“Opuro ngbin’la, Oniwayo ngbin’gbado, Ninu oko t’alabosi da, e o r’aiye; A o m’eni to se ba se po, ninu eke pelu, alaida, et cetera, et cetera…..”
Haruna Ishola, that Yoruba philosophical musician I’m so enamoured of because of his very rich reservoir of wisdom, must have had the crowd of the PDP comedians in mind when he rendered that song.
The wordings say something about the schemers, the irredeemable liars and the shameless manipulators who inhabit our space, and who, unfortunately, are to be found more in the leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party than anywhere else.
Those who know this columnist will attest to one fact – that he is imbibed with a high sense of fairness, ever willing to concede to even a fool that he can be right at times. I tried to be fair in assessing every statement emanating from PDP leaders, but on each occasion, I’m hard put to concede to them that they are truly imbibed with patriotic fervour.
On each occasion that statements emanate from this crop of leaders, I cannot just help turning it in my mind how positively fertile Haruna Ishola’s brain was when he was composing his very meaningful songs which are grossly ‘un-decodable’ to most of today’s youths, whose world of music begins and ends with a Davido or a Tuface. If a liar is planting okro seedlings and the conman is also planting maize in a farm cultivated by the hypocrite, who does not know that their harvest will be like that of the man who put a chunky stone in water and starts boiling it on fire, telling whoever cares that it is yam he is preparing for meal. Who doesn’t know that he alone will eat his “yam” when it is done?
The other day, PDP presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar said he is in the race to take Nigeria to El-dorado and abolish misery in the land in one fell swoop. Yet, he was part of an Obasanjo administration where mindless assassinations of high profile politicians like Chief Bola Ige, Chief Dikibo and Chief Marshal Harry occurred, without a clue as to the planners and the executors of those dastardly and ungodly acts, till today.
An Atiku who had the Midas touch in his fingers such that he shot into the top class of the nouveau rich from being a second level or third level ranking Customs officer, whose wealth today will make Rasaq Okoya or Kessington Adebutu green with envy, if the details of his economic worth are unveiled. This man must be taking Nigerians for fools if he thinks we believe he is the saviour that we need.
Or former President Goodluck Jonathan, under whose watch the worst crippling of the nation’s economy in our history took place. We were taken into recession by Jonathan’s government which left the nation terribly impoverished. Jonathan’s regime has the distinction of creating trillionaires of uncommon hue within less than 10 years in office, much more than the number Nigeria ever had since the Yakubu Gowon’s appearance on the centre stage in 1966.
That the likes of Jonathan and Atiku can contemplate coming back to power after the unprecedented plundering of the nation under their watch, from which we are yet to recover, tells of the disdain they and their party, the PDP, have for Nigerians. For the reason that Nigerians are not morons, it does not require a soothsayer to tell us that the PDP and its crowd of leader-looters will fail woefully in next year’s elections like never before.
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