Yes, you are right indeed, Okey Iheduru, for problematizing Moses' nice think-for-yourself parable! His (Oyebode's) is what the Yoruba people call the futile hindsight of the proverbial dog, who started hiding the butcher knife only after its ears have been chopped off! Oyebode's current position is emblematic of the psyche of the majority southwest elite, which was hellbent on the "anything-but-Jonathan" war chant only to discover the warlord it's rooting for is actually fighting on their enemy's side - whatever that means. But, to Oyebode's credit, at least he swallowed his pride. Many are still playing the ostrich game, hiding their heads in the sand. Let's see if those heads would still be attached to their necks when the Shakespearen "hurly-burly is done!" Thanks for your observation!
Michael O. Afoláyan
(Back in Exile)
On Wednesday, July 31, 2019, 2:56:26 AM MDT, Okey Iheduru <okeyiheduru@gmail.com> wrote:
Too late, fellows. Prof. Oyebode and all others now shedding crocodile tears and doing last-minute "mea culpa" were warned but hatred and vain hope of an imminent ethnic harvest blinded them all. The PMB effect will be with Nigeria over the next 50 years, if the country survives its current race to the precipice. By the way, American intelligence agencies predicted EVERYTHING that is currently happening--and that WILL HAPPEN-back in 2011, but Nigerians could care less. #BringBackCluless?
On Tue, 30 Jul 2019, 11:52 pm Moses Ochonu, <meochonu@gmail.com> wrote:
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"I voted for him in 2015; I took the trouble to join the queue and vote for him. I thought anything but Jonathan. Jonathan was clueless but now we got a worse person than Jonathan, so I didn't believe he deserved a second term. Some people taunted me for supporting him but I told them I was extremely sorry. ....
This man can't move Nigeria anywhere; the country is collapsing under him. It's the young people I feel sorry for"
—-Professor Akin Oyebode, emeritus professor of constitutional and international law, university of Lagos.
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