In dramaturgy, there is rarely a connection with fictional drama and reality. But there now appears to be a confluence of the two after reading Elias Ozikpu’s despicable open letter. In his attempt at dramatizing governance in Cross River State, he furtively struggled to align his fiction of governance with reality by deploying an admixture of fictional drama and melodrama, laced with superfluous or extravagant exaggerations. In Ozikpu’s sensational and warped rant entitled: “An open letter to Cross River State Governor, Bassey Otu” in which he presented his base perception of governance in th…
