered an irreplaceable loss.
While we are at it, it is important to condole with the governor-elect. He has inherited a cadaver of a state. His Christian faith will suggest to him that he can raise it back to life, perhaps by blood transfusion. However, I suspect that in three months, he’d have bags around his eyes and look like someone who’s worked on cadavers round the clock. Benue people, it’s your loss.
