Some people have turned misinformation into a profession and propaganda into a source of livelihood. Their survival depends entirely on misleading the public, distorting history, and manufacturing confusion wherever truth becomes inconvenient.
They do not build roads. They do not fix schools. They do not solve problems. What they do and they do it very well is flood, Facebook and WhatsApp with lies, half-truths, and twisted history. Their only hope is that if they repeat a false story loudly enough and long enough, people will eventually forget what actually happened.
But our people remember. And I will not stay quiet while history is being rewritten in front of our eyes.
Let Us Talk About the Third Term
Hon. Betty Apiafi represented Abua-Odual/Ahoada East in the House of Representatives for three terms, from 2007 to 2019. Nobody is disputing that she served. That is not the argument.
The argument, the one that propagandists are now desperately trying to bury is very simple:
The third term was never part of the original agreement.
The political leaders, stakeholders, and community representatives of this constituency had a clear understanding among themselves. That understanding covered two terms. The people who sat in those rooms, who participated in those conversations, who shook hands on that arrangement are still alive today. They know what was discussed. They know what was agreed.
And they know how the third term came about.
This article will not insult their intelligence by spelling it out. Those who were there do not need it explained. Those who were not there should ask their elders, not Facebook.
Our People Are Not Foolish
What angers me most about the current wave of misinformation is the contempt it shows for our people.
These propagandists behave as if the people of Abua and Ahoada East have no memory, no intelligence, and no political awareness. They think because they have a phone and a data subscription, they can rewrite what happened. They think that because younger people may not have been old enough to follow politics at the time, they can fill that gap with fabricated narratives.
They are wrong.
Our elders were there. Our community leaders were there. The men and women who participated in those political negotiations are still among us. You cannot tell someone what they did not experience and expect them to simply accept it because you typed it on WhatsApp.
Our people remember the roads that were promised and never built. They remember the schools that deteriorated across years of representation. They remember the hospitals that were left to decay. They remember what was delivered and what was not.
Political memory does not delete itself because it becomes inconvenient for someone’s agenda.
Support Your Leader, But Do Not Lie For Them
There is nothing wrong with supporting a politician you believe in. That is normal in a democracy.
But there is something deeply wrong with lying for them. With distorting constituency history for them. With attacking anyone who dares to speak plainly, simply because the truth does not serve your political master today.
Loyalty is not the same thing as dishonesty. And noise is not the same thing as facts.
Where We Go From Here
The future of Abua-Odual/Ahoada East must be built on truth, fairness, and genuine development, not on recycled myths manufactured by people whose only relevance and means of living depends on public confusion.
The original agreement among our political stakeholders existed for a reason, equity, balance, and the principle that no single interest should permanently monopolise representation at the expense of the broader constituency. That principle still stands. And the people who benefited from breaking it cannot now pretend it never existed.
The truth is already known. It lives in the memory of our people. No amount of propaganda will erase it.
I must state clearly and without apology that, by the longstanding gentleman’s understanding on rotation within Abua-Odual/Ahoada East Federal Constituency, Abua-Odual should rightfully produce the next House of Representatives member from 2027.
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The conversation going forward should not merely be about occupying a seat. It should be about restoring purposeful leadership, competent representation, and genuine service to the people of Abua-Odual and Ahoada East.
The people of Abua-Odual and Ahoada East deserve better than recycled propaganda and desperate historical revisionism. Agreements must mean something, political memory must be respected, and representation must ultimately serve the people, not personal ambition.
ABUA-ODUAL/AHOADA EAST MUST BE GREAT
Akari Thankgod Godsgift is a community development advocate and 2027 House of Representatives aspirant for Abua-Odual/Ahoada East Federal Constituency.
07 May , 2026
