SUNDAY MORNING YABIS “There comes a time when speaking one’s mind ceases to be a moral duty, it becomes a pleasure.” - Oscar Wilde I spent a lot of time wrestling with my conscience over what to write here. I could take the higher road and write pro bono publico, as Ive promised myself I should always try and do. But I also feel a heavy responsibility never to leave personal eff-ups untreated, especially when I see a matter has not been allowed to rest where it should. Its a waste of my time and yours, I know, and so the only concession Im giving to my baser passions is to continue on the theme Id mapped out earlier, but without any attempt to mind my Ps and Qs. Who nor like am, is reminded of their constitutional freedom to vex till you buss, as my Jamaican brothers in the Lord will say. Reverend Father Ejike Mbaka! Reverend Father Ejike Mbaka!! Reverend Father Ejike Mbakaaaa!!! Uh-oh, some closet bigot just dropped dead of a heart attack. Ah, so na so una fear the man reach? My apologies, I had no idea. Thanks for the information anyway. Youll find Im a fast learner, for while I strive to be as good as the best of them, like the B.I.G youll find I can be as bad as the worst. For four years plus Ive been ranting and raving and foaming at the mouth on electronic fora such as these, (not counting my print media campaigns before then) on the need for accountable transparent governance that respects the rule of law and due process and puts serving the people above all else. I would go and burn my valuable time hunting up data and evidence to serve up a clearer picture of how our power structure is dry-humping you, and I wont hear Kpim! from you one way or the other. Then because I merely share a video recording of Father Mbakas Adoration Ground sermon and a follow-up post, I get people parachuting into my personal space to lecture me on how I should be balancing the information Im handing out in order not to leave the impression the good cleric is a credible person. I should stay respectable. I should stay objective. I should maintain my delicate balance on the fence while our country is crashing down around our ears. it seems yall didnt get the memo. Ive picked a side. I think we have an essentially evil government ruling us, and it must be shipped out in 6 weeks time, by any means necessary. If thats what you were banking on, that we can keep safely fruitlessly intellecting in cyberspace because the Christian vote is locked down in favour of Jonathan, you will find I have no shame at all in cynically playing the religious card for the ultimate good of the nation. Im not going to lie in support of Buhari or against Jonathan, but I have no freebies to hand out to anybody callous enough to support a government dedicated to plundering our entire populace. I follow General Pattons maxim that the aim of war isnt to die for your country, no sir; it is to get the other fellow to die for his own country. If its Reverend Mbaka that is making you pee your pants, very good. We shall have Reverend Mbaka month in this parish. Reverend Mbaka Greatest Quotes. Reverend Mbaka tee-shirts and merchandise. Reverend Mbaka memes and posters everywhere until the day we kick Jonathan out and our sanity returns. Because this is what I set out to tell you before my irritation got the better of me: it is very important for all of us, including you Jonathanians, especially you Jonathanians, that Goodluck Jonathan loses this election. Quite apart from the fact that he has been an unqualified disaster as president, it is beneficial for our democracy that a large segment of our population is forcibly freed from its commitment to defending stupidity. Already I am seeing positive signs as a result of the unprecedented groundswell of support of Buhari. Jonathanians, desperate to damage his electoral chances, have started to imitate the language of the true patriots they have blanked out for four years straight. That can only be a good thing. When you hear a Jonathanian make a big deal about notions like Integrity, transparency, track record, dont get angry. Get down on your knees and thank God for his life. Imagine how much more his understanding of the civic demands of followership will improve if he is forced to spend the next four years criticising a Buhari government. He will have to learn sense by force. He will learn for example, that if a Buhari supporter posts architectural plans of a high-speed railway on Facebook as an achievement of Buharis administration that justifies the squandering of billions of naira, he is just being taken for a ride. He will learn to argue that if the good Reverend Osinbajo refuses to declare his assets, he is probably trying to hide the product of thievery. He too will start to pay attention to unemployment figures and inflation rates to see whether they are going up or down in order to hold Buhari to account for good governance. Already they are asking to see Buharis academic certificates. It is true they do not yet appreciate the rank hypocrisy of demanding that Buhari show them anything, when they have spent the last four years shouting at us that Jonathan does not have to openly declare his assets, but let us forgive them that mental lapse; it takes time and effort to learn how to be a good citizen. You have no idea how tortuous it is to spend four years plus telling somebody to stop arguing against his own interests, and he pretends you are not making sense. You tell them that if a politician makes you an electoral promise, and you vote him in based on that promise, and he collects money from the National Assembly to execute that promise, and HE DOES NOT FULFILL IT, for one, two, three, four, five years, you have been robbed and swindled by that politician, regardless of whether you come from the same village and attend the same church. And they look at you and call you a hater. They tell you everybody is corrupt, that you would not do any better if you were in charge. and you ask yourself why we even bother to have a government if we have all decided that all it is useful for is as an engine of fraud. Are we not all mad then? They tell you with a straight face that corruption is overrated, and you wonder how with all their education they cant figure out the relationship between corruption and the abject poverty most Nigerians live in. You tell them Nigeria does not provide up to 4000mw of power after spending $20 billion on the energy sector, and they tell you Nigerians are enjoying 22 hours of light everyday. How??? It has an effect after a while. Yoruba will say Fiwa le foniwa, or leave the eccentric to his eccentricities. You just unconsciously divide people into those who are amenable to logical argument and those who are blind to everything that does not favour their principal. And you learn not to expect sincerity or rationality from any government apologist. A parallel universe seems to develop in which their delusions form the sum of their own reality. It takes a seismic shock, like the one on the way come February 14th,to jolt them back to the real world. Thats why I feel happy inside me when I see Jonathan apologists quoting the constitution in one argument or the other against Buhari. Im happy that they know retro-active decrees are bad. Im glad that they are at least interested in that spurious story of $2.8 billion, because now its going to be a little harder for them to say nobody should talk about the $20 billion Sanusi said was missing. Im happy when my friend says Buhari should be tried for perjury if he lied on his affidavit. Because little by little we shall reach a universal consensus eventually on what is bad in this country and what should be done about it. It would mean all the efforts of Goodluck Jonathan to create the impression that anything goes, that government has no business identifying criminals and pursuing them, have failed woefully. It would be a pleasure to make good citizens of Jonathanians yet. For that to happen, Jonathan must go.
Posted on: Sun, 04 Jan 2015 04:13:13 +0000
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