Professor Pius Adesanmi Wrote: Moving on quickly to the battle of the rices in Ekiti. Apparently, two of the gladiators are involved in rice wars and we have seen pictures of rice bags and rice bowls proudly being displayed by citizens ready to tell the world that they are selling their votes for rice. I do not want to focus on the followership in Ekiti on this sad, terrible day for Nigerian humanity. In the absence of civics and in the presence of hunger and leadership-induced poverty all over Nigeria, the struggle to get the people to reject the rice and insist on vision and ideas on the part of those seeking votes is on other fronts. Today, I want to wax comical on the rice sharers to see who is winning. Since this is Nigeria and our system is not going to jail the rice sharers who have committed clear electoral crimes here, we might as well wax comical in order not to go insane - the madness of it all being so overwhelming, so galling. So, one side distributes bags of rice. The other side cooks and parcels out bowls of jollof rice and assorted meat. For now, I think the Fayemi jollof ricers are more humane than the Fayose raw ricers. The jollof rice side is at least providing protein content to go along with the rice while the raw rice side expects the poor people to go and find oil, pepper, knorr cubes, tomato paste, and so on and so forth to cook the rice. As a poverty-stricken, hungry, civics-deprived Ekitian ready to sell my vote and my future for an option between these two criminal rices, Ill go for the ready-made, protein-sufficient option of the incumbent Governor o.
Posted on: Sat, 14 Jun 2014 15:21:46 +0000
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