Sorry OoOh, Prof!!!

Awhh! Professor “Things Fall Apart”!! Sorry OoOh!
You should have known that anything, that has to do with the Nigerian civil war is a hot potato anytime!!

A big Cheese, like you, should have known that the civil war is still a touchy and slippery issue in our daily national discourse, even 40 years after the war had ended with no victors; no vanquished declaration.

But, seriously Prof, are you in the least bit surprised that the upper crust of the Yoruba race came after you like a swarm of Bees, after delivering that alleged stinger (in your latest publicized querulous book) on the person of Chief Obafemi Awolowo, the rallying figure of their quintessential race? Are you any surprised that those invectives have been coming your way, in a rapid stream, for what the Yorubas perceived as negative characterization and contemptuous denigration of the sacredness of the late sage’s name?

Well, Prof, what do you expect? You don’t expect a spectacle of chants, songs and frenzied joy with wide-eyed smiling faces after casting a slur on the name and character of Awo, one of the greatest sons of Oduduwa; the man who singlehandedly liberated his people from the oppressive opiate of ignorance through the introduction of free education (first in West Africa); the man whom, even, your warlord reverently referred to as the best President Nigeria never had.

Of course you should expect a babble of protest gilded with colourful insults from the mellowest and most passive average Yoruba men on the street to the most vocal and voluble intelligentsia among them. Blaming their leader for the “genocide” against your people is a ghastly cardinal error!!

Well, given your old age and fragile frame, Prof “Things Fall Apart”, I just hope you have the Cardiovascular wellness and the Musculoskeletal fitness to withstand more barrage of salvoes and diatribes that would be coming from the swelling ranks of Awo’s biological, adopted and political sons and daughters, home and abroad!! Hmm….sorry Oooh, Prof.

Adedayo Fatoki.