Shrug Dikko:
Why don't you make this piece available to the Usa/Dialogue family?
Isn't this because Shehu is Farooq and Farooq is Shehu?
The style is familiar and the supposed relationship to Buhari is similar.
Do you suppose anyone is taken in?
OAA
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-------- Original message --------
From: Shehu Dikko <shehuspen@gmail.com>
Date: 28/08/2018 15:51 (GMT+00:00)
To: Olayinka Agbetuyi <yagbetuyi@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: Ilorin is an Ethnogenesis
G'day,
Kindly recall that last year I expressed some disappointment at Farooq
Kperogi's unwillingness to engage in discussions that he had initiated.
I have since seen him state that he offers no comment where anyone
giving feedback has done no more than disagree with his position.
Since then however, he has been responsive to my messages. I have also
seen something else in his columns. In two of the ones he has written
this year he offered a reason for his writing. In the latest which is
referred to on the subject line he made this explicit statement:
"I have gone to this length just to show that I am no fan of Saraki and
his politics. But I would betray the very meaning and essence of my name
and my self-imposed duty to correct injurious falsehoods if I allow the
ahistorically nativist delegitimization of Saraki's Ilorin origins by my
brother Kawu to go unchallenged."
I have welcomed his statement because I have long deplored commentators
who never tell you why they write and what it is that they hope to
achieve, thereby evading accountability. I bring this to your notice
just so that you know given that you were a contributor to the
discussion I initiated about his article last year.
It may interest you to know too that I have remained interested in
whether my criticisms of Buhari were tantamount to the "campaign of
calumny" you claimed but failed to substantiate. I have since
encountered many persons much more familiar with my thoughts on the
subject than you who now say they regret not listening to me because I
was "not gentle" or "too severe" or "too persistent."
I did not at the time last year but I could have doubted the validity of
your claim by pointing to the fact that three ambitious politicians as
well as a man not in anyway involved in politics actually requested that
I write about them in the manner I have written about Buhari and other
public actors. I told them that I do not write to order.
Thank you and best regards,
shehu
--
You will remember, Watson, how the dreadful business of the
Abernetty family was first brought to my notice by the depth which the
parsley had sunk into the butter upon a hot day.
-- Sherlock Holmes
Kindly recall that last year I expressed some disappointment at Farooq
Kperogi's unwillingness to engage in discussions that he had initiated.
I have since seen him state that he offers no comment where anyone
giving feedback has done no more than disagree with his position.
Since then however, he has been responsive to my messages. I have also
seen something else in his columns. In two of the ones he has written
this year he offered a reason for his writing. In the latest which is
referred to on the subject line he made this explicit statement:
"I have gone to this length just to show that I am no fan of Saraki and
his politics. But I would betray the very meaning and essence of my name
and my self-imposed duty to correct injurious falsehoods if I allow the
ahistorically nativist delegitimization of Saraki's Ilorin origins by my
brother Kawu to go unchallenged."
I have welcomed his statement because I have long deplored commentators
who never tell you why they write and what it is that they hope to
achieve, thereby evading accountability. I bring this to your notice
just so that you know given that you were a contributor to the
discussion I initiated about his article last year.
It may interest you to know too that I have remained interested in
whether my criticisms of Buhari were tantamount to the "campaign of
calumny" you claimed but failed to substantiate. I have since
encountered many persons much more familiar with my thoughts on the
subject than you who now say they regret not listening to me because I
was "not gentle" or "too severe" or "too persistent."
I did not at the time last year but I could have doubted the validity of
your claim by pointing to the fact that three ambitious politicians as
well as a man not in anyway involved in politics actually requested that
I write about them in the manner I have written about Buhari and other
public actors. I told them that I do not write to order.
Thank you and best regards,
shehu
--
You will remember, Watson, how the dreadful business of the
Abernetty family was first brought to my notice by the depth which the
parsley had sunk into the butter upon a hot day.
-- Sherlock Holmes
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