I join millions of Akwa Ibom people to say finally – yes, finally – the people’s choice for the Speakership of the State House of Assembly has – again, finally – emerged. Grammarians will call the use of finally in the above text a tautology, repetition and so on. I agree. But you do not celebrate the emergence of Speaker Onofiok Luke without using the word finally. Finally – yes, finally – because prior to the inauguration of the 6th session of the State House of Assembly, Luke was the song on every lips of the people – the real owners of the mandate which members of the House of Assembly hold in trust. If a referendum had been done on the Speakership, Luke would have scored over 90 per cent of the votes. Never in the history of the legislature in the state has the leadership been a subject of controversy, divided interests and political brinkmanship as that of the 6th Assembly.
