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Cruel to Animals

Yep. . .the author

I hope your pseudonym's not Mohammed Adamu

They cast her in the mould of a heroine. She saved the nation they said. At a crucial time when the ship of State was adrift and rudderless, she, with uncommon courage and magical sleight of hand, guided it to the shore. Now they sing: ‘all–hail-Dora, the patriot, all hail-Akunyili the heroine of our time’.

She is, like Shakespeare would say, “among the groove, the straightest plant”. And of the Media’s enchanting eulogy and hero-worship, an apt book-title will be: “Deodorizing Dora”. Or “At Last She Got Her Honest Groove” Its epilogue will read: ‘she set out to clean the nation of illicit drugs; coveted power and had to sell an illicit brand; and now she is herself, the brand!

And from the angelic trajectory of this God-sent, the image of another angel is revealed; alas this one from ‘the Bottomless Pit’; the ‘devil’ Aondoakaa. He is a Michael, yes; but not Michael the Angel;. They label him: ‘Evil-In-Chief and Solicitor-Advocate for the rights of the wicked, the malignant and the infirm’!

Yet even the Media that is deodorizing Dora and demonizing Aondoakaa cannot deny the fact that whereas she is one hell of an ambitious schemer, limelight-seeking and adept in the game of self-preservation, Aondoakaa is unashamedly a congenital-loyalist-lawyer -like a selfless electrical fuse- willing to self-destruct to safeguard his master. He is like the loyal dog of Senator Graham’s ‘Tribute to a Dog’, which will stand by its master “in prosperity and in poverty, in health and in sickness”. And “when all other friends desert, he remains.”. Aondoakaa has got no guiling body language. You do not have to read his lips to reach his mind! His truth resides in the calmness of his eyes. There you get exactly what you see: a man truly at his job. He is as forthrightly unapologetic as he is legally assertive. Neither attention-seeking nor indulgent in the razzmatazz of cosmeticised legalese. Love him or loath him, his truth is ‘the law and nothing but the law’! He floored Femi Falana in court and came out ambling unemotionally like he’d just had a not-too-sumptuous meal. He is unperturbed not in a manner that suggests arrogance of wrong doing but in way that reveals the pride of conviction. Which is more than anyone can say for Dora. This woman is at once discordance personified and dissonance in action. As she walks swashbuckling-ly, every part of her body is in constant monologue with itself. She is as well a ventriloquist as she is always a prologue to a Babel of discourse. She is needlessly loquacious and unadvisedly garrulous. A square peg in a round hole, Akunyili is hoarse in speech and ferocious in delivery. Where Aondoakaa’s eyes radiate the calmness you see in the eye of a storm, Dora’s betray the dilemma of a deer caught in the headlights.

You might say of Dora: ‘at NAFDAC she raised attention-seeking to an art; got a cabinet portfolio in the act; found it difficult to carry on with the art; then suddenly an opportunity fell right on her lap, to try her hand at treachery now at last. And then you can see she now laughs at last’! In fact Dora has re-awakened the age-old chauvinistic claim that the woman’s second name is ‘treachery’. Said James Baldwin, “Women are like water. They are tempting, ….they can be treacherous and they can seem to be that bottomless.” Sigmund Freud, in his letter to Maria Bonaparte said “The greatest question….which I have not been able to answer, despite my 30 years of research into the feminine soul, is “what does a woman want?” Dora has to know!

On the scale of patriotism Dora’s so called ‘virtue’ is counterpoised with Aondoakaa’s ‘vice’; her ‘courage’ with his ‘cowardice’ and her ‘heroism’ with his ‘Herod-ism’. But Edwin Chapin wrote that “At the bottom of a good deal of the bravery that appears in the world there lurks a miserable cowardice.” And Jean Jacques Rousseau wrote that “Heroes are not known by the loftiness of their courage, the greatest braggarts are generally the merest cowards”. Smell Dora? They say that she was courageous. If by courage they mean “being steadfast in the face of danger”, then a big NO! Because Dora had waited until there was no danger in sight before she told her beneficent truth. But ‘The truth you tell with bad intent’, they say ‘beats all the lies you can invent’. At best she was treacherously opportunistic. You cannot deny that Aondoakaa was steadfast in the face of many dangers: He was up in arms against desperate self-serving politicians; he held the sword of “legal reasoning” to engage his constituency, the Bar; He faced judges in courts arguing and proving the law; and he fought to keep the FEC pond intact, especially with treacherous fishes like Dora rearing to hit the land; and with Jonathan himself diffident yet eagerly waiting to act.

Again if we say courage as defined by Ernest Hemingway, namely “grace under pressure”, even so NO! Dora was graceless in her wavering and under pressure she selfishly buckled; Aondoakaa was graceful and unbuckling all through. He was the last man standing if you like. He fought the good fight and he gracefully breathed his last. That is courage. Plus he now bears his defeat gallantly; which alone is courageous enough. For as Gilbert Chesterton wrote “the greatest test of courage… is to bear defeat without losing heart”

And if we go by Douglas Macarthur’s “moral courage”, namely “the courage of one’s conviction”, the courage “to see things through”, it cannot be denied that Aondoakaa made no pretence about it. And he courageously fought to ‘see things through’. Nor is anyone’s conviction any more morally tenable than another’s. He chose to stick by his own: the law! Which is what the lawyers always insist we all must. Yet Dora demonstrated total absence of conviction! Having defended worse decisions of government before, it is funny she has just recently found her honest groove.

The truth is: Akunyili is through with Yar’adua. She is now after Jonathan’s heart. And Good luck appears to be smiling at her! What she did was nothing courageous! It was treacherous!

There is no mystery as to why Nigeria is where it is with people like this.

I don't get you guys seriously.

If they do not talk, you say they are complicit
now they are talking and you say its a bit much.

She is the only one putting the orchestrators of this
charade under any kind of pressure, and at great risk
to her life.

Please, provide support and stop playing chicken.

There is nothing wrong I don't think if
personal agenda happens to coincide
with national agenda.

lastpage:
Can we ask you Madam, does all these have anything to do with Anambra Governorship elections in 2011?
Dont mind my busy-body, abeg.

no Anambra elections until 2014

Can you mail me please. . your old one don't seem to be working.

I need your input on sumfin.

You never know. . .na 4 wealths I go get sef

[quote author=Sisi_Kill link=topic=405445.msg5599126#msg5599126 date=1267318553]@ Doyin
Where the heck have you been? Working hard to make sure i don't suffer i hope? Seriously, happy two new years.

@ Gator
You tell 'em Ruby. No cubic zirconia for this gem.[/quote]come. . your email dey reject messages sef

[quote author=~Sauron~ link=topic=400313.msg5599227#msg5599227 date=1267320445]Arsene "The Saint" Wenger is a bloody hypocrite.
Under his stewardship, his players have copped more than 80 Red Cards setting out to break opponent's legs.
He is a foreigner and he deploys more foreign players so the whole British theory schitzo is nonsensical.[/quote]True True. . . They used to be quite a physical team.

But their game was not built on deliberate incapacitation.

THEY COULD ACTUALLY PLAY.

Many of these teams can't play, and the stakes are no excuse.

Events have taken a new dimension.

I don't know what kind of import he can
bring to the current discourse anyway.

[quote author=~Sauron~ link=topic=400313.msg5599211#msg5599211 date=1267320138]Hehehehe
The coaches are the ones playing on the pitch i guess. [/quote]hehehehe. . .

They are the ones telling the players whether or not to go out and break their opponents leg

[quote author=~Sauron~ link=topic=400313.msg5599169#msg5599169 date=1267319407]And yet their teams continue to dominate European teams.[/quote]And is it any surprise three of these four teams have foreign coaches.

[quote author=Sisi_Kill link=topic=405445.msg5599126#msg5599126 date=1267318553]@ Doyin
Where the heck have you been? Working hard to make sure i don't suffer i hope? Seriously, happy two new years.[/quote]Rabiatu. . . na you disappear o.

I think say u don run go become person perfect wife

[quote author=~Sauron~ link=topic=400313.msg5599109#msg5599109 date=1267318337]That is not the point.
Sporting Lisbon are in Portugal competing with other mediocre teams with no significant difference in team quality.
Stoke, Birmingham and Hull are in the Premier League competing with Man Utd and Chelsea.

There's a huge gap between Man Utd and Stoke.
One club can shop with £90 million to buy players where Stoke's transfer budget in a season is not even £20 million.
How else do you expect them to play? Tip-tap? Play into the hands of United and get pasted 6-0 then relegate?

The money at stake here in England has made that choice difficult.
Survival is the KEY.
If Sporting Lisbon were here, they would do worse than Stoke or Burnley with £40 million TV money at stake.
In cup competitions, there's nothing at stake and this is why you can see Leeds coming to OT to beat United or Burnley sodomising Arsenal.

Different era ma friend.[/quote]But how comes many of these European teams don't adopt a do or die attitude
when it comes to European competitions.

How come Lille for example doesn't deem it necessary to hack the English players
legs off to get more of that C-league money.

Au contraire. . .you actually hear the English commentators chastising the English
teams for letting Europeans ''play their game''. I presume they mean its not the
English way to pass and move.

Its a cultural thing in England. They are the ones who do not recognise its a different
era. They think its still the an epoch of muddy pitches and quasi boxing referees.

ibkaye:
Might I add, he must be able to play the violin

violin too small. . . cello nko

[quote author=~Sauron~ link=topic=400313.msg5599060#msg5599060 date=1267317584]Mid-table teams do what they can to survive in the Premiership.
Of course, they don't have the same quality as Arsenal so they play to their own strength.
If roughening up is the way to survive, by all means let them do it.

The Brits actually love em tackles. A derby without tackles ain't considered to be a good one.[/quote]Well. . .this is where Dayokanu's crusade against English teams and their league has relevance.

It is this approach to football that still has people put off by some aspects of the Premier League.

Many of these midlevel teams have bigger budgets than say Sporting Lisbon for example but that
doesn't stop the latter from playing football and developing quality.

Lack of money does not excuse them from developing good football teams rather than
transform into rugby exponents.

When Ipswich was qualifying for Europe a few years back, they did it playing football and not
trying to hinder the other team by handicapping them.

[quote author=Sisi_Kill link=topic=405445.msg5599020#msg5599020 date=1267316908]Power/Influence (this automatically begets confidence, so that takes care of that.
Intelligence
Wealth
Fashion sense
Wealth
Height
Wealth[/quote]hehehehe. . . wealth three times

Na who wan come this life to suffer  

[quote author=~Sauron~ link=topic=400313.msg5599019#msg5599019 date=1267316887]Stop talking like a retard.
No one is justifying the tackle. . . . .I am disagreeing with Wenger saying teams set out to injure his players.[/quote]I think teams do actually.

Maybe not to injure his players, but that is ultimately the result
if you set out to, ''go about them'' or ''rough them up a bit''.

lol. . .In Sauron's quite peculiar approach to argument is lost the essence of what he is saying.

The tackle was bad granted, but we should cut the Shawcross chap some slack.
I have actually seen him make worse tackles and his rep is built on being a rough
and rugged type.

But the video I saw close up showed it was actually his instep not the sole that made
contact with Ramsey. This mitigates his guilt in my opinion.

Ebonyeyes:
O' boy go ask for refund

See this Mama Kafayat Jelosimi grad dey laff me  

Sagamite:
Ah ha! At least yours is Phd. So e no mean.  

Onigbese ni e. . . .I never pay the loan for fist digiri finish na to add more gbese abi.

Sagamite:
What this tells me is that Ibkaye would rather go for a 6ft 2 Cambridge graduate with a nice body and a good smile, working in a good job (like Insurance) and dresses cool and suave, over a son of a Minister that graduated from Salford with average looks but runs a company that gets fat contracts through his father's connections and is a very confident guy.

Una go make me cry ooo. . . . . My degree is from Salford na 

and every contract leaves me with less money post contract.

I won't get too panicky if I were a Celts fan.

Better to have these wrinkles at this stage of
the season.

Wetin I dey talk.

DID THEY JUST LOSE TO THE NETS  

I must admit, I do have some sympathy for Shawcross now
after watching MOTD.

I think its an unfortunate case of Man-pass-man or Bone-pass-Bone.

Its no good to Ramsey though

Sagamite. . .which kain person u be sef.

Plenty men like me out there with deflated confidence
will see this one now, and only feel more deflated.

And ladies stop lying. Why the false altruism?
You lot know regardless of how much confidence
or intelligence Omobaba displays, he ain't got
a chance.  

ibkaye:
that was very embarassing

somebody found your elephants eh