Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - A Reply to Kperogi.doc

Oga Jibo,

It is absolutely unacceptable to characterise dissent as thugerry. What then is the essence of democracy, which the Campaign for Denocracy that you led for many years worked so assiduously to make a reality in Nigeria? If intellectuals cannot broach alternative views, how do we expect our power drunken political elites to listen to the alternative voices of reason that we offer through our numerous writings. I have had cause to disagree with you on this forum, when I noticed that you were pandering to the murderous Fulani Herdsmen campaign of displacment and  annihilation of Middle Belt  and now Southwest people, but I am not a thug. Criticism is one of  the canons of our profession as academics. You have offered incisive criticisms of the failings of many government policies and officials for decades, but those did not constitute thuggery. Why should it be that when people disagree with you, you mischaracterise it as thuggery. I think all forum members deserve a penitent apology from you.

Femi.

On Sat, May 25, 2019 at 6:56 AM Ibrahim Abdullah <ibdullah@gmail.com> wrote:

Gibo fears not! It ain't thuggery—it's called robust interrogation. Guess you're getting soft with age; and you want the young Turks to treat you like a feudal prince. 

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On 25 May 2019, at 10:32, Jibrin Ibrahim <jibrinibrahim891@gmail.com> wrote:

Toyin I know the thuggery I have suffered from on this platform.

Professor Jibrin Ibrahim

Senior Fellow

Centre for Democracy and Development, Abuja

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On Sat, 25 May 2019 at 11:30, Toyin Falola <toyinfalola@austin.utexas.edu> wrote:

Great Jibrin:

No use of the word "thuggery" to criticize dissent. Intellectual caution is needed as debates can feed political actions that we all lose from.

TF

 

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From: dialogue <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com> on behalf of Jibrin Ibrahim <jibrinibrahim891@gmail.com>
Reply-To: dialogue <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com>
Date: Saturday, May 25, 2019 at 5:26 AM
To: dialogue <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com>
Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - A Reply to Kperogi.doc

 

Bitrus, please just duck, they will descend on you with a vengeance you cannot imagine. Meanwhile, it's good you are not allowing yourself and Pita to be intimidated by thuggery.

Professor Jibrin Ibrahim

Senior Fellow

Centre for Democracy and Development, Abuja

Follow me on twitter @jibrinibrahim17

 

 

On Sat, 25 May 2019 at 11:21, Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju <toyin.adepoju@gmail.com> wrote:

Why not post this reply in the mail space rather than as a Word document? It will be easier to read that way with the volume of things one needs to read

 

On Sat, 25 May 2019 at 11:12, Dr. Bitrus Gwamna <bgwamna@gmail.com> wrote:

 

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