L-R: Orok Duke, Onari Duke and DC Enamhe
Efio-Ita Nyok|17 October 2016
Friday 13 October, the management of the University of Calabar had a management meeting with Students Union Government officials, etc being present.
An aide to the Executive Governor of Cross River State on Branding, Senior Special Assistant Dornclaimz Enamhe's itinerary took him to the Office of the Vice Chancellor of the said higher institution, there he met Mrs Onari Duke, wife of the former governor of Cross River, Donald Duke and Orok Duke, the Executive Chair of Cross River State Sport Commission and former Deputy Speaker of the Cross River State House of Assembly (CRSHA).
The meeting of these trio (two being politicians and one a wife of a renowned politician) as usual, invoked old and fond memories as Mrs Duke posed a reminiscing question to DC (Dornclaimz Enamhe is popularly referred to as DC) —'Is the devil still a liar?' He may have smiled in response while reminiscing the fond memories that question invoked. NegroidHaven will be taking the reader through a historic detour of what transpired in 1998 during the governorship primary of the PDP in CRS. Recall that the primary was hotly contested by Donald Duke and Chief Kanu Agabi SAN.
DC explains that,
'After the primaries of PDP in 1998 that Senator Abubakar announced the winner as KJ Agabi SAN, we walked back from Equity Guest House into the house of Donald Duke to meet Onari waiting to hear the results,
'Recall no mobile phones, no internet, so with Donald, Liyel, John, Gersh, Essien and myself, we had been heartbroken by the results and the only person that Onari could ask what happened was me, because the faces of the rest was clear that it was bad news,
'I couldn't tell her we lost, so I told her "the devil is a liar" and that has remained the victory slogan "the devil is a liar" is the devil still lying?
'The devil is a liar'! One declaration that characterised the upturning the entire landscape of Cross River State political history. The summary of the entire proceeding is that Chief Kanu Agabi lost to Donald Duke in the primary, as Duke later on coast to victory in the 1999 election to become Governor of the state.
However, DC's rendition of history has incited controversy among the Bekwarra nation but let it always be known that 'The devil is still a liar'.
But, will the devil still be a liar come 9 December? Yes! But, in whose direction? —Ayade or Agi? How relevant will that phrase characterise Cross River political history?
Efio-Ita Nyok
Is a Blogger, the Editor & Publisher of NegroidHaven.org
