First
we have a president trapped in his own other-self: one that has office and
greatness thrust upon him as a passive party and drowning in the cacophony of
voices by unconscionable power manipulators around him>>>
He
cuts the image of someone torn between two loyalties:
one
to his good self (simple, modest, gentle and guileless),and the other to his
primordial constituency. With the latter, he is emboldened and empowered as he
acquires the guile needed for engagement with the increasingly hostile world.
In that frame, loyalty to the country does not feature, and if it does it is
only in a transposed context,one mistaken for the other.
In
a national space where enduring and strong institutions do not exist, and are
not encouraged, the stage is set for anything goes; it’s an open-sesame for
looting spree and unbridled corruption. Minister after minister is exposed for
recklessness and impunity in the abuse of office and mismanagement of
resources. Pretty mesdames sway hips embroiled in scandals of armoured
state-of-the-art automobiles purchased at mind-boggling and improbable sums, or
of the flow of oil into thin air; oil that would a million lives have
nourished. The helpless and hapless president withdraws into his own world of
succour in liquor, waiting and hoping for things to ride.
Then
one we know but needless to mention, whose past deeds (and non-deeds) should’ve
made him bury his head in shame, to be heard from only at the risk of being
stoned to death, jumps up, a troll, playing his customary Mr. All-knowing and
Mr. Innocent rolled in one self. He finds his voice and cocks his head as he
unleashes an 18-page unsolicited “save-the-nation” missive, full of vitriol but
typically totally self-serving. Nonetheless, even in the evil he portends,
unintended good doth reside, for the alarm of an evil does not get ignored
simply because it is raised by an evildoer!
Then
into the morass jumps another, a madam sired by the former, one bearing his
looks but possessed of far higher learning. When I first learnt of her 12 or
more-page missive to her cranky father, I was dismissive of it. “O, well, what
else would you expect of a dysfunctional family,” I had said. For was this not
the same family from which the son had charged the father, even as a sitting
president, of indecent affair with the daughter-in-law, adduced in court
towards a plea for dissolution of his marriage?
But
to the woman’s missive I lent my heart, for her cry was pitiful – a merciless
disrobing and disavowal of a father, one even she had once eloquently pleaded
for the country to make president.
Then
a running theatre ensues; theatre of the absurd. Someone said the madam’s
letter was a forgery, another shot up to declaim the disclaimer. Yes, it was
written by her; no it wasn’t; yes, it was; no, it wasn’t…and the denials and
counter denials are still running!
The
mess of an equally dysfunctional country continues with large decampment
(I-don-port o!) from one party to another ahead of the 2015 general elections
and warlords and opposing warlords swearing to set the whole country ablaze
rather than lose the oil (honey)-pot. Insecurity – from mindless kidnappings
through heartless armed robberies to senseless terrorism of Boko Haramists –
and poverty rule the land.
There
are no groups of elders in the land, elders who can be counted upon as
repositories and guardians of the best values and development of the country.
None. What a big mess!...
Nearer
home, the example that still resonates in the Nigerian with relish is that of
Ghana’s Jerry Rawlings who at 31 staged a coup d’etat in Ghana in 1979 and went
on to execute a number of top-ranking Ghanaian political leaders in what he
described as a purge of Ghanaian society of all the corruption and social
injustices bedeviling the country. Many Nigerians still wonder if a Rawlings
treatment may not be the answer to their own country’s stagnation if not
retrogression.
To
be continued...
By
Tunde Fagbenle
Source: Olufamous.com
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