Nigeria: Adamu Ciroma - the Last Man Standing

23 November 2010
opinion

They love to hate him. Some despise him while others loath him with a passion. They see him as a noisy old man that has been fanning the embers of their kind of "money-for-hand-back-for-ground" unity of the country. He is a kill joy who must be harangued and assailed from all directions by all manner of political jobbers and their sundry collaborators who have lately found relevance in the gimmickry Jonathan-for-president mantra which every hawk is today feasting on sumptuously with no care in the world.

What all of them have in common, regardless of who they are or where they come from is that they are political jobbers who have been notorious all their lives for providing political consultancy services to the highest bidder; that their action is dishonourable and is capable of throwing the country into chaos of unimaginable proportion is immaterial to them. The end to them justifies the means. The Jonathan-for-president drum-beaters that are today falling over themselves to steal the show in this macabre dance are indeed all over the landscape spewing garbage upon garbage making incoherent pronouncements, bordering mostly on war-mongering and character assassination and threatening the peace of the country, and generally trying to blackmail the rest of us into towing their odious and unpatriotic lines.

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