The Holy book says somewhere that bread gained by deceit is sweet to a man, but that afterwards his moth will be filled with gravel. You always knew that it was a matter of time before someone cried out from within about the politics of "snakiness",the gwam ozo, mee ozo.
This one is gonna be huge! Soyinka Vs Baba Iyabo. I could say my friend soyinka is frustrated that University of Ife did not witness academic actvities in thirteen months of Obasanjo's regime that is about six months longer than the national average of seven months!
Adesanya has finally accepted the "Abachanjo" appelation for baba iyabo we'd coined some years back.
What is your take? What are the Oduduwa's up to, what are they playing at? Are they beginning to distance themselves from their jagonmolu(field marshal) in anticipation of 2007?
With them you never can tell. But make no mistakes, something is g'wan. The fearless marijuana smoking Ikeja "journalists" are on rampage once more. Read the thread on Balogun de dansanda, it has "radio kudirat" written all over it. Expect a lot more bold and audacious anti OBJ handles to grace the airwaves. The codename is Ahoy!
Alarmed that the lingering face-off between Presi-dent Olusegun Obasanjo and Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka could further heat up the polity and degenerate into violent confrontations, the pan-Yoruba organisation, Afenifere has waded into the verbal war.
Leader of Afenifere and octogenarian politician, Senator Abraham Adesanya who dropped the hint in an exclusive interview with THISDAY in Lagos yesterday revealed that Afenifere is quietly working underground to reconcile both Soyinka and Obasanjo.
According to Adesanya, the lingering war of attrition between the two prominent Yoruba sons, does not augur well for the well-being of Yorubaland and the nation in general, even as he advised the president to learn from the fate that befell late Gen. Sani Abacha.
Adesanya also accused the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)-led Federal Govern-ment of playing God over Nigerians by running the country in a dictatorial manners which he likened to the dictatorial tactics of late Abacha.
"Certainly, what is happening between Soyinka and Obasanjo does not augur well. How can it augur well? Certainly, Afenifere is doing something about it but it is not for you newspapers people to know what we are doing. We are working quietly on it and when we get to the bridge, we shall cross it. So at the appropriate time, we shall let you know," Adesanya revealed.
Adesanya who advised the two prominent Yoruba sons to "cool off their tempers," warned the PDP-led Federal Govern-ment against equating itself with God and running the nation as if she were under a military dictatorship.
He said: "Certainly, what is happening does not augur well. How can it augur well? They should cool off their tempers. So whatever we are doing at the moment is on-going at the moment. We will certainly deal with it. But one thing I want to warn seriously against is that nobody, no person should play God over the rest of Nigerians. We should learn from Abacha. It seems we have learnt nothing because of the way the PDP government is carrying on in this country. All I will say is that if the PDP government does not change, I foresee a violent revolution happening and when it comes, nobody will be spared. And I keep warning when God says your time is up, nobody can stop it. Can't we learn from Abacha? Abacha played God, but when the time came for him, nobody fired a shot before God booted him out. I repeat and I warn, nobody should play God over Nigerians. So as for Soyinka and Obasanjo, that is all I will say for now, because I am doing something about it."
It would be recalled that the verbal war between the writer (Soyinka) and the soldier (Obasanjo) had its roots in the assassination of late Justice Minister and Attorney-General of the Federation, Chief Bola Ige (SAN) who was gunned down by yet-to-be-identified assassins in his Ibadan residence two years ago.
Soyinka, in his reaction, had accused the Presidency and the PDP of complicity in the murder of the former civilian governor of the old Oyo State, Chief Ige.
In an article entitled "Dancing on Ige's Grave," the Nobel Laureate had alleged that Ige's murder may not be unconnected with the latter's decision to quit the Obasanjo Cabinet to re-energise the AD and hold Yorubaland ahead of the 2003 general elections. Soyinka had also insinuated that prime suspects in the Ige saga, like Otunba Iyiola Omisore, were being given undeserved political treatments by the ruling PDP, which he likened to a nest of killers.
Apparently disturbed by Soyinka's accusations, Obasanjo had in a letter to the former accused him of engaging in "perfidious falsehood" and attempting "to manipulate the situation ... for political purposes."
Soyinka had replied the President, in a letter dated July 11, describing Obasanjo as "a Rambo on the loose."
"My mind retains that image of you at this moment: Rambo on the loose, so over-abundantly manifested in your intemperate, irrational and totally unwarranted letter of July 11, 2003. This must rank as the low-water mark of your correspondence career."
"I want to take this opportunity to urge you, and strongly too, to perhaps show a little bit more self-restraint, sobriety, decency and honesty in your public comments as regard the death of Chief Bola Ige. I believe that both you and I, and indeed all Nigerians, owe him at least that much."
Adesanya, however, cautoned that such exchanges do not augur well for the country, especially at this time, warning that if "the PDP does not change, a violent revolution will occur in this country." While counselling the PDP government to listen to wise counsel, the octogenarian leader of Afenifere said it is only through that that the nation can move forward.
He added: "I have already told you that we are doing something about Soyinka and Obasanjo. So I am not going to comment publicly on what we are doing. But we have moved in. But let us all think. My advice is "Let nobody play God. There is only one God. I repeat, let nobody play God.
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"General Olusegun Obasanjo, President Federal Republic of Nigeria, Abuja
"Dear OO!
"That is how our late mutual friend, Ojetunji Aboyade and I generally evoked your presence in our discussions. OO stood for many things that reflected our reactions towards your latest act or conduct at the time - fondness, optimism, indulgence, exasperation, bafflement, despair, anger etc etc. It also stood for 00 as in 007, but minus the scripted finesse, more the Rambo type who shoots first and thinks later. My mind retains that last image of you at this moment: Rambo on the loose, so over-abundantly manifested in your intemperate, irrational and totally unwarranted letter of July 11, 2003.
"This must rank as the low-water mark of your correspondence career.
"Regarding the burden of your letter, let me begin by making the following proposition: we shall assume that you were right, that my alleged statements in the interview in question are not borne out by the contents of Bola Ige's letter to you. The question that follows is that: in what way have the passages you complain of harmed you personally, politically, or reflected adversely on you or your government? (Your Party or - more accurately - rogue cells within the Party, now that's a different issue!)
"We shall now lay aside my proposition, which was made solely for the sake of argument. Let us proceed with what we can extract from the letter to you in Bola's own handwriting, and compare it to the statements in my interview. In Bola's words:
'Your Excellency is also aware that I have a pivotal role to play in my Party, the Alliance for democracy (AD) while are engineering your Party (PDP). I need to strengthen my own, so that in 2003, there will be a credible, strong, clean national government in which the major parties will be well represented.'
"Note the key phrases: 'I have a pivotal role to play in my Party', while you are engineering your Party (PDP),' plus 'I need to strengthen my own'.
"Does the sense, the spirit or intent of those extracts differ from the claims in my interview? Add the foregoing to the following declaration in the same letter:
'That is why I believe that God has a purpose for making you President of this country at this time, and you need the support of everyone of us who care for this country, whatever our 'ideological' positions. That is why I have never had any hesitation in giving you my full support, and urging people who think like me and hold generally the same position as I have give you support...' (emphasis mine)
"Finally, 'That is why you can count on me to join hands with you ...' (again my emphasis)
"The difference between this group of extracts and what your letter denounces as 'fabricated' in my interview is that the above extracts do not refer specifically to the approaching elections. Otherwise, the difference between them is simply that of six and a half dozen. Do not take my word for it. Ask a few people close to you, those whose judgment you trust. Show them the passages you complain of and let them offer an opinion.
"Now, of course, there is also a basic difference between a carefully composed letter, even where handwritten, and a prolonged conversation that lasted nearly all day. Conversation is more elaborate, more detailed, more reiterative and sometimes more emotive than the written letter. Present, and participating in my reported conversation with Bola Ige in my California home was Dr. Sola Adeyeye, now a member of House of Representatives. Send for him. Check details of the conversation.
"There is only one point I may concede to you. It is quite possible that, in speaking of this letter, Bola may have moved from summarizing the contents of that letter and then, straight to his plans for the elections. In other words, he was now being explicit with us about what was merely implicit in his letter to you. That is the norm of a discussion. It does not in the slightest bit alter the correlation of my statement with the above cited portions of Bola's letter. I repeat: All the above quotes and the passages you insist are 'fabricated' attest to, and complement one another. There is no contradiction. There is nothing reprehensible, dishonorable or underhand about Bola Ige's declarations. Everything is out in the open. His strategy was identical with the AD position, only he was restating it as a personal mission.
"Dr. Adeyeye, whom I have just mentioned is, incidentally, a worthy and capable candidate for a ministerial post, in case you find yourself still short of meritorious individuals in shoring up your cabinet. I insert this deliberately because, you see, I never hesitate to point in your direction those whom I think might help you in your mission. I 'nominate' no one. I lack the temperament for lobbying. You appointed my daughter a Special Assistant in your office without my knowledge, without my interest, indeed with my total indifference. I have never mounted the slightest pressure on you over any suggested names. My attitude over any 'valuable mentions' from me to you has been check on this possibility. Don't overlook, or lose this asset if you can help it. To insinuate, as you did in your second letter - that of July 14th - that my attacks on your governance and style have become more 'virulent' because you failed to place my 'nominies' in your list is unworthy of you. This is the real abyss of perfidy, a cheap blackmail intended to inhibit my criticisms of you. Why should I ask you for reasons why you did not act on my 'recommendations'? The ultimate responsibility is yours.
Listen OO, you simply do not know me! You lack the depth to ever fathom who I am.
"If you would only pause and reflect, you would understand why my public criticisms have taken a sharper turn, and taken to the public platform. It is because you are starting a new term of office, your final lap, where it is crucial to institute a sharp critique of your policies before they become ossified in disastrous realities.
"For a loose canon, you are abnormally liberal with advice, so here are some for you - all distilled from attestable blunders in your career: Learn first of all to be less intemperate. Learn to read carefully what is before you. Learn to relate every word to its context. Learn also to read between the lines. Do not believe the first tale bearer! When you write or speak, avoid categorical claims that may blow up in your face. Do not attribute falsehood to others - 'mischievous', 'perfidious' or whatever - until you are absolutely sure of your facts. As No. 1 citizen, curb the excesses of your 'First Lady'! Anyone can urge 'self-restraint', 'sobriety', 'decency' and 'honesty' on others, but you should begin by looking inwards, examining your own actions and pronouncements with diligence. You will discover that you aggressively try to foist on others traits that characterize your outbursts, conduct and relationships, including a streak of pettiness that does not become your age and status.
"You dare accuse me of fabricating statements? Of putting words in the mouth of the dead? How my mind reverts again to that earlier mentioned departed friend, Oje, who arbitrated many of our disagreements when he was alive. I invite you to recall those instances of your misjudgments, the result of a chronic impetuousness, and a lack of those who tell you truth, privately, or publicly.
"Fabricate! It is you who have fabricated, from sheer vapour, a cause for conflict. I must now exercise my mind to unravel why! What is behind this smokescreen? What forces scramble your mind and cynically exploit your notorious weaknesses against those who wish you well? I think I know where the answers might be found. "I repeat, indeed I insist that there is a nest of killers within the PDP. From Ngige's recent experience, the well laid plans for his ultimate fate, it is evident that the vipers in that nest do not strike only outwards but inwards. I repeat my warning, a warning that even you also once extended to me, in one of your rare moments of selflessness and genuine concern for others: Watch your back!"
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Obasanjo's combantant with Wole Soyinka is not only contemptous but unpresidential. It depicts the lowest level of him in defense mode and multidupilicity. What President will engage in a war of words with a private citizen? possibly one whose job performance is an infinite low. Try looking at the picture of Obasanjo along with Wole Soyinka in Nigeriaworld.com . Clearly, you will imagine a reflection of a devil's masterpiece with dubious character and a vindictive desire to choke his rivals. That picture is demonstrative of a typical Yoruba slick with the vices of Ogun written all over it..
No man with Presidential integrity will invite such an injury to the post. Undoubtedly, there is little integrity in his character, meaning Obasanjo is a Presidential misfit with an over drive vindictive desire. Surely, the economy is more pressing than to have two silly persons wasting tax payer's money
Hail Biafra
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We are now starting to see that that there is a limit to which an intellectual could be expected to continue to telerate an imbecile. Evidently Soyinka has reached that limit where Obasanjo is concerned, and it shows from his writing,
quote:"For a loose canon, you are abnormally liberal with advice, so here are some for you - all distilled from attestable blunders in your career: Learn first of all to be less intemperate. Learn to read carefully what is before you. Learn to relate every word to its context. Learn also to read between the lines. Do not believe the first tale bearer! When you write or speak, avoid categorical claims that may blow up in your face. Do not attribute falsehood to others - 'mischievous', 'perfidious' or whatever - until you are absolutely sure of your facts. As No. 1 citizen, curb the excesses of your 'First Lady'! Anyone can urge 'self-restraint', 'sobriety', 'decency' and 'honesty' on others, but you should begin by looking inwards, examining your own actions and pronouncements with diligence. You will discover that you aggressively try to foist on others traits that characterize your outbursts, conduct and relationships, including a streak of pettiness that does not become your age and status.
"You dare accuse me of fabricating statements? Of putting words in the mouth of the dead? How my mind reverts again to that earlier mentioned departed friend, Oje, who arbitrated many of our disagreements when he was alive. I invite you to recall those instances of your misjudgments, the result of a chronic impetuousness, and a lack of those who tell you truth, privately, or publicly.
"Fabricate! It is you who have fabricated, from sheer vapour, a cause for conflict. I must now exercise my mind to unravel why! What is behind this smokescreen? What forces scramble your mind and cynically exploit your notorious weaknesses against those who wish you well? I think I know where the answers might be found. "I repeat, indeed I insist that there is a nest of killers within the PDP. From Ngige's recent experience, the well laid plans for his ultimate fate, it is evident that the vipers in that nest do not strike only outwards but inwards. I repeat my warning, a warning that even you also once extended to me, in one of your rare moments of selflessness and genuine concern for others: Watch your back!"
For poking his finger in the eyes of our people and our nation, Obasanjo will be made to answer to our people and our Gods! This is only the beginning.
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I was pleasantly surprised for Yorubas when Omisore was resent back into prison. Somewhat disappointed to learn today that the Judge responsible was giving up before the fight even begins. Who is left to bell the cat?
Can we ever combine High morals, Ethics, Bravery and Fearlessness in any modern Yoruba to match that of Fajuyi?
Or are all their lionhearts immoral and unethical ?and all their Lily livers moral and ethical? Is the internally conflicted (between Fearlessness/cowardice and Morals/immorality) and inconsistent Soyinka the best to be hoped for?
I cannot help but confer the following award:
ODUMEGWU OJUKWU AWARD FOR UNCOMPROMISING PRINCIPLE AND HIGH ETHICS
Now those who sabotage other peoples principled positions and fights, being now both victim and activist, are wailing woefully and loudest about the minor discomforts of the burden of the weight of the monster theyve been feeding fat from:
Like Oshiomhole, and the boy who cried wolf one too many times (in aesops fables), The petty name calling and insult to the presidency as well as the equally petty retaliation by the president is supposed to get our attention?:
I begin to get the sinking feeling that every time a legitimately disturbing issue of concern arises, such as the massive rigging of elections (in the East and other parts of Nigeria), and the potential buildup of activism against it, Aremu deploys together with his parapo press, some useless, mouthwatering contrived incident with his agents such as Oshiomhole and now Soyinka to create a distraction. In this latest one, I fear that the target is the distraction of the sordid events involved in the insult against Igbo evident in Anambra state.
As usual, however, and as the bible says: "There is nothing that is hid that shall not be made manifest"
I'm glad Yoruba citizens are beginning to speak up against olusegun obasanjo's disasterous mismanagement and the irreparable disrepute it has brought to the notion of Yoruba professional skills in terms of successfully managing any organization. My question though is why has it taken you four and half years to see olusegun obasanjo's fraud and incompetence, after the damage has been done and after the moron has again stolen his way back into power. Most analysts will see your new-found courage as part of Yoruba "shofisticated" play to get what it wants first and complain later. In other words, from where we stand your alarm would have been more credible if you had raised it in 2000 when most observers saw olusegun obasanjo for what he is: a fraud, ill-equipped to run anything. Those who study the Yoruba think that the momentum to criticize olusegun obasanjo will build now that the leadership believes it has nothing to loose in terms of nigerian electoral politics after 2007.
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Do not be carried away. The Yolubas are playing a game they are good at, outsmarting the Ibos who thought they knew it all. Just relax and watch how it plays out.
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ANAMBRAGATE IS STILL MUCH ALIVE O. STAY TUNED FOR THE REPORT ON ONE MAN RAMBO CHRIS " THE BOSS" UBA
For a starter, this is the Ohaneze chief report on Ndigbo madness for money, and as we all know,
MONEY IS THE ROOT OF MOST EVILS
Ohanaeze to fight excessive quest for wealth among Igbos
By Tony Edike Saturday, August 02, 2003
ENUGU — The Pan-Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo plans to embark on an aggressive campaign against excessive pursuit of wealth by Ndigbo which has destroyed the value system of the people.
The president-general of the organisation retired Justice Eze Ozobu who disclosed this in Enugu said Ohanaeze Ndigbo could no longer sit back and watch the destruction of the value system of Ndigbo as the situation portends great danger for the future of the Igbo race.
He said those who talk so much about acquisition of wealth had no respect for God, stressing that they worship money and could do anything to make money without minding the consequences.
Ozobu said: "Every day you hear our people talk about money, money, money as if everything about life is money. Most of the fallouts their father never ate rice.
"We must rise up to change the thinking of our people. Money is not everything. Look at me, I will be 73 years on August 29 how do I look? Can you get anything out of my appearance? If you give yourself to God you will not get into trouble.
"These fellows will leave their God and worship money which has no value. Money is the source of indiscipline in many families in Igboland. But there are people in Igboland who have money, but they are disciplined, they don’t make noise.
"Because of money our people kill their brothers. The problem is not peculiar to one state, it is everywhere in Igboland. These fellows making trouble in Igboland don’t go to Church on Sundays. They have run away from their God. Did Jesus Christ have money? Did Mohammed have money? Everyday, Igboman talks about money. This is destroying us. We have to change our orientation and value system."
The Ohanaeze leader pointed out that if these ills among Ndigbo were allowed to continue there would be a problem of succession, saying the younger generation of Ndigbo who are leaving fast from the eroded value system would do the worst.
He said that a high-powered summit of Igbo leaders and stakeholders which Ohanaeze would convene soon would seek ways of proper reorientation of the people in order to restore the dignity of the Igboman.
Ozobu said that he was discussing with vice chancellors of universities in Igboland with a view to introducing the study of history and culture in their institutions to enable the youths have the good knowledge of their roots as well as the dos and don’ts of their people.
I thank you for your contributions to this thread and accept my apologies for being unavailable to keep close tab on things. Your posts have been of the high quality I have come to expect as a Supreme Advocate of BiafraNigeria.
Wole Soyinka should really be a member of this forum considering the quality and delivery of his incisive post to the less-privileged Baba Iyabo.
Bababoyz:
Thanks for the Ozobu stuff. We are on record as having challenged Ohaneze and their US based croonies to a debate on Igbo issue. It appears they feel more comfortable having a monologue in the BiafraNigerian tabloids.
The statement credited to Ozobu is laughable and unfortunate for those who are Igbo. It smacks of ignorance for Ozobu to blame the orientation or lack of it(of the Igbo youths) for the Ngigegate.
I am one of those who walk out of meetings where a speaker wastes time to lecture the punctual few on the why late coming and absenteeism is to be avoided. Such silly speeches should be targeted at the late-comers and absentees, period. This messageboard is littered with an exhaustive list of Igbo folk who could benefit from Ozobu's university education.
The Igbo masses who voted for Peter Obi, Izuogu and Onwuka Kalu did not do it for a fee(read love of money). Ozobu knows the people who worship money and I'm almost sure that his idea of the Igbo leaders who will gather at his summit will include the likes of Emmanuel "Otokoto" Iwuanyanwu etc. The recently failed "summit" in Texas was to have included Chris Uba, Iwuanyanwu, Orji Kalu etc etc.
The records here also show that Ozobu was involved in a grand plot to foist Omar Sandar Nwachuckwu on the hapless Igbo masses. If the culture Ozobu wants to inculcate in the Igbo youth is one that elevates a man whose hands drip with his brother's blood, then he had better restrict it to his father's compound.
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mota ogalla Yorubas outsmarting the igbos?. Well, that kind of moronic statement is expected from any group of renouned yellow bellies. The political path of biafranigeria was decided the instant the guns fell silent in january 1970. The north is too scared to have the Igbo back in the main stream. Take a look at the military for instance(a reflection of biafranigeria's power structure), it is absolutely nothing close to pre civil war levels in terms of igbo enlistment. The war was b/w the north and the east. The proportion of nigerian infantry men of yoruba extraction was very small(except COs who never venture close to the fronts)despite the fact that it was a majority tribe. The south-west was used through their vidkun quisling oh I mean Awo (toad) to make the war seem legitimate. Therein lies the so called smartness ie trachery. The day will come when the yorubas will have no other option but to stand and confront an enemy, we'll see how they perform. I wonder why Awo never realized his moronic ambition of becoming the president afterwards. The oligargy will only allow a stooge who will follow a written script and that's what you have in a bumbling incompetent like Obusonjo. Ever pondered why ibb didn't allow mko to become president?. The power brokers in biafranigeria use the vulturistic south-west whenever it suits them and the unfortunate aspect of the whole affair is that they keep touting their repulsive behavior as savy. Abacha really exposed them during his regime and yet they keep deceiving themselves. Just look at your nigeria and behold the evidence of yoruba smartness. Anyway, I hope we'll all be around when another inevitable political upheavel unfolds in biafranigeria. It's only a matter of time.
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This make-believe drama between Soyinka and Obasanjo should not concern us Igbos.
I say this because Soyinka like other now DISGRACED members of the once respected "Yoruba intelligentsia" (the Falanas, Onagoruwas, Adebanjos, Adesanyas, etc) long sold themselves for nothing when they started from supporting military despots to worshipping the present "civilian" dictator simply because he comes from Yorubaland.
While Soyinka is telling us that Obasanjo is "Rambo on the loose," his daughter is as we write a so-called Adviser to the same "Rambo"!
With every due respect to Soyinka, I still say without any fear of contradiction that the only person of Yoruba extraction that will speak against Obasanjo and his gang of "killers" (apologies Soyinka) and the injustices they have visited on harpless Nigerians and I will take him serious is the one and only GANI FAWEHIMI. All the others are if I should put it kindly OPPORTUNISTS.
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While i agree with you on most of the comments on this post i disagree totaly on your remarks on Gani Fawehimi, Gani is as guilty as the rest Yoruba, he is no angel, i do question his integrity because he and his party shamlessly endorsed Obasanjo's fraud and crime against Biafranigerian people.
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Soyinka is paying the price of equivocating over the rigged elections of April 2003. He claims to know Obasanjo very well and is absolutely certain that Obasanjo is a rambo prone to act stupidly and wickedly too. But he turned a bind eye when it mattered most. It is so funny that there are those prepared to tout the inability of the yorubas to take finger print evidence from the scene of Ige's murder as a proof of their smartness. Perhaps, the British who are applying state-of-the-art forensic technology to crack the ritual murder of the yoruba boy Adam are the stupid ones. Another sign of yoruba sophistication has also emerged as Adesanya has set in motion a reconciliation effort. Who told this shameless man that a geriatric solution was required for murder, trachery and cowardice at the heart of the Obasanjo-Soyinka show of shame?
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I thank you again for your contributions. It is good to have peple who are capable of thinking without the confines of the box.
Even in my friend Wole's out burst, you can't help but notice the tactful exhoneration of Obasanjo. For Wole to advise Obasanjo to "watch his back" implies Soyinka wants the world to believe that Obasanjo is not part of the cabal/killers nestling in PDP. And audacious as ever, the Ngwati tabloids have started to dig the dirt on the good Alhaji who turned the table against Ekwueme at the Eagle square early this year to hand Obasanjo a second term:
Read the last bits of Remi Oyeyemi's "Aremu is an embarrassment"
quote: "I repeat, indeed I insist that there is a nest of killers within the PDP. From Ngige's recent experience, the well laid plans for his ultimate fate, it is evident that the vipers in that nest do not strike only outwards but inwards. I repeat my warning, a warning that even you also once extended to me, in one of your rare moments of selflessness and genuine concern for others: Watch your back!" ~~Soyinka
Soyinka needn't bother in deflecting the finger of blame. He has said enough to show anybody who care to learn that Obasanjo is a SELFISH MAD MAN. Yet I am of the opinion that there is a tiny patch of genuine spat between the two Beokuta chaps.
I was privileged to know that Obasanjo is not regarded by the "egba elites". In spite of his having been selected as BiafraNigerian figure head many times over, his Egbe brothers have never ceased to taunt him as a result of his under-privileged up-bringing and learning disability. Thus from the Ransom Kutis, through the Adebowales, Shonekans and abiolas, obasanjo's name evokes contempt. It is easy to see what I mean when you read Soyinka address him thus:
quote:"For a loose canon, you are abnormally liberal with advice, so here are some for you - all distilled from attestable blunders in your career: Learn first of all to be less intemperate. Learn to read carefully what is before you. Learn to relate every word to its context. Learn also to read between the lines. Do not believe the first tale bearer! When you write or speak, avoid categorical claims that may blow up in your face. Do not attribute falsehood to others - 'mischievous', 'perfidious' or whatever - until you are absolutely sure of your facts. As No. 1 citizen, curb the excesses of your 'First Lady'! Anyone can urge 'self-restraint', 'sobriety', 'decency' and 'honesty' on others, but you should begin by looking inwards, examining your own actions and pronouncements with diligence. You will discover that you aggressively try to foist on others traits that characterize your outbursts, conduct and relationships, including a streak of pettiness that does not become your age and status.
"You dare accuse me of fabricating statements? Of putting words in the mouth of the dead? How my mind reverts again to that earlier mentioned departed friend, Oje, who arbitrated many of our disagreements when he was alive. I invite you to recall those instances of your misjudgments, the result of a chronic impetuousness, and a lack of those who tell you truth, privately, or publicly.
"Fabricate! It is you who have fabricated, from sheer vapour, a cause for conflict. I must now exercise my mind to unravel why! What is behind this smokescreen? What forces scramble your mind and cynically exploit your notorious weaknesses against those who wish you well? I think I know where the answers might be found.
All:
Endeavour to send your kids to school. May all igbo haters like obasanjo suffer the same measure of public humiliation from their own kin. A-m-i-n!
___________________ Awo's political idea was based on the assumption that any town beyond Owo was Igbo or Hausa. Awo was not socialised; he was not a good mixer because he did not have the opportunity, which the secondary school offered. ~TOS Benson, Baba Oba of Lagos Posts: 2644 | From: United Kingdom | Registered: Apr 2001
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quote: I was privileged to know that Obasanjo is not regarded by the "egba elites". In spite of his having been selected as BiafraNigerian figure head many times over, his Egbe brothers have never ceased to taunt him as a result of his under-privileged up-bringing and learning disability. Thus from the Ransom Kutis, through the Adebowales, Shonekans and abiolas, obasanjo's name evokes contempt. Ohafia Udumeze
Someone who knows the Egba local politics very well told me exactly the same thing. He said that Obasanjo is like a Mike Tyson. He tries to bully his way through and shows utter contempt to those other Egba intellectuals who try to hide their hypocrisy with big grammar. Obasanjo has exploited this gullibility of these ‘principled’ elites time and time again. And he has done nothing sophisticated to pocket them –he just gives them job and their tone changes.
1. Ige’s march to his untimely death started when he accepted appointment to serve in Obasanjo’s government.
quote: CHIEF Bola Ige is not sponsored by the Alliance for Democracy (AD) nor is he representing the party in President Olusegun Obasanjo's cabinet, executives of the AD ruled in Abuja yesterday.
However, as far as the party is concerned, Ige's serving in Obasanjo's government is in his personal capacity. To that extent, the AD will not sanction him, the executives further ruled at the end of a three hour meeting at the Nicon Hilton, Abuja Saturday.
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Strikingly, the communique made no reference whatsoever to Mrs. Dupe Adelaja, daughter of Chief Abraham Adesanya, a leader of both {Afenifere}, a pan-Yoruba socio-cultural group and the Yoruba-dominated AD who is also on the ministerial list.
2. Soyinka himself accepted Obasanjo’s job as ‘cultural consultant’ to the corruption ridden COJA. I believe that Soyinka can earn any such post anywhere in the world. But surely he shouldn’t be accepting an appointment from a Rambo. Suggesting to Obasanjo who should be appointed to office clearly exposed his hypocrisy. Worse still, he had an Adesanya alibi over his daughter’s appointment as a special adviser to a Rambo.
quote:You appointed my daughter a Special Assistant in your office without my knowledge, without my interest, indeed with my total indifference. I have never mounted the slightest pressure on you over any suggested names. My attitude over any 'valuable mentions' from me to you has been check on this possibility. Don't overlook, or lose this asset if you can help it. To insinuate, as you did in your second letter - that of July 14th - that my attacks on your governance and style have become more 'virulent' because you failed to place my 'nominies' in your list is unworthy of you. SOYINKA
3. And the serial hypocrite himself, Adesanya, already plotted to have 30 ministerial posts for his family and cronies even before the rigged elections. Many reckon that this singular act of greed and betrayal drove the final nail in the coffin of AD.
quote: As the dust raised by the visit of Mrs Arinola Adesanya, wife of the leader of Afenifere to Otunba Gbenga Daniel, Ogun state governor-elect is yet to settle, Senator Abraham Adesanya has washed-off his hands from the visit.
Mrs Adesanya in company of her son Bayo had visited Otumba Daniel in his office last week to congratulate him on his election despite the alleged massive rigging of the polls in the South-West by the Alliance for Democracy, AD/Afenifere.
But speaking in an interview with THISDAY, yersterday in Lagos, the Yoruba leader said he was not aware of the visit.
His words: "I want to say here that I have no knowledge of the visit. Infact, I was at Ijebu-Igbo that day when the visit took place. But I don't know why people are making mountain out of the visit," he said.
I accept Adesanya has enough experience to pass on to Soyinka regarding their common problem –their inability to control their families. They feel they could preach to others about the evil of Obasanjo regime but fail to convince their gullible daughters not to participate in his evil regime.
ABUJA—FIVE members of the last Federal Executive Council including Professor Jerry Gana, Chief Ojo Maduekwe and Mrs Modupe Adelaja were yesterday, named as special advisers to President Olusegun Obasanjo. Also appointed presidential special advisers are former presidential aspirant of the ANPP, Chief Rochas Okorocha, National Chairman of the Alliance for Democracy (AD) Alhaji Ahmed Abdulkadir, and renowned Ifa priest, Professor Wande Abimbola.
So much for a principled, sophisticated lot!
quote:Amadi O:
Do not be carried away. The Yolubas are playing a game they are good at, outsmarting the Ibos who thought they knew it all. Just relax and watch how it plays out. Mota Ogallala
We have heard it all before. Bola Ige was so sure he was playing the Yoruba-outsmarting-others-game that he declared Obasanjo was executing Afenifere agenda. Perhaps, he was right. You maybe right too.
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quote:Afenifere's panel backs Soyinka's claims on Ige By Idowu Ajanaku,Senior Political Reporter CORROBORATION has come for the content of the controversial letter written to President Olusegun Obasanjo by the late Attorney-General and Minister of Justice, Chief Bola Ige.
A report of the Gen. Alani Akinrinade-led committee on crisis in the Alliance for Democracy (AD) confirmed Ige's desire to resign from the government to enable him restructure and reposition the party in the South-West.
This was contained in a 42-page report of the panel raised by the leadership of Afenifere and the South-West chapter of the AD to resolve the crisis rocking the party.
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