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From: John Danfulani <jondanfulani@yahoo.com>
Date: 10 January 2011 09:42
Subject: [dandalin-siyasa] ANOTHER INSTANCE OF LAUREATE'S LUNATISM
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ANOTHER INSTANCE OF LAUREATE'S LUNATISM By John Danfulani Brawling with a celebrated playwright like Professor Wole Soyinka a.k.a Kongi and first recipient of Alfred Nobel prize of Literature in continental Africa is never an undertaking yearned with excitement, even by his iconoclast peers; talk less of a "toddling wet" like me. Much of the colossal chore is not centred on ones incapacity to head-on blow by blow with the "pen goliath" but people's instant dismissive predisposition of assuming that a challenge to such literary iroko is purely an act of suicide. Still, they chose to flippantly disregard incontrovertible realism that facts, analytical skill, and logic are lethal arsenals a belittled contender desire to belly up a savage panjandrum. When I read Prof Ali Muzui, the author of "triple heritage", and the most successful documentary on pre-colonial, colonial and post colonial history of Africa's rebuttal of Kongi's earlier below-the-belt kicks and wraps of tall tale in a piece titled "The strange Case of Nobel Schizophrenia" a while ago, I piqued: the Zanzibarian historian was extremely uncharitable by decorating Kongi with irredentist medals and describing him a character infested with prostrate racists cancer. The renowned Professor sarcastically quantified that, despite the dictatorial viciousness of elements like late Ugandan strongman Marshal Idi Amin Dada and other East and Central Africa dictators, they never challenged his Africaness because of his mixed black and Arabic bloods. Professor Muzui's wholesome disclosure came after I had listened to former minister of Information Dr Walter Afonagoro in Gen Hassan Usman's House in Kaduna in the 90. The Colombian University history Professor and Nigerian youngest ambassador admonished Nigerians to wise-up and avoid the hazard of taking Soyinka serious because of his pedigree as a drama scripter. There were other attention-grabbing altercations with the prolific and veteran columnist Mohmamed Haruna which blew opened the anus of Kongi's analytical briefness, intelligence, and sense of reasonability. Yes Gen Muhammadu Buhari headed a crew of cabal that liquidated Shehu Shagari's regime on 31st December 1983. Of course, the Peoples General was Chief of Supreme Military Council that marched many politicians to the gulags, enacted decree No 2 that quarantined freedom of speech, executed drug peddlers, sanctioned monarchs who went on jamboree to the Jewish state of Israel, and all other turpitudes committed under the sun of Nigeria between 31st December 1983 to August 27th 1985, before the ship of the regime was capsized by plots of subversive Judases. Prof must have invested time to refresh his snake memory to enumerating tons of transgressions of a junta headed by Buhari. But were Kongi's unforgettable wrongdoings perpetrated and sanctioned by the General as an individual or by a body of junta that lead Nigeria under the period? Were the draconian decrees singlehandedly promulgated by him or the entire ruling Supreme Military Council? Is the good old Prof claiming ignorance that all that transpired was a collective decision of the whole bunch that constituted the then Supreme Military Council? Who were kingpins of the "evil" regime? Gen. Tunde Idiagbon, Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida, Sani Abacha, and Domkat Bali. We shall make a case out of this list in the latter part of this discourse. The character murderer seems to be in deliberate darkness, or rather, his mission of assassinating the good reputation of the man he loves to hate beclouded his knowledge of: (a) what is a coup; and (b) How coups are staged. If Slobodan Milosevic of Yoruba land is not suffering from senile dementia, one would have prescribe books of one of Nigerian Army's prolific writer Gen Joe Garba as curative syrup of his ignorance! A Coup is serious, cumbersome and risky business to be handled by a single soul even if he is a divine genius. From the account of the first coup in the continent staged by Abdel Gamel Nasir of Egypt by his successor Anwar Sadet in his book "Missing the revolutionary Bus" and sundry other testimonies from South American states, where modern coup started; coups are collective conspiracies by a collective, not an individualistic power adventures. If this truth is self evident; why placing the burden of uprooting a regime and "crimes" committed thereof, on the head of an individual- instead of the gamut of the characters that played roles in ousting the regime? Must we also school the old Prof that coup making is not purely a military affair? The secret hands of civilians especially the disgruntled power hunter has been found, severally, in coup plots. Was the then South West leader Chief Obafemi Awolowo not convicted for coup plotting? The same man along with his late MKO were rumoured to have abetted the overthrow of Shagari regime on grounds that NPC rigged the general elections and refused to give MKO presidential ticket of NPN. This theory was also confirmed in 1990 when a group of middle ranking military officers in cahoots with civilians attempted seizing power from IBB. Again, it was also shown how MKO and others visited Abacha and Diya, and gave them the go ahead to topple the interim government of Earnest Shonekon, and handover to him after a while. Wait a minute, was there any categorical statement from opposition then condemning Buhari's incursion and counseling him to allow them settled Shagari's shortcomings through an elections in four years time? There was a dead conspiratorial silence and secret jubilations from Soyinka's brothers in the South West. Is there any remarkable borderline between coupists and those who seal lips and went into closed door banters? I guess not. Kongi's diatribe was premised on events that transpired over two decades ago. The question desiring understanding is: were coups, revolutions and other violent avenues of liquidating governments an aberration way back 1983? The now laid to rest Cold War was at its height and the means acquiring power was quadratic in nature. Consequent to this, even Gen Robert Gabriel Mugabe's gods, prophets, and prophetesses of democracy (US and the West) recognized the junta headed by Buhari and transacted normal businesses they transacted with the sacked regime of Shehu Shagari. What is more, global actors like UN, Commonwealth, OAU (AU) and ECOWAS didn't expel Nigeria from their folds. The tacit signal flashing was that, the government was legitimate locally and internationally, after their successful takeover. Kongi tried to play it fast by using post Cold War standards to scaling human rights records of a regime that existed and terminated before the collapsed of the Berlin Wall. His testimonies lacks supportive pillar to stand any local and international levels of analysis. If the junta committed gross human rights violations like their peers in South America and Asia, he/they would have been standing trial or already cooling his/their heels in a local or international prison facility, now. Everybody, including International Human Rights Commission understood the exigencies of the time and are not making a case out of it, except, the last defender of human rights standing. Another shambolic balderdash in his desperate attempt to give a dog a bad name to justify its hanging was his allegation that Buhari refused to appear before Oputa panel to answer allegations of human rights violations and sundry case imported before the panel. The Oputa Panel was supposed to go the way of South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission established by ANC government after defeating the white racists in 1994. The South African TRC had international backing financially and full of experts and genuine people really seeking to mend their rainbow country together. TRC had clear legal framework with mandate vividly stipulated. The South African TRC ended a disaster because the very ANC government that conceived the idea frustrated its finding and recommendations because TRC saw some acts perpetrated by then ANC guerrilla fighters as criminal terrorists acts. That was how a body internationally backed, ended. President Obasanjo wanted to be a copy cat but clearly started on wrong footing by not giving his own version of TRC full legal backing. Apart from the legal framework, there was glaring indication that Oputa's panel was more of political hut with the sole schedule of blackmailing perceived opponents and leaders from other parts of the nation, people he believed committed sins of pausing akimbo when Abacha dangled the hangmasters noose on his neck. Furthermore, Obasanjo's Oputa Panel lacks a nationwide appeal, there was no sufficient educated on its motive, hence the mass rush to give a tales about wrong doings because of the understanding that compensation will follow. Worse, the Oputa Panel lacks compelling powers of appearance on those invited. How can Buhari of all people see these booby traps in a body, and accepts their invitation to appear, as if he is a maroon? When has he become a nincompoop like Soyinka and other shameless panjandrums to honouring invitation to commit suicide? Moreover, what was the end of all money and time quenching python, called Oputa Panel? Who was convicted, compensated, told any truth, or reconciled with another? After all the comical and idiotic displays in the panel, where and what happened with the report? Since the anticipated big catches couldn't be netted, the report was rendered useless and now oxidizing somewhere. Going by these developments that heralded the dead on arrival report, was the General not a wiser investor of his scarce time in other productive endeavors? We can liken Oputa's Panel with a red fishing net that set the fishes running away from the fishermen. His anology exhibited insatiable disdain for military governments and by little stretch of imagination their unwarranted incursion into political theathre. One is at liberty to advance double barrel questions, at this juncture: since when did Kongi acquire this capacity to wearing a stone face to military regime? Was Nigeria under a civilian regime between 27th August 1985 to 27th August 1993, a period he served a head of FRSC? How can a rival of military dictatorship served one of the most brutal, kleptocratic, machievalian and self acclaimed evil genius parades laughable democratic credentials to us, now? The chroniest junta he served annulled what his tribalistic kiths are still wagging tongues at and still claiming to be the most credible elections ever conducted in Nigeria; ran one of the longest transition programmes in the history of the nation; introduced Breton woods conditionalities without using their facilities; wasted over 12b USD gulf war oil windfall; and institutionalized corruption in the land. Was the Prof really sane when he tried to parade self a crusader of democracy and civil rule? The psychiatrists he cynically pronounced other desiring their services, have in him an urgent case desiring prompt attention. This is clearly he is now a character madden by the goddesses of nemesis and deceit and pushed to dance necked in public domain. It's not only too late for the Prof to rewrite history or dust off his felonable contribution to sustaining military dictatorship in Nigeria. This is a classical case of nursery stage of madness, his immediate family and folks will do him good if he is bundled to a nearby psychotherapist. Like the medics will say, a stitch in time saves nine. The General Overseer of Pirates spewed venom by attaching religious and ethnic sentiment to some actions taken when the General headed the ruling junta. Buhari is no tribal warlord or a religious bigot, as he fruitlessly tried to hoist in the minds of discerning audience. Kongi must he holding a self looking class and seeing his reflection but hallucinating the image of another person. Prof Muzui's "strange case of laurel schizophrenia" bails us on this count, once more. The said piece gave us further hints of his racist philosophy, which is the bedrock of fascists and aspiring fascists like Soyinka. The entire nation saw his irredentism in area of appointments in FRSC where his Yoruba states got over 70% of the total workforce. More astonishing exhibition of his ethnicity came during the Toronto and Chicago certificates scandals involving Speaker Salisu Buhari and Governor Ahmed Bola Tinubu. The former was impeached and convicted, but the later who also had similar case became a Sacred Cow. When late Gani Fawehimi moved in, he was warned by Kongi to steer clear of political cases. Kongi refused to accept the fact that what is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander. The best of Soyinka is seen when ethnicity is injected into an issue. On his religious accusations, I thought he should burry head on ground because we are yet to know his faith; the former Minister of Aviation Femi Fani Kayode has helped us in a piece while he was SSA Public Matters to Obj, in this regard. He is no Moslem, Christian or any other world known religion. Those religious flames he blew were bogus smokescreen; the real agenda is the Serbs or Hutu games? When was Kongi ordained the cardinal of democracy in Nigeria by its Lords in either US or the West? Who gave the loquacious and Darwinian early specie-like Kongi the schedule of the chief priest in the democratic shrine that all must obtain certificates of indulgence before been certified born again democrat? Gen. Buhari gave dozens of interviews which told readers that he became a born again democrat when the iron curtains of Eastern Europe collapsed, especially the disintegration of former USSR. More to this, the same man he accused threw his hat in the presidential ring in 2003 and 2007. If he isn't a democrat, will he embark on those races? To demonstrate that he is a living and proven democrat, he took his cases to courts. And when they courts ruled against him, despite heavy evidences of gross malpractices, he simply bowed and said; as courts pleases. Reverse will be the case if characters like Soyinka suffer such miscarriages of justice. They will with immediate alacrity migrate the action from the hallow courts chambers to the streets, and let loose terror like ancient Mongolian Vandals. But the General quietly picked his pieces and head back to the political theatre, and now warming up for yet another round of the race. Kongi's distancing of self and party from the possibility of any alliance that will front Buhari was by far the most comical section of his convoluted hate treatise. A reality check across the nation shows that his so-called party doesn't have functional offices in 2/3 of the states including FCT, which is a prerequisite for registration. What then made INEC to give him certificate of registration as a party? Does having a Nobel Price in Literature an automatic qualification for registration? Apart from high dosage of confusion his party will bring to the alliance, what else? He is just a rabble rauzer, a political nonentity who plays politics in hotel halls and other chancelleries with cooling facilities endlessly blowing. Alliances are not made for fun, they are formed for electoral values, something Soyinka and his party are deficit of. The trouble his presence will cause, is costlier that the consequence of his absence. This is not what late Senate President Oyi of Oyi Dr. Chuba called ranting of an ant? Prof Soyinka is a classical reference to Dr. Scott's character disorder and Paul Baran's enemy of an opponent society. He has unfortunately acquired the destructive prowess of a corrosive acid which destroys beauty and nature. Kongi's maroonic and idiotic show in the piece "the crimes of Buhari" shows that the end is come, the clouds of senility and ethnicity have deemed the star. Just like the old adage goes, those the gods wants to destroy are first made them mad, the gods have indeed signed and sealed his fate, already. He is merely acting a script and plying the road leading to his end. Must the sadistic zany drag everyone with him 6fts down or dent peoples reputations so as to get more inhabitants in his sad side of history? No amount of Laurel's intimidation, blackmail, backstabbing, and destructive campaign shall erode Buhari's struggles for a better Nigeria. He will never take away his eye from ball until the war is won and lost. Buharism is a political philosophy working hard to find its place in the world political lexicon. He might or might not have the chance to put into practice his thoughts, but we take solace on the fact that, he has disciples who will keep the flame burning until the end of ages. Hope this round of laureate lunatism is Kongi's swan song.
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