kings09:
Observe their absence in dis thread

I know na..naso so I just position they wait for them..

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I see some people blaming him as if his one vote was the one who made Buhari the president.
In an election you have to choose who to support and it may turn out to be a wrong choice but u can't kill yourself.
I see some of u behaving as if his vote is worse than u not voting at all.
Y'all should stop behaving like the US democratic sore losers and look forward to the next election to do the needful.
If u like don't vote, be accusing people upandan as if u haven't made a mistake once.

Wale and grammar hmm.

like if you read through all that
share if you didn't

Somebody summarize dis sh1t jhor...

Ok
Thanks to whoever gave wole his cough medicine. Seems he has recovered his voice.
In those those, it was said what an old man sees while sitting, a boy won't even if he climes a tree. A guess our old men are now blind.

Buying time passing blame. PDP this GEJ that

huptin:


You know something? Nobody is above mistake but this attitude of yours- continously blaming people for wrong choices made will make them continue to defend those choices even though they may have realised their mistake internally - guess the effect of that? They will continue making those mistakes just so that people like you don't gloat and you know who will benefit? - Buhari of course! Tact is a billion times more effective than bluff.

my broda u just recited wat ma best frnd said today he was a die hard supporter of buhari until today. only 4 him to uncover dt he stopped supporting buhari since 6 mnths ago bt was ashamed to let me knw due to my attitude of taunting him........ pls let us stop taunting ppl dt voted buhari.......IT WAS A MISTAKE.

I wonder what Soyinkas thoughts are about secession.

He needs to go a step further from just saying the current system is unworkable. I'm sure he's given it some thought and seen no possible future for this "contraption".

What is this old man saying sef?

Wole Soyinka a man I respected so much was easily deceived by Amaechi to support Buhari. People should stop blaming him. Amaechi needed to launder Buhari's image. He used Soyinka to achieve that. Soyinka would not just condemned Buhari then because tactically he was in Amaechi's payroll.
There was even an unsubstantiated rumour that he Amaechi got Soyinka's daughter impregnated.

janellemonae:
I wonder what Soyinka thoughts are about secession.

he supports it. this is his only redeeming trait

What's the need in saying a whole lot without communicating all in the name of trying to live up to what people expect of him?

Wole Soyinka is stupid

And he wrote stupid books.

And won a Nobel laureate at a stupid time.

If he was intelligent as he is trying so hard to impression on us, he wouldn't have believed all the lies APC told in 2015. Except of course he would be shameless enough to admit that his support was bought.

Thrash!

huptin:
Our leaders are very short sighted, Fuel crisis will soon be over! and then what? They lack the ability to see beyond their noses.

In a word where fossil fuel will soon be a thing of the past one of the world's largest producer of crude oil - Nigeria, have not been able to enjoy the commodity.

I am afraid that Nigerians may never enjoy this God given oil till the day the commodity becomes useless - sad!

Our leaders?My friend get out of that slave mentality and grab the bull by the horn and take your destiny in your hands,stupid wailer.

TheFreeOne:
Soyinka should save us his grammars and apologize to Nigerians for supporting the most evil government in our history. A government under whose watch incompetency, bigotry, nepotism, suicides, selling of children by their parents to survive harsh economy, incessant killings by Fulani militia terrorists, extrajudicial killings by the army has become a way of life.

The silence from his likes in the face of glaring injustices has portrayed them to be hypocrites.

And is he not part of the mumus that supported the election of Buhari in 2015

Let me school you.

A former Spanish prime minister once compared democracy to a fuse, when the lights go out you change it.
Soyinka threw his weight behind Buhari in recognition of the headlong rush into disaster that Jonathan represented. I dislike Buhari as much as the next man, but continuing with Jonathan at that time would have been a national show of stupidity.

Buhari has certainly failed, but that is not the fault of his erstwhile supporters. We have done our duty. Where we the voting citizens would fail would be if we were to continue blindly supporting Buhari now that he has disappointed us and demonstrated his ineptitude. He needs to go.
On the other hand, your choice of Jonathan in 2015 would have destroyed Nigeria and left us worse off. We actually saved you from yourselves.

Finally, to those of you asking why Soyinka has not spoken out against the Buhari : guess what ? He just did.

Built2last:
Blame Passing, Social Media Automated Mumus – The New Year Gift To A Nation By Wole Soyinka

Its noisome claque in the meantime, the automated mumus of social media, practiced in sterile deflection and trivialization of critical issues, unwittingly join hands with government to indulge in blame passing and name calling – both sides with different targets.

n the accustomed tradition, I wish the nation less misery in the coming year. A genuine Happy New Year Greeting is probably too extravagant a wish.

The accompanying news clipping from June,1977 came into my hands quite fortuitously. It is forty years old. It captures the unenviable enigma that is the Nigerian nation. It is however a masterful end-of-year image to take into the coming year, not only for the individual now at the helm of government, General Buhari, but for a people surely credited with the most astounding degree of patience and forbearance on the African continent – except of course among themselves, when they turn into predatory fiends. When many of us are blissfully departed, an updated rendition of this same clipping – with a change of cast here and there – will undoubtedly be reproduced in the media, with the same alibis, the same in-built panacea of blame passing.
Let this be called to our collective memory. Even before the current edition of the fuel crisis, other challenges, requiring immediate fix, had begun to monopolize national attention, relegating to the sidelines the outcry for a fundamental and holistic approach to the wearisome cycle of citizen trauma. This has been expressed most recently, and near universally in the word “Restructuring”, defined straightforwardly as a drastic overhaul of Nigerian articles of co-existence in a more rational, equitable and decentralized manner. Such an overhaul, the re-positioning of the relationship between the parts and the whole offers, it has been strongly argued, prospects of a closer governance awareness of, and responsiveness to citizen entitlement. An overhaul that will near totally eliminate the frequent spasms of systemic malfunctioning that are in-built into the present protocols of national association.

I recently ran the gauntlet of petroleum queues through three conveniently situated cities – Lagos, Abeokuta and Ibadan – deliberately, this Friday. Even with ‘unorthodox’ aids of passage, this was no task for the faint-hearted. Just getting past fueling stations was traumatizing, an obstacle race through seething, frustrated masses of humanity, only to find ourselves on vast stretches of emptied roads pleading for occupation. As for obtaining the petroleum in the first place – the less said the better. I suspect that this government has permitted itself to be fooled by the peace of those empty streets, but also by the orderly, patient, long-suffering queues that are admittedly prevalent in the city centers. It is time the reporting monitors of government move to city peripheries and sometimes even some other inner urban sectors, such as Ikeja and Maryland from time to time to see, and listen! Pronouncements – such as the 1977 above - again re-echoing by rote in 2017– are a delusion at best, a formula that derides public intelligence. Buying time. Passing blame. Yes of course, the current affliction must be remedied, and fast, but is there a dimension to it that must be brought to the fore, simultaneously and forcefully? This had better be the framework for solving even a shortage that virtually paralyzed the nation


Just to think laterally for a moment - what became of the initiatives by some states nearly two decades ago – Lagos most prominently - to decentralize power, and thus empower states to generate and distribute their own energy requirements? Frustrated and eventually sabotaged in the most cynical manner from the Federal center! The similarity today is frightening – for nearly four days on that earlier occasion, the nation was blacked out near entirely. We know that one survival tactic of governments is to keep their citizens in the dark over decisions that affect their lives but, this was literal! And yet each such crisis, plus lesser ones, merely reiterate again and again that this national contraption, as it now stands, is simply – dysfunctional!. What this demands is that, in the process of alleviating the immediate pressing misery, we do not permit ourselves to be manipulated yet again into forgetting the MAIN issue whose ramifications exact penalties such as petroleum seizures and national power outage. These are only two handy, being recent symptoms - there are several others, but this is not intended to be a catalog of woes. Sufficient to draw attention to the Yoruba saying that goes: Won ni, Amukun, eru e wo. Oun ni, at’isale ni. Translation: Some voices alerted the K-Legged porter to the dangerous tilt of the load on his head. His response was - Thank you, but the problem actually resides in the legs.

The providential image above sums up a defining moment for both individual and collective self-assessment, places in question the ability of a nation to profit from past experience. Vast resources, yes, but proved unmanageable under its present structural arrangements. As the tussle for the next round of power gets hotter in the coming year, the electorate will again be manipulated into losing sight of the BASE ISSUE. Its noisome claque in the meantime, the automated mumus of social media, practiced in sterile deflection and trivialization of critical issues, unwittingly join hands with government to indulge in blame passing and name calling – both sides with different targets. From the anguished cry of Charley Boy’s Our Mummu Done Do! to expositions from academics such as Professor Makinde’s recent intervention, the public is subjected daily to a relentless barrage of awareness, underlined in urgency. Nobody listens. One wonders if many people read. And certainly, very few retain or relate – until of course the next crisis. The labor movement declares that it awaits a guarantee of the ‘people’s backing’ before it embarks on any critical intervention. Understandably. There is more than enough of the opium of blame passing on tap to lull mummus into that deep coma from which – give it a little more time – there can only be a rude awakening.

Sooner than later, but not as soon as pledged, the fuel crisis will pass. And then, of course, we shall await the next round of shortages, then a recommencement of blame passing. What will be the commodity this time – food perhaps? Maybe even potable water? In a nation of plenty, nothing is beyond eventual shortage – except, of course, the commonplace endowment of pre-emptive planning and methodical execution. Forty years after, the same language of re-assurance? “There is something rotten in the state of Naija!”


Wole SOYINKA

Source: http://saharareporters.com/2017/12/30/blame-passing-social-media-automated-mumus-%E2%80%93-new-year-gift-nation-wole-soyinka

i dont know wat u are talking, babash hell of grammer tufia kwa

Automated Mumu... ATM

OfficialAwol:
What's the need in saying a whole lot without communicating all in the name of trying to live up to what people expect of him?

Wole Soyinka is stupid

And he wrote stupid books.

And won a Nobel laureate at a stupid time.

If he was intelligent as he is trying so hard to impression on us, he wouldn't have believed all the lies APC told in 2015. Except of course he would be shameless enough to admit that his support was bought.

Thrash!

A whole Noble Laureate recognized by the world trying to make an impression on a nonentity like you?Wonders will never end,words can't explain a word for you.

If you had read his article well you would have understood he was referring to people like yourself,faceless Morons that get on social media and expose their ignorance as fact based on the wrong interpretation mixed up with a faint imagination.

Daviddson:
This man at his old age still trying to impress people with foreign language competence. I won't be surprised if he made a lot of errors in handling very basic English grammar comport in that writeup, despite his over-the-top use of semantics.

And who told you he's trying to impress, that's the way he'd learnt the skill to express himself overtime... And if you think he'll make basic English errors, why don't you make efforts to pick them out? That's the only way you can be sure.

IamaNigerianGuy:


Let me school you.

Democracy is like a fuse. When the lights go out, you change it. Soyinka threw his weight behind Buhari in recognition of the drift into disaster that Jonathan represented.
I hate Buhari as much as the next man but continuing with Jonathan at that time would have been a national show of stupidity.

Buhari has certainly failed, but that is not the fault of his erstwhile supporters. Where we the voting citizens would fail would be if we were to continue blindly supporting Buhari .

Finally, to those of you asking why Soyinka has not spoken out against the Buhari - he just did.

School me indeed.

If some of you guys that voted Buhari are intelligent and not fraudulent you would have check his record / history to know he's always a 'bad market' when it comes to governance.

For Soyinka to have bought into Sai baba hogwash says much after all he said about same man years back.

So you are the one with half education (abo eko) regarding buhari and like you mentioned the lights are gradually going out on this administration cos they've burned the fuse

TheFreeOne:


School me indeed.

If some of you guys that voted Buhari are intelligent and not fraudulent you would have check his record / history to know he's always a 'bad market' when it comes to governance.

For Soyinka to have bought into Sai baba hogwash says much after all he said about same man years back.

So you are the one with half education (abo eko) regarding buhari and like you mentioned the lights are gradually going out on this administration cos they've burned the fuse

I have done my best by providing the material. Education is up to you.

Shalom

OfficialAwol:
What's the need in saying a whole lot without communicating all in the name of trying to live up to what people expect of him?

Wole Soyinka is stupid

And he wrote stupid books.

And won a Nobel laureate at a stupid time.

If he was intelligent as he is trying so hard to impression on us, he wouldn't have believed all the lies APC told in 2015. Except of course he would be shameless enough to admit that his support was bought.

Thrash!

The whole of your bloodline, dead, living and unborn can't measure up to his shoelace till eternity. Get a life loser.

huptin:


You know something? Nobody is above mistake but this attitude of yours- continously blaming people for wrong choices made will make them continue to defend those choices even though they may have realised their mistake internally - guess the effect of that? They will continue making those mistakes just so that people like you don't gloat and you know who will benefit? - Buhari of course! Tact is a billion times more effective than bluff.

Wish I could like this more than once.
No truer and wiser statement has been made.

TheFreeOne:
Soyinka should save us his grammars and apologize to Nigerians for supporting the most evil government in our history. A government under whose watch incompetency, bigotry, nepotism, suicides, selling of children by their parents to survive harsh economy, incessant killings by Fulani militia terrorists, extrajudicial killings by the army has become a way of life.

The silence from his likes in the face of glaring injustices has portrayed them to be hypocrites.

And is he not part of the mumus that supported the election of Buhari in 2015

So Soyinka should apologise to you because he chose to publicly throw his weight around a politician who has turned out to be a disappointment?

Last I checked, the prof never forced his choice down anyone's throat and he equally didn't ask people to go with his choice.

Till date, you and your people never apologised to Nigerians for dying over an Ijaw man who attached Azikiwe to his name out if sheer desperation.

Perhaps you have forgotten so soon, Jonathan/Sambo went full throttle with the tribal/religious card, with the assistance of some conmen who themselves pastors.

Buhari is no doubt an epic failure but that Prof. Wole should apologise to you and other Nigerians is enough to make me ask 'who una be?'

Nice piece, better late than never, hope you will not go back into silence mode while you watch your people suffering.

TheFreeOne:


School me indeed.

If some of you guys that voted Buhari are intelligent and not fraudulent you would have check his record / history to know he's always a 'bad market' when it comes to governance.

For Soyinka to have bought into Sai baba hogwash says much after all he said about same man years back.

So you are the one with half education (abo eko) regarding buhari and like you mentioned the lights are gradually going out on this administration cos they've burned the fuse

So you guys latch on to antecedents in deciding who to vote? If so, why then were you crying after Jonathan lost, despite the many noise that he ran one of the most corrupt administration the country has ever seen?

If you are so intelligent at detecting antecedents, how come you have underperformers as governors in your region, knowing full well that they have never amounted to doing something meaningful in previous offices they found themselves in?

IamaNigerianGuy:


Let me school you.

Democracy is like a fuse. When the lights go out, you change it. Soyinka threw his weight behind Buhari in recognition of the drift into disaster that Jonathan represented.
I dr dislike Buhari as much as the next man but continuing with Jonathan at that time would have been a national show of stupidity.

Buhari has certainly failed, but that is not the fault of his erstwhile supporters. We have done our duty. Where we the voting citizens would fail would be if we were to continue blindly supporting Buhari . Your choice of Jonathan in 2015 would have destroyed Nigeria and left it wise off. We actually saved you from yourselves.

Finally, to those of you asking why Soyinka has not spoken out against the Buhari - he just did.

How has President Buhari failed and what did Profesor Wole Soyinka say about the President other than we keep blaming others for our own shortcomings,someone that is bent on shitting outside in the open how do you force him to use the toilet like a civil being?may I ask you how has President Buhari in Abuja stopped you from prospering?

All the money you saved under pdp in their 16 years vanished in APC's 2 years? Ok most of the people that make up apc were not former pdp members,to you pdp is good and apc is bad?Keep shifting the buck waiting for a messiah,a bad tree will never yield good fruits. Hypocrite.

We need a Real Revolution. That's all.

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