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Prof. Wole Soyinka On Buhari - Read And Comment Objectively by taiwo3(m): 1:03am On May 28, 2013 |
(Very interesting read folks) WOLE SOYINKA ON BUHARI_________ _______________ _____________ This intervention has been provoked, not so much by the ambitions of General Muhammadu Buhari to return to power at the head of a democratic Nigeria, as by declarations of support from directions that leave one totally dumbfounded. It would appear that some, myself among them, had been overcomplacent about the magnitude of an ambition that seemed as preposterous as the late effort of General Ibrahim Babangida to aspire yet again to the honour of presiding over a society that truly seeks a democratic future. What one had dismissed was a rash of illusions, brought about by other political improbabilities that surround us, however, is being given an air of plausibility by individuals and groupings to which one had earlier attributed a sense of relevance of historic actualities. Recently, I published an article in the media, invoking the possible recourse to psychiatric explanation for some of the incongruities in conduct within national leadership. Now, to tell the truth, I have begun to seriously address the issue of which section of society requires the services of a psychiatrist. The contest for a seizure of rationality is now so polarized that I am quite reconciled to the fact it could be those of us on this side, not the opposing school of thought that ought to declare ourselves candidates for a lunatic asylum. So be it. While that decision hangs in the balance however, the forum is open. Let both sides continue to address our cases to the electorate, but also prepare to submit ourselves for psychiatric examination. The time being so close to electoral decision, we can understand the haste of some to resort to shortcuts. In the process however, we should not commit the error of opening the political space to any alternative whose curative touch to national afflictions have proven more deadly than the disease. In order to reduce the clutter in our options towards the forthcoming elections, we urge a beginning from what we do know, what we have undergone, what millions can verify, what can be sustained by evidence accessible even to the school pupil, the street hawker or a just- come visitor from outer space. Leaving Buhari aside for now, I propose a commencing exercise that should guide us along the path of elimination as we examine the existing register of would- be president. That initial exercise can be summed up in the following speculation: “If it were possible for Olusegun Obasanjo, the actual incumbent, to stand again for election, would you vote for him?” If the answer is “yes”, then of course all discussion is at an end. If the answer is ‘No’ however, then it follows that a choice of a successor made by Obasanjo should be assessed as hovering between extremely dangerous and an outright kiss of death. The degree of acceptability of such a candidate should also be inversely proportionate to the passion with which he or she is promoted by the would-be ‘godfather’. We do not lack for open evidence about Obasanjo’s passion in this respect. From Lagos to the USA, he has taken great pains to assure the nation and the world that the anointed NPN presidential flag bearer is guaranteed, in his judgment, to carry out his policies. Such an endorsement/ anointment is more than sufficient, in my view, for public acceptance or rejection. Yar’Adua’s candidature amounts to a terminal kiss from a moribund regime. Nothing against the person of this – I am informed – personable governor, but let him understand that in addition to the direct source of his emergence, the PDP, on whose platform he stands, represents the most harrowing of this nation’s nightmares over and beyond even the horrors of the Abacha regime. If he wishes to be considered on his own merit, now is time for him, as well as others similarly enmeshed, to exercise the moral courage that goes with his repudiation of that party, a dissociation from its past, and a pledge to reverse its menacing future. We shall find him an alternative platform on which to stand, and then have him present his credentials along those of other candidates engaged in forging a credible opposition alliance. Until then, let us bury this particular proposition and move on to a far graver, looming danger, personified in the history of General Buhari. The grounds on which General Buhari is being promoted as the alternative choice are not only shaky, but pitifully naive. History matters. Records are not kept simply to assist the weakness of memory, but to operate as guides to the future. Of course, we know that human beings change. What the claims of personality change or transformation impose on us is a rigorous inspection of the evidence, not wishful speculation or behind-the-scen es assurances. Public offence, crimes against a polity, must be answered in the public space, not in caucuses of bargaining. In Buhari, we have been offered no evidence of the sheerest prospect of change. On the contrary, all evident suggests that this is one individual who remains convinced that this is one ex- ruler that the nation cannot call to order. Buhari – need one remind anyone – was one of the generals who treated a Commission of Enquiry, the Oputa Panel, with unconcealed disdain. Like Babangida and Abdusalami, he refused to put in appearance even though complaints that were tabled against him involved a career of gross abuses of power and blatant assault on the fundamental human rights of the Nigerian citizenry. Prominent against these charges was an act that amounted to nothing less than judicial murder, the execution of a citizen under a retroactive decree. Does Decree 20 ring a bell? If not, then, perhaps the names of three youths – Lawal Ojuolape (30), Bernard Ogedengbe (29) and Bartholomew Owoh (26) do. To put it quite plainly, one of those three – Ogedengbe – was executed for a crime that did not carry a capital forfeit at the time it was committed. This was an unconscionable crime, carried out in defiance of the pleas and protests of nearly every sector of the Nigerian and international community – religious, civil rights, political, trade unions etc. Buhari and his sidekick and his partner-in-crim e, Tunde Idiagbon persisted in this inhuman act for one reason and one reason only: to place Nigerians on notice that they were now under an iron, inflexible rule, under governance by fear. The execution of that youthful innocent – for so he was, since the punishment did not exist at the time of commission – was nothing short of premeditated murder, for which the perpetrators should normally stand trial upon their loss of immunity. Are we truly expected to forget this violation of our entitlement to security as provided under existing laws? And even if our sensibilities have become blunted by succeeding seasons of cruelty and brutality, if power itself had so coarsened the sensibilities also of rulers and corrupted their judgment, what should one rightly expect after they have been rescued from the snare of power” At the very least, a revaluation, leading hopefully to remorse, and its expression to a wronged society. At the very least, such a revaluation should engender reticence, silence. In the case of Buhari, it was the opposite. Since leaving office he has declared in the most categorical terms that he had no regrets over this murder and would do so again. Human life is inviolate. The right to life is the uniquely fundamental right on which all other rights are based. The crime that General Buhari committed against the entire nation went further however, inconceivable as it might first appear. That crime is one of the most profound negations of civic being. Not content with hammering down the freedom of expression in general terms, Buhari specifically forbade all public discussion of a return to civilian, democratic rule. Let us constantly applaud our media – those battle scarred professionals did not completely knuckle down. They resorted to cartoons and oblique, elliptical references to sustain the people’s campaign for a time-table to democratic rule. Overt agitation for a democratic time table however remained rigorously suppressed – military dictatorship, and a specifically incorporated in Buhari and Idiagbon was here to stay. To deprive a people of volition in their own political direction is to turn a nation into a colony of slaves. Buhari enslaved the nation. He gloated and gloried in a master-slave relation to the millions of its inhabitants. It is astonishing to find that the same former slaves, now free of their chains, should clamour to be ruled by one who not only turned their nation into a slave plantation, but forbade them any discussion of their condition. So Tai Solarin is already forgotten? Tai who stood at street corners, fearlessly distributing leaflets that took up the gauntlet where the media had dropped it. Tai who was incarcerated by that regime and denied even the medication for his asthmatic condition? Tai did not ask to be sent for treatment overseas; all he asked was his traditional medicine that had proved so effective after years of struggle with asthma! Nor must we omit the manner of Buhari coming to power and the pattern of his ‘corrective’ rule. Shagari’s NPN had already run out of steam and was near universally detested – except of course by the handful that still benefited from that regime of profligacy and rabid fascism. Responsibility for the national condition lay squarely at the door of the ruling party, obviously, but against whom was Buhari’s coup staged? Judging by the conduct of that regime, it was not against Shagari’s government but against the opposition. The head of government, on whom primary responsibility lay, was Shehu Shagari. Yet that individual was kept in cozy house detention in Ikoyi while his powerless deputy, Alex Ekwueme, was locked up in Kiri-kiri prisons. Such was the Buhari notion of equitable apportionment of guilt and/or responsibility. And then the cascade of escapes of the wanted, and culpable politicians. Manhunts across the length and breadth of the nation, roadblocks everywhere and borders tight as steel zip locks. Lo and behold, the chairman of the party, Chief Akinloye, strolled out coolly across the border. Richard Akinjide, Legal Protector of the ruling party, slipped out with equal ease. The Rice Minister, Umaru Dikko, who declared that Nigerians were yet to eat from dustbins – escaped through the same airtight dragnet. The clumsy attempt to crate him home was punishment for his ingratitude, since he went berserk when, after waiting in vain, he concluded that the coup had not been staged, after all, for the immediate consolidation of the party of extreme right- wing vultures, but for the military hyenas. The case of the overbearing Secretary-Gener al of the party, Uba Ahmed, was even more noxious. Uba Ahmed was out of the country at the time. Despite the closure of the Nigerian airspace, he compelled the pilot of his plane to demand special landing permission, since his passenger load included the almighty Uba Ahmed. Of course, he had not known of the change in his status since he was airborne. The delighted airport commandant, realizing that he had a much valued fish swimming willingly into a waiting net, approved the request. Uba Ahmed disembarked into the arms of a military guard and was promptly clamped in detention. Incredibly, he vanished a few days after and reappeared in safety overseas. Those whose memories have become calcified should explore the media coverage of that saga. Buhari was asked to explain the vanished act of this much prized quarry and his response was one of the most arrogant levity. Coming from one who had shot his way into power on the slogan of ‘dis’pline’, it was nothing short of impudent. Shall we revisit the tragicomic series of trials that landed several politicians several lifetimes in prison? Recall, if you please, the ‘judicial’ processes undergone by the septuagenarian Chief Adekunle Ajasin. He was arraigned and tried before Buhari’s punitive tribunal but acquitted. Dissatisfied, Buhari ordered his re-trial. Again, the Tribunal could not find this man guilty of a single crime, so once again he was returned for trial, only to be acquitted of all charges of corruption or abuse of office. Was Chief Ajasin thereby released? No! He was ordered detained indefinitely, simply for the crime of winning an election and refusing to knuckle under Buhari’s reign of terror. The conduct of the Buhari regime after his coup was not merely one of double, triple, multiple standards but a cynical travesty of justice. Audu Ogbeh, currently chairman of the Action Congress was one of the few figures of rectitude within the NPN. Just as he has done in recent times with the PDP, he played the role of an internal critic and reformer, warning, dissenting, and setting an example of probity within his ministry. For that crime he spent months in unjust incarceration. Guilty by association? Well, if that was the motivating yardstick of the administration of the Buhari justice, then it was most selectively applied. The utmost severity of the Buhari-Idiagbon justice was especially reserved either for the opposition in general, or for those within the ruling party who had showed the sheerest sense of responsibility and patriotism. Shall I remind this nation of Buhari’s deliberate humiliating treatment of the Emir of Kano and the Oni of Ife over their visit to the state of Israel? I hold no brief for traditional rulers and their relationship with governments, but insist on regarding them as entitled to all the rights, privileges and responsibilitie s of any Nigerian citizen. This royal duo went to Israel on their private steam and private business. Simply because the Buhari regime was pursuing some antagonistic foreign policy towards Israel, a policy of which these traditional rulers were not a part, they were subjected on their return to a treatment that could only be described as a head masterly chastisement of errant pupils. Since when, may one ask, did a free citizen of the Nigerian nation require the permission of a head of state to visit a foreign nation that was willing to offer that tourist a visa.? One is only too aware that some Nigerians love to point to Buhari’s agenda of discipline as the shining jewel in his scrap- iron crown. To inculcate discipline however, one must lead by example, obeying laws set down as guides to public probity. Example speaks louder than declarations, and rulers cannot exempt themselves from the disciplinary strictures imposed on the overall polity, especially on any issue that seeks to establish a policy for public well-being. The story of the thirty something suitcases – it would appear that they were even closer to fifty – found unavoidable mention in my recent memoirs, YOU MUST SET FORTH AT DOWN, written long before Buhari became spoken of as a credible candidate. For the exercise of a changeover of the national currency, the Nigerian borders – air, sea and land – had been shut tight. Nothing was supposed to move in or out, not even cattle egrets. Yet a prominent camel was allowed through that needle’s eye. Not only did Buhari dispatch his aide-de-camp, Jokolo – later to become an emir – to facilitate the entry of those cases, he ordered the redeployment – as I later discovered – of the Customs Officer who stood firmly against the entry of the contravening baggage. That officer, the former Vice-president is now a rival candidate to Buhari, but has somehow, in the meantime, earned a reputation that totally contradicts his conduct at the time. Wherever the truth lies, it does not redound to the credibility of the dictator of that time, General Buhari whose word was law, but whose allegiances were clearly negotiable. 11 Likes |
Re: Prof. Wole Soyinka On Buhari - Read And Comment Objectively by HARDDON: 1:12am On May 28, 2013 |
and you xpect people to read all these? nigerian history couldnt be that long 1 Like |
Re: Prof. Wole Soyinka On Buhari - Read And Comment Objectively by madamoringo(f): 1:53am On May 28, 2013 |
HARDDON: and you xpect people to read all these? How many years ago was this write up? I don't hope brief for Buhari but in a matchup with the corrupt retardeen monster, he wins completely! |
Re: Prof. Wole Soyinka On Buhari - Read And Comment Objectively by Gamji007: 4:43am On May 28, 2013 |
tai wo: (Very interesting read folks) Honestly, I have more important things to read than to go through this old piece. |
Re: Prof. Wole Soyinka On Buhari - Read And Comment Objectively by Nobody: 4:51am On May 28, 2013 |
Soyinka does not have a great record in fighting corruption / opposing corrupt leaders such as IBB and Thief Obasanjo |
Re: Prof. Wole Soyinka On Buhari - Read And Comment Objectively by Idokojimmy: 5:06am On May 28, 2013 |
Those who attempt to persuade us to embrace Buhari often allude to the past. They hing their argument on discipline and hiss war against corruptiion. Here Soyinka haas revisited history, reminding Nigerians the Evil buhari perpetrated as the head of state. Summarily, Soyinka has condemned Buhari to his retirement. He is reminded that we are now in a democratic system, a system that is alien to his nature. We can't be dragged backward. We are sorry, we can't help him 11 Likes |
Re: Prof. Wole Soyinka On Buhari - Read And Comment Objectively by Wadeoye(m): 6:03am On May 28, 2013 |
What's Wole Soyinka saying? Can he share with us sensible sins of Buhari other than his refusal to appear before Oputa panel? Where is the recommendations of Oputa panel today? Was it implemented? Was it Buhari that said it shouldn't be implemented? Other panels of enquiries so far set up, where is their recommendations? Prof should understand this is democracy - hence he should stop taking us back to military era and making people think a democracy will be run like a military government. And as far as I am concerned, Buhari military experience was far better than most government before and after it. A government we couldn't trace any corruption to. A government whose only sin was been angry with the reckless of leaders and indiscipline in the society. Will Wole Soyinka vote for GEJ? I expect Wole Soyinka to do better than this. 5 Likes |
Re: Prof. Wole Soyinka On Buhari - Read And Comment Objectively by doncaster(m): 6:12am On May 28, 2013 |
@wadeoye, How can the Oputa panel findings implemented when the key figures did not appear. Ok from the write up you only saw the disregard of Buhari towards the Oputa pane but you did not see the three names of your kingsmen that was murdered by Buhari. You must be a blind bat. If this article is against GEJ this thread must have reached 20 pages by now. 10 Likes |
Re: Prof. Wole Soyinka On Buhari - Read And Comment Objectively by Nobody: 6:26am On May 28, 2013 |
whats the difference between this write up and that of ffk and el rufai........ i tot this many was more busy than this. he should go back to his plays and poems joo |
Re: Prof. Wole Soyinka On Buhari - Read And Comment Objectively by thelonestranger: 6:31am On May 28, 2013 |
Wadeoye: What's Wole Soyinka saying? You are a dumb ar$e with exceptional comprehension challenges. For your obvious mental challenges I will summarise the essay: Buhari is a : - murderer - liar - terrorist - despot - thief - all round criminal - ba$tard,muthafuckah, a$$hole ... 9 Likes |
Re: Prof. Wole Soyinka On Buhari - Read And Comment Objectively by Nobody: 6:41am On May 28, 2013 |
Soyinka is talking from human right perspective. Buhari abused human rights. U cannot claim to be discipline and be brutalizing people. That is hypocrisy. Wadeoye: What's Wole Soyinka saying? 4 Likes |
Re: Prof. Wole Soyinka On Buhari - Read And Comment Objectively by Wadeoye(m): 6:45am On May 28, 2013 |
thelonestranger: Tell that to villagers in your region. You can't keep talking about a panel of enquiry whose eventual recommendations was not taken seriously even by the person who set it up. I want Wole Soyinka to begin to list sharp practices by Buhari government. Money stolen by who and traced to whose account. Self enrichment as we see with other government despite being a military government. The government was a military government which wanted to stop the evil that is killing us today. Kid, I have a flight to catch... Will check back your ranting later in the day. 4 Likes |
Re: Prof. Wole Soyinka On Buhari - Read And Comment Objectively by saintneo(m): 6:48am On May 28, 2013 |
Wadeoye: What's Wole Soyinka saying?are you not aware that Nigeria was under a Democratic dispensation before Buhari truncated it. Most Buhari supporters always rely on Buhari's war against indiscipline; however, they close their eyes to multiple standards on discipline and justice executed by Buhari. Buhari is an abuser of power, Buhari cannot rule, Buhari must not rule. 5 Likes |
Re: Prof. Wole Soyinka On Buhari - Read And Comment Objectively by talktimi(m): 6:50am On May 28, 2013 |
....."The head of government, on whom primary responsibility lay, was Shehu Shagari. Yet that individual was kept in cozy house detention in Ikoyi while his powerless deputy, Alex Ekwueme, was locked up in Kiri-kiri prisons...." I wasn't too surprised when I came across this part of the article, Buhari IS a tribal bigot if there ever was one and I can't be deceived into supporting this thing like some people here. 4 Likes |
Re: Prof. Wole Soyinka On Buhari - Read And Comment Objectively by bobthebuilder99(m): 6:52am On May 28, 2013 |
1. This is very, very old. 2. I am an APC supporter, and I think Buhari needs to retire from politics. This man has run for election OVER, and OVER, again. He has lost every time! The man hasn't run even a small local government area since the 1980's. It is time for him to let it go. Seriously, his arrogance is astounding. I honestly hope that someone younger, and someone who actually has experience governing in the modern era, runs under the APC banner. Fashola, Okorocha, and others are 1000x better than this desperate Buhari. If Buhari runs, it is obvious to every Nigerian that he will lose again. Especially because of Boko Haram in the North. It is also obvious that the North does NOT have a larger population than the South. If that were true, there would be a million signs of it, but NONE of them exist. Ask anyone who has been to Kano, Lagos, Port Harcourt, and even Akwa Ibom. Which city is larger, and which city is smaller. EVERYONE WILL RANK KANO NEAR THE BOTTOM!!! It is a small city. Lagos State alone has 20+ million inhabitants, so if the North is more populous they must have at least ONE CITY with a population close to that. They have ZERO of them. All the big cities are in the South. Every. Single. One. Of. Them. Kano is the only exception. There are just so many little signs and details that would make it obvious that the North is more populated, but all those little signs and details point to the South being more populated instead. Who am I kidding though. Some peeps will be here soon to shout SAI BUHARI in a few moments. Each one of them is probably over 50. 4 Likes |
Re: Prof. Wole Soyinka On Buhari - Read And Comment Objectively by doncaster(m): 6:56am On May 28, 2013 |
Come to think of it i tot i read from Gbawe somewhere that WS has joined the train of "progressives" that include Buhari and Tinubu. 1 Like |
Re: Prof. Wole Soyinka On Buhari - Read And Comment Objectively by Wadeoye(m): 7:06am On May 28, 2013 |
doncaster: Come to think of it i tot i read from Gbawe somewhere that WS has joined the train of "progressives" that include Buhari and Tinubu. And who is Wole Soyinka in South West? Who followed him when he registered a party and attempted to contest? Wole Soyinka, though a professor, doesn't still understand the difference between an academic scholar and a leader. People follow leaders willingly while some people think they can become leaders by trying to win argument using big grammar. It doesn't work that way. 1 Like |
Re: Prof. Wole Soyinka On Buhari - Read And Comment Objectively by Temismith(f): 7:23am On May 28, 2013 |
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Re: Prof. Wole Soyinka On Buhari - Read And Comment Objectively by yuzedo: 7:23am On May 28, 2013 |
Bookmarked for later. Can't start my day with lengthy & thought-provoking write-ups. |
Re: Prof. Wole Soyinka On Buhari - Read And Comment Objectively by Nobody: 7:29am On May 28, 2013 |
Obviously the article was written few years back but the MESSAGE is still VERY RELEVANT. For those who feign RECEPTIVE APHASIA, below are important quotes from the article: 1 "Buhari – need one remind anyone – was one of the generals who treated a Commission of Enquiry, the Oputa Panel, with unconcealed disdain. He (Buhari) refused to put in appearance even though complaints that were tabled against him involved a career of gross abuses of power and blatant assault on the fundamental human rights of the Nigerian citizenry" 2 "Does Decree 20 ring a bell? If not, then, perhaps the names of three youths – Lawal Ojuolape(30), Bernard Ogedengbe (29) and Bartholomew Owoh (26) do. To put it quite plainly, one of those three – Ogedengbe – was executed for a crime that did not carry a capital forfeit at the time it was committed. This was an unconscionable crime, carried out in defiance of the pleas and protests of nearly every sector of the Nigerian and international community – religious, civil rights, political, trade unions etc" 3 "Not content with hammering down the freedom of expression in general terms, Buhari specifically forbade all public discussion of a return to civilian, democratic rule" 4 "Buhari enslaved the nation. He gloated and gloried in a master-slave relation to the millions of its inhabitants. It is astonishing to find that the same former slaves, now free of their chains, should clamour to be ruled by one who not only turned their nation into a slave plantation, but forbade them any discussion of their condition" 5 "So Tai Solarin is already forgotten? Tai who stood at street corners, fearlessly distributing leaflets that took up the gauntlet where the media had dropped it. Tai who was incarcerated by that regime and denied even the medication for his asthmatic condition? Tai did not ask to be sent for treatment overseas; all he asked was his traditional medicine that had proved so effective after years of struggle with asthma!" 6 "The head of government, on whom primary responsibility lay, was Shehu Shagari. Yet that individual was kept in cozy house detention in Ikoyi while his powerless deputy, Alex Ekwueme, was locked up in Kiri-kiri prisons. Such was the Buhari notion of equitable apportionment of guilt and/or responsibility" 7 "The Rice Minister, Umaru Dikko, who declared that Nigerians were yet to eat from dustbins – escaped through the same airtight dragnet. The clumsy attempt to crate him home was punishment for his ingratitude, since he went berserk when, after waiting in vain, he concluded that the coup had not been staged, after all, for the immediate consolidation of the party of extreme right- wing vultures, but for the military hyenas" 8 "Recall, if you please, the ‘judicial’ processes undergone by the septuagenarian Chief Adekunle Ajasin. He was arraigned and tried before Buhari’s punitive tribunal but acquitted. Dissatisfied, Buhari ordered his re-trial. Again, the Tribunal could not find this man guilty of a single crime, so once again hewas returned for trial, only to be acquitted of all charges of corruption or abuse of office. Was Chief Ajasin thereby released? No! He was ordered detained indefinitely, simply for the crime of winning an election and refusing to knuckle under Buhari’s reign of terror" 9 "The story of the thirty something suitcases – it would appear that they were even closer to fifty – found unavoidable mention in my recent memoirs, YOU MUST SET FORTH AT DOWN, written long before Buhari became spoken of as a credible candidate. For the exercise of a changeover of the national currency, the Nigerian borders – air, sea and land – had been shut tight. Nothing was supposed to move in or out, not even cattle egrets. Yet a prominent camel was allowed through that needle’s eye. Not only did Buhari dispatch his aide-de-camp, Jokolo – later to become an emir – to facilitate the entry of those cases, he ordered the redeployment – as I later discovered – of the Customs Officer who stood firmly against the entry of the contravening baggage" 10 "The grounds on which General Buhari is being promoted as the alternative choice are not only shaky, but pitifully naive. HISTORY MATTERS. Records are not kept simply to assist the weakness of memory, but to operate as guides to the future" 8 Likes |
Re: Prof. Wole Soyinka On Buhari - Read And Comment Objectively by tomakint: 7:44am On May 28, 2013 |
Buhari finally taken to the cleaners as a hardcore, rigid, sadistic, power hungry, despotic RULER! Despite this eye-opener, some Yoruba tribalist will still say 'Soyinka is not Yoruba' 4 Likes |
Re: Prof. Wole Soyinka On Buhari - Read And Comment Objectively by AbuMikey(m): 7:48am On May 28, 2013 |
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Re: Prof. Wole Soyinka On Buhari - Read And Comment Objectively by doncaster(m): 7:48am On May 28, 2013 |
Wadeoye:Now WS is nobody in the south west hahahahaha you people are something else. Ok when gbawe celebrated here that WS has joined the "progressive" he was somebody but now he took one of the progresives to the cleaners he become nobody. At this rate Tinubu will turn to nobody very soon. 4 Likes |
Re: Prof. Wole Soyinka On Buhari - Read And Comment Objectively by moderatorr: 7:48am On May 28, 2013 |
buhari's ghosts of bloody dogs and baboons are haunting him 4 Likes |
Re: Prof. Wole Soyinka On Buhari - Read And Comment Objectively by bobthebuilder99(m): 7:58am On May 28, 2013 |
doncaster: Now WS is nobody in the south west hahahahaha you people are something else. Ok when gbawe celebrated here that WS has joined the "progressive" he was somebody but now he took one of the progresives to the cleaners he become nobody. At this rate Tinubu will turn to nobody very soon. Who cares about Gbawe, or Wole Soyinka? Neither of them is going to be running under the APC banner. The real problem is that the North is obsessed with a Buhari Presidency, even though the rest of the country has said 1000 times that they don't want him to lead. |
Re: Prof. Wole Soyinka On Buhari - Read And Comment Objectively by thelastpope10: 9:03am On May 28, 2013 |
Wadeoye: What's Wole Soyinka saying? So murder is not a sensible sin? Nepotism is not a sensible sin? Has OBJ or GEJ ever been indicted by a court of law of corruption? You are a sycophant to a fault... 4 Likes |
Re: Prof. Wole Soyinka On Buhari - Read And Comment Objectively by thelastpope10: 9:05am On May 28, 2013 |
Wadeoye: Yeah right! A leader is one who collects all the monies of his state and shares part of it to you hungry followers. Why wouldnt anyone follow someone like that willingly? You got that right... 2 Likes |
Re: Prof. Wole Soyinka On Buhari - Read And Comment Objectively by taiwo3(m): 10:01am On May 28, 2013 |
If u want to hide anything from a black man, put it into writing he will neva find it.. Lazy US HARDDON: and you xpect people to read all these? 2 Likes |
Re: Prof. Wole Soyinka On Buhari - Read And Comment Objectively by lacasa: 10:13am On May 28, 2013 |
tai wo: (Very interesting read folks) Who, do you expect to read this? 1 Like |
Re: Prof. Wole Soyinka On Buhari - Read And Comment Objectively by Feraz(m): 10:22am On May 28, 2013 |
^^^of course, you're not going to read because it is Buhari but once it is GEJ, you'll read every piece of it and even insult him . . . . . 2 Likes |
Re: Prof. Wole Soyinka On Buhari - Read And Comment Objectively by Paschal007: 10:22am On May 28, 2013 |
.The execution of that youthful innocent – for so he was, since the punishment did not exist at the time of commission - was nothing short of premeditated murder, for which the perpetrators should normally stand trial upon their loss of immunity.I always knew buhari was and still a murderer. His penchant for young blood obviously didn't start today. How can you murder a youth when punishment of the crime does not exist at the time? Buhari specifically forbade all public discussion of a return to civilian, democratic rule.and now he wants to rule in a democratic setting he once truncated? . It is astonishing to find that the same former slaves, now free of their chains, should clamour to be ruled by one who not only turned their nation into a slave plantation, but forbade them any discussion of their condition.It's really astonishing to say the least. Could be Stockholm syndrome. 2 Likes |
Re: Prof. Wole Soyinka On Buhari - Read And Comment Objectively by nairalad: 10:43am On May 28, 2013 |
lacasa: ^ And you had to quote the whole write up before asking this? 1 Like |
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