Thursday, March 2, 2023

Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Today's Quote

chidi, what is the far right rhetoric? what does he say?
ken

kenneth harrow

professor emeritus

dept of english

michigan state university

517 803-8839

harrow@msu.edu

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Sent: Thursday, March 2, 2023 2:24 PM
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Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Today's Quote
 
Mazi Cornelius,

Peter Obi is only in the Labour Party to contest election. He has no ideological bond with the left leaning party.

If Atiku of PDP, a right wing party, had won the 2019 Presidential Election and was sworn in, Obi would have been rounding up as Vice-president in that PDP administration.

If also the PDP had given him the presidential ticket, he would have contested this election on the platform of the right leaning party.

On personal level, Mr. Obi have been a wealthy importer of finished goods for decades.

He however resorted to far right rhetorics to garner the support of the large impressionable youth population and the rest of the masses, majority of whom are hit by the current economic hardship in the country.

-CAO.

On Thursday, March 2, 2023, Cornelius Hamelberg <corneliushamelberg@gmail.com> wrote:

How are the mighty fallen ! 


Re - "Peter Obi, in my opinion, can be likened to Donald Trump of U.S.A, Marine Le Pen of France and other far right rhetoricians in Germany and other places." ( Chidi Anthony Opara)


These are very sensitive times for bona fide Igbo poet Chidi of Imo State, the world and Nigeria to be making such an atrocious statement about our venerable Peter Obi, Igboland's political heavyweight champion who, no kidding and no rigging, garnered more than 90% of the votes in his ethnic enclaves of Abia, Imo, Anambra (nearly 100%) and Enugu  - and, of course, Tony Adepoju and Dele Momodu's Edo state formerly the so-called " Midwest"  which was Ojukwu's first major land grab/conquest/area of annexation/occupation/ area of molestation/colony - and lest we forget Obi also raised his flag in Lagos, deemed by some partisan occupiers as a " no man's land" but we thank God, Lagos is still under the Federal umbrella….


Now imagine if Baba Kadiri had said, "Peter Obi, in my opinion, can be likened to Donald Trump of U.S.A, Marine Le Pen of France and other far right rhetoricians in Germany and other places." 


Would Baba Kadiri not have been accused of " Igbophobia " ?  

And likening Obi to that particular French woman? 

Another transgender issue?

Another scandal: In the Closet of the Vatican: Power, Homosexuality, Hypocrisy?


Chidi compares Obi to far-right rhetoricians in Germany ( you mean like Hitler?) and other places ( you mean Mussolini?)


 It sounds like Chdi has traversed the vast terrain, as Adepoju would say, in time & space from Hosanna, to crucify him - and indeed such imagery is not lost on Obi who is neither a Roman Gladiator nor a Roman Senator who says to the 23rd backstabber Chidi, on his very last day  " Et tu Chidi? ". Indeed Obi is neither a Roman gladiator nor a Roman senator, or Julius Caesar,  for  Obi is a Roman Catholic, probably born again. 


In the political wilderness ( jungle?), "To suffer one's death and be reborn is not easy" ?


When Chidi speaks like that it means that we don't have to look any further for his self-exonerating or self-effacing answer to Ojogbon Falola's query, calling into question Chidi's political competence: " Do poets understand politicians?"


With regard to Chidi's comparing  a supposedly left-wing Labour Party leader Obi to "Donald Trump of U.S.A, Marine Le Pen of France and other far right rhetoricians in Germany and other places", I'll just say this: Age-wise, Kperogi  himself no spring chicken is hitherto one of Obi's wonderful fan had this to say about his Obi: "Obi was Atiku's running mate in 2019 and was a PDP presidential aspirant until it became apparent that he wouldn't win the party's nomination, which made him to suddenly move to the Labour Party whose ideology is diametrically at variance with his."


Now we eagerly await the first in a series of postmortems that Benue State's grieving  Moses Ochonu will be shortly churning out. We expect that the learned professor will be answering the examination question that we for him in the contemporary political history paper: What happened? 


 I have already listened to my man  Mr Macaroni extolling the Nigerian youths on Twitter this morning. You've got to be very intelligent with even higher scores in emotional intelligence just like Mr. Macaroni to be a comedian ( unlike that clown Joe Biden & NATO's "boy-boy"  Zelensky) so my question to Mr. Macaroni is how come there was only 29% voter turnout this last election. 


Anyone who is not currenltý befuddled by gogoro knows that Brother Buhari won the 2019 Presidential elections with a strong showing of over 15 million votes…


Btw, I like Biko for the same reasons


Lastly, there's hope yet for Peter Obi, he has time, if he wants, to get cracking with forming a real Labour Party ….


Nuff said. I hate ideology….



On Wednesday, 1 March 2023 at 07:10:39 UTC+1 Chidi Anthony Opara, FIIM, CDOA wrote:
Oga TF,

I am not running away, no need for that. I just don't like answering questions asked for their (dramatic) effects.

Peter Obi, in my opinion, can be likened to Donald Trump of U.S.A, Marine Le Pen of France and other far right rhetoricians in Germany and other places.

-CAO.

On Tuesday, February 28, 2023, Toyin Falola <toyin...@austin.utexas.edu> wrote:
What is Far Right in Nigeria?
Where are you running away to?
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Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2023 3:45:23 PM

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Oga TF,

If this were not a rhetorical question, I would have tried to provide an answer.

Regards,

-CAO.

On Tuesday, February 28, 2023, Toyin Falola <toyin...@austin.utexas.edu> wrote:

Dear sir:

What does "Far Right" mean as applied to Nigeria?

You people have started—you borrow concepts from somewhere else and like a bricklayer holding a brick, the man under the building, throwing it up to me to catch.

And dear sir,

What is Near Right?

TF

 

From: usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com> on behalf of Chidi Anthony Opara, FIIM, CDOA <chidi...@gmail.com>
Date: Tuesday, February 28, 2023 at 10:21 AM
To: USA African Dialogue Series <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com>
Subject: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Today's Quote

Far right rhetorics are proving to be great instruments of political mobilization world wide. It succeeded partially in U.S.A, nearly succeeded in Germany and France. It just got experimented in Nigeria with near success.

 

-Chidi Anthony Opara (CAO)



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