Sept. 2nd 2015. By Pius Adesanmi
(This note was first posted on my Facebook Wall on August 18 – before the primaries that tragically produced Audu. I am using it my column for wider circulation and to warn the people of Kogi state with the weapon of memory)

The greatest thing that Abubakar Audu has going for him in his bid to return as Governor of Kogi state is the decibel of a large youth demographic. So many Kogi folks, 25 years and below, are all over the airwaves telling the rest of Nigeria that they don't know what they are missing by not having somebody like Abubakar Audu. The love they are professing for Abubakar Audu is greater than the love story between Ekiti and Fayose. Audu, they assure us, must "capture power" again in Kogi. Via APC. Of course!

Now, if your instinct is to blame these kids and land koboko on their post-pubescent asses, you are wrong. What is happening is that they are confused. They are mistaking weed for spinach because they do not know the difference. What “elaloro” in Yoruba philosophy asks you to do is to hold spinach in one hand, weed in the other, and say to them: “children, here is weed and here is spinach.” Once you have done that, you can ask for water, wash your hands like Pontius Pilate, and sing owo mi ma re o funfun nene...

You must remember that if there is something the Nigerian detests more than fellow Nigerians of a different ethnicity or religion, it is memory. The Nigerian who witnessed yesterday deliberately erases it for the convenience of today. The Nigerian who was too young to witness yesterday will never dig to find out what happened, laziness and ignorance being preferable to the inconvenience of memory and remembering.

Many of Abubakar Audu's vuvuzelas were in Primary and Secondary school when he stole US$1,719,954 from the treasury of Kogi state to purchase the mansion pictured here on March 15, 2001. The mansion is located at 12301 Glen Road, Potomac, Maryland 20854, USA. He initially denied owning the property but later confessed after a scandal. Nigerian political thieves have no relationship with mortgage in Europe and America. They buy their multi-million-dollar homes cash. Just like that.

Many of Audu's young supporters are not intellectually equipped enough to make the connection between this mansion in America and their own abjection in Kogi; the connection between this mansion and the poverty of their parents in Kogi. You will likely hear that others have stolen more than Audu and even with his own stealing, we ought to be grateful to him for building a University, a Polytechnic, clinics, etc. It will take several modules in civics to help them see that they do not owe anybody spending their tax money on routine infrastructure any gratitude.

So the purpose of this post is to bring memory to these youths since they will not go to memory.

A final word to these young Kogi people: in 2014, Potomac, where Audu's mansion is located, was Number 3 on the list of the most affluent neighbourhoods in the entire United States of America.

Of course, you know that a Nigerian politician would consider it an insult that his property is not located in the most expensive neighbourhood in America. When you are done electing him in November 2015, his next mansion in America will be located in The Golden Triangle, Greenwich, Connecticut.

I have shown you weed.

I have shown you spinach.

My work is done.

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Source;
http://saharareporters.com/2015/09/02/abubakar-audu-bonanza-youth-ignorance-pius-adesanmi

But, e konsan me??..NO!


Moving >>>>

Bonanza indeed

I have put a couple of mature, serious stuff threads up on Nairaland, but none of them ever sees the light of day called Nairaland Front page. Usually articles by Prof. Pius Adesanmi, Mr Sonala Olumhense and a few others.
If we won't expose our youths to the writings of sound Nigerians like these then we do our generation a great disservice. Instead, it's mumu threads which add no intellectual value to our youths that make front page at the drop of a hat, daily.

@OP leave story, not all of us are small when Audu became Governor of Kogi State, Audu legacy is what is still sustaining Kogi state till today, tell me what the other Governors that came after Audu did rather than just come to steal and share money. Why won't youth support him when every thing they see in the state is his legacy. The major and only road that traverse lokoja township was constructed by him, what is the state of the road by now? Most of the low cost housing estates was constructed under his government, he made Kogi State University one of the best school in his time, ask the earlier graduates of the school you will know that the school is in partnership with Harvard University, where harvard professors were on hand to deliver lectures to students it was a constant thing then, go and check the deplorable state of the school out today.
He built so many quarters including the still en vogue commissioners quarters. He was the man that developed Lokoja, he built hotels for the state, he doesn't compromise standard. Just tell me a million dollar project that has been embarked upon by the succeeding administration. He was part of those that facilitate earlier establishment of Dangote cement factory in Kogi. Maybe you were too young to remember sha. Guy I am not even a kogite but I know all these things.

Brb

APC's brand of politics is based on the liquidity of an aspirant. Whoever, has the largest amount of capital can buy a monastery, a church, a mosque and still have change left to open a brothel. That's what has got every Femi, Ade and Segun joining their camp.

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