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Do poets understand politicians?
TF"
Oga Chidi:
Do poets understand politicians?
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Subject: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Today's QuoteAnytime Bola Tinubu says "I made Buhari President", he demarkets himself as a presidential aspirant.
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The world over, there are political poets and there is political poetry
How many of us have been to Christopher Okigbo's grave ?
Indisputably, he was a political poet, even if that was not all that he was.
Ojogbon Falola likes to provoke. I suppose that’s part of his poetic itch and in this case, he appears to be merely teasing Chidi with this apparently innocent question, “Do poets understand politicians?” - which demands, even inspires a response that in this case is reminiscent of the opening of Ishmael Reed’s article, Ma and Pa Clinton Flog Uppity Black Man :
“ During Bill Clinton's first run for President, I appeared on a New York radio panel with some of his black supporters, including Paul Robeson, Jr., son of the actor and singer. I said that Clinton had character problems. They dismissed my comments and said I didn't know anything about politics and should stick to writing novels. (Clarence Page, who has monopoly on the few column inches and airtime made available to black columnists by the corporate media, said the same thing about me. I should stick to creative writing and leave politics alone.)”
The converse of Ojogbon’s question could well be infinitely more cynical: “Do politicians understand poetry?” it’s the kind of question I would like to ask Rt General Osusegun Obasanjo and Presidential wannabe Alhaji Atiku Abubakar - in which case I suppose they are both covered; Pastor Obasanjo would probably refer to the poetry of the Bible which we are to assume he understands since he has a PhD degree in Divinity, and the Alhaji can always refer to what he has in his hand: The miracle that is the Holy Quran
It’s a question we could have asked people like Leopold Sedar Senghor, Václav Havel and someone like Agostinho Neto
Ojogbon Falola, in Chidi’s case, I think it's a matter of “ The role of the poet is to change the government”, but the kind, law-abiding citizen that he is ( one of his favourite words is “ miscreant”) he would not advocate “ by any means necessary, or what Mutabaruka bellowed about: “ any which way”
I’m anxiously awaiting the moment when Chidi will take to performing - with some musical background to his poetry as spoken word poetry ( I'd like to be in the band) If “the media is the message” ( McLuhan) then the world over and in Africa in particular, the music is certainly the medium - very much so, take Mzwakhe Mbuli and Linton Kwesi Johnson for example, add Victor Jara, Bob Dylan, Vladimir Vysotsky, Bob Marley
Much of Chidi Anthony Opara’s poetry and many of his poetic thoughts, pithy sayings, witticisms, satirical grumbling in the ongoing Nigerian summer of discontent, some of his garrulousness and public outrage so far in print, make us realise in the broadest possible sense the role of the poet in a society, society in this case, to include all of Nigeria, and the world in which we live, aware or unaware as we may be, about the poetic dimensions of the universe, of mere existence, we can still hear Rike’s question in his Duino Elegies ringing in our ears :
“Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the angels' hierarchies? and even if one of them pressed me against his heart: I would be consumed in that overwhelming existence. For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror, which we still are just able to endure, and we are so awed because it serenely disdains to annihilate us. Every angel is terrifying.”
Adeshina Afoloyan has already quoted one of Israel's National poets ( Yehuda Amichai ) and I suppose that Wole Soyinka is very much a Nigeria’s National Poet and Political Activist . for change….memorably, Soyinka to Obasanjo :
Just Go …
Go NOW …
Hugh Masekela: Bring It Back Home - YouTube"Oga Chidi:
Do poets understand politicians?
TF"
I spoke as a political observer.-CAO.Oga Chidi:
Do poets understand politicians?
TF
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Subject: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Today's QuoteAnytime Bola Tinubu says "I made Buhari President", he demarkets himself as a presidential aspirant.
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Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju :
We have the latest supreme example - the Angel Gabriel’s first encounter with the Prophet of Islam sallallahu alaihi wa salaam !
Rilke : “Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the angels' hierarchies? and even if one of them pressed me against his heart: I would be consumed in that overwhelming existence. For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror, which we still are just able to endure, and we are so awed because it serenely disdains to annihilate us. Every angel is terrifying.”
From Angelology to Adepoju
The philosophical pedagogue in you Adepoju demands an explanation - at an earlier time the Pharisees and Sadducees wanted “a sign” from Jesus, “ But he answered and said unto them, “An evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given to it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas”
Explanation and explanation, can poetry be ex-plained - Do you mean like the meaning made plain or more plain? Then it’s no longer poetry unless you want to, as Van Morrison sings, go into the mystery from the album Poetic Champions Compose and that his classic cut “ Queen of the Slipstream”
More seriously if the sublime can be explained, consider Psalm 130 - King James version translation “ Out of the depths I cry to you, Lord”
Awesome: Last Thursday, 2. a.m. Stockholm time, we ( a Bible Study group based in Ottawa) finished the study of The Book of Revelation, the last book in the so-called “ New Testament” - the relevance here is verses 8- 9 of the last chapter :
“8 And I John saw these things and heard them. And when I had heard and seen, I fell down to worship before the feet of the angel which showed me these things.
9 Then saith he unto me, See thou do it not: for I am thy fellow servant, and of thy brethren the prophets, and of them which keep the sayings of this book: worship God.”
From which we are to suppose that John’s encounter with the angel - as all the other encounters related in the Bible and of the Quran, must have been quite awesome experiences; I’m thinking not so much about the Angel Gabriel’s appearance to Jesus’s mother Mary - known as the Annunciation, or to the angels’ appearance to Abraham but of the incident of Balaam and his ass - once referred to here - the main encounter in question: Bamidbar/ Numbers 22: 21- 39 ) of which verse 23 goes,
“The she-donkey saw the angel of HASHEM stationed on the road with his sword drawn in his hand; so the she-donkey turned aside from the road and went into a field. Balaam beat the she-donkey to get it back onto the road.”
The Stone Chumash note on verse 23 reads, “ Rashi and Ramban ( two eminent Torah commentators) disagree regarding what the animal saw. According to Rashi, animals are allowed to see spiritual beings that are blocked from the human eye, because human intelligence would cause people to live in constant fear if they could perceive everything around them,
Ramban asserts that angels are not physical beings and cannot be seen by people or animals unless they assume a human form - as when they visited Abraham - in which case they are visible to everyone. In Balaam’s case, it was not that the she-donkey actually saw the angel. Rather, it sensed that it was in danger, for, figuratively.a being with a sword stood before it”
According to verse 31, “ Then HASHEM uncovered Balaam's eyes, and he saw the angel of HASHEM standing in the road, with a sword drawn in his hand. He bowed and prostrated himself on his face.”
The note on verse 31 begins, “ It appears obvious from this verse that Balaam was not accustomed to seeing angels, for if he was, it would not have been necessary for his eyes to have been uncovered. This also proves that he was not a prophet, for even Abraham’s wife Hagar and the prophet Elisha’s servant Gehazi saw angels, though they were not prophets... If Balaam had been a true prophet, he would have had no trouble seeing an angel, actually, Balaam was a sorcerer, not a prophet
( C ) Back to Negative Capability, Keats’ Negative Capability
(D) Dear Adepoju, whilst we’re still on this theme: The Scream
Are you not in pursuit of a chimera?
Apologies confirm our humanity that we are not divine and prone to making mistakes.
I have made over a million mistakes in the last 70 years, including coming to the world, instead of staying in heaven.
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Are you not in pursuit of a chimera?
Apologies confirm our humanity that we are not divine and prone to making mistakes.
I have made over a million mistakes in the last 70 years, including coming to the world, instead of staying in heaven.
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Subject: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Today's QuoteI prefer to avoid actions that would lead to apologies.
I urge people in my space to try and follow that course.
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Are actions not products of the mind?
Actions are motions, artefacts of mentalfacts.
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Dear Chidi Anthony Opara,
If it’s not all fake news, then as surely as the day follows the night
the Mother of all Presidential elections in Nigeria
will be followed by the Mother of all Presidential elections
in Sierra Leone
I’m sure that you’ve seen this motto on one of the Danfo’s at the Owerri Motor Park
God Dae
Translated into Arabic, it means tawakkul, and in Hebrew, bitachon
The daredevils in France say, que sera, sera
In the meantime, the main focus will be on Ukraine...
This morning, I was empathising with an Ndeko from the Democratic Republic of the Congo about the Rwanda-backed M23. He requested that I be not deceived, that I investigate who are the real villains, the ones backing Rwanda in this enterprise…
Motor Park Poet:
And produce what?
Does Mama deceit not give birth to baby deceit?
In Islamic mythology, Iblis, alias Satan, was rude to Allah and Adam. Iblis was expelled from heaven, but the damage Satan has caused on earth is far greater than if he had been allowed to remain in heaven.
“When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest, and findeth none; but when a man speaketh against the Holy Ghost, then he saith, I will return into my house from whence I came out; and when he is come, he findeth him empty, swept and garnished; for the good spirit leaveth him unto himself.
“Then goeth the evil spirit, and taketh with himself seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter in and dwell there; and the last end of that man is worse than the first. Even so shall it be also unto this wicked generation.” Matt. 12: 38-39.
I think the poet has ears and cannot ear, eyes, but he cannot see.
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Motor Park Poet:
And produce what?
Does Mama deceit not give birth to baby deceit?
In Islamic mythology, Iblis, alias Satan, was rude to Allah and Adam. Iblis was expelled from heaven, but the damage Satan has caused on earth is far greater than if he had been allowed to remain in heaven.
“When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest, and findeth none; but when a man speaketh against the Holy Ghost, then he saith, I will return into my house from whence I came out; and when he is come, he findeth him empty, swept and garnished; for the good spirit leaveth him unto himself.
“Then goeth the evil spirit, and taketh with himself seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter in and dwell there; and the last end of that man is worse than the first. Even so shall it be also unto this wicked generation.” Matt. 12: 38-39.
I think the poet has ears and cannot ear, eyes, but he cannot see.
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Subject: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Today's QuoteSystems built on the foundation of deceit must implode and self destroy.
The system built in 2014/2015 on the foundation of deceit is imploding from Kano and Kaduna and will soon self destroy.
-Chidi Anthony Opara (CAO)
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Dear Chidi,
Please let us agree 👍
Love is always voluntary
War is not always inevitable
Peace & Love really begins at home.
It’s really a matter of scale.
For example, on a lighter scale,
here are a few ways of maintaining peace and avoiding palaver
If we can cultivate peace and love at the domestic level then maintaining it at the national level should not be a problem
Do you agree?
The fact is that somebody ( one man) has to win the 2023 NigerianPresidential Election, and this means that the losers and their supporters are not going to be happy about losing. More often than not some of them will cry foul, feel that they have been cheated, take to the streets to vent their disappointment & their rage, and thus become miscreants,
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Dear Chidi,
I have been following the Nigerian Elections since 18hrs Nigerian Time.
May the best man win.
Re- "I consider it completely unimportant who in the party will vote, or how, but what is extraordinarily important is this, who will count the votes, and how"-Josef Stalin
Your quote increases the tension and the stress.
Obi would devoutly wish that it was his agents that were to be doing the counting of the ballots. As the saying goes, “ A friend in need is a friend indeed” and that’s why Alhaji Atiku of course could be wishing InshAllah, for a little help from some of his 419 friends, whereas Bola Ahmed Tinubu popularly known as “The Godfather” ( of Lagos) I’m sure has the requisite tawakkul, and wherewithal plus InshAllah, just as Cromwell said to his boys, “ Trust in the Lord but don't forget to keep your gunpowder dry”. The actual sahih hadith is, “ Tie your camel first, and then put your trust in Allah.”
It’s always like that with these winner-takes-all African elections. The anxiety and stress experienced by the hopefuls ( the wannabes). the participatory citizens, the dispassionate onlookers, and the ethnically biased observers near and far who have a dog in the fight. The anxiety and stress experienced during the waiting time between when the last ballot is cast somewhere up there in Bolgatanga or Abadam, and the final announcement of who is going to be the next president, more often than not, not a popular decision for almost half of the country’s people who will feel that their man has been defeated, even cheated, vanquished, crushed, their hopes dashed to pieces.
To what extent some of our juggernaut academics and other pundits will be telling us that our newfangled/ acquired forms of one-man-one-vote democracy governments can be said to be part and parcel of what usually passes our “colonial inheritance “ or our “colonial heritage, remains to be seen.
In the Epistemic Decolonization and the Emigration of Academic Common Sense being promoted by none other than Moses Ochonu, the first thing that comes to mind is Martin Bernal’s Black Athena ( which proposes the Afro-Asiatic roots of the Greek concept of democracy, and not least of all of Plato’s Republic) and the vicious backlash to that treatise in the form of Black Athena Revisited and the ensuing heated debates featuring the leader of the opposition Mary Lefkowitz and her “ Not out of Africa “ As Ojogbon Falola so poignantly observed, “hardly is there a theory from the South that is not ridiculed or demeaned and eventually ridiculed, be it negritude, dependencies, nationalist historiography, Decoloniality, neocolonialism, ujamaa. It is not a case of making them work but of destroying them”
Some of our Nigerian academics love crying over spilled milk, instead of doing something about it.
At this moment of stress for all of us the stakeholders, the hitherto sleeping giant’s future is of great concern to us, so I feel that to relieve some of that tension and stress and to make you at least smile a little, relax our face muscles, I should post this lighter side of things:
My Better Half started getting excited when she read in DN that Peter Obi was some kind of “ Social Democrat”. I had to calm her down.
For more passionate intensity :
https://www.youtube.com/@flamencoguitarsale
Chidi:
Not a problem. But we should include it in textbooks on Nigeria so that our children can understand the process.
Do we also not rig entrance into heavens by paying seed money and tithes?
TF
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The Nigerian police is not efficient and it collects bribe
NEPA is not efficient
Hospitals are not efficient.
So, INEC should be efficient and differs from other institutions?
Its agents travel on different roads, have different internet!
They should have given me that money to empower people in their 20s, and I will give them a president for free.
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Chidi,
We are here
Where is heaven?
Does God care who wins the Presidential elections in Nigeria?
Does the universe have a moral structure?
I wonder what Mr. Macaroni is saying
about the elections
Apart from the big grammar, unpoetic
jaw-breaking super academics,
what are these Nigerian media personalities saying?
And majority of plural votes, 50 percent.
In previous, you struggled for the three states with over a million: Lagos, Rivers and Kano. This year, there is a big split, with Obi winning Lagos but his losses elsewhere are deficits.
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Moses:
You are correct. I misled Professor Isike whom I copied. I do not know how that 50 per cent got stuck in my head.
I checked the electoral law:
The President of Nigeria is elected using a modified two-round system. To be elected in the first round, a candidate must receive a majority of the valid votes and over 25% of the valid votes in at least 24 of the 36 states. If no candidate passes this threshold, a second round will be held between the top candidate and the next candidate to have received a majority of votes in the highest number of states. The candidate with the most votes then win.
All candidates present themselves with a running mate, candidating for vice president.
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Obi's win in Lagos is historic, whatever happens nexttoyin
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And majority of plural votes, 50 percent.
In previous, you struggled for the three states with over a million: Lagos, Rivers and Kano. This year, there is a big split, with Obi winning Lagos but his losses elsewhere are deficits.
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Subject: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Today's Quote"Section 134 (2) of the Nigerian Constitution requires the candidate in a presidential race to get at least 25 per cent of the votes in two-thirds of the states in order to be declared winner".
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"Obi's win in Lagos is historic...."How and why is it historic?Azikiwe of the NCNC, a right wing ideological political party, leading the likes of TOS Benson and Adeniran Ogunsanya dominated the politics of Lagos prior to independence. Azikiwe even represented Lagos in the Federal Parliament.Awolowo of the left leaning Action Group leading the likes of Sam Grace(SG) Ikoku and Bola Ige came and dislodged Azikiwe and his group.Awolowo, later leading the equally left leaning Unity Party of Nigeria (UPN)continued the dominance of Lagos politics.This dominance continued in the present era through the instrumentality of Bola Ahmed Tinubu, a self proclaimed Awoist.This dominance appears to have been shattered by Peter Obi's Labour Party (the complete shattering of that dominance would be if Labour Party wins the governorship election in Lagos State).-CAO.
Obi's win in Lagos is historic, whatever happens nexttoyin
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And majority of plural votes, 50 percent.
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Subject: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Today's Quote"Section 134 (2) of the Nigerian Constitution requires the candidate in a presidential race to get at least 25 per cent of the votes in two-thirds of the states in order to be declared winner".
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Dear sir:
What does “Far Right” mean as applied to Nigeria?
You people have started—you borrow concepts from somewhere else and like a bricklayer holding a brick, the man under the building, throwing it up to me to catch.
And dear sir,
What is Near Right?
TF
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Dear sir:
What does “Far Right” mean as applied to Nigeria?
You people have started—you borrow concepts from somewhere else and like a bricklayer holding a brick, the man under the building, throwing it up to me to catch.
And dear sir,
What is Near Right?
TF
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Subject: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Today's QuoteFar right rhetorics are proving to be great instruments of political mobilization world wide. It succeeded partially in U.S.A, nearly succeeded in Germany and France. It just got experimented in Nigeria with near success.
-Chidi Anthony Opara (CAO)
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Re - “Peter Obi, in my opinion, can be likened to Donald Trump of U.S.A, Marine Le Pen of France and other far right rhetoricians in Germany and other places.” ( Chidi Anthony Opara)
These are very sensitive times for bona fide Igbo poet Chidi of Imo State, the world and Nigeria to be making such an atrocious statement about our venerable Peter Obi, Igboland’s political heavyweight champion who, no kidding and no rigging, garnered more than 90% of the votes in his ethnic enclaves of Abia, Imo, Anambra (nearly 100%) and Enugu - and, of course, Tony Adepoju and Dele Momodu’s Edo state formerly the so-called “ Midwest” which was Ojukwu’s first major land grab/conquest/area of annexation/occupation/ area of molestation/colony - and lest we forget Obi also raised his flag in Lagos, deemed by some partisan occupiers as a “ no man’s land” but we thank God, Lagos is still under the Federal umbrella….
Now imagine if Baba Kadiri had said, “Peter Obi, in my opinion, can be likened to Donald Trump of U.S.A, Marine Le Pen of France and other far right rhetoricians in Germany and other places.”
Would Baba Kadiri not have been accused of “ Igbophobia “ ?
And likening Obi to that particular French woman?
Another transgender issue?
Another scandal: In the Closet of the Vatican: Power, Homosexuality, Hypocrisy?
Chidi compares Obi to far-right rhetoricians in Germany ( you mean like Hitler?) and other places ( you mean Mussolini?)
It sounds like Chdi has traversed the vast terrain, as Adepoju would say, in time & space from Hosanna, to crucify him - and indeed such imagery is not lost on Obi who is neither a Roman Gladiator nor a Roman Senator who says to the 23rd backstabber Chidi, on his very last day “ Et tu Chidi? ”. Indeed Obi is neither a Roman gladiator nor a Roman senator, or Julius Caesar, for Obi is a Roman Catholic, probably born again.
In the political wilderness ( jungle?), “To suffer one's death and be reborn is not easy” ?
When Chidi speaks like that it means that we don’t have to look any further for his self-exonerating or self-effacing answer to Ojogbon Falola’s query, calling into question Chidi’s political competence: “ Do poets understand politicians?”
With regard to Chidi’s comparing a supposedly left-wing Labour Party leader Obi to “Donald Trump of U.S.A, Marine Le Pen of France and other far right rhetoricians in Germany and other places”, I’ll just say this: Age-wise, Kperogi himself no spring chicken is hitherto one of Obi’s wonderful fan had this to say about his Obi: “Obi was Atiku’s running mate in 2019 and was a PDP presidential aspirant until it became apparent that he wouldn’t win the party’s nomination, which made him to suddenly move to the Labour Party whose ideology is diametrically at variance with his.”
Now we eagerly await the first in a series of postmortems that Benue State’s grieving Moses Ochonu will be shortly churning out. We expect that the learned professor will be answering the examination question that we for him in the contemporary political history paper: What happened?
I have already listened to my man Mr Macaroni extolling the Nigerian youths on Twitter this morning. You’ve got to be very intelligent with even higher scores in emotional intelligence just like Mr. Macaroni to be a comedian ( unlike that clown Joe Biden & NATO’s “boy-boy” Zelensky) so my question to Mr. Macaroni is how come there was only 29% voter turnout this last election.
Anyone who is not currenltý befuddled by gogoro knows that Brother Buhari won the 2019 Presidential elections with a strong showing of over 15 million votes…
Btw, I like Biko for the same reasons
Lastly, there’s hope yet for Peter Obi, he has time, if he wants, to get cracking with forming a real Labour Party ….
Nuff said. I hate ideology….
Oga TF,I am not running away, no need for that. I just don't like answering questions asked for their (dramatic) effects.Peter Obi, in my opinion, can be likened to Donald Trump of U.S.A, Marine Le Pen of France and other far right rhetoricians in Germany and other places.What is Far Right in Nigeria?Where are you running away to?Get Outlook for iOS
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Oga TF,
If this were not a rhetorical question, I would have tried to provide an answer.
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What does “Far Right” mean as applied to Nigeria?
You people have started—you borrow concepts from somewhere else and like a bricklayer holding a brick, the man under the building, throwing it up to me to catch.
And dear sir,
What is Near Right?
TF
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Subject: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Today's QuoteFar right rhetorics are proving to be great instruments of political mobilization world wide. It succeeded partially in U.S.A, nearly succeeded in Germany and France. It just got experimented in Nigeria with near success.
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chidi, i am not following closely the politics of this election, but couldn;t help see the enthusiastic support of obi by the youth, which seemed an inspiring thing. i don't understand how he might be desceribed as a populist or rightwinger, in comparison with the other candidates. could you help me out here and explain it? i am not contesting what you said, just want to understand itken
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Oga TF,
If this were not a rhetorical question, I would have tried to provide an answer.
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Dear sir:
What does “Far Right” mean as applied to Nigeria?
You people have started—you borrow concepts from somewhere else and like a bricklayer holding a brick, the man under the building, throwing it up to me to catch.
And dear sir,
What is Near Right?
TF
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Subject: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Today's QuoteFar right rhetorics are proving to be great instruments of political mobilization world wide. It succeeded partially in U.S.A, nearly succeeded in Germany and France. It just got experimented in Nigeria with near success.
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Many thanks. Now I fully understand.
For some of the people who are more aware of what’s going on, there has always been the issue of Peter Obi and the Pandora Papers, calling into question his supposed saintliness, and his supposed “ social democrat orientation, as if he was some kind of Mallam Aminu Kano or some kind of Nigerian Bruno Kreisky or Olof Palme on the Nigerian political horizon
So what kind of wannabe President of Nigeria is a big-time capitalist on Monday and like a butterfly sheds his wings ( capital) jumps out of Pandora's box on Tuesday, and starts pretending that he’s more like St. Peter/ Martin de Porres or Mahatma Gandhi on Wednesday?
I listened to this announcement carefully and I’m sure that Peter Obi did too, and yet he seems to think or wants to give us and some of the more gullible people the impression that he sincerely thinks that he actually won the Nigerian Presidential election. Even the Hon. Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, his former Oga doesn’t think that Peter Obi ever had any possibility of winning in any free and fair election ( apart from in his ethnic enclave in e,g. Ebonyi.
I suppose that you’ve seen this :
https://www.vanguardngr.com/2023/03/well-meet-in-court-tinubu-accepts-peter-obis-challenge/
It was ditto - a similar scenario after Ruto floored Odinga in Kenya.
For all their talk about democracy, some Africans don’t want to concede - or admit defeat. When they have been defeated, knocked out for the count of ten - they want to take the referee to court….
They rejoice when the results are announced that they have won 97 % of the votes cast in their ethnic enclaves and in other people’s backyards, but when they lose in other people's ethnic and religious enclaves, the places where they are not so popular, then they no longer believe in the one man - one vote democracy. They would much prefer it to be like this:
Before the elections, we were told that 70% of the 83.4 million people registered to vote were below the age of 30 ( thirty). You would have thought that they are the sort of people that have the stamina to wait in the voting queues for four to six hours. They probably did, and of course, also voted for many other candidates that are much younger than Obi and of course, also voted for the eventual winner President-Elect Bola Tinubu and runner-up Alhaji Atiku Abubakar…
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Oga TF,
If this were not a rhetorical question, I would have tried to provide an answer.
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Dear sir:
What does “Far Right” mean as applied to Nigeria?
You people have started—you borrow concepts from somewhere else and like a bricklayer holding a brick, the man under the building, throwing it up to me to catch.
And dear sir,
What is Near Right?
TF
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Subject: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Today's QuoteFar right rhetorics are proving to be great instruments of political mobilization world wide. It succeeded partially in U.S.A, nearly succeeded in Germany and France. It just got experimented in Nigeria with near success.
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chidi, what is the far right rhetoric? what does he say?ken
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Talk is cheap.
So what does Obi have in common with Donald Trump as so-called “ rightwing rhetoricians”?
One of the things they most have in common is this special phrase that turns up in their vocabulary, that what they seem to believe was their victory “was stolen” - in contravention of The Eighth Commandment: Do not Steal, God forbid, the sort of thing that Obi would never do…
Trump says that it was he who won and the election “was stolen”
Wannabe Peter Obi says that it was he Peter Gregory Obi who won the mother of all elections, but the election “was stolen” and that he’s gonna prove to all concerned that he won. He probably hopes to be sworn in as Prezzo instead of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu the Jagaban
Raila Odinga ( don’t know if what he says can be rightly labeled “rightwing rhetoric”, but he also says he won against Ruto and that his election victory "was stolen"
US History: The Storming of the Capitol after this bit of oratory
Indeed, talk is cheap. What remains to be seen is if Obi is going to order his obedients, the miscreants, and the obidiots to storm the Nigerian capitol to prevent our democratically elected Asiwaju Tinubu from being installed as the new Commander-in-Chief of The Federal Republic of Nigeria
Professor Ken,Peter Obi says all the things far right rhetoricians say.-CAO.chidi, what is the far right rhetoric? what does he say?ken
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Oga TF,
If this were not a rhetorical question, I would have tried to provide an answer.
Regards,
Dear sir:
What does “Far Right” mean as applied to Nigeria?
You people have started—you borrow concepts from somewhere else and like a bricklayer holding a brick, the man under the building, throwing it up to me to catch.
And dear sir,
What is Near Right?
TF
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Subject: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Today's QuoteFar right rhetorics are proving to be great instruments of political mobilization world wide. It succeeded partially in U.S.A, nearly succeeded in Germany and France. It just got experimented in Nigeria with near success.
-Chidi Anthony Opara (CAO)
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i read the opposition parties objected to the election, not just peter obi. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-64841036
it isn't rightwing rhetoric to oppose election results. it's anti-democratic, which can be leftwing as much as rightwing. perhaps a good example of the former is nicuaragua.ken
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Talk is cheap.
So what does Obi have in common with Donald Trump as so-called “ rightwing rhetoricians”?
One of the things they most have in common is this special phrase that turns up in their vocabulary, that what they seem to believe was their victory “was stolen” - in contravention of The Eighth Commandment: Do not Steal, God forbid, the sort of thing that Obi would never do…
Trump says that it was he who won and the election “was stolen”
Wannabe Peter Obi says that it was he Peter Gregory Obi who won the mother of all elections, but the election “was stolen” and that he’s gonna prove to all concerned that he won. He probably hopes to be sworn in as Prezzo instead of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu the Jagaban
Raila Odinga ( don’t know if what he says can be rightly labeled “rightwing rhetoric”, but he also says he won against Ruto and that his election victory "was stolen"
US History: The Storming of the Capitol after this bit of oratory
Indeed, talk is cheap. What remains to be seen is if Obi is going to order his obedients, the miscreants, and the obidiots to storm the Nigerian capitol to prevent our democratically elected Asiwaju Tinubu from being installed as the new Commander-in-Chief of The Federal Republic of Nigeria
On Friday, 3 March 2023 at 15:06:59 UTC+1 Chidi Anthony Opara, FIIM, CDOA wrote:
Professor Ken,
Peter Obi says all the things far right rhetoricians say.
-CAO.chidi, what is the far right rhetoric? what does he say?ken
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Oga TF,
If this were not a rhetorical question, I would have tried to provide an answer.
Regards,
Dear sir:
What does “Far Right” mean as applied to Nigeria?
You people have started—you borrow concepts from somewhere else and like a bricklayer holding a brick, the man under the building, throwing it up to me to catch.
And dear sir,
What is Near Right?
TF
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Subject: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Today's QuoteFar right rhetorics are proving to be great instruments of political mobilization world wide. It succeeded partially in U.S.A, nearly succeeded in Germany and France. It just got experimented in Nigeria with near success.
-Chidi Anthony Opara (CAO)
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On Mar 5, 2023, at 8:12 AM, Chidi Anthony Opara, FIIM, CDOA <chidi...@gmail.com> wrote:
Lagos is Yorubaland. Abuja is Gwariland. Stop those hallucinations of "no man's land".
-Chidi Anthony Opara (CAO)
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As it was written, “your elders shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions.”
“The opposition parties objected to the election “ is misleading. It gives the impression that all the opposition parties are “objecting” when this is not the case. For example, seven ( 7) PDP states have withdrawn their legal challenge
It’s significant that either through gross negligence, or through gross dereliction of duty Peter Obi’s so-called “Labour Party” failed to have any polling agents present at 40, 000 polling stations throughout the Federation of Nigeria, perhaps because the party does not have that kind of national outreach or spread, and yet he ( Obi) still has the temerity to say that he “won” the Nigerian Presidential Election and that he’s going to Q.E D.., “ prove it”.
Cheers, mate. Bottoms Up, with beer from your brewery - the first piece of advice given in Aime Cesaire’s A Season in the Congo - not religion but beer as the opium of the people. Keep them drunk. And don’t forget to drink copiously yourself and to be filled with the unholy alcoholic spirit, so that the old youth will start dreaming dreams and speaking in tongues that he won even when he did not win, because he lost
As the Quran states, “ Bring your proof (of what ye state) if ye are truthful”
Obi must have very low mathematical and legal standards of proof, in his vainglorious mind and it’s the same kind of bringing down back safely to earth anyone suffering from delusions of grandeur that he is e.g. Jesus, the simple question, “ Where are your disciples?” The answer is not to be found in Obi’s six million plus, when in fact Jesus only had twelve…
Miracle man Obi’s oncoming eventual failure to prove that he even won more votes than the valiant Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, the runner-up in this primordial contest of the titans will probably either make him the laughing stock for generations to come or permanently cast him and his budgetary mind, not into the lake of fire - or into the Lagos Lagoon, but in the role of an arrogant bad loser. ( It sort of reminds one of how Amr ibn Hisham became Abu Jahl - but that’s another story)
On Saturday evening, I learned from my pastor talking Jesus talk, about the essential difference between reform and transform, a distinction that I’m sure Mr. Obi would like to make, and the changes that ideally, he would like to apply to the successfully concluded Presidential Election that awarded him third place / a bronze medal at the completion of the essentially three horse race. Mathematically speaking it’s not that he would like to reform the results that made him bring up the rear, firmly behind Comrade Atiku Abubakar, it’s that he would like to transform himself, some kind of Kafkaesque or Gogolian or Philip Roth -like metamorphosis as in “ The Breast” - not “ The Beast” or in his case some magic, sleight of hand, political doctrine of transubstantiation, into the blood and body of the current President of Nigeria.
Since truth can sometimes be stranger than fiction, let us descend from the sublime to the ridiculous: Obi would like the election to be declared null and void or on an even more glorious fantasy level he would like the judges to unanimously declare him the winner of the Nigerian Presidential Election, to the chagrin of Alhaji Atiku who also won more votes than Obi.
Possibly true: Obi did not rig anywhere in any of his own ethnic enclaves although he cannot prove even that.
True: Obi might have more than twelve disciples but since his party is doing and is going to be doing so badly with only a handful of people a few people in the National Assembly, the Nigerian Senate, and the House of Representatives, the question is, so even if a voice from the clouds said “ Obi won!”, how is Obi going to govern?
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Here below, it’s not poetry, just a way of punctuating for easy reading
With poetry
You can get away with anything
You can get away with anything
You can get away with anything
Just ask Chidi.
“INEC robbed Obi”?
The butcher gored his ox?
His goat? The mountain stole
his shoes?
“ We wuz robbed” he bleeps
He pretends to weep
For the cameras and the news-
Papers. Crocodile tears.
We wuz robbed”. He
Wants you to start feeling
Sorry for him.
We? Who, we? He means “He”
Him. Calls himself “ Yours truly”
Obi.
We all agree
everyone without exception
that the election was not perfect
When has an election ever been?
And how far back do we wanna go
Retroactively, to make adjustments?
Then we’d have to inaugurate e.g. Chief Abiola
Posthumously.
When e.g. Obasanjo speaks, babbles
or squeaks, you may be inclined
to retort “look who's talking!” - cast
your mind, if you have one and one
Vote, back to the election that was
Won by Umaru Musa Yar'Adua who
Admits it was to some extent
Rigged by guess who? Click here to
Find out the name of the sanctimonious
Hypocrite the old youth who relatively
speaking calls his obi a youth leader.
( By the way, Chidi, talking about youth leaders, back in 1973 in Stockholm, I worked for six months at the headquarters of the Swedish Basketball Association at Alvik, as a youth leader. I worked with Ali Strunke a Yugoslav who was then the national coach, and with one Egon Håkansson. Just then the big basketball star in Sweden was Glenn Berry, an African-American. He used to call me “ Arthur Ashe “ - who by the way my Better half & I saw play an exhibition match with Stan Smith, in Accra, Ghana, in 1970)
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Talk is cheap.
So what does Obi have in common with Donald Trump as so-called “ rightwing rhetoricians”?
One of the things they most have in common is this special phrase that turns up in their vocabulary, that what they seem to believe was their victory “was stolen” - in contravention of The Eighth Commandment: Do not Steal, God forbid, the sort of thing that Obi would never do…
Trump says that it was he who won and the election “was stolen”
Wannabe Peter Obi says that it was he Peter Gregory Obi who won the mother of all elections, but the election “was stolen” and that he’s gonna prove to all concerned that he won. He probably hopes to be sworn in as Prezzo instead of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu the Jagaban
Raila Odinga ( don’t know if what he says can be rightly labeled “rightwing rhetoric”, but he also says he won against Ruto and that his election victory "was stolen"
US History: The Storming of the Capitol after this bit of oratory
Indeed, talk is cheap. What remains to be seen is if Obi is going to order his obedients, the miscreants, and the obidiots to storm the Nigerian capitol to prevent our democratically elected Asiwaju Tinubu from being installed as the new Commander-in-Chief of The Federal Republic of Nigeria
On Friday, 3 March 2023 at 15:06:59 UTC+1 Chidi Anthony Opara, FIIM, CDOA wrote:
Professor Ken,
Peter Obi says all the things far right rhetoricians say.
-CAO.chidi, what is the far right rhetoric? what does he say?ken
kenneth harrow
professor emeritus
dept of english
michigan state university
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Mazi Cornelius,
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Oga TF,
If this were not a rhetorical question, I would have tried to provide an answer.
Regards,
Dear sir:
What does “Far Right” mean as applied to Nigeria?
You people have started—you borrow concepts from somewhere else and like a bricklayer holding a brick, the man under the building, throwing it up to me to catch.
And dear sir,
What is Near Right?
TF
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Subject: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Today's QuoteFar right rhetorics are proving to be great instruments of political mobilization world wide. It succeeded partially in U.S.A, nearly succeeded in Germany and France. It just got experimented in Nigeria with near success.
-Chidi Anthony Opara (CAO)
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