"Bayo I must comment that your vehement defence of Tinubu portray you in the light of a tribalist."
...........Ofure Aito
Where do I even begin to address the monumental ignorance packed in this sentence? Is Tinubu now synonymous with Yoruba interests?
Bayo Amos (a Yoruba) vehemently defends Bola Tinubu( a Yoruba), therefore Bayo Amos must be a tribalist???? Laughable.
If it is not white, must it only be black? So, as a Yoruba I must either criticize Tinubu or keep mute to escape being portrayed a tribalist? And if a Yoruba criticizes Tinubu, he or she must be a 'detribalised' nationalist?
Does it now mean if an Igbo or a Kanuri attacks Tinubu, he or she is attacking the Yoruba?
You have a responsibility to be intelligent.
Thanks,
Bayo.
On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 6:47 PM, Ofure Aito <ofureaito@gmail.com> wrote:
Let us be honest, what we have here is a failure of leadership and rank dishonesty on the part of the vast majority of Yoruba intellectuals on this forum and elsewhere. Did you not read Niyi Osundare's cheesy poems in honor of the ongoing mayhem called #Change? Professot Gbadegesin called Tinubu a man of honor. Come on. The Yoruba on this forum have been dancing themselves silly for self-serving reasons. Many people have refused to drink their Kool Aid. There is so much this forum could have done to force accountability, no the Yorubas embraced crooks and criminals chanting #Change all the way to the bank. The joke is on them. No, the joke is on us for allowing their perfidy.
I do not subscribe to that view. Rather, my view is that yorubas have really subject the leaders to public scrutiny for their perfidious acts more that any other tribal group in the discourse of Nigerian political debates. We all know other leaders from Igbo and Hausa ethnic groups without mentioning their names and their acts of treason. Having said that I do agree that politics is a tribal game that requires tribal approval and platform for national relevance.. whatever that relevance is....?
Bayo I must comment that your vehement defence of Tinubu portray you inthe light of a tribalist. However, everyone has the freedom of expression and ideology....
Going back to Prof Falola's four point comments: my first take is that we all, especially, Nigerians are first tutored in tribal ideology and/or sentiments and thereafter, groomed in critical thinking. In addition, we all are first human beings with emotional reactions and sentiments and then intellectuals. In situations described by Prof and importantly, the fourth context, the first signal is human sentiment in defence of one's identity or ideological affinity. It is after a careful calculation or consideration that neutral view or opinion comes up. This means, we often put the cart before the horse. The question then is how many people can take time to consider all angles in the face of an assumed attack?
The moral here is that this is a call to take cues from the American post election style of convergence for the development of the nation because the growth of a nation implicates the tribes and groups.
Best wishes
Ofure
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