EVIL forest embodies frighteningly bizarre connotations. Evil forest is usually given to strangers to claim and inhabit on the conviction that it will consume them and rubblish their arrogance. This is the conviction upon which the Umuofians gave the white missionaries the evil forest to occupy in Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart.

No one was willing to hazard any prospect of burgeoning seeds from the evil forest measurable in progress in human terms. But in a bizarre blend of foolishness and arrogance Hon. Funkekeme Solomon (the Hon. Commissioner for Works, Delta state) dared the evil forest to the bewilderment of doubting Thomasses. Is he a Commissioner of foolishness and arrogance?

Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan sought the seat of governor of Delta state in 2007. The Uduaghan project 2007 was allegorically associated with an evil forest, the project-carrier a senseless, arrogant, traitorous, directionless, selfish, maniacal, uncircumcised baboon precipitously headed for either the infuriated furnace or the treeless measureless OCEAN, or better still the Bermuda triangle where Solomon would have disappeared unmourned.

While Solomon inspirationally sang Uduaghan’s   songs as a political vocalist, some people merely turned supplicants for his memorial-deprived retirement from the surface of the earth – though politically. Yet, with foolish and arrogant perseverance reminiscent of the days of Senator J.E. Manager who toiled to enthrone Chief James Ibori, he turned the evil forest into paradise, nay a land of pilgrimage for even those who were hitherto invincible apostles of disparagement and sabotage. An evil forest thus turned a mustard seed by Solomon’s magic wand of arrogance.

In Burntu Local Government, as much in other parts of Delta state, Solomon devotedly engaged the task to actualise Uduaghan’s governorship dream though even within the PDP some persons now turned unsolicited town-criers for the anointed would-be governor of Delta state, played anti-party politics to dislodge Uduaghan.

The evil forest did not consume him; he survived the evil forest just like High Chief Government Ekpemupolo who conquered the evil forest and won the liberation war, and Senator J.E. Manager who devotedly cleared the governorship space for Ibori in 1999. It is therefore natural for Solomon to claim the dividends of bulldozing the evil forest just as Tompolo be allowed harvest of his liberation struggle and Manager the benefits/accruals of his politics of PERFORMANCE.

Surprisingly, some political infidels, Atosulas, mudskippers are shamelessly working for their views, positions, idiosyncrasies, ideologies, stands, wishes, demands, etc, to be recognized and placed above the man once demonized as death-carrier, suicide bomber and maniacal political strategist in the politics of Burutu. Political prostitutes must leave the evil forest for Solomon to bestride because there will always be another evil forest. Or do you want to dare the merciless cannibalistic evil spirits that inhabit the evil forest who would not pardon a deliberate stray political prostitute?

Even in the biblical days, the apostles were the solid dependable bridge to Jesus Christ. In the days of Chief James Ibori, Manager (the three legged enigma) was the bridge to Ibori.

Visually, the Bomadi bridge is the symbolic representation of this bridge. Today Solomon is the bridge to Uduaghan in Burntu politics  apart from Chief EK Clark who is the god of all; and symbolically, the ongoing Ayakoromo bridge represents this link.

However, in the Ibori days, some political mudskippers, infidels, prostitutes enviously moved to dislodge Senator Manager but they ended up disastrously in the political permutation that emerged. Now the same forces are politically at Solomon for the sole purpose of dislodgement because vindictive and envious dislodgement has became their pathological pastime.

Now that Dr. Uduaghan is the governor of Delta state, Solomon is unarguably the bridge to him in Burntu politics. Age does not come, neither do educational achievements and wealth.

The coupon for this bridge-status is the clearing of the evil forest. Not even a generational family name counts in this matter because Jesus had no generational family name before he became great. What of Zik of African, Awolowo, MKO Abiola and others? Were they launched into fame and leadership positions by their generational family names?

The politics of Solomon is admirable: it is admirable because it is ideologically driven. He is unrepentant, fearless, firm and consistent like Senator J.E. Manager in positions taken; and he has a handful of followers who have been visibly empowered. His politics of empowerment is exemplified by the glorious living conditions of Godwin Edumogiren and Georgina Eva.

For those political OLUS now at Solomon, always burrowing into the earth for havoc-creation, beat your chest and tell us those you have visibly empowered and your development projects. For politics of empowerment, Hon. Mutu Nicholas of Bomadi/patani constituency, Senator J.E. Manager of Delta state and the evil-forest-bulldozer (Solomon) are verifiable exemplifications. Politically, Solomon should be dislodged only by those whose empowerment and evil forest credentials outweigh his.

The local Government election is now hovering over the sky in Delta state but the so-called political prostitutes are still fast asleep. Solomon has today personalized the Burutu Council chairmanship struggle of Chief Clark Ebikeme through the aggregation/deployment of resources.

Perhaps, after Chief Clark Ebikeme’s victory, the so-called political prostitutes would feature with their irrational outburst that Solomon should not have a voice in the government of the Council. At that time derogatory epithets would be thrust upon Solomon to dislodge him politically. The season political traducers thrive in the distortion of known realities is over because even Governor Uduaghan is perfectly at home with their antics.

The Ebola of political prostitutes has been conquered; so the SOLOMONS can now fall sleep with their two eyes closed.

In my homeward sail, the man called Solomon needs to listen to this directional cautionary infusion: over the years you have developed a reputation for bulldozing evil forests.

Now you have a CERTIFIED IMMUNE SYSTEM against even Ebolaic evil forest and so be ready to clear more evil forests but this time around, let the evil forest be located in the neighbourhood of Ogriabou, Akparemobou, Ndorobou, Ozibou, Aggebou and Gbaramatubou.

Ekanpou Enewaridideke, a commentator on national issues, wrote from Warri, Delta State.