Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Pita Agbese's response.

Thank you Oga Afolayan.  What you said was what I have wanted to say.  There seems to be a case of terrible mistrust going on in Kperogi's mind.  But he is not sharing the basis of that mistrust except that it may be pre-emptive.  He alluded to the fact that the military has slush money to throw around  He thinks Profs Agbese and Gumna may have been beneficiaries with no iota of proof advanced for this damaging defamatory claim except that the association published inaccurate information.  The other implied logic is that the two professors are looking for  jobs in Buharis govt.  Nothing wrong in that as Agbese stated as he is as qualified as anyone currently employed without any grouse for being overlooked thus far.

This is what I really think:  Professor Kperogi has ill will for Buhari since the President 'dis' him by not inviting him to governrment (whether or not he would have accepted.)  This is what the constant reference to Buhari's phone number means.  So if he has not been invited it can only be because it is Buhari who is inferior intellectually (not Kperogi) and thus he must have vowed to finish off the President's intellectual standing for preferring people beneath his own intellectual standing  (now Toyin Adepoju you have your answer to change in support)  That is perhaps why Kperogi  again referred recently to both Atiku and Buhari sending emissaries to him both of whom he rejected on principled grounds because they would compromise his independence of mind.  in short a studied ego trip. ( so that accounts for the strange bedfellows of anti- Buharism in both Toyin Adepoju and Farouk Kperogi: one is based on bigotry; the other on egotism.)

Now in comes established professors weighing in on Buhari's side.  The prophecy of Buhari's failure can hardly come true if he has knowledgeable and experienced professors on his side.  So they have to be scared off the 'damaged goods' Muhammadu Buhari the minion of Farouk Kperogi So what Kperogi no longer wants must be off limits to all decent professors. They could not have weighed in on Buhari's side unless they have been bribed to do so!  They could not have been possessed of altruism and patriotism toward their own country.  And that was why Pita Agbese had to show his star studded antecedents of which although Kperogi is in mock awe was no guarantee against contemporary sloth; an inverted envy trip.

OAA

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From: 'Adeshina Afolayan' via USA Africa Dialogue Series <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com>
Sent: 05 June 2019 17:58
To: usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Pita Agbese's response.

 

Thank you, Oga Chidi. May you prosper! I just wonder how scholarship or principles are preserved when we must undermine others through barbed words and essays. It makes no sense to me. Any group of persons can call itself any name, as long as my name is not included without my consent. And whatever politics the group decide to play is the group's or the individuals concerned. Why inflict negative words on them, if there isn't any other issue involved beyond what we are made to read here? Why call the group a "fraudulent" one? And, please enlighten me, what kind of patriotic fervor is that that is so close minded and refuses others their say and perception on what is good or bad? As the Yorùbá would say, we all cannot sleep and face the same direction. There's a whole world separating reckless writing from principled writing. When they collide, we leave bad feelings all around and that undermines friendship and even good sense. 

Adeshina Afolayan 


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On Wednesday, June 5, 2019, 6:22 PM, Chidi Anthony Opara, FIIM <chidi.opara@gmail.com> wrote:

"Is it not possible for the group to have chosen a name that does not suggest an umbrella organisation representing Nigerian diaspora academics?"(Oluwatoyin Adepoju).

If a group of Nigerian poets decide, for example to form an association and name it "Nigerian Poets Association", without consulting me and decide to support the Buhari administration, which I do not support, it would not mean that the association is "fraudulent" and/or that what they are doing would be "wrong".

The best I can do is to come out and say that I am not associated with the association and that should end it!

I would not start some unnecesary arrogant postulations about the group being "fraudulent" and all that!

CAO.

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