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IJAW LEADERS OF THOUGHT LAMBAST NYESOM WIKE FOR ATTEMPTING TO PORTRAY THE OPOBO KINGDOM AS NOT TRUE IJAW Chief Nyesom Wike, the singing and dancing politician of Ikwerre extraction, is a lawyer. As a Nigerian-made lawyer, it is expected that he enjoyed being introduced into the creative world of giant Nigerian writers like Wole Soyinka, Chinua Achebe, J.P Clark, Ola Rotimi, and a string of others. Even if it turns out to be a mere assumption that he knew Ola Rotimi, the famous dramatist, on a personal basis, in his heydays at Uniport, it is unlikely that Nyesom Wike never encountered that seminal title, “The gods are not to blame.” Our amiable comedian in charge of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) is only a year older than Ola Rotimi’s masterpiece. Although the tale traces its roots to the Yoruba cultural soil, the lessons drawn from it make it universal and difficult to avoid. If, by default, as a law student or by coincidence, Nyesom Wike read that piece of drama, he should rememb