FWD: Femi Fani-Kayode : The Irretrievable Breakdown of Marriage Between Atiku Abubakar and Peter Obi
Cornelius Hamelberg
Cornelius Hamelberg
NIGERIA'S POLITICAL HARLOTS By S. KADIRI was followed by PETER OBI: A POLITICAL FUGITIVE AND VAGABOND By S. KADIRI .and now it’s about that famous duo once again, this time it’s The Irretrievable Breakdown of Marriage Between Atiku Abubakar and Peter Obi by Femi Fani-Kayode
Their knives are out,
but we must lighten the tensions,
realign their best of intentions
Femi Fani-Kayode has a very good reason to be grateful to his benefactor, he also has a right to shout and to rave about him, he has a right to shower blessings on him too, has a right to even go overboard in being grateful, having just bagged a top appointment as Nigeria’s Ambassador to South Africa - appointed by none other than President Bola Ahmed Tinubu !
Alhamdulillah! Mighty Congratulations ! Mazel Tov ! Hallel-u-Jah!
Hark! the herald angels sing, "Glory to the newborn King !”
If President Tinubu’s smooth-talking, eloquent, praise-singing, soothsaying hagiographer is telling us the gospel truth, then the winner of the January 2027 Presidential election is a foregone conclusion, it is not going to be a another cliff-hanger Mother of all Nigerian Presidential Elections, if anything, it’s most probably going to be a walkover for the incumbent because, as his faithful, soothsaying hagiographer says, “No matter what you throw at him, he comes out on top.”
So Obi & Atiku, don’t even try throwing something at him, as if you don’t know the meaning of Boomerang.
It’s such a tantalizing headline, “the irretrievable breakdown ofAtiku Abubakar and Peter Obi’s marriage”. As a matter of sociological interest - for Diaspora specialists, the learned mostly missionary -educated Saro people are fond of quoting Shakespeare’s Sonnet 116: Let me not to the marriage of true minds - perhaps no longer relevant here if indeed the marriage of these two leading lights of the now defunct PDP was never an ideological marriage to begin with. ( And by the way, according to the Quran , God does not like people getting divorced. )
Sure, even if they are now irreconcilable this is no time for levity, but the headline about such strange, incongruous, odd and unlikely bedfellows puts me in mind of that Simon and Garfunkel melody “America” which begins
"Let us be lovers, we'll marry our fortunes together
I've got some real estate here in my bag"
Strange incongruous, odd and unlikely bedfellows.
So, who’s the husband, and who is the wife-y? Obi?
Can you close your eyes and imagine Sleeepy Joe Biden & Donald J Trump welded together as husband and wife - even as a political marriage of convenience in the United States ofAmerica, Trump of course, wanting to make his America ( his phallus) Great Again. As the late beat poet Allen Ginsberg - extraordinarily gay, said in his poem “America”, “Go fuck yourself with your atom bomb ! “
Exactly the kind of unholy expression that would have been coming from any of the religious leaders ofIran to Donald J.Trump, if they were not so holy :
“Go fuck yourself with your atom bomb ! “
But here’ its Nigeria we’äre talking about, and the genesis of the palaver goes back to the 2022 Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential primary when it was time for Obi to capture the party ticket and Atiku couldn’t agree that it was time for Obi to be on top this time ( no more Missionary Position).
For most of us back then it was sympathy for Obi at that juncture