Mr. Dele Awogbeogba:
If you got the title of your article wrong, you certainly would get your message wrong. I guess what you disingenuously tried to do was to use “baban turenchi” (big grammar) of “Contextual Analysis” to confuse your readers.
According to Online English Encyclopedia, the word alleged which is an adjective means: “That something is declared but not proved.”
www.vocabulary.com, defined alleged as – “A claim or statement that hasn’t been proven to be true.”
And so when you decided to name your article – The Alleged Lopsided Appointments, A Contextual Analysis, what allegation were you alluding to? Are the appointments made by Muhammadu Buhari so far not grossly and incontrovertibly lopsided? Why do Nigerians have to wait till “all the chicken have come home” to know if Muhammadu Buhari’s appointments are lopsided or not? Are you one of those that would foolishly choose to trace the footprints of an elephant even when the gigantic animal is right in front of them?
Unless you want to continue to obfuscate your readers, the undeniable fact as of today (September 5, 2015) is that the appointments made by Muhammadu Buhari are grossly and irresponsibly lopsided. So lopsided that some Yorubas leaders on behalf of their people who made it possible for Muhammadu Buhari to be the president of Nigeria after three previous futile attempts are livid and spiting fire, and rightly so.
What I have noticed in this political blunder of all times committed by the Yorubas in order to spite Ndigbo is that even when they have been undeservedly and contemptuously “punched below the belt” by Muhammadu Buhari, many of them cannot see beyond their well-documented animosity for Ndigbo.
Before the election, they were everywhere locally and abroad, writing about what a messiah Muhammadu Buhari was. Now that he is the president – but not the president they voted for – many of them are still in campaign mode against Ndigbo to hide their frustrations.
When a prominent northerner had a few days after the election warned the Yorubas to be mindful that the total votes Muhammadu Buhari got in the whole of the South West were much less than the votes he got in Yobe State, I knew right away that the Yorubas had washed their hands and caught a skunk.
Mr. Dele Awogbeogba, do not worry so much about Ndigbo and their “silly claim of marginalization” for the battle line today is not drawn between Ndigbo and Yoruba but between Hausa/ Fulani and Yoruba. But if you would want to be more “arewa” than “mutanin arewa”, there is an adage for you in Hausa that says – “Ga wuri, ga doki.”
When Nigerians continue to do the same thing over and over again, they would continue to get the same result over and over again – one step forward, two backward.
Have a blessed day,
Sam C. Okudah
scokudah@gmail.com