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Politics / Re: DSS Charges Ex-NSA Dasuki To Court by ONIjibit1(m): 7:27pm On Aug 24, 2015 |
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Politics / Re: DSS Charges Ex-NSA Dasuki To Court by ONIjibit1(m): 7:26pm On Aug 24, 2015 |
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Car Talk / Re: This Ferrari Got Everyone Staring At It In Lagos (photos) by ONIjibit1(m): 7:21pm On Aug 24, 2015 |
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Politics / Re: Drama and Intrigues As Ayo Fayose Ran Into Fayemi, Others At A Funeral (Pix) by ONIjibit1(m): 3:34pm On Aug 23, 2015 |
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Politics / Re: The Trail Of Bishop Kukah By Tatalo Alamu by ONIjibit1(m): 11:46am On Aug 23, 2015 |
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Politics / The Trail Of Bishop Kukah By Tatalo Alamu by ONIjibit1(m): 11:45am On Aug 23, 2015 |
The Trial Of Bishop Kukah. Poor Mathew Hassan Kukah! He has had it up to the nape of his cassocks. The torrents of abuse have now transformed into a tsunami of vilification. It was just as well that the week ended with the congregation of Catholic Bishops removing the ground from under Bishop Kukah by wholeheartedly supporting President Buhari’s anti-corruption hurricane. Never in Nigeria’s public history has a hitherto respected man of god tumbled so fast in public esteem. Never has a man so widely admired for his cutting intellect become a master of pompous equivocation and fatuous obfuscation. Never has the implacable Nigerian intellectual lynch mob been so fast and furious in dismembering and devouring its victim. It is a sad spectacle, and a consuming Nigerian tragedy to boot. Many of us who consider ourselves friends and admirers of the gutsy and cerebral Bishop of the Sokoto Catholic Diocese can only watch in pained silence as the man of god appears to unravel in a drama of self-demystification. But in revolutionary situations, everybody must answer their fathers’ name and one must be ready to drop a friend because of principles rather than drop principles because of a friend. These must be revolutionary times in Nigeria indeed. It is only in revolutionary times that people lose total respect for priestly cassocks and other symbols of traditional authority. It is only in revolutionary times that the sacred become desacralized in bitter profanity and people move from hero to zero. The man of the people becomes the enemy of the populace. The dark night does not recognize sacerdotal distinction. As the mob brays in implacable distemper, the expiring ruling class that has held Nigeria hostage must note this development. Bishop Kukah’s superiors in the Nigerian Catholic nomenklatura must be clicking their tongue in sagely relish. A child can have as many new clothes as an elder, but he can never have as many rags. Many of the superiors of the Sokoto Bishop must be rubbing their palms in smirking satisfaction. Only the barely discerning would not have noticed a certain froideur, a chilly discomfort among the Catholic hierarchs as Kukah rose to secular apotheosis as a liberating theologist and friend of the rich and powerful at the same time. As the Yoruba will put it, nobody must stop a youngster from climbing the hill of Langbodo. In retrospect, perhaps it will be said that the Sokoto bishop chose the wrong time to cross the Homeric frontline between the Nigerian powerful and the teeming powerless; and between whistle blowing against the powerful or becoming a loud and brash megaphone of its rearguard rally. Not even the most gifted and proficient trickster knows when the trick will fail, and in revolutionary situations one cannot be too careless in his choice of enemies. The last straw, it seems, is Kukah’s stirring at the behest of the controversial Peace Committee. Let it be bluntly and baldly stated that this committee is not about peace at all. It materialized as a last ditch ruling class initiative to force General Buhari to accept dishonorable defeat and hence to stave off the revolutionary turmoil and anarchy that would have accompanied electoral miscarriage. It is a wearisomely familiar Nigerian ploy to impose “peace” in the absence of social and political justice. But they misjudged the mood of the nation and the fact that Nigerians have had it with their ilk. Bar a few misguided ones who are glad to be dredged up from peat bog of political oblivion and the odd naïve do-gooders, most of our newly minted peaceniks are compromised scoundrels working for the old regime and traditional mischief-makers on a typical pay day. Available reports indicate that some of them were already privately gloating about the inevitability of a Jonathan victory. They came to bury Buhari and not to praise him. But It bombed spectacularly. Perhaps this is one of the “spectacular” things that Jonathan did which Kukah referred to with deliberately oblique disingenuity. Having failed in their core mission, they have now transformed into a “peace” council to disturb the peace of the nation, and to stalemate the inevitable sanitization of the polity. They have gone about endlessly chattering about due process and the fact that this is a democracy and not a military order. One wonders how democracy and due process would have fared had they succeeded in suborning the sovereign electoral will of Nigerians. Let this be the last time President Buhari will give them a decent hearing. Kukah’s attempt to defend the motive of the peace council has brought a gale of angry denunciations on the internet and social media with many of them charging the Catholic supremo with perfidy and betrayal. This columnist read about three hundred of these angry rebuttals and only a few were willing to stake their integrity on the integrity and honesty of the bishop. It was redolent of pent up fury and misgivings, as if they have been waiting for Kukah to cross the line. Kukah’s attempt to correct a purportedly mischievous slant that gave the impression that the council went up to President Buhari to bargain for a soft landing for the disgraced and discredited Jonathan drew even more tempestuous tirades. And then in the unkindest cut of all, a shadowy and hitherto unknown organization going by the name of CUPS came out to directly impugn Kukah’s integrity and claims to probity in a well- detailed allegation of sleaze and corruption. This column will refrain from publicizing the salacious and insalubrious details, but they go to show how far Bishop Kukah’s stock has fallen. It is a remarkable development and no matter his public grandstanding and defiance of the gravitational pull of seamy scandals, the plucky priest must be having some anxious private moments. Even if they remain at the level of mere allegations, that they are ever broached at all shows how public perception can be influenced by the power and putrescence of offensive associations. The bishop’s cup is full and it overflows indeed. It may well be too late to ask the august catholic prelate to return to base. For a man of such calm and deliberate mien, such choices are not lightly made in the first instance. As we have said, everybody must answer to his patronymic in these perilous times. Like a savage hawk remarkable for its hunting prowess and ferocious precision, the Nigerian ruling class knows the particular moment to home in on its intended prey and which foibles and personal peccadilloes to zero in upon. In a postcolonial society infamous for its political dysfunctionality , the transition from civil society activist to state actor is a very precarious affair indeed. In Nigeria, only few people, if any at all, have been able to manage the transition without major scars. This is because inchoate and disadvantaged civil society feels abandoned and neglected by one of its own. Like vultures waiting for the ethically deceased, they bid their time waiting to take their pound of flesh or carrion and the quiet hysteria of private abandonment soon gives way to the public hullabaloo of angry and messy divorce. The Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese seems to have had it coming for quite some time. There might have come a time when a practical patriot like Kukah might have come to the conclusion that it might be better and more nation-rewarding to remonstrate with the Nigerian powers that be at close proximity than to demonstrate against them from a far distance. As a minority scion of the most minority of ethnic formations, Kukah might have concluded that he stood no chance raising hell among the hell-bound majority monsters—as he himself once memorably dismissed Nigeria’s major ethnic formations. It may well turn out to be a bridge too far, but in the brutal power calculus of Nigeria’s political coliseum, innocence is not a virtue but a symptom of suicidal naivety. Who will then speak and speak up for the Nigerian minority ethnic subaltern? As a devoted watcher of Nigeria’s volatile and explosive political gymnasium, this columnist entered into a private correspondence with the father who art in Kaduna then over his seemingly seamless transition from civil society activist to state actor. Yours sincerely wanted to know whether the transition was conscious or seemingly unconscious. It was a particularly illuminating exchange whose details must remain private and confidential. What did it for this columnist was Kukah’s out of proportion reaction to a Soyinka piece detailing the ills and ailments of the Nigerian postcolonial state. As usual with the implacably agonistic Nobel avatar, it was a merciless and astringent critique dripping with venom and vitriol. The old literary lion does not take hostages in these matters. But anybody who has watched Nigeria’s descent into political infamy over the decades would side with Soyinka’s angst about the fate of his beloved country. What seemed to have drawn Bishop Kukah’s particular ire was Soyinka’s damning conclusion that nothing good could come out of the Nigerian state as it was constituted. It is interesting and intriguing that Soyinka’s response to Kukah was a mixture of puckish humour and elderly irritation. Subsequent events seem to have proved the Nobel laureate right. Thereafter, certain changes in Kukah’s public personae became noticeable as he moved closer and closer to the sanctuary of state power. An imperious swagger seems to have been added to the bouncy gait even as a pompous and pomaded puffery became the order of the day. A moody irascible brio and prickly condescension became the sine qua non of Kukah’s public engagements. The bishop’s secular beatitude was in full progress. But such beatitudes do not beautify, and neither do they ennoble in the tumultuous and turbulent context of a postcolonial nation roiling in crisis and contradictions. In such circumstances and situations, it is the bounden duty of all men of god to speak truth to secular power and not to become carpetbaggers and reactionary rearguard rallying points for the retrogressive and anti- progress rump of a failed ruling class. The current pope is an outstanding exemplar of this sacred moral responsibility to the powerless of the earth; and so was the old much admired and revered Polish pope, the illustrious Cardinal Karol Wojtyla. We dare say that in the last decade and a half beginning with the Oputa Panel, Bishop Kukah has been rather remiss in that historic and sacred duty. If it is not too late, this gifted priest should find his route back to public restitution and redemption. 1 Like |
Celebrities / Re: 20 Things You Don’t Know About Don Jazzy by ONIjibit1(m): 5:56pm On Aug 21, 2015 |
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Politics / Re: Governors Shun Private Jets As Buhari's Body Language Hits Aviation Sector by ONIjibit1(m): 5:21pm On Aug 21, 2015 |
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Politics / Re: Governors Shun Private Jets As Buhari's Body Language Hits Aviation Sector by ONIjibit1(m): 11:02am On Aug 21, 2015 |
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Education / Re: IMSU Bans Pouring Of Water On Graduates (pictures) by ONIjibit1(m): 7:46am On Aug 21, 2015 |
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Politics / Re: Late Emir Of Katsina Admiring Traffic Light During Visit To UK In 1940s by ONIjibit1(m): 4:41pm On Aug 17, 2015 |
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Religion / Re: Anambra Pastor Burns The Ukolo Uga Shrine... (Photo) by ONIjibit1(m): 7:11pm On Aug 13, 2015 |
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Politics / Re: The Truth About FFK: Yemisi Wada’s Camp Rips Femi Olu-Kayode Apart - TheElitesng by ONIjibit1(m): 8:31am On Aug 12, 2015 |
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Politics / Re: PDP Drags Amaechi To EFCC by ONIjibit1(m): 7:40am On Aug 12, 2015 |
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Celebrities / Re: Media Briefing Holding In Abuja For Majek Fashek....see Photos by ONIjibit1(m): 3:44pm On Aug 10, 2015 |
Funny name Majekodunmi Fa-SHOKI |
Romance / Re: Playing With This Lady Bobbies All In The Name Of Autograph (photos) by ONIjibit1(m): 5:07pm On Aug 09, 2015 |
falconey:I did many of this when I was about graduating at Delsu. One afternoon before my last paper, My course rep who was a beautiful lady of 23years, she approached me and said "Bright, you need to sign for me so I can remember your naughty behaviors" so she faced me with her 2 big, lickable apples...... as a sharp guy, I cum use my left hand raise the apple up small to make a nice table as I wrote "Mo'Brightx" on it.... The Lecturer was like "this is day time robbery on the chick wey I don dey eye" He just shouted to me "O'boy common leave that apple joor, it is too big for you" 1 Like |
Politics / Re: Obasanjo Meets Buhari, Intercedes On Behalf Of Turai Yar’ Adua by ONIjibit1(m): 11:30am On Aug 09, 2015 |
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Politics / Re: Drunk Policeman Arrested By The Police In Lagos (Pictured) by ONIjibit1(m): 9:57pm On Aug 08, 2015 |
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European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) / Re: Chelsea Vs Swansea (2 - 2) On 8th August 2015 by ONIjibit1(m): 7:15pm On Aug 08, 2015 |
Lamidi don come again ooooo Oya Mourinho hold am well jaree Lamidi! Lamidi! Lamidi!!! It is a Goooooooooooooooooal Chelshit 5: swansea 0 Lamidi scored a/an hearttrick 4 Likes |
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) / Re: Chelsea Vs Swansea (2 - 2) On 8th August 2015 by ONIjibit1(m): 6:51pm On Aug 08, 2015 |
Ololo oooooooooooo I dey laugh in my korea language Chelshit football lucb in twouble |
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) / Re: Categories Of EPL Fans In Nigeria by ONIjibit1(m): 6:40pm On Aug 08, 2015 |
BabyDaddy20:Yet you have no shot on target against Totthenham. The only goal was scored by Walker. #anyway Mourinho said we are only after to win. |
Politics / Re: Breaking: Boko Haram Members Denounce Membership Of Sect by ONIjibit1(m): 4:08am On Aug 08, 2015 |
bababuff:Yes Boss, I strongly agree with you.... For me, anybody caught,identified or mistaken identified as Boko Haram should face firing squad in Sambisa Forest #shikena 2 Likes |
Politics / Re: Drunk Police Officer Sighted In Lagos. by ONIjibit1(m): 4:04am On Aug 08, 2015 |
amanikondo:Local lamp! U nor dey sleep? Drunk Police Officer Sighted In Lagos. |
Politics / Re: Drunk Police Officer Sighted In Lagos. by ONIjibit1(m): 3:47am On Aug 08, 2015 |
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Crime / Re: violence in portharcourt over police killing a bus driver his wife just deliverd by ONIjibit1(m): 9:27pm On Aug 07, 2015 |
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Sports / Re: Sunday Oliseh, Invites 23 Players For Tanzania Match by ONIjibit1(m): 8:00pm On Aug 07, 2015 |
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Crime / Re: violence in portharcourt over police killing a bus driver his wife just deliverd by ONIjibit1(m): 7:39pm On Aug 07, 2015 |
vivavik: 100meter thou. Lazy babe. Wetin Rebecca Soni of U.S.A take senior you? That's the effect of too much donation! |
Politics / Re: Buhari Pays Ex-Militants Allowances And Owed Arrears by ONIjibit1(m): 7:33pm On Aug 07, 2015 |
Now the Tompolo-isms and Asari-Dokubo-ism can let us hear word |
Jokes Etc / Re: Strange But Funny Pictures Of People Carrying Bags Of Cements by ONIjibit1(m): 7:29pm On Aug 07, 2015 |
Baba 70 in action |
Crime / Re: violence in portharcourt over police killing a bus driver his wife just deliverd by ONIjibit1(m): 7:27pm On Aug 07, 2015 |
vivavik: 100meters #lol. Wetin Rebecca Soni of U.S.A take senior you sef if nor be say dem don too donate give you. |
Crime / Re: violence in portharcourt over police killing a bus driver his wife just deliverd by ONIjibit1(m): 7:24pm On Aug 07, 2015 |
All I can say is..... The gods are wise but Wike is a Thief too. |
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