As the build up to the 2019 governorship elections gathers momentum, Akwa Ibom people have decided, to take their destinies in their own hands. Never a time, has Akwa Ibom people been so denigrated, by a governorship Aspirant or candidate, the way Nsima Ekere has done.

In his bid to score a cheap political point, he went ahead, to tag our women as iPad and handbag people in the society. What more could be more disrespectful, than that? The question is, is Nsima Ekere a Misogynist? How someone can feel comfortable calling out our Nigeria’s most sought after women, is of all things most miserable.

A governorship candidate should be careful in speeches, and not use uncouth languages on the people, but, Nsima’s case have been a moment of trying to take us to the stone age of political servitude, and the era of the okons’ Akpans’ the Ekaettes’, etc, where our people were predominantly used as maids, guards, etc, even in nollywood.

That is an era we won’t return to, we have been overtaken by modernization. We can look back to be proud as a State, that we have done well. We all know what an iPad and a handbag about women signifies. The message was clear and explicit. Our women are not iPhone and handbag women.

The society do not see them in the light Nsima is trying to paint them. Someone should advise Nsima Ekere, that oratory prowess is needed in elections as a point of communication, not abuses on the very people you are seeking for their votes. Nsima Ekere knows that the women are not with him, hence, in whatever manner he describes them, is immaterial to him. All he is interested in, is to get imaginary votes, which are non existent.

One would have thought that, Nsima would have rather classified our women amongst top rated women, who have made significant landmarks, in their chosen fields of endeavors.

Is it Nsima’s disdain for women, that have made him not to appoint women as one of his aides in NDDC?
We will not have a Governor, whose plan for our women is on iPhone and handbag. Never!

What does Nsima Ekere really want?

Is Nsima a MISOGYNIST?

TIME SHALL TELL.

Eneh John is the Editor, Trail Reporters News.