₦airaland Forum

ujchief: Yes! You're an unrepentant GEJ apologist.

www.nairaland.com/1357519/why-nigerians-siding-amaechi-supremacy

You also attack and verbally abuses anyone who criticize the first lady's excesses.

www.nairaland.com/1359235/it-now-clear-soyinka-didnt

After spearheading the propagation of lies by GEJ and unrepetantly attack those who do not join your league of a's'e lickers, you want the same people you attack to troop to the streets and oust your oga baa?

You voted and supported him, so you have more rights to demand good governance; so lead the way.

I don't understand where you are coming from. So because I criticized Amaechi and Soyinka for their verbal dysentry in my previous threads you have labelled me a GEJ apologist?

blackmann: Is this the best you can offer? Religion? Is that the myopic nature of ur thinking?

@OP, my own view is most Nigerians are just good at making noise but to take that action, they will prefer to hide behind their computers in the safety of their homes and comment and insult others. We just complain about things but at the end of the day, we just adjust to the situation.

That's d problem. Crying out and insulting our leaders on the internet alone will not change anything

Slaak: hey......avnt u heard of the sayin ''jack of all trade is master of non''? Get busy wit ur pry sch algebra and let d Prof kip perfectin wot he does.

. Highly cerebral people don't stick to a singular area of interest, they study wide.

But the man is still walking free na, spending looted money

I don't understand these mods obsession with Soyinka

sholay2011: Bro, your post reeks of low IQ. No insult intended but ur 'intelligence' needs questioning.

You don't wan2 tell yourself the truth. What is that thing you are suffering from again?

NEROSKY: Believe me, it's the only thing I like from that arab people, you can't tell them nonsense as a leader... It will only work if 85% of Nigerians are Muslims.. But in Nigeria case, i don't think Muslims are up to 45%(yoruba man nogo won die, so as igbo)but i can bet u hausas can protest till death do them apart with just lil promise, That the only thing I really like about Muslims, they have one mouth, Nigeria is a confused nation, is only God can save us from this legal criminals.

true talk

alaoeri: Op thought u are one of GEJ a$$ lickers, why did u wanna revolt against your very own.

Nairalanders you guys like to misunderstand yourselves. That I was defending Jonathan against Amaechi does not mean that I approve of all his other actions.

honey86: When I see people advocating for revolution and then cite Egypt, Libya and Syria as examples I just shake my head for them. what do those countries have to show for their revolution fights except massacre, war and grief. I won't be surprised if op is sitting down in a comfy house in US typing this.Abeg no bring that kind talk here o I am not ready to lose any member of my family. If you really want to do this go and meet mend or boko haram, ask for bomb, strap yourself and find your way into their mist.

Why is it so difficult for people to understand the simplest of things By protest I don't mean trooping to the streets and throwing stones at each other. Have you forgotten what Mahatma Gandhi did? He led one of the biggest protests the world has ever seen to drive the British out of India yet not a single protester drew blood from an opponent. There is something called a peaceful protest like sit-ins or protest marches. Not all protests are violent my dear.

Linoversace: Have you watched the videos on youtube? There's no such thing as a peaceful protest! You might be anxious to see some action,i bet you when it starts you'll be praying for an end to it!

There is always a price to pay

Our teachers don't teach us undiluted history in school. These are some of the things our students should have learnt in secondary school.

Soyinka is a hypocrite

And so what? Prof let me bring primary school algebra for you and see how well you will do with it. Intelligence is not all about speaking big grammar, it's an all-round thing

It is a collective affliction and misfortune that cannot be narrowed down to or blamed on a particular region

Why is it that Nigerians shy away from sustained mass action and protests like their counterparts in Egypt, Tunisia, Libya, Bahrain and USA? Why do we prefer to protest from the comfort and luxury of our bedrooms with our laptops and mobile phones instead of taking to the streets to pour out our frustrations. We prefer to protest and insult our leaders with our phones and laptops behind the veil of anonymous monikers? what are we afraid of or are we scared that nobody will listen to us? Egyptians alone have toppled two administrations and one regime over the past two years (Mubarak, Field Marshal Tantawi and Mursi) just by trooping to the streets and singing protest songs? By so doing they captured the attention of the whole world which sped up the revolution. A typical Nigerian only knows how to complain and complain and complain when he is with his friends or at the beer parlor or when she gossips at the salon. When are we going to have our own Nigerian Revolution, Naija Harmattan or whatever?

Sloan: This is a 2007 soup of lies and BS when IBB was trying to be relevant and trying to contest the presidential election with Yaradua?? How can any dolt ascribe any credibility to Afegbua and the fox IBB, when their personal interest was all they cared for, just to be able to contest the election and be rigged in? Then the mugu GEJ was still an errand boy but see slowpoke kids posting rubbish about a man even the greatest man in your ancestry cannot look into Prof. Soyinka's eyes!

So why hasn't Soyinka come out to deny it?

I have nothing against him too. It is also on record that he campaigned fervently both at home and abroad against the the results of the election of Shehu Shagari in the early Eighties.

Gboliwe: I want to understand this better. How is it going to be different form the Politics section we have already?

It will be a blog and the articles written on it will get more publicity than posts here on Nairaland. You can take a look at the Huffington Post blog to see what I am talking about.

scribble: but this gist stale na...na 2007 gist biko

OP why dont u want me to shine on front page na

Lol, the mods can still do something about it.

mgbeketoto: Where did I state tribe in my post?
See how you just exposed YOUR CHEAP, ETHNIC CONSTITUTION with my reference to ACHEBE.
IT IS ONE THING TO START A THREAD. . .and YET quite another to follow INTELLIGENTLY.



JUST LIKE ACHEBE. . . .

I really don give a PHOCK about YOUR 'TRIBE' or mine sweerie.

I AM A NIGERIAN. . . Thank ya!

My problem is that we were talking about Soyinka and you mentioned Achebe. Do you want to start another tribal mudslinging? Don't you know the tribal heat any Achebe vs Soyinka debate generates?

mgbeketoto: I beg to differ. . .LIKE ACHEBE. . .LIKE SOYINKA.
People do get DEMENTED, SENILE. . .OR WITH SENILE DEMENTIA(a combination of both in OLD AGE)
If they are not talking rubbish. . . they are writing TRASH!
You first get angry at them. . .THEN YOU PITY THEM!
Shikena!

Must you brandish your tribalistic tentacles here? What has Achebe got to do with this?

Yes. So true, that was when he was awarded the CFR and that was after he was given the Nobel Peace Prize which his colleagues in Nigerian and African literature said he didn't deserve.

ba7man: Place her side by side with Michell Obama and ask the question again.

Must you bring comparisons into this? Why not place yourself side by side with the likes of Mark Zuckerberg, Wizkid, Beiber etc and see what you have achieved.

And so what!!!

bloggernaija: Role model ko , role model ni.

Nigerian are interesting people . ever ready to scam foreigners.
they are thereafter, scammed by the leaders and pastors.

Must you mention pastors? What of atheists and traditionalists like you

Contributed by Prince Kassim Afegbua -

• Says Nobel laureate is suffering from intellectual cirrhosis

Spokesman of former military President, General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida, Prince Kassim Afegbua, has taken Nobel Laureate Professor Wole Soyinka to the cleaners over the latter's comment Wednesday that IBB was not qualified to give the keynote address at this year's NLNG awards ceremony.

Afegbua said that the recent outburst of Soyinka are not only misplaced, but have further confirmed the world renowned intellectual as two-faced, 'ego-defensive ideologue' who never practices what he preaches.
In a written response titled SOYINKA'S MISPLACED OUTBURST ON IBB OVER THE NLNG AWARD EVENT, Afegbua who is also the acting national chairman of the National Democratic Party (NDP) said it was in the character of Soyinka to dine with the powers that be in the night only to come out in the morning to condemn them in order to endear himself to the unsuspecting public.

"There is nothing more nauseating than to see a man trying to be holier than thou and yet expecting the public to take him serious. Such deep-rooted pretentiousness has been the bane of most writers who never practice what they preach, either in their works of fiction or daily lives. Professor Wole Soyinka falls into this category of ego-defensive ideologues who try as much as possible to portray a different world view from their actual characteristics", Afegbua said.

[b]The rejoinder from the IBB spokesman reads in part:
"From all the available records of service in Soyinka's trajectory in life, there are legions of references to suggest that he is a man of dual personality. It is a matter of fact that Soyinka served in the Babangida regime in the capacity of Chairman, Federal Road Safety Commission. It is also on video tape that he publicly endorsed the Structural Adjustment Programme of the Babangida era. It is also a matter of fact, that he had always abhorred the objective behind the Nobel Laureate until he was made a beneficiary. It is on record that he accepted the second highest honour of Commander of the Federal Republic [CFR] during military regime of General Ibrahim Babangida.
The award was to shore up his profile against the wholesale criticisms by his colleague writers, of his Nobel Laureate which they said he did not merit. It is on record that he went overseas to campaign against the democratic elections of 1983 won by Alhaji Shehu Shagari, on account of the elections being rigged. It is also on record that his tenure as Chairman of FRSC was not the best of times for the organization. He ran the Commission as his personal fiefdom. When the Abacha regime tried to investigate his tenure of the FRSC he went on self exile.It is a matter of historical correctness that he walked into the studio of Western Nigeria Broadcasting Corporation in 1965 to substitute a pre-recorded broadcast of the Premier just to cause chaos. Typical of a man whose upbringing was admittedly characterized with storm and stress, he established the Seadogs Confraternity during his undergraduate years in the University of Ibadan. We all know the implications of that confraternity in the life of Nigerian universities. Such a man cannot, by every societal standard, be a role model. In the light of the above, it will be appropriate to say in very unambiguous terms that Professor Wole Soyinka is suffering from pathological self-righteous hypocrisy of the first order. The fact that he tries to exonerate himself from the life span of an administration that he served in, is suggestive of low leadership quality. Leaders must be able to own up to their responsibilities and should be accountable to them at all times. That has been the hallmark of General Babangida. For sure, IBB is no capuchin [saint] to borrow the word of Napoleon Bonaparte but he knows his onus when it comes to leadership and service delivery. A man like Soyinka who cannot... cannot possibly wear the toga of a moralist in the African sense of it.[/b] I can only conclude with the strength of psycho-analytical permission, that he represents the fictive Baroka, his heroic character in his first play "Lion and the Jewel", who sits atop the village stead of Ilujinle milking the freshness of the female specie in a royal grandeur of a common "Baale" [village head]

Writers who suffer from intellectual cirrhosis like Wole Soyinka possess the capacity to write what the public cannot simply understand thus betraying the fundamental essence of literature. The strength and relevance of any work of arts is determined by the number of people who are naturally willing to patronize it and not the ones that are read for examination sake. Ask Nigerian writers who Soyinka appears to be protecting how many of Soyinka’s works are relevant in the true sense of curative literature.

General Babangida provided an avenue for intellectuals to flourish during his tenure. He encouraged their ingenuity and promoted creativity to the extent that policies that were fashioned out during his regime have since become the cornerstone of modern Nigeria. The intellect of those Professors that graciously served the military regime of IBB, cannot be questioned.
It smacks of shamelessness for a man who wants the world to see him as pro-democracy activist to be defending a coupist who paid the supreme price for his action. Whether we like it or not, there is punishment for every coup plotter in the military, but the likes of Soyinka can afford to defend such coupist since he too unsettled nerves in his Western Broadcasting Corporation scenario. I cannot fashion out when coup plotting has become acceptable in our law books.
The price for failed coup plot is death. I can't even explain his new found love for foreign countries when on the one hand, he frowned against colonialism. What does the haven of the White man hold for him in this present time? This also applies to other Professors who are living in deplorable condition overseas but have chosen to remain put simply because of the fat foreign exchange that the Dollar fetches for them. If the urge for foreign adventure was as a result of military rule as these characters would have us believe, what explanation would they advance in the light of this democracy?
Even in the face of daunting challenges that confronted the Babangida regime, IBB was able to overcome the activities of sycophants and saboteurs like Wole Soyinka who are seen during daylight condemning government but go cap in hand at night to embrace it. Wole Soyinka was in political doldrum when IBB decided to rehabilitate him and in the process got into public prominence during that regime. Can Soyinka in all sincerity point at anything that he has contributed in bringing to fruition in Nigeria despite his larger than life posturing? Can he say in specific details what he has ploughed back to a country that nurtured him to assume this Laureate status?
General Babangida cannot be distracted by the rantings of a Wole Soyinka. A thousand and one Soyinkas cannot also undo him. It will even surprise Soyinka to know that Babangida would add more intellectual value to the NLNG award process than all the noise makers writers who easily blame Babangida for their unproductivity and utter intellectual laziness in the foregone years. Such excuses do not sell any longer."

http://consciencedaily.com/index2.php?option=com_content&do_pdf=1&id=125

Divepen: if i hear

You don hear am now
Ike ekweremadu, anyim pius, okonjo-weala, ihejirika, ihedioha, stella odua, alison madueke, peter obi etc the list is endless. All these people are the backbone of the GEJ administration. If he messes with them e don be 4 him

Soyinka is biased and can never be allowed to hold an elected office