5 Shocking Reasons Akwa Ibom Politicians Invest Mainly In Hotel businesses

By Nse Peter

If you have been wondering why eight out of every 10 hotels in Akwa Ibom State are owned by politicians, then you just have to read this piece put together by Think Akwa Ibom!

(1.)  An average Akwa Ibom Politician loves women. He loves to keep numerous girlfriends, lavish easy money and time with girls in hotels, not minding whether the job he was elected or appointed to do suffers or not.  In order to secure a future of endless sex and fun, politicians in Akwa Ibom take up building and running hotels as their major business ventures.

(2.)  Life becomes miserable for most politicians in Akwa Ibom State immediately they are out of public office. They are like fish outside water. They feel rejected. They feel so lonely. And unfortunately some die quickly, where no intervention comes their way. Do you know why it’s so? The answer, simply, could be found in the character of a typical Akwa Ibom politician – flamboyant and noisy lifestyle built around nothing, other than fantasies. They love to see jobless and helpless citizens hang around them 24/7. After all, it makes them feel like the Lord of the Manor, somehow. A serving member of the Akwa Ibom State House of Assembly excitedly told me last week how he wakes up every morning to behold people, the mighty and the low, waiting patiently for several hours to see him. Well, staying in a hotel balcony to feed his eyes on guests that are coming in and going out of the hotel could be an antidote against loneliness, and can help prolong a politician’s life when he is out of office. Of course, it is better there than home where no-one visits anymore.

(3.)  Even when they are no longer reckoned with politically, those who own hotels can still give out subsidised rooms to fellow politicians seeking for pleasure or wanting to hold business meetings. Such gesture helps sustain old alliances and build new ones, and ultimately prevents the one who owns the hotel from slipping into the land of the forgotten which naturally brings loneliness and death.  The hotel owner could occasionally shares drinks and pepper soup with the fellows who come around to patronise his business, and this too provides an opportunity for sharing latest information and gossips, as well as useful ideas.

(4.)  Building and running a hotel seems to be one business without much stress or complication, for an average Akwa Ibom politician. The most important thing that is needed, we can tell you, is having access to public funds.

(5.)  For a ‘retired’ politician (Hmmm, do they ever retire in Akwa Ibom State?), dropping hotel address as a contact point is preferable to letting people visit him at home where they could see his nakedness – the level which he has fallen from grace to grass!