• tuesday.iwok

  Dec 17 2012, 10:27

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  thers is an end to all things. what goes up must surely come down. OBJ being a father should respect himself for GOODLUCK JONATHAN 'MUST' win come 2015. the past is never the future.

• Garden-City Boy

  Dec 17 2012, 15:35

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  Did attack-dog, Fani-Kayode, suddenly go deaf and dumb this time? Yakubu Gowon tells OBJ to his face that he was grossly "irresponsible" with his comments on Odi and Zaki Biam. You cannot believe how OBJ chicken out and held the attack-dog on a tight leash. The man boasts that he will not stay gagged or stopped from speaking out on national issues. Was that, after all, hot air...empty boast? Fani-Kayode, the cantankerous cash-and-carry lackey and surrogate maintained sealed lips; he was nowhere to be found. We know what it was; there was raging fire on the mountain. We can adduce one obvious reason: to OBJ and his lackeys, Jonathan is a perceived easy-pick, soft target; and Yakubu Gowon, with his monstrous Arewa backing, too intimidating to join issues with. Both OBJ and puppy Fani-Kayode lumber into their shells with tails between their legs. It is a most shameful spectacle, scornful in some sort of way. Paradoxically, OBJ, notorious for his vindictiveness, courts this same Arewa in his vengeful anti-Jonathan gang-up engineering. He aims to "APPEASE THE NORTH" who feel sold out by OBJ’s treacherous imposition of an invalid Yar'Adua on awusas. The Presidency of Goodluck Jonathan -a perceived minority Ijaw- is to play Obasanjo's ideal sacrificial offering as prescribed by an IFA ORACLE somewhere in Abeokuta or Otta. Here is a curious case of two camps of butchers whose lead actors’ fingers still drip with the blood of innocent compatriots, with resumes replete with hideously damning credentials. The murky 'truce' was forged to disingenuously suppress the discourse of crimes of impunity and barbaric carnage in the public domain. The frenetic hush-up was calculated to arrest the overspill of the already spilled proverbial beans. Yakubu Gowon, a hypocritical Arewa surrogate and paranoid Igbophobiac, now sees the "irresponsibility" in sinking a whole ship in the maniacal drive to drown its lone captain. 40 years after causing 3million deaths to 'crush OJUKWU’S rebellion' in Biafra, mass murder morphed into an 'irresponsible' conduct in Gowon's novel judgment. Could that be the prelude to his much anticipated public regret for the Igbo genocide? Does he still insist that the barbaric measure he crafted and institutionalized in 1966 is only good for Igbo annihilation, but taboo and inapplicable to for the Arewa-leaning Boko Haram holy cows? We may not be too surprised at how a thunderous brick-batting suddenly fell into graveyard quietude with Gowon's bombshell. All we know is that it is a grim chess game to put the lid to heinous crimes of human right violations engineered by the two gladiators. It is now up to Jonathan to realize his full potentials as the President who has the mandate of the Nigerian electorate, not Obasanjo's or Gowon's. His presidency is not the handy sacrificial offering needed by Obasanjo for the appeasement of the North he 'betrayed' with the Yar'Adua abracadabra. Obasanjo should be able to sort himself out with the awusas. This President needs to recognize that self-serving OBJ theatrical acrobatics are the painted devil to be feared by only the eye of childhood. The man is not even popular with his Yoruba kinsmen, except for cronies like the loquacious puppy doll, Fani-Kayode, who is in a desperate search for an escape route from charges of official thievery. On part, a gutless Gowon has never been "jack" enough to raise as much as a whimper against the ongoing systematic decimation of innocent Berom people in his native state of Plateau. The Berom pogrom is a clear case of an Arewa-inspired, awusa/fulani expansionism. The man has sold his soul to the devil, turned his back on his people, preferring a neck-saving, Arewa ass-licking atonement for the "princely" Murtala Mohamed's murder. For Mr. Gowon, the extra-judicial murder of a crop of fine officers of Middle-Belt extraction in bloody debacle in which he was fingered, does not even count. IBB is smart to stay out of this wrangle for fear of raising the ghosts of MAMMAN VATSA, DELE GIWA and the C-130 plain sabotage. OBJ's ego is nothing but an overly inflated phenomenon. The much flaunted exclusive 'make and unmake' power preserve is a puerile, self-arrogated, empty myth. All it needs is a little, effortless pin-prick and the gargantuan balloon goes deflate. OBJ’s obsessive revenge-seeking propensities becloud his every sense of appreciation of people’s graciousness, especially President Jonathan. Mr. President's blindsided 'silence' on the Halliburton and IYABO's corruption cases, as well as on the ODI killing fiesta, are the President’s chivalry he has taken much for granted. He carries on with the braggadocios swagger of a libertine, as though there is no one else at home in his exclusive Nigerian chiefdom. It becomes quite instructive that Halliburton turns out the rallying point for Obasanjo/Atiku duo –erstwhile celebrated mortal foes. We know that the alliance is driven by a hedonistic 'my enemy's enemy is my friend' philosophy. Yet, on the other hand, 'tell us your friends, we tell you whom you really are' is a complementary aphorism. The avalanche of blackmails, combative posturing, threats, intrigues, puerile intimidation and showboating are desperate responses to the clear emergence of two frightening developments: The President’s new-found determination to push his anti-corruption program, as against OBJ's 'good counsel' to back down, and his manifest reluctance to deploy every instrument of state to provide unwarranted cover for individuals and groups that engaged in genocidal acts, human rights violation and barbaric impunity. As the seating Chief Executive, GEJ wields power that is over and above the Obasanjos, Arewas, Gowons all put together. These individual or groups need to learn that the easy way... or the hard way, should they be foolhardy enough to attempt pushing their luck too far. It is only a matter of time and people who fail to learn from history or tempted to take this leadership for granted will finally come to terms with the reality. The tail, no matter how big, does not wag the dog.

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