Arts and Life
Another Eze Like Him
By Dr jalarth Uche Opara
He has been trending with many shares, reposting, likes and soul lifting comments. A pride to the Igbo, a name his community would be proud to wear as garland. Not an orator, with the skill of high sounding words, flamboyantly pieced together.
He was rather cool, soft spoken and calculating. A diplomat with many years of experiences in the game of diplomacy. Very much at home with how human beings react to words of emotion that stir the heart into genuine laugh.
With mastery he used it and the result is what we are celebrating today.
What is trending isn’t what he said, rather how he said it, cracking ribs and making the President to forget the steeze around his status.
He isn’t an accidental king, one with a track record of forgery, 419, thuggery with shallow educational background. No! His resume very intimidating and his experience deep and enviable.
When it is your turn to produce Eze, politicize it and hand the integrity, pride and glow of your community to a rascal with zero level of education and minus zero degree of exposure.
He is the King and a definition of a King with the skill to not only to sell ice to the Eskimos but the power to ask one to proceed to hell and his request would be honoured with a thank you.
Truth be told, just few Ezes or Kings in the South East are endowed like him. The traditional ruler of Lokpanta Ancient Kingdom His Royal Highness Ifeanyi Anthony Eke is one King that can pull it same way this Igwe. Amb. Dr. Lawrence Okolie Chikezie Agubuzu of Ezema Olo Kingdom in Ezeagu did without fear or favor, cracking ribs and still sending the message in a matter of fact way.
We need more of such as Ezes not where belle face kind of Ezes, smearing the integrity of kingship with their insatiable greed.
Jarlath Uche Opara
Jarlathuche@gmail.com