Hello Mr. President, How Market? By Gbenro
Olajuyigbe
Ambassadors of corruption are parading
themselves as "Transformation Ambassadors",
dancing ‘Skeleu’ with their ‘Dagon’ who has
forgotten, as in Chinua Achebe’s words, that
his palm kernel was cracked by sheer
benevolence.’ Biting the fingers that fed him,
forgetting that those who bite feeding fingers
often end up licking the boots that will kick
them.
BY GBENRO OLAJUYIGBE
JAN 10, 2015
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‘A n age is called Dark, not because light fails
to shine but because people refuse to see it.’-
James A. Michener
Anywhere, whether on the main streets or on
the cyber streets you turn to in Nigeria today
there is one loud but shameless noise of
celebration in the air. People are rejoicing!
Celebrating; naked and unashamed. Virtues
have died.
Values are already in the grave. Come on,
let’s celebrate! It’s their Funeral! Yes, funeral
of values and virtues. That is the reason for
the celebration. "No thought, no sense, no
break! Joro-jara-joro" as Fela has sung.
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A thorough definition of the Dark Age is
catching fire. It is a time when people rejoice
in falsehood, iniquity, heresy and evil and go
ahead to honour those who package, promote
and market them! The gross darkness is here!
A time when ‘Papa’ Deceive ‘Pickin’ and
‘Pickin Deceive ‘Papa’ has arisen. For the
reason of what to eat, some women, men,
young and old have become lovers of lie,
apostles of falsehood and retarders of virtues.
This type of happenstance was what provoked
Prophet Jeremiah in the Bible to write about
once upon a time in the beautiful city of
Jerusalem in The Book of Lamentation. A city
that then laid barren and reduced to rubble by
Babylonian hordes that invaded it. It was a
tear-stained image of a city that became the
shadow of its old self. Nigeria is fast
becoming the ‘old testament version’ of that
Jerusalem, a city once loved by God, but
battered down by its own rulers.
A city whose rulers are products of whoredom
and whose large number of her people are
given to reprobate mind. A nation where
falsehood has become the foundation for
policy details; and profanity, the guidance of
practice, has slender chance of recovery from
the mire into which it has sunk.
That slender chance is what the February
2015 Election is about. Slender chance of
rescuing the country from those that are
irredeemably corrupt.
They met the pump price of petrol at 65 naira
and they are leaving it at 97 naira. They met
the exchange rate of the naira at one
dollar-147 naira, and they are leaving it at
one dollar-197 naira.
Interest Rate was 14% when they came in;
today it stands at 21%. The Gini coefficient
keeps on escalating, revealing the
exponentially populating of the "parish of the
poor"; widening the gap between the rich and
the poor and crippling the potential for peace.
These are the insignia of their transformation
mantra; turning gold to ashes and making
simple sand grain out of un-cut raw
diamonds.
In their time, men and women are even
becoming robots, in thoughts and in placing
truth in its rings. They have turned to
disgusting abusers of compatriots with
divergent views, cursers of the righteous and
molesters of anyone with a slight air of
integrity.
Ambassadors of corruption are parading
themselves as "Transformation Ambassadors",
dancing ‘Skeleu’ with their ‘Dagon’ who has
forgotten, as in Chinua Achebe’s words, that
his palm kernel was cracked by sheer
benevolence.’
Biting the fingers that fed him, forgetting that
those who bite feeding fingers often end up
licking the boots that will kick them.
What manner of a presidential candidate
would appoint an indecorous light-fingered
hate monger like Fani Kayode as his
Campaign Spokesperson? A man whose
corruption charges were traded for partisan
loyalty to a president who is expected to be
Chief Champion of Anti-Corruption. The man
who recently celebrated his sexual prowess as
veritable tool he used to conquer the widow of
the prime Igbo Chief.
The man who has on several occasions
perfidiously projected the hegemony of his
Yoruba tribe over the Igbos, just as he is
doing currently with the Hausa/Fulani in a
nation desperately craving for unity. The man
that has indiscretionally called for Oduduwa
Republic to the provocation of others. A
perverse and perverted mind with history graft
and betrayal; and who has ordained himself as
‘preacher of hate’, reading his own greed into
the creed of God by adulterating the words of
God.
Deceiver of brethren whose belly is his god.
Little wonder the former President Obasanjo
said "I know Femi Fani Kayode, give him food
to chop, he will sing and dance for you."
What manner of a president would be this
consumed by personal ambition to the extent
of no longer recognizing what bitter division is
all about? How can a president be persistently
holding his political party’s (PDP) meeting in
the State House and did not see that as an
initiation of division?
How can a president of a country, who claims
to be a Christian be gallivanting from one
church to the other like those that Jesus
called Pharisees, making political statements
without giving a damn to the sensibility of
others, more so that a chapel has been built
in the State House to make his religious belief
a private affair; and yet thinks he is not
dividing the country along religious lines?
They go from church to church, from
Jerusalem to Galilee, yet they do not stop
stealing government money! They love God
with their mouths but their heart is far from
God. Hippocrates! How can a president of a
country yearning for national integration allow
a group of rag tag supporters like TAN to go
to the extent of dividing Nigeria football
supporters club by inscribing ‘TAN, Supporters
of Goodluck’ on the T-Shirt worn by
supporters of a national football team during
the Africa Cup Qualifying Match?
Indeed, I agree that such a president needs a
parent. Thank God he has found one among
his type. His newly adopted father is
Babangida. Babangida has endorsed him.
However, Babangida has also made it clear
that his government was run by angels given
the scale of corruption which prevails in
Nigeria of today.
I do not know why people are frowning at
Babangida’s endorsement of Jonathan. The
exchange between the two men-united by
expertise in science and art of corruption-is
mutually beneficial. Through words,
Babangida has endorsed Jonathan. Through
acts, Jonathan has canonised Babangida.
Combining the two, it can be said that what
Babangida can do, Jonathan can do even
better.
Nevertheless, God is fighting back already, the
people’s blind eyes are opening, the Dark
Ages have almost passed out of our land. This
market will soon be over; but before then, and
as TAN would say, "Keep on doing it Mr
President." The dealers with you are more
than the minders who tell you the truth! Hello,
Mr. President, how market!
Gbenro Olajuyigbe is an Abuja-based human
security expert and a human rights activist.
Email: gbenroolajuyigbe@yahoo.com
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Gbenro, don't be too quick to write off a man who has N21 billion in his pocket.

kITATITA:
Gbenro, don't be too quick to write off a man who has N21 billion in his pocket.

N21 billion can't buy the whole electorates, some can be bought with money, maybe you and a few others, but not many others and myself who want CHANGE whether good or bad, if it's bad, next elections they will be kicked out as well

SweetJoystick:

N21 billion can buy the whole electorates, some can be bought with money, maybe you and a few others, but not many others and myself who want CHANGE whether good or bad, if it's bad, next elections they will be kicked out as well

Be realistic; a political party raises N21 billion and subsequently sits back in Abuja, allowing the opposition to run roughshod over the place. There must be a strategy. Don't pretend as if you don't know that elections have been largely bought in Nigeria. PLEASE, I didn't tell you that I'm a PDP supporter. I also take exceptions to people questioning my integrity.

kITATITA:

Be realistic; a political party raises N21 billion and subsequently sits back in Abuja, allowing the opposition to run roughshod over the place. There must be a strategy. Don't pretend as if you don't know that elections have been largely bought in Nigeria. PLEASE, I didn't tell you that I'm a PDP supporter. I also take exceptions to people questioning my integrity.

Well, the truth is people will collect the money and vote for their choice, typical example is the case of Atiku at the just concluded APC presidential primaries...we have or are gradually moving away from money for votes. I'm sorry for questioning your integrity anyway