Fela crowed, "I never tell you finish"
Of relevance :
Kamala Harris Breaks the Taboo on Running for President without a PlanTrump vs. Kamala on Inflation
Yesterday, still incensed, I complained to the encyclopaedia of Swedish and Nigerian matters, the Venerable Baba Salimonu Kadiri about this matter and demanded some input from him, but at the conclusion of our conversation he said that he was not going to "waste" his time. It sounded as if he was saying that he was not going to waste any of his precious spittle, maybe in tune with his namesake King Solomon's dictum @Mishlei - Proverbs 26 : 4-5
Somewhere down the line, in last night's conversation with the Baba, he did give this kind of food for thought : Keir Starmer won 33.8 per cent of the votes and it was declared a landslide victory …
It's not all and sundry that are easily mesmerised or manipulated by the deceptive words of the one selling the snake oil and that's why, furthermore, in reaction to the failed Nigerian presidential "aspirant" Dr. Ogbonnia's diatribe (pardonnez moi, I almost wrote "diarrhea") I should just like to observe that the USA Africa Dialogue Series is advertised as presenting "debates, data, news, and information about Africa, the African Diaspora, and global events as they relate to Africa, It is a Pan-African listserve that reaches the entire world, and focuses on issues of importance to Africa and its diaspora." and that since this series is a free zone avenue for expressing diverse opinions, that's more than enough reason to want to correct any wrong impression being conveyed by Dr. ( I almost wrote "Professor") Dr. Skc Ogbonnia's in my view rather misleading diatribe against our dearly beloved Jagaban ( I almost wrote "Ramban"// "RAMBAM" ) the one and only Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu the former two-term Governor of Lagos where he performed economic miracles of transformation, and with the people's hope that he could do something similar with the whole of the Federal Republic of Nigeria which was and is still badly in need of repairs, after a hard fought election contest he is now the current, democratically elected President of Nigeria - and predictably, apart from some of the unpatriotic sour grapes, we all wish him well. Somebody please say "Amen"
For some of the people in the USA Africa Dialogue Series, the USA is the gold standard when it comes to notions of democracy, LGBTQ rights, of course all that jazz, capitalism at its zenith etc. The premise is that everyone wants to be rich and that's one of the reasons why some Nigerians relocate to the US where the grass is greener, but - one of the down sides : unlike most parts of Africa North and South of the Sahara, where respect for elders is part of young peoples' (every generation's) upbringing, babies get it with their mother's milk, one gets the impression from the too much freedom of speech In the Great United States ( including the so called "Bible Belt") and in some of the best of the rest of the Wild West there is little regard when it comes to respecting the dignity of elders - always in danger of being violated as we all saw in respect of President Joe Biden (some people's father, grandfather, great grandfather, Great Patriarch) and just this morning I was shocked to read the content of this vile anti-Trump diatribe, of course, desperation fuelling the latest stage of the witch-hunt ( "persecution of a political opponent") is bound to elicit some reaction, hence this ill report that Trump Goes on Crazed, Violent Rant Calling for Death of His Enemies
Moshe was 80 years old when he led the Israelites out of egypt
Madiba Nelson Mandela was 75 years old when he became President of South Africa
Cyril Ramaphosa is 71
Benjamin Netanyahu is 74
Ismail Omar Gulleh of Djibouti is 76
Abdelmadjid Tennrune of Algeria is 78
Yowerri Museveni of Uganda is 79
Joseph Boakai of Liberia is 79
Nana Akufo-Addo of Ghana is 79
Teodoro Nguema Mbasogo of Equatorial Guinea is 81
Emmerson Mnangagwa of Zimbabwe is 81
Nangolo Mbuniba of Namibia is 82
Alassane Quattara of Ivory Coast is 82
On Tuesday 27 August 2024 at 23:39:50 UTC+2 cornelius...@gmail.com wrote:In the good old days ( before the divide and conquer and the Igbo-Yoruba rivalry) was there a standard procedure for e.g. deposing a sitting Oba because of alleged lacklustre performance, old age, insurmountable difficulties, dereliction of duty, incapacitation? Ignoramus would like to know.
Nowadays, there's always the opposition (losers in the last election) who along with their supporters and the networks of patronage that are their usual ethnic and financial strongholds, are always more than willing - as a collective - to gather around to show their solidarity , hopeful that as soon as possible they will replace whatever incumbent government with one that will shower them with the largesse that comes from those that they will vote into power and direct access to state coffers.
I daresay, there are a number of false assumptions and questionable analogies in the submission that SKC Ogbonnia has presented for our consideration.
No respect: Why does he make the case of USA's most famous, living Octogenarian Joe Biden the lychpin of his diatribe against our dear Presidential Elder Bola Ahmed Tinubu?
Is it because in his (SKC Ogbonnia's) political cosmology and in his political heaven ( inferiority complex?) Joe Biden's United States is his nearest planet, brightest constellation and role model from where to take inspiration, wisdom and direction as to what to do with the kind of leadership problem that he finds himself experiencing in Nigeria?
Is that why he has chosen to so conveniently ignore - or as his own first sign of forgetfulness / dementia, to not remember or to overlook the more glaring examples that are nearer at hand , that of 91-year old Paul Biya, the president of Cameroon, Nigeria's nearest neighbour to the east, Mr. Biya who has been in power (office) since 1982 and like Johnnie Walker is still going strong?
Is that why he also neglects to reference Robert Mugabe who after ruling Zimbabwe for 37 years was finally ousted by members of his own party in a coup in 2017, at the ripe old age of 92 years and 9 months ?
Ogbonnnia's reason could be that there's no reason for delving into ancient history in search of precedents, after all the case of Biden - now on vacation - is topical and fresh even in the Octogenarian's memory, but here are what I consider to be the false assumptions and questionable analogies 👍
The first three paragraph are nothing but vile ad hominem and accusations that are general in nature, both veiled and unveiled, " gross misrule ", "the height of dictatorship" and perhaps lately inspired by the diatribes against Trump from where he translates that malaise into what's happening on his home turf in Nigeria, he adds for good measure, that our dear Tinubu is " a threat to Nigeria's democracy" - "bad governance" supposed to resonate with his US-Democrat sympathisers, and finally again this kind of negative wishful thinking hinting at Biden's demise and disappearance, that President Tinubu's conundrum
"has roots in both his mental and physical conditions", and the last straw, Ogbonnia's ultimate cringing sycophancy makes you want to puke: " now is Tinubu's turn to emulate a good American example ( Biden's) for a change.", all in all the kind of uncle tom vocabulary that amounts to an impressive and formidable array on paper without any concrete tangible evidence to support that kind of petition to whoever it is that will be occupying the White House in the very near future.
What is he suggesting? That - God forbid - 72 year old President Tinubu is suffering from dementia?
Shamefully, Ogbonnia spends the next eight paragraphs trying to give the impression that he is the President's doctor and that he knows better than anybody else about President Tinubu's physical and mental state. In his final paragraph he finally degenerates into not making any sense and still wants to be taken seriously when he writes, " He ( Tinubu) has already proven why a vast majority of Nigerians rejected him at the election that brought him to power." If " a vast majority of Nigerians rejected him at the election that brought him to power" how then did he win the election? Your Ignoramus in Texas would like to know.
Augustine Togonu-Bickersteth was at least a lot more humble when he wrote, in one of his numerous takes on Mr. President in a genuine brother's keeper spirit sweetly recommending that Mr. President who spends so many hours at his desk, should please make sure that he gets enough rest
Of relevance to future diatribes on fuel subsidy, no fuel subsidy, and on the shameless demonization of Aliko Dangote etc,
Baba Kadiri expatiating on A PEOPLE BESET WITH BRAIN DARKER THAN UNREFINED CRUDE OIL?
On Tuesday 27 August 2024 at 16:01:13 UTC+2 News Updates wrote:Link: https://updatesonnews.substack.com/p/article-tinubus-turn-to-quietly-quit
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