We've heard it said many times: If the hole has gotten to your shoulder level, perhaps it's time to stop digging.
Prof. Aluko's nicely-packaged intellectual obfuscation continues. Read/hear this:
"In fact, an official at NUC and another close adviser of GEJ later told me that there was serious argument in presidential circles as to whether to retain my name in the list since I was said to be a known APC sympathizer nominated by an APC governor - the only one of the entire 12 New Universities. Common sense prevailed, particularly when the GEJ adviser revealed that my mother was Ijaw, and Otuoke would be home for me." --Prof. Bolaji Aluko
FACTS:
1. Prof. Aluko was appointed VC, FU, Otuoke in February 2011.
2. APC, Nigeria's ruling party, was founded on February 6th, 2013--a full two years after Prof. Aluko had become VC at FU, Otuoke!
3. In 2011, Dr. J. Kayode Fayemi was an ACN Governor of Ekiti State and a staunch stalwart of the anti-GEJ/anti-PDP Southwest Nigerian machine.
4. Dr. Kayo became an APC Governor in 2019--about 8 long years after Prof. Aluko became VC, FU, Otuoke and 4 years after Prof. Aluko had left that position!
5. The earliest date Prof. Aluko could have become a card-carrying member, closet member, or sympathizer of APC would have been 2013. Yet, he claims that his supposed nomination as VC by Dr. Kayode was almost imperilled by his sympathies for an APC that didn't exist in November 2010!
6. The truth is that President Goodluck Jonathan did not know, vet, or participate in the appointment of the VCs of any of the 8 universities he established. Period!
QUESTIONS
1. Was Prof. Aluko at his intellectual obfuscation game again when he claimed that "In fact, an official at NUC and another close adviser of GEJ later told me that there was serious argument in presidential circles as to whether to retain my name in the list since I was said to be a known APC sympathizer nominated by an APC governor - the only one of the entire 12 New Universities"? (cf. Facts 1, 2, 3, and 4 above).
2. The last thing Aso Villa would have done in 2010/2011 is to seek Dr. Kayode's opinion or take nominations from him regarding the VC candidate for any university (new or old) anywhere in Nigeria. Period! So, did Prof. Aluko mix up his facts and dates; or is this another clever attempt at pulling wool over the readers' eyes about how he got his VC-ship, yet again?
3. Can Prof. Aluko's slickly canned "merit-based" account of his appointment as VC, FU, Otuoke be complete without detailing the role of the "official at NUC" in his appointment, as well as his kinship with that "official at NUC"?
4. Were there other equally well-qualified Ekiti professors who lost out in the VC appointment because they didn't have a nepotistic relationship with the person (not Gov. Kayode or GEJ) that offered or facilitated the offer of the job to Prof. Aluko?
5. Prof. Aluko lived and worked in GEJ's backyard as a beneficiary of his (GEJ's) benevolence, irrespective of his academic and administrative creds. Throughout 2013-2015 period, Prof. Aluko spent more time and energy than he did on his VC-ship churning out almost daily a barrage of propaganda "charts and tables" and "analysis" dressed up as "facts" from The Muse which he distributed widely to his vast unsuspecting networks (including the USA-Africa Dialogue forum) and GEJ's APC opponents and attack dogs who voraciously consumed and weaponized these "intellectual analysis" to bring down "clueless" GEJ. So, was Prof. Aluko being truthful when he claimed that " 'I could not have been "one of those who helped bring to power the destroyer now in office" because as a public servant VC in GEJ's hometown during the period, I was very careful not to run any partisan political commentary and was not active in the APC' "?
Finally, Prof. Aluko wrote earlier: "I was never a throbbing admirer of Buhari - no single write-up by me promoted him - but while he was certainly not an economic guru, his reputation then for incorruptibility and security credentials fueled a wait-and-see attitude in 2015. It has been a major disappointment. He is leaving soon, very soon." Of course, there's absolutely nothing President Buhari has done or has not done since 2015 that Nigerians were not warned about (including in this forum), but Prof. Aluko and his co-travellers had their eyes too focused on the impending ethnic harvest to bother about such "cat-whistles ... [that] are of no moment."
Unfortunately, the hordes are back at work again marketing another Third Mainland Bridge built on maggot-infested stilts as "a democrat," just as these "world-class intellectuals" sold a certified ethno-religious bigot and fiendishly corrupt hypocrite to gullible Nigerians and the world as a "reformed democrat" in 2014-2015. Guess what? These same "pro-democracy activists" who no longer malign everyone else as "the wailing wailers," will be the first to do a mea culpa by the time another Savior in Depends underwear insists he can--and must--rule what's left of Nigeria by "the destroyer now in office" from a convalescent home in London after 2023!
As in 2014-2015, all the evidence against such a self-defeatist blind ethnic project would have been there, hidden in plain sight!
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