USA Africa Dialogue Series - Re: Is Tinubu's ACN the real answer?

 

 

Steve Kueberuwa;

 

In my seventeen years  or so of being with you on these Nets, this is the LONGEST treatise that I have seen you write - save for one or two other times when you wrote cryptically on your Katolic religion.  All the other times have been one or two liner curmordgeonly negative pieces inveighing on everybody and his mother.

 

But why you don't write much shows in what you wrote below about ACN and Tinubu, because it is filled with wild speculations and pepper-soup analyses spiced with salt-and-pepper conclusions.

 

To cap it off, you end up contradicting yourself.

 

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This is not an advocacy for the PDP or to maintain the status quo. It is just that when the frying pan is as hot as it is now for Nigerians, there is a tendency to jump out of it to anywhere but. I am only cautioning that one of the most likely places such a jump could land us is the fire, which is worse.

 

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Any sensible person would not wish to jump from a frying pan to a worse fire.  Now if you are NOT advocating for maintaining a PDP "status quo" - what the heck are you doing?

 

Bola Ahmed Tinubu is the nightmare of all PDP members - and closet PDP supporters and anti-South-Westerners like Steven Kueberuwa...I repeat myself.  He will remain that until God calls him away. Some of us will not let him make the same mistake of some of those who went before him - including Awo himself.

 

And what the heck is the "January 15 party"?  Another attempt by Steve Kueberuwa to obfuscate and create more heat than light???

 

So, Stevek Kueberuwa, have some balls for a change, and state clearly what you wish to stay and stop hiding behind one finger.  Nobody is going to beat you up....at least not in cyberspace!  :-)

 

And there you have it.

 

 

 

Bolaj Aluko

 

PS: "It is better to keep quiet, and let people speculate at your foolishness, rather than open your mouth, and then  immediately confirm it."  This is a paraphrase of some comedian political commentator - I want to say Mark Twain, but that may not be correct.

 

On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 8:20 AM, Stevek <stevek941@yahoo.com> wrote:

Back then, there were Nigerians that KNEW that once the British colonials were uncoupled from the administration of Nigeria and our our indiginees are are charge, everything would change...for the better.

 

Well, a lot of things didn't change; they changed only from white hands to black hands. And a lot of things changed for the worse. The railway system today, for example, is worse than when the British colonials were here. And all infrastructure and public official morality has taken a steady nosedive.

 

Now, we expect a change when Tinubu's ACN, finally, takes over. And we are, as a matter of fact, built up our self-delusion so high that we call Ahmed Tinubu's ACN progressive because we have, unreasonably, assumed that the people who will replace our current political elites are different from our current poilitical elites instaed of accepting that they will be the same people currently in PDP garb.

 

I would like to propose that Tinubu's ACN - like the indigenees that replaced the British colonials at independence - has no other goal than to replace the PDP, purely on a profit basis and nothing else.

 

We should be mindful that Tinubu's ACN has less moral underpinnings than the PDP. At least, the PDP has elements of decency still present, albeit subsumed by the Obasanjo-Atiku-Jonathan types. The ACN has only Tinubu and all know what Tinubu is. He has behaved no differently than the Garrison Cammander, Adedibu, in illegally collecting rent from Fashola, whom he installed in Lagos and may be collecting rent from all the ACN governors he has spent his stolen money to install elsewhere. Tinubu's ACN may be just a Kingpin instead of the king of the people.

 

This is not an advocacy for the PDP or to maintain the status quo. It is just that when the frying pan is as hot as it is now for Nigerians, there is a tendency to jump out of it to anywhere but. I am only cautioning that one of the most likely places such a jump could land us is the fire, which is worse.

 

So, the Bakare's and Yinka Odumakin's that are leading the battle of our behalf should consider this instead of making Tinubu's ACN what IT IS NOT, except as the only train available from Hellstation, Nigeria.

 

Maybe, Buhari should just join the January 15 Party!
 

 

Stevek

Washington, DC, USA

A society of supine lambs breeds erect wolves. - Stevek

A wise man proportions his beliefs to the evidence - David Hume

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