RE: A Misguided Epistle from the Shadows - A Response to Oribo N. Einstein

Ordinarily, I would not descend into the digital alleys where faceless commentators roam, wielding borrowed pens on behalf of desperate political patrons. But when deliberate distortions are paraded as concern, and when silence is mistaken for weakness, one must respond not to validate the messenger but to preserve the sanctity of truth. 
This so-called "Open Message" signed by one Oribo N. Einstein is nothing more than a veiled hatchet job  authored by a faceless cyber apologist doing the bidding of his undisclosed paymasters. Let us be clear: this is not the voice of a "concerned Ijaw son." It is the recycled rhetoric of those who have long sought to muzzle the Ijaw Nation's conscience with orchestrated attacks on most visible advocates.
The writer, in a desperate bid to sound profound, accused - President of the Ijaw National Congress-of being "too available" and "eroding the Sacredness" of my office by speaking to power. What audacity! When did it become unfitting for a representative of a historically marginalized people to voice their concerns with clarity and courage? Or is it that my interventions have rattled certain interests, hence this pitiful attempt to chastise the messenger of the Ijaw nation?
Let it be known that I do not speak to please, neither do I speak for applause. I speak because history demands it. I speak because silence in the face of injustice is complicity. I speak because the Ijaw people can not afford to return to the shadows while others dictate the terms of our existence. 
It is laughable that the writer attempts to lecture me on dignity and statesmanship while hiding behind a digital mask. Who is Oribo N. Einstein? When last did he stand under the sun or sleep in the creeks with the very people he now claims to defend?He quotes Aristotle and Syrus, but forgets that wisdom is not in quoting ancient names, but in defending living truth. Let me remind the anonymous writer: the throne I occupy is not ceremonial-it is a seat of responsibility, forged in struggle, anchored in sacrifice. If you mistake visibility for vanity, then perhaps you have never known the weight of leadership in a land where silence can be fatal. 
The appointments of a few sons and daughters of Ijaw extraction-however appreciated-do not equate to the resolution of decade-long neglect.  I have praised those efforts where due, but I will not allow crumbs to be mistaken for justice, nor shall I allow isolated gestures to be used as political tools to silence the broader demands of our people. 
If the writer truly believes that I a "dancing to every drumbeat," then he is clearly deaf to the deeper rhythm of the Ijaw struggle.  For each word I utter is measured, each stand I take is considered, and each silence I break is done after careful and wide consultations with relevant groups and leaders across Ijaw nation,  because history would not forgive me if I didn't. So, to which of the above stakeholders does Oribo belong?
Let me advise those sending proxies to do their bidding: if you wish to engage me in person, my office, or the wider Ijaw nation, do so with identity, with credibility, and with honesty. Do not hide behind  digital ink to insult a stool that generations have died to uphold. 
The Ijaw National Congress will not be cajoled into docility. Not by orchestrated PR stunts. Not by those who seek to decorate silence as statesmanship. 
We are not at war with any administration, but neither are we asleep. We will continue to engage constructively, demand justly, and speak boldly-until equity is no longer an exception, but the  norm. 
Let the merchants of confusion and their ghostwriters take note: your  pen may be swift, but truth is eternal. And unlike you, history remembers those who stood.

Signed: Prof. Benjamin Ogele Okaba, President, Ijaw National Congress (INC)