How does Adeniran Abraham Ariyo's mind operate considering his apologies, naming of Igbo people as his friends, touting "one Nigerian-ness," promoting peace while harboring vile, anti-Igbo sentiments? Please scroll, below, to his April 9 posting on the past controversy with Femi Fani-Kayode, which is clearly meant to give credence to the virus unleashed by the Oba of Lagos as Ariyo pledged support in his April 10 posting.
These dates coincide with the peak of a heated polity that erupted following the degenerative, ethnic-based forays by the Oba of Lagos. A person who enables peaceful co-existence, love of country, and all the litany of things Ariyo wrote, citing his record from Ibadan, Boston, Texas, to Lagos and back, would not choose a period of heightened ethnic tensions to post articles that can only contribute to widening mutual mistrust and opportunistic mayhem. If Ariyo is anything he claims to be in moral terms, he has a bizarre way of emerging as a bundle of contradiction.
Good grief! In view of the glaring disconnect between Ariyo's public write-up and his pre-disposition to stir, resurrect, promote anti-Igbo feelings, Western psychiatrists may diagnose this as a debilitating of schizophrenia. No, Ariyo is not mad in the head. He comes across as one versed in survival instincts and manipulative posturing when caught in his game, speaking from both sides of his mouth and desiring to be considered a principled advocate of anything. How can this be when man boy supports the Oba because his own papa was a monarch? What happened to his own spine, independent or ethical reasoning in a case of blatant inhumanity.
He is entitled to be his natural self. Nobody taxed him to be otherwise. Meanwhile, he can keep searching for derogatory articles on high profile Igbo women to post on his Facebook page while idle and non-sleepy. What a guy with compromised sides.
MsJoe
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