I once ccused GEJ of being so deaf to the sullen silence, sulky resentment and
deafening tuneless funeral dirges all over the places (especially North-East,
Nigeria), as a result of Boko Haram’s mindless butcheries. I once accused him
of being so blind to the bland looks and eyes shaded by dark sunglasses. I
called him names for doing striptease at the grave-site of the mowed innocent
Nigerians. I even asked (rhetorically) if he was too thick and too daft, to
comprehend the melancholia and sweaty frustration
that have enveloped the land while he was celebrating Nigeria’s centenary
existence? In short, I criticized his mediocre leadership and his spectator
stance to Nigeria’s multitudinous issues, especially the BH challenge.
But,
what I am seeing in this present administration is even worse. It beggars
belief. I can’t believe that a band of President Buhari’s fawning sycophants
and internet trolls could stand on crooked crutches of rehearsed falsehood and
take “PR” to a ridiculous extreme and to the height of impiety, at this time of
our shared grief !! Denying that there was carnage in the North-Eastern part of
Nigeria, so as to make your idealized symbol of change look good in the eyes of
the world and to reinforce the sham that BH has been “technically” defeated is
the worst evil that could ever happen to mankind. Such barefaced lies desecrate
the sanctity of life and offend all humans with the most sense of decency.
Can
someone remind these sweat-drenched, battle-obsessed, so called “change agents”
that, we are no more in campaign mood and, that they should stop elevating
make-believe over reality and, that they should stop asserting the primacy of
propaganda (and primitive crudeness)over facts and better judgment ?? Haa!!
Well,
to the bereaved, we share your grief in this time of bereavement with deepest
sympathy, even as we pray for the swiftest recovery of the injured.
May
God be with our gallant soldiers who are not flinching from putting their lives
in danger, daily, because of us and we pray for the quiet repose of the souls
of the martyrs.
And,
may Baba Buhari find courage to utterly (and not technically) wipe out these
enemies of our nation at record time. Amen.
Long
live Nigeria.
#PrayforNigeria
adedayo g. fatoki
Dear
Buharist,
Oh sorry o! I never knew you’ve become a self-appointed, squint-eyed Facebook
monitor, looking for inappropriate posts that are not in favour of your
idealized “sai baba” !
I never knew I must consult you first, bow and scrape and, seek your permission
about what to post on my wall, so that I won’t ruffle your vainglorious
feathers and offend your earthy, touchy pride!!
I never knew that telling your “sai baba” to sit up (and stop giving excuses) –
before the already comatose economy finally goes into a tailspin; before a
dollar exchange for 300 Naira; before we begin to have the Zimbabwe experience
– is an heightened derogatory remark punishable under decree 4 of 1984!!!
Phew! Decree 4 !!!! I never knew decree 4 of 1984 has been exhumed and now in
effect. Where was I ?? Pardon my manners. Pardon my ‘unrestrained disobedience’,
Buharist. E fori jimi o !!! Please, don’t tell Baba Buhari Ooo !!! Please don’t
tell him that, there are still some of us who desire to live outside the tight
radius of bondage dictated by some of you who have appointed yourselves our
judge and Jury. Please, don’t tell him that, there are still few of us who
detest living like frightened deer in a restrictive thicket of negative
regulations.
Finally, please don’t tell baba that, there are few of us who won’t submit to
the do’s and don’ts of a maximum ruler nor pander to his insular opinions nor
nod agreement to some vacuous “articulation” on the state of the economy.
Please sir…. I promise to give out 3 litres of PMS in return for this favour,
Sir!!!!!
I gbadun this Desmond Elliot guy. To break
into Nollywood, he downplayed his 'Yorubaness', not letting the Idumota movie
bureaucrats know he has any affinity with the Yorubas. However, when the fine
boy, no pimples, threw his hat into the ring and declared his intention to
contest for Surulere 1 House of Rep, suddenly he's Desmond OLUSHOLA Elliot.
Like seriously!
Well, that's politics. To play it well,
you've got to learn how to use subtle strategy and outright treachery instead
of coercion. You've got to learn how to seduce on a mass level and curry
favours of known and established power brokers. The clumsy and the tactless
have no place in politics, just the same way the wimpish cannot be enlisted in
a nation's military. In short, to get a head-start and gain a foothold (in
Politics), just be formless ! Yes... as formless as water !! By the way, that
is the 48th law in the famous 48 Laws of Power: ASSUME FORMLESSNESS.
".....A military force has no constant
formation water has no constant shape: The ability to gain victory by changing
and adapting according to the opponent is called genius" ( Sun-tzu, fourth
century B.C)
Oh, before i forget sef. Congratulations, Mr
OLUSHOLA ELLIOT, on your victory at the primaries. Eko o ni baje !
Adedayo
I once ccused GEJ of being so deaf to the sullen silence, sulky resentment and
deafening tuneless funeral dirges all over the places (especially North-East,
Nigeria), as a result of Boko Haram’s mindless butcheries. I once accused him
of being so blind to the bland looks and eyes shaded by dark sunglasses. I
called him names for doing striptease at the grave-site of the mowed innocent
Nigerians. I even asked (rhetorically) if he was too thick and too daft, to
comprehend the melancholia and sweaty frustration
that have enveloped the land while he was celebrating Nigeria’s centenary
existence? In short, I criticized his mediocre leadership and his spectator
stance to Nigeria’s multitudinous issues, especially the BH challenge. 
