The
raging online verbal war between billionaire businessman, Jimoh Ibrahim
and former minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode has been described as
shameful.
Femi Fani-Kayode and Jimoh Ibrahim
That FFK can multi-task sha. Only last week, he was busy coronating
a new hero for the Igbo. He said he met Nnamdi Kanu in prison and
became convinced that Nnamdi Kanu was Nnamdi Azikiwe and Odumegwu Ojukwu
combined. I looked at that statement with the corner of one eye and
muttered to myself: "the Igbo have truly suffered o. So, it is now
within the remit of a Yoruba drug addict to name heroes for them?"
I also grinned and thought it was poetic justice for some of my
Igbo friends who ganged up with many Yoruba human derelicts to rubbish
Wole Soyinka at the time. Poetic justice because if you pile
gratuitously on the best that a neighbouring ethnic nationality has to
offer humanity (Soyinka), the very worst that the same ethnic
nationality has to offer humanity (FFK) may be the one sending his mouth
on useless and unsolicited errands to anoint heroes for you.
Now, after having ordained who is greater than Zik and Ojukwu in
Igboland, FFK is back in the gutter with Jimoh Ibrahim. That fight is
messy, very messy. They are accusing each other of the things common to
Nigerian politicians. They are telling us who is a pig, who dances and
eats jollof rice when paid, who is sleeping with dead bodies, who is
into sodomy, etc.
Warning to the impressionable millennials who fight for politicians
and tear at each other for the sake of the oppressor. Should the
calculus of 2019 require them to kiss and make up, these two agbayas
will unite to eat jollof rice together, sleep ritualistically with dead
bodies together, while you are on social media ruining your lives in
support of one against the other...
-By Pius Adesanmi.
Pius Adesanmi is a professor of literature and African
studies at Carlton University Ottawa Canada. He is a prodigious public
affairs commentator
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