Ayo.
Brilliant as usual. I sent a message to a friend in WhatsApp some five days ago. It may bear relevance to the subject at hand. Here it is:
"I opened my mouth wide and it took too many minutes to close it after I read that the President said he did not support the Constitutional Conferences and that its report should rot on the shelves.
It reminded me of a film titled "A Bridge Too Far", which captured a battle scenario in the 2ndWorld War. Field Marshal Montgomery, the Allied Commander of the northern theatre of the war in Europe devised an ingenious strategy to finish the war by rushing troops and amour into Central Germany. The only way it could work was to capture the strategic Arhnem Bridge which was far behind German lines. What did Montgomery do? He parachuted lightly armed troop deep behind enemy lines and asked them to capture and hold the strategic Arhnem bridge so that troops and armour could pour over it into Germany. They landed and reached the bridge successfully and began the battle to cross it. Unknown to Field Marshal Montgomery and the Allies, a strong German Panza Division had arrived to take station in the village opposite just the previous day. This was a routine German deployment as they did not know of the Allied plan to take the Bridge.
The Allied fought courageously BUT they did not know that the powerful Panza tanks and howitzers were on the other side. The General who commanded the German Panza Division stood on a small hill and watched the lightly armed Allied troops storming the bridge with ferocious courage. He gently shook his head and said "OH, THE COURAGE OF FOOLS!". The rest is history. For the President of a country where Book Haram, Boko Fulani, Book Niger Delta, Book Biafra, Boko Odua, Book Muslim Extremism, Boko Hunger, Boko NEPA, Boko Petrol, Boko Oil Price and other Bokos are howling over her very existence, to so dismiss the conclusions of the last National Conference is like the Bridge Too Far war strategy. Nigeria needs urgent restructuring. Many people have heard me say this proverb: when you beat a drum too hard and for too long it will tear. A sense of Urgency, honesty, open mindedness, sincerity and extreme hard work is required to tackle the thick cloud of problems over Nigeria".
Thanks my Brother
David
Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless handheld from Glo Mobile.From: dapogundipe@yahoo.co.ukDate: Fri, 17 Jun 2016 15:02:53 +0100To: <ayo_olukotun@yahoo.com>Subject: June 12 QuestSir,Your article on the backpage of The Punch today refers.I have had an insistent concern that the gains of the 1993 elections and subsequent annulment; and the struggle thereafter have been mismanaged. And this you captured most succinctly in your article.Further, and this baffles me more, is that the characters who presently exist on the stage of governance were the ones who hitherto harangued on the concept of true federalism. Their present whispers (if not silence) are deafening.I started to become uncomfortable with their body language when in 2014 they insisted on not attending the Conference organised by the previous government. I thought it would have been an opportunity to lay out their concerns. Their supporters insisted they would hold a proper Conference on assumption of office.One year down the road, I see no such signs. It starts to seem they're equally birds of the same hue of political mismanagement.Femi Kuti would say... I sorry for Nigeria...Dapo OgundipeLagos, NigeriaSent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone.
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