owobokiri:
As noted by Dim Chukwuemeka Ojukwu before he passed on, part of the problem bedeviling the emergence of anything close to a southern unity in Nigerias politics rests almost squarely on the penchant of the editors of the wayward media houses along the Lagos-Ibadan expressway to insult, humiliate, antagonize while lampooning leading political characters from the other different sides of southern Nigeria , all in a bid to protect some parochial interests. Ruben Abati has always been a leading culprit in this crime... Yet, Since the end of his inglorious voyage at Aso Villa, a bit of level headedness seem to have visited him . Lots of us who know him for his highly polarizing outbursts in the past were genuinely surprised by his fibbled attempt to now write, think , argue and reason above the normal ethnic pulls that used to be his bane in the past. That glitter of hope all seem to have crashed now, as expected, with his latest empty drivel. He calls it "a letter to Nnamdi Kalu", yet it is nothing but a hatchet job prepared with the sole intent to do damage to the reputation of Nnamdi Kanu. A taunt of the igbos.

In his so called letter to Kanu, Rueben Abati threw caution to the wind and rambled along like a wayward toddler, throwing dry humors all over the place in the face of a serious constitutional breach perpetrated by a worn-out dictator in agbada.., a breach capable of unnerving an already epileptic democracy. Misplaced priorities? No! He just was living up to the kindred spirits.. But He should know better; Reuben Abati is a lawyer. A lawyer should know how wrong it is to allow a brutal dictator dressed in a tortured democratic gab get away with extra judicial killings. Trying to ignore Buharis murderous escapade in Umuahia all in a bid to taunt Kanu shows how shallow and petty a confused Ruben can be.

Kanu has no standing army. Kanu has no standing police (the uniformed boys at his place are nothing but vigilantes). Kanu has no guns , has no armored personnel carriers, no rockets and no war plans. The Nigerian army of remorseless killers are the ones who deployed these weapons to assault, abduct and kill a group of peaceful protesters whose only crime under a supposed democracy was to call for a referendum to allow the emergence of a new state. You would expect a thorough bread editor/lawyer of Abatis vaunted pedigree to focus on the more troubling realities associated with Buhari/Brutais mad dance in the east, but no; he wont. The killing of hundreds and the methodical humiliation of a region by a sectional army under the command of a brazenly parochial Buhari only provided for a conscienceless Abati, another opportunity to taunt and be amused. Huge shame.

The way some of us are egging on the army, we seem to be oblivious of the fact that by recent recruitment quotas, we are slowly having before us a sectional army devoid of any obligation to be impartial when deployed in conflict areas within the country. With the top echelon of the army almost entirely dominated by the presidents men, it is obvious that slowly but surely, the tendency on the part of the army to take sides when deployed within the country will continue to increase. That means that irrespective of who is being forced to "python dance" today, the man at the other end maybe at the receiving end tomorrow as he maybe forced to "viper dance". We all saw how NADECO was almost decimated by Abacha in this country. Essentially , folks should be more alarmed by the wrechless utilization of the coercive instruments of the state by a sardonic president whose penchant for blood-letting only reminds one of the Pinochets and PolPots of this world.

To argue that the so-called Kanus "hate speech" provided enough reason for this massacre is so laughable. Is it still a democracy? It is just a funny charge willfully employed by the evil minded to defend the governments heinous murderous campaign in the east. What is hate speech? Who defines hate speech? And is the crime of hate speech punishable with ethnic cleansing? These are the questions the likes of Ruben should be laboring with. Trying to know why a defenseless man in his fathers house didn't put up a fight against the army or asking why he hasn't biult a house in his village are the kind of discus that one expects from zobo and kunu sellers and not from an editor of Abatis "pedigree". Taunts wont kill Biafra. Bullets haven't.

owobokiri:
As noted by Dim Chukwuemeka Ojukwu before he passed on, part of the problem bedeviling the emergence of anything close to a southern unity in Nigerias politics rests almost squarely on the penchant of the editors of the wayward media houses along the Lagos-Ibadan expressway to insult, humiliate, antagonize while lampooning leading political characters from the other different sides of southern Nigeria , all in a bid to protect some parochial interests. Ruben Abati has always been a leading culprit in this crime... Yet, Since the end of his inglorious voyage at Aso Villa, a bit of level headedness seem to have visited him . Lots of us who know him for his highly polarizing outbursts in the past were genuinely surprised by his fibbled attempt to now write, think , argue and reason above the normal ethnic pulls that used to be his bane in the past. That glitter of hope all seem to have crashed now, as expected, with his latest empty drivel. He calls it "a letter to Nnamdi Kalu", yet it is nothing but a hatchet job prepared with the sole intent to do damage to the reputation of Nnamdi Kanu. A taunt of the igbos.

In his so called letter to Kanu, Rueben Abati threw caution to the wind and rambled along like a wayward toddler, throwing dry humors all over the place in the face of a serious constitutional breach perpetrated by a worn-out dictator in agbada.., a breach capable of unnerving an already epileptic democracy. Misplaced priorities? No! He just was living up to the kindred spirits.. But He should know better; Reuben Abati is a lawyer. A lawyer should know how wrong it is to allow a brutal dictator dressed in a tortured democratic gab get away with extra judicial killings. Trying to ignore Buharis murderous escapade in Umuahia all in a bid to taunt Kanu shows how shallow and petty a confused Ruben can be.

Kanu has no standing army. Kanu has no standing police (the uniformed boys at his place are nothing but vigilantes). Kanu has no guns , has no armored personnel carriers, no rockets and no war plans. The Nigerian army of remorseless killers are the ones who deployed these weapons to assault, abduct and kill a group of peaceful protesters whose only crime under a supposed democracy was to call for a referendum to allow the emergence of a new state. You would expect a thorough bread editor/lawyer of Abatis vaunted pedigree to focus on the more troubling realities associated with Buhari/Brutais mad dance in the east, but no; he wont. The killing of hundreds and the methodical humiliation of a region by a sectional army under the command of a brazenly parochial Buhari only provided for a conscienceless Abati, another opportunity to taunt and be amused. Huge shame.

The way some of us are egging on the army, we seem to be oblivious of the fact that by recent recruitment quotas, we are slowly having before us a sectional army devoid of any obligation to be impartial when deployed in conflict areas within the country. With the top echelon of the army almost entirely dominated by the presidents men, it is obvious that slowly but surely, the tendency on the part of the army to take sides when deployed within the country will continue to increase. That means that irrespective of who is being forced to "python dance" today, the man at the other end maybe at the receiving end tomorrow as he maybe forced to "viper dance". We all saw how NADECO was almost decimated by Abacha in this country. Essentially , folks should be more alarmed by the wrechless utilization of the coercive instruments of the state by a sardonic president whose penchant for blood-letting only reminds one of the Pinochets and PolPots of this world.

To argue that the so-called Kanus "hate speech" provided enough reason for this massacre is so laughable. Is it still a democracy? It is just a funny charge willfully employed by the evil minded to defend the governments heinous murderous campaign in the east. What is hate speech? Who defines hate speech? And is the crime of hate speech punishable with ethnic cleansing? These are the questions the likes of Ruben should be laboring with. Trying to know why a defenseless man in his fathers house didn't put up a fight against the army or asking why he hasn't biult a house in his village are the kind of discus that one expects from zobo and kunu sellers and not from an editor of Abatis "pedigree". Taunts wont kill Biafra. Bullets haven't.

IamPatriotic:




Why does these always have this ignoble habit of blaming everyone but themselves for their predicament, today Abati is the culprit because he bares his mind on an issue of national security.
Tomorrow, it could be Femi Fani Kayode or Ayo Fayose.

owobokiri:


No, we are not "blaming anybody but ourselves". We haven't done anything wrong to ask for a more workable arrangement for our kids. Moreover, that we agitate deosn't mean you are better off than us. We are all in this snake pit together. The only difference is that while we march and yell for a better tomorrow, you, being a willing product of a command and control society prefer to stand hand akimbo as your future is being wrecked by a bunch of eternally blundering political bimbos. This country is a mess not because one Nnamdi Kalu and his over dramatized "hate speech". but because of some tribal square pegs in round holes like buhari.. Yet Kanu is your enemy! Why? Why is the noise against oppression more disturbing to you than the oppression itself??

temodent:
These are the typical halleluyah praise singers that has led KANU to where he is now, they don't even seem relenting any voice of reasoning contrary to their erroneously held view should be shut down. The earlier they wake up and smell the coffee the better.

IamPatriotic:


I'm not in anyway referring to Kanu or IPOB, but to the salient points raised by Abati for which his head was called for by the writer, meanwhile, must everybody go senselessly confrontational because they want to make a point? regardless how you want the world to believe you, Kanu was foolish inhl his approach and that gave easily gave him away to Buratai, and now he's a fugitive.

owobokiri:


Zik, Awolowo, Macauley, Nkrumah and the rest used even far more caustic languages and tactics against the british, but they werent maimed, killed nor their villages emptied. Do remember that the british created this very Nigeria that one buhari is killing thousands of Nigerians to protect. If you have to kill Nigerians in droves to save Nigeria, who will Nigeria exist for? Think about that...

owobokiri:


No, we are not "blaming anybody but ourselves". We haven't done anything wrong to ask for a more workable arrangement for our kids. Moreover, that we agitate deosn't mean you are better off than us. We are all in this snake pit together. The only difference is that while we march and yell for a better tomorrow, you, being a willing product of a command and control society prefer to stand hand akimbo as your future is being wrecked by a bunch of eternally blundering political bimbos. This country is a mess not because one Nnamdi Kalu and his over dramatized "hate speech". but because of some tribal square pegs in round holes like buhari.. Yet Kanu is your enemy! Why? Why is the noise against oppression more disturbing to you than the oppression itself??

owobokiri:
As noted by Dim Chukwuemeka Ojukwu before he passed on, part of the problem bedeviling the emergence of anything close to a southern unity in Nigerias politics rests almost squarely on the penchant for the editors of the wayward media houses along the Lagos-Ibadan expressway to insult, humiliate, antagonize while lampooning leading political characters from the other different sides of southern Nigeria , all in a bid to protect some parochial interests. Ruben Abati has always been a leading culprit in this crime... Yet, Since the end of his inglorious voyage at Aso Villa, a bit of level headedness seem to have visited him . Lots of us who know him for his highly polarizing outbursts in the past were genuinely surprised by his fibbled attempt to now write, think , argue and reason above the normal ethnic pulls that used to be his bane in the past. That glitter of hope all seem to have crashed now, as expected, with his latest empty drivel. He calls it "a letter to Nnamdi Kalu", yet it is nothing but a hatchet job prepared with the sole intent to do damage to the reputation of Nnamdi Kanu. A taunt of the igbos.

In his so called letter to Kanu, Rueben Abati threw caution to the wind and rambled along like a wayward toddler, throwing dry humors all over the place in the face of a serious constitutional breach perpetrated by a worn-out dictator in agbada.., a breach capable of unnerving an already epileptic democracy. Misplaced priorities? No! He just was living up to the kindred spirits.. But He should know better; Reuben Abati is a lawyer. A lawyer should know how wrong it is to allow a brutal dictator dressed in a tortured democratic gab get away with extra judicial killings. Trying to ignore Buharis murderous escapade in Umuahia all in a bid to taunt Kanu shows how shallow and petty a confused Ruben can be.

Kanu has no standing army. Kanu has no standing police (the uniformed boys at his place are nothing but vigilantes). Kanu has no guns , has no armored personnel carriers, no rockets and no war plans. The Nigerian army of remorseless killers are the ones who deployed these weapons to assault, abduct and kill a group of peaceful protesters whose only crime under a supposed democracy was to call for a referendum to allow the emergence of a new state. You would expect a thorough bread editor/lawyer of Abatis vaunted pedigree to focus on the more troubling realities associated with Buhari/Brutais mad dance in the east, but no; he wont. The killing of hundreds and the methodical humiliation of a region by a sectional army under the command of a brazenly parochial Buhari only provided for a conscienceless Abati, another opportunity to taunt and be amused. Huge shame.

The way some of us are egging on the army, we seem to be oblivious of the fact that by recent recruitment quotas, we are slowly having before us, a sectional army devoid of any obligation to be impartial when deployed in conflict areas within the country. With the top echelon of the army almost entirely dominated by the presidents men, it is obvious that slowly but surely, the tendency on the part of the army to take sides when deployed within the country will continue to increase. That means that irrespective of who is being forced to "python dance" today, the man at the other end maybe at the receiving end tomorrow as he maybe forced to "viper dance". We all saw how NADECO was almost decimated by Abacha in this country. Essentially , folks should be more alarmed by the wrechless utilization of the coercive instruments of the state by a sardonic president whose penchant for blood-letting only reminds one of the Pinochets and PolPots of this world.

To argue that the so-called Kanus "hate speech" provided enough reason for this massacre is so laughable. Is it still a democracy? It is just a funny charge willfully employed by the evil minded to defend the governments heinous murderous campaign in the east. What is hate speech? Who defines hate speech? And is the crime of hate speech punishable with ethnic cleansing? These are the questions the likes of Ruben should be laboring with. Trying to know why a defenseless man in his fathers house didn't put up a fight against the army or asking why he hasn't biult a house in his village are the kind of discus that one expects from zobo and kunu sellers and not from an editor of Abatis "pedigree". Taunts wont kill Biafra. Bullets haven't.

Throwback:
The SouthEast is cursed with an army of tribalists who only see things from their own ethnically bigoted perspective.

Kanu was a humble preacher of peace, How dare Abati poke fun at Ohamadike on the run and his empty boasts?

How dare he equate Kanu to a terrorist when Kanu represents all of the South East, having been duly elected as supreme leader of the SouthEast region under the IPOB party as enshrined in the Nigerian constitution and in an election conducted by INEC?

How dare Abati write like an educated Lagos-Ibadan journalist with a law degree, when he could have written like an Aba-Onitsha IPOB family writer of diplomatic lies?

For goodness sake, Abati is a lawyer, so he should know how to embrace hate speeches from an Igbo self appointed freedom fighter. He should know how to support a cause that is not constitutional. He should know how to support an accused under trial for treason but who has employed his bail as a means to further perpetrate treasonous acts, including beheading the president, killing the national army, and burning down the country if he his lawfully arrested by the same court that granted him bail.

Doesn't Abati know that insurgency is allowed in a democracy? Doesn't he know that a campaign for lawlessness and anarchy is allowed in a true democracy? Doesn't he know that the way some of us were egging on Kanu and IPOB is because there's no universal agreement on the definition of hate speech?

If the Kurdish, Scottish, and Catalonian pursuits for secession and independence is being led by the recognised constitutional and democratic leadership of those regions in their respective current mother countries, doesn't the world know that we Igbos are an aberration to rational thought, as such we will pursue ours with a mob representation rather than recognised constitutional representatives of the Igbo region in Nigeria?


We are Igbos and we have our own constitution and rules of engaging the society we find ourselves, hence we are always right.

truthtosinknaij:


by your own warped logic, buhari killing unarmed protesters is good? brain cell in africans is truly lacking

IamPatriotic:




Why does these always have this ignoble habit of blaming everyone but themselves for their predicament, today Abati is the culprit because he bares his mind on an issue of national security.
Tomorrow, it could be Femi Fani Kayode or Ayo Fayose.