Political carpet-bagging is alive and well.
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From: usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com [mailto:usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Samuel Zalanga
Sent: Friday, March 27, 2015 3:43 AM
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Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Ribadu says Jonathan will win!
The major shift in reasoning without corresponding empirical evidence to warrant a paradigm shift makes Ribadu lack any credibility that he had and also makes his shift looks similar to Femi Fani-Koyede, who had in the past said nasty things about PDP. Interestingly, both of them are highly educated, which means that education in and of itself is not a guaranteed for moral and ethical commitment. As Carl Jung said, what we know and how we know it is an intellectual question and process but what we decide to do with it is a different question: a moral and ethical one. .
We will expect people to change their position when there is valid empirical evidence that invalidates their previously held position, presumably held on solid rational grounds. In my view, what Ribadu did is not just a reflection of a crisis where many people have lost their "north pole" as a cultural, moral and ethical signpost. Rather it is partly an expression of the crisis of modernity. As Nietzsche describes a modern person: they boarded their ship of modernity and confident about the future, they destroyed the harbor and sail on into the sea (read modern world and adventure). After sailing far into the sea, they lost their bearing or North Pole; they see infinity of meanings as they saw the body of water without end. Every direction is water without end. The problem is that even when they decided for safety to return where they started, unfortunately they could do that anymore, and in any case the so-called reliable past is gone,-- the harbor has been destroyed. Old norms have been destroyed and new viable have not been developed to replace the old ones. That problem of infinity of meaning and confusion as part of the crisis of modernity is truly manifested in our discussion. You feel sorry for us modern people. We seem to know too much and yet agree on little, because we try to make everything to be the truth because we can argue it out. I feel terribly worried for humanity about this problem.
People feel they can state anything they want and because they are dressed very well or they have some high ranking status, that makes what they say correct or right irrespective of the real world. Or maybe there is no even one real world for all. Where do we go from here? From historical experience it takes more to really solve real problems. In any case, we deny that there are even problems.
You just feel sorry when the masses are struggling to survive and many of us think we can solve Nigeria's problems through "SOPHISTRY." There has been great suspicion of sophistry right from platonic times. I feel sorry for us.
See how even the Economist Magazine reflects on this Moral Crisis.In one of its Editorials, entitled: "Why is the Modern View of Progress Impoverished?" The article reads in part as follows:
"In the rich world the idea of progress has become impoverished. Through complacency and bitter experience, the scope of progress has narrowed. The popular view is that, although technology and GDP advance, morals and society are treading water or, depending on your choice of newspaper, sinking back into decadence and barbarism. On the left of politics these days, "progress" comes with a pair of ironic quotation marks attached; on the right, "progressive" is a term of abuse("The Economist Magazine, December 17th, 2009).
Samuel
On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 6:45 AM, 'Ikhide' via USA Africa Dialogue Series <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com> wrote:
"People say a lot about him [President Goodluck Jonathan] that is not true. For instance, I don't think that a single act of corruption can be traced to him as an individual. I know that he is the only president in recent years who did not allocate a single oil bloc to anybody, not to talk of himself. And these are the areas where you can tell corruption in its true colour. He did not allocate oil bloc to himself, family or friends up till now. He also did not give a single marginal field to himself or anybody else even though he is the only president that comes from the Niger Delta where the oil is coming from."
- Nuhu Ribadu today!
Our people, compare this nonsense to what he said in the past! This is what Mallam Ribadu said in 2011.
"Jonathan is one of the most corrupt politicians I ever investigated while at EFCC and his level of corruption as deputy governor is just disturbing. PDP is a disaster and a total failure. Change is the only panacea."
He is not the only one; compare the documented disgust and contempt Tinubu had for Buhari and now his attempt to foist him on us for deeply personal and self-serving reasons. These people are deeply evil, corrupt and unprincipled. Shebi these are the people that many of you want to die for? They are all rats from the same latrine. If anyone had told me a decade ago that Ribadu is like this I would have slapped the person. *shrugs* Which one be my own sef? I am not there! Nonsense!
Oya, read the rest of the nonsense interview if you have time to waste! Hiss!
http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/179085-interview-how-jonathan-will-win-saturdays-presidential-election-nuhu-ribadu.html
- Ikhide
- Ikhide
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