17/01/2026
AN OPEN LETTER ABOUT OCHI’DOMA’S STOOL TO AVERAGE IDOMA CITIZENS WHOM GOD WOULD NOT WANT THEIR AGE, EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATION AND POSITIONS IN LIFE TO WEIGH MORE THAN THEIR BRAINS.
By Pastor John Ogboji, Ph.D
WHAT IS THE RECOMMENDED STANDARD ATTIRE FOR OCHI’DOMA?
Most of our late Ochi’doma wore turban like emirs and nobody complained. We are neither Fulanis nor Muslims. Let me make clear to you that a cassock does not make a monk. Mask does not make Idoko who puts on the mask to be any spirit at all. It is falsehood and darkness. Fashion is synonymous with changes. Even our so called cultural Idoma dress is equally a costume.
How many do have and put regularly? How many do you have for your children? The language you use to criticize our Royal Majesty on social media is not even Idoma language. It is English which is Oyibo culture. The shirt and suit and shoes you wear are not part of our culture. You prefere tea to Odugba or Enyi. Even this tropical Africa, you put on tie while at the same time fanning yourself. Does it boarder you that no textbook in any subject is written in Idoma Language?
Why do you take panadol made by English tradition and the root of Okopi which traditional to us? Why do you send your son or daughter to read medicine to become a medical doctor which is English tradition? Why didn’t you send him to Akpoli or to Itabono to study traditional medicine so that he can become a herbalist. You that is Engineer Agbunu or Engineer Okoliko, are you a blacksmith?
See how excited you are seeking visas for your children to leave Idoma land with her enviable culture of polygamy, masquerades and carnival dances coloured with palmwine, cassava and yam to relocate to Europe to learn how to eat spaghetti, drink champagne and speak English.
Mr. Idoma tradition, I am only painting who you are in your mind that is very petty. Our Fathers live in rounded huts and thatched buildings, why are you building modern houses. You should advocate for the use of Obente (Pampas) and Opatari in the place of suit and wedding gowns that are alien to our traditional attire. My immediate Father build modern house for us and had tenants. Are you saying he dishonoured the spirit of his ancestors? Why are you drinking palm wine from plastic containers, glass and aluminum tumblers instead of calabash containers? Even your masquerades today put on petrochemical and rubber attires, if your ancestors resurrect today, will they accept them? We all use Information communication technology and not town criers (Akoyaaaa). If a PhD holder or a professor becomes a paramount ruler, you desire that his mind and world outlook align perfectly with that of our illiterate traditional rulers of the stone age.
Idoma’s current paramount ruler is a PhD holder, highly digital in knowledge, a finance expert who has a personal finance firm. A fellow of several professional bodies, all before he became our king. The life style of our Lord, Jesus has no space for pride. That is why he refused to answer those who say he is a beggar. He can only boast of the cross. You can check who he was before he became your king. Light does not shout, it shines. The title of this paper is deliberate. You want such a treasure to be domiciled in the palace, thirsty for honour for the sake of honour. Honour that is an end not a means to an end is foolishness and fruitlessness. Our average past traditional leaders locked themselves up in the palace eagerly expecting gifts and honorarium. If you brought cow, they would say mudutomo, keep it there. Ram, goat, yam and money, the same, mudutomo.
They would not know whether there is fertilizer or grain allocated to them for their people. Neither will they influence appointment of their citizens for fear of being political. The truth is that every man on earth is gregarine consciously or unconsciously. Even the stool is political. Some even in their thick blindness criticize him for accepting to be Chancellor of a Federal University. In the 80s when I was in Uni-Jos, the Chancellor was D’bong of Calabar. The current Chancellor of UNN Nsukka is Oni of Ife. Some of you should return to school if at all you have ever been there.
THE CASE OF OKWUTE:
The actual traditional authority of a beaded chief in Idoma tradition is not the beads nor the staff called Okwute. It is the physical heart of the deceased chief was removed when the body was mutilated and buried in an evil forest. It used to be kept with the Priest whose mother and not the father must come from the land (oy’onya). He would administer to the new chief to eat literally for the 7 days of initiation. Within the seven days, he would not see the sun nor a woman. It must be total physical darkness and spiritual darkness. That is the origin of our tragedy, wretchedness, poverty, backwardness and disunity. If you need further clarification, call me. I was personally a victim before I saw Christ the Divine Light. Idoma a small tribe in Nigeria produced 5 military governors; show the evidence!
God is immutable, unchangeable, that is why He has the power and authority to change all things anyhow anytime. He ever remains Sovereign.
To be like your predecessor, you have to literally eat his heart, Oo’roch’e (chop chief), God in mercy who wants us to be free from wrath and darkness by passed chopping or eating to enthroning a King for us in accordance with His will and mind. Philippians 2:5 said, let this mind that was in Christ be in you. That is the Mind or heart He gave our current Royal Father to eat and set him on the throne. Alleluia. Praise God. That is why several of us commemorate that event in Holy communions and communion services: unless you eat my body and rink my blood. Satan who is a spiritual pervert, pervert it and cause people to be eating the heart of human beings which is cannibalism. Baal is a god and the priest of Baal is called Cana. They claim to eat the flesh of their gods hence cannibal. 25th December is the annual festival of Baal characterized by Carnival; flesh eating day. We are researchers, you can confirm it.
Fellow Idoma citizens, if you perish from now on, you are not perishing for lack of knowledge but for lack of application of knowledge. Watch what is happening in Iran and believe God for He has the power to do new things. He will judge the living and the dead.
Isa 40:1 Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God.
Isa 40:2 Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned: for she hath received of the LORD'S hand double for all her sins.
Isa 40:3 The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the LORD, make straight in the desert a highway for our God.
Isa 40:4 Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low: and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain:
Isa 40:5 And the glory of the LORD shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it.
Isa 40:6 The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field:
Isa 40:7 The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: because the spirit of the LORD bloweth upon it: surely the people is grass.
Isa 40:8 The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for ever.
Isa 42:8 I am the LORD: that is my name: and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to graven images.
Isa 42:9 Behold, the former things are come to pass, and new things do I declare: before they spring forth I tell you of them.
Prepare for eternity as you surrender your life entirely to Jesus.
