"Most of the sycophants that use religion to defame the character of Buhari are not even practicing their acclaimed self-righteousness. Many of them are occultists. They kill and conduct daily human sacrifices to remain in power."
TDW
Why does TDW believe that some Buhari critics are sycophants? Would he accept characterization as a sycophant because of his seeming support of Buhari's candidacy in the 2015 presidential elections? Buhari is thought by some of his critics, rightly or wrongly, to be a bigoted Muslim because of his many public utterances and actions some of which were in the recent past. Buhari is less incendiary now. He is an election candidate. He knows to tone down his religion rhetoric if he is to attract a majority of votes outside his natural constituency.
TDW would be expected to know that one does not have to be a fervent practitioner of self-righteousness or the one's religion, or indeed have a religion, or be self-righteous, to qualify to criticize a presidential candidate they consider to be hostage to a religious faith- a zealot. If TDW knows of any Buhari critics who "kill and conduct daily human sacrifice to remain in power", why does he not do better than spill anonymous allegations? Why speak only about this evil if indeed it happens? Does TDW have a personal agendum? Is TDW a political sower laser-targeting his seed in the expectation of a rich harvest, should Buhari win the election? Is his position informed by his apparent not finding favor with the current administration in Abuja? True patriotism is neither angry of hateful.
The ferocity of his attack on Buhari's critics is both unsettling and thoughtless to say the least. He may be once again hurting his cause by his habitual lack of sportsmanship in public affairs. There is abundant evidence that abuse of opponents has little persuasive effect on them. Abuse of others does not change minds. Coercion does not work very well with people who are free to choose.
Buhari is possibly in the last big political fight of his life. He does not need any more people fire more misguided missiles as they support him. The man is trying his best and hardest with cunning and by stealth as many politicians do, to work an inclusive agenda. He has apparently learned well after many electoral defeats. He does not need controversial and disaffected supporters working against him while pretending to be working for him.
It is a measure of Nigeria's political underdevelopment that TDW, in spite of his presumed esteem and political experience, chooses to malign unidentified people he disagrees with, in anger and with rage. Buhari may indeed be a good man. He chose to run for contested political office. He willed to go through the crucible of a hotly contested electoral process. Buhari is seeking to govern a people, some of whom are not enthused by his candidacy, and are therefore not yet persuaded that he will make a good president of their country, given who they (rightly or wrongly) believe him to be. Buhari and his professional (including political) past are fair game and roundly subjects of public interest and commentary as other candidates' have been and remain.
TDW and other Buhari supporters are well advised to address the concerns of presumed non-Buhari critics and supporters constructively. They should desist from calling them names if Buhari is to do as well as they want and need him to do in the elections. The less they try to brow-beat or bully Buhari's critics and supporters into siding with them or shutting up, the less likely it is that they will change their minds about Buhari. The better and more their concerns are constructively addressed, the more likely it is that they will. TDW and other Buhari supporters are not serving Buhari well by trying hard, very hard I might add, to make enemies of political opponents many of whom may still be open to persuasion.
oa
From: usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com [mailto:usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Anunoby, Ogugua
Sent: Saturday, December 27, 2014 11:54 PM
To: usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com (USAAfricaDialogue@googlegroups.com)
Subject: FW: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Fw: Prof Tam David West on Buhari
"Most of the sycophants that use religion to defame the character of Buhari are not even practicing their acclaimed self righteousness. Many of them are occultists. They kill and conduct daily human sacrifices to remain in power."
TDW
Why does TDW believe that some Buhari critics are sycophants? Would he accept characterization as a sycophant because of his seeming support of Buhari's candidacy in the 2015 presidential elections? Buhari is thought by some of his critics, rightly or wrongly, to be a bigoted Muslim because of his many public utterances and actions some of which were in the recent past. Buhari is less incendiary now. He is an election candidate. He knows to tone down his religion rhetoric if he is to attract a majority of votes outside his natural constituency.
TDW would be expected to know that one does not have to be a fervent practitioner of the one's religion or indeed have a religion, to qualify to criticize a presidential candidate they consider to be hostage to religious faith- a zealot. If TDW knows of any Buhari critics who "kill and conduct daily human sacrifice to remain in power", why does he not do better than spill anonymous allegations? Does TDW have a personal agendum. Is TDW a political sower expecting a rich harvest in the event of Buhari's election victory? His ferocity of his attack on Buhari's critics is unsettling to say the least.
It is a measure of Nigeria's political underdevelopment that TDW, in spite of his presumed esteem and political experience, maligns unidentified people he disagrees with, in anger and with rage. Buhari may indeed be a good man. He chose to run for contested political office. He willed to go through the crucible of a hotly contested electoral process. Buhari is seeking to govern a people, all of whom are not the enthused with his candidacy and are not yet persuaded that he will make a good president of their country, given what they believe they know about him. It is fair game that his political past is a matter of public interest process and commentary as other candidates have been and are.
TDW and other Buhari supporters and well advised to address the concerns of non-Buhari supporters and desist from calling them names if Buhari is to do as well as they want him to do in the elections. The less they try to brow-beat or bully Buhari's critics into siding with them or shutting up, the less likely it is that the critics will change their minds about Buhari. The better and more they address the critics' concerns, the more likely it is that critics may change their minds about Buhari. TDW and other Buhari supporters are not serving Buhari well by trying hard, very hard I might add, to make enemies of political opponents.
oa
From: usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com [mailto:usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Ademola O. Dasylva
Sent: Saturday, December 27, 2014 12:46 PM
To: Toyin Falola; Toyin Falola; 'Sam Amadi' via USA Africa Dialogue Series; nigerianid@yahoogroups.com
Cc: naijaintellects@googlegroups.com; naijaobserver@yahoogroups.com
Subject: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Fw: Prof Tam David West on Buhari
This contribution from Tam David West will interest folks on the USAAFRICADIALOGUE series.
Seasons' greetings, all.
Ademola Omobewaji Dasylva,Ph.D
Professor of African & Oral Literature,
Department of English,
Coordinator, Ibadan Cultural Studies Group(ICSG),
Convener, TOFAC (International),
Rm. 68, Faculty of Arts,
University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria.
Visiting Professor & Dean,
College of Humanities,
Redeemer's University, Ede, Nigeria.
Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone.
From: votimirin Sent: Saturday, December 27, 2014 19:18 Reply To: votimirin Subject: Prof Tam David West on Buhari |
From Prof Tam David West:
"Religion is a personal thing and every man has the right to choose his own, or practice it the way he likes. Most of the sycophants that use religion to defame the character of Buhari are not even practicing their acclaimed self righteousness. Many of them are occultists. They kill and conduct daily human sacrifices to remain in power.
Buhari is a man of integrity and I respect him a lot. But because majority of those who have looted this country to poverty are afraid to end up in jail or loose their ill gotten wealth, they chose to fabricate lies against Buhari. They hire hungry and morally corrupted scholars to do the dirty jobs on their behalf.
It is quite unfortunate that Nigerians buy all the lies they trade through the media. This is the only country where people prefer to believe in a 'hear say' than make a research. Only a minute population of Nigerians are willing to investigate an allegation before they draw conclusions.
Nigerians have resolved to be praise singers to corrupt leaders. We have failed to ask for accountability. Our conscience has been beclouded with religious and ethnic sentiments. Our sense of judgement and reason have been blinded by poverty. We chose to mortgage our tomorrow and the future of our children for the rice and a few Naira notes they share during elections.
All we believe is the roads, the bridges, the railways, the electricity they build only on televisions. I always ask my self these questions:
1. Where are the roads?
✏The Abuja - Lokoja road was awarded by Obasanjo's administration. He spent 8 years in office. Then Yaradua and Goodluck spent another 4 years. Now if Goodluck is elected, he will be spending another 8 years. This will amount to 20 years and 180 km road is yet to be completed.
✏Enugu - Onitsha road was also awarded by the Obasanjo administration and till date, a journey that is supposed to take 45 minutes can take you 8 hours if it rains.
✏Enugu- PH road is on the same series.
✏What about Uyo - Calabar route? Just to mention a few.
2. Where is the power? They sold all the NEPA to their friends. We pay for the light that was not supplied.
3. Our education and health system go bad everyday. Lecturers and Health workers spent more time at home than in the schools and hospitals as a result of incessant strikes.
4. The government failed to provide us with security. People are being killed everyday and yet government comes out to tell us they are in control.
5. Why are we pretending that all is well? It is only in Nigeria where monies develop wings and fly. $20 billion oil money disappeared and they said it was $10 billion. Forensic investigators were hired and that was the end of the story. N20 billion pension fund stolen and nothing came out of it. $9.3 million seized in South Africa and government claimed it was meant for ammunition purchase. The immigration scandal has also been swept under the carpet because the senate could not proceed with their investigation. The man behind the contract is sitting among the high seats in the senate. Innocent people were defrauded and they at the same time lost their lives yet, we have a transparent governance.
6. Why are we praising government as if they are doing whatever with their personal money. How many people in their various communities have they provided scholarship with their personal money before they got elected? The reason they got elected is to manage our resources and not to loot us dry.
One thing I know is that we will not have any meaningful development except if we make a change.
Age or no age, Buhari is a better option for the present day Nigeria"
Please pass it on.
Sent from Samsung tablet
--
Listserv moderated by Toyin Falola, University of Texas at Austin
To post to this group, send an email to USAAfricaDialogue@googlegroups.com
To subscribe to this group, send an email to USAAfricaDialogue+subscribe@googlegroups.com
Current archives at http://groups.google.com/group/USAAfricaDialogue
Early archives at http://www.utexas.edu/conferences/africa/ads/index.html
---
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "USA Africa Dialogue Series" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to usaafricadialogue+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com.
For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
--
Listserv moderated by Toyin Falola, University of Texas at Austin
To post to this group, send an email to USAAfricaDialogue@googlegroups.com
To subscribe to this group, send an email to USAAfricaDialogue+subscribe@googlegroups.com
Current archives at http://groups.google.com/group/USAAfricaDialogue
Early archives at http://www.utexas.edu/conferences/africa/ads/index.html
---
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "USA Africa Dialogue Series" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to usaafricadialogue+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com.
For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
No comments:
Post a Comment