I have allowed a decent interval between the two
articles to get some feedback from the
supporters and the critics of Part 1. The
feedback I got from those who like the Part 1
have been profoundly positive. Many of them
cannot wait to see the Part 2. I pay attention to
what the critics of the Part 1 have said because
they force me take a second and third look at
the Part 1 to see if their criticisms call for any
apology from me because I don’t play God. I
also realize that the closest I would ever get to
perfection is to admit my mistakes and to go on
with my life. I apologize for the length of the
Part 2. It is so because I don’t want to do a
Part 3

I will be suffering from neurosis to pretend that
my views on anything are sacrosanct or perfect.

I am first and foremost a historian and a
storyteller. I do appreciate that storytellers are
historians in their own right, but they do not
carry the extra burden and critical analysis and
interpretation like good historians must do. I am
only going to dwell on what the critics have
said, because I realize that the good that men
do are often interred into their bones while the
evils live after them.

There is a particular gentleman named Uche
Ndidi who wrote a protest titled “Shame to
Wumi Akintide” as his rejoinder to my Part 1.
The gentleman accused me of “Igbophobia”
despite all my denials. He strongly believed that
I deliberately target the Igbos for criticisms in all
of my articles. He was particularly pissed off
that I did not criticize the Oba of Lagos when he
declared a “Fatwa” on all Igbo “Lagosians” who
refuse to vote for his hand-picked candidate,
Akinwunmi Ambode. Even though I support
Ambode but I know enough not to condone what
the Kabiyesi has said and the way he said it. I
was in fact embarrassed to see the Kabiyesi talk
like that. You will never see Omo ”Oba N’Edo
Uku Akpolokpolo or the Alaafin of Oyo, “Iku Baba
Yeye” lose his cool like that in the public. The
Oba’s statement was nearly as offensive to me
as the statement created to the Zulu King of
South Africa.

One critic pointed out that John Odigie Oyegun
was not one of the AD Governors who lost his
seat when Obasanjo and the PDP managed to
take all of the Southwest, minus Lagos State,
from the AD in 2003. I apologize for that
mistake. The other critics were pissed off by my
saying anything good about Tinubu. Left to
them there is nothing good about Tinubu and
they thought I committed a crime to say
anything good of Tinubu.

No Nigerian in any position of power can be
totally called a Saint. We all have our good and...

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