 Today's throwback. Using 200 years of local history to explain the political threat of the absurd being re-enacted in rivers and now outsiders, which is consul then and as of now exploit their usually violent political disputation. Many of you readers must have heard about King Jajja Wopobo, a former ego boy sold into slavery in Nigeria land and will later end his freedom and chieftaincy on the island of Borny. What many of you may not know is that Jajja was one of the toffees of Borny who was violently chased out to go and found Wopobo, where he ultimately gained fame and the British trajectory that led to his kidnap. Exiled on the Caribbean island and death at the Mediterranean on his return passage by the British abductors. Read the story of Oko Jumbo who defeated Jajja and made him live Borny below and compare their breached story with the thuggishness of rivers politics since 1999. And you will agree with me that history often repeats itself and violence can easily be culturalized in some people's politics. Oko Jumbo was a fit slave who became a lesser chief in Borny but managed to amass considerable wealth and thus power through as to trading. He became one of the leaders of a group of chiefs who dominated the ruling Manila people house on the death of King Dapa of Borny on 13 August 1855. The acting British consul in the bite of VF at JWB Lynx Lager signed the document on 11 September 1855 appointing the chiefs and people at the early scene Captain Hart and Manila people as regency required to consult with Borny and Oko Jumbo. Oko Jumbo two gentlemen of the river. The arrangement which gave the Manila people house control of the regency caused immediate disputes with the rival Arnau and the people house. When this Lager's replacement arrived to report that code the four regents never lived in unity or anonymity consequently civil war was ever arrived around and about them leading to immense loss of British property. When the official leader of the Manila house died in 1863 Borny and Oko Jumbo could not agree who was to succeed and so appointed a figure head named Waribo why continue to control the house. In an attempt to restore calm the British restored William Dapa Pep 1 whom they had exiled in 1854 as King on 18 August 1861. And on his death on 38 September 1866 he installed the son George Uri Biji Pepo as King. However Oko Jumbo remained leading power in the kingdom. On 6 March 1866 Bishop Ajai Crowder described Oko Jumbo as a most sensible and wealthy man in Borny and noted that he had learnt to read the first chapter of St Matthew the next year he had learnt to write and enrolled the 13 of his children in school. He gave his support to the Christian missionaries and on yesterday 1867 John King George in the claim that a monitor is that the traditional deity of Borny was no longer Borny Juju. Post script it must be stated that the political culture of violence is not unique to rivers. Wait here in Ibado the often re-enacted violent politics of Kano that are morally praying against the temperamental politics of the eastern states should tell us that we as Nigerians need to generally work on our political culture.