Tarzoor, We Owe You! By Iorliam'Amo Shija. (A Must Read For All.)

Prince Terhemen Tarzoor, Benue state owes you. We still owe you a level playing ground that we took away from you in this last election.

We owe you quality  time. We owe you the  opportunity to put in practice what you have deep in your heart for us. That makes you to contest elections.Read more 

As you might have been aware already, I was one of the ferocious young men who worked against  your gubernatorial candidature.

I didn't do that because of you. I was fighting a system; a man that brought you. In doing this, I must confess that,  I was not patient to meet. I didn't seek your attention. I didn't care to listen.

There was a time that I was privileged to meet Hon John Tondu, your good friend and associate who with my comrade, he explained to us why we should work for you, but I wouldn't do that.   

So that is what We all  owe you; that opportunity. As a fact, we were very unfair to you.

Like louis 16th who inherited the French monarchy on the eve of the revolution, you suffered a defeate that was a reaction to the sins of a system!16 uneventful years of PDP and 8 of Suswam.

Tarzoor, do not despair. Remember Unoka's advice to okonkwo in his classic, "Things Fall Apart" during the year that Okonkwo went to borrow seed yams from a great man to begin life.

Achebe captures it thus:

"That year the harvest was sad, like a funeral, and many farmers wept as they dug up the miserable and rotting yams. One man tied his cloth to a tree branch and hanged himself."

Unoka had this soothing words for Okonkwo:

“Do not despair. I know you will not despair. You have a manly and a proud heart. A proud heart can survive a general failure because such a failure does not prick its pride. It is more difficult and bitter when a man fails alone.”

We didn't  give you "your" chance- we only transferred our aggression on you. In future, we shall definitely pay you this debt. Atleast, I will.

Congratulations, too.
Iorliam #Ortom2015  Shija 

(Iorliam Shija is a member of Samuel Ortom's Campaign Media Team,he is a writer,a Blogger,a Historian and a Publisher)