\u201cWhen a representative of the oppressed absorbs the ideology of the
\noppressor he becomes more ferocious and dangerous than the oppressor in
\ndefending that ideology\u201d – Dr Edwin Madunagu<\/p>\n
I remember I used this quotation from Dr Edwin Madunagu when a certain
\nleader from the South East Nigeria decided to abandoned all the things he
\nstood for in his prime to embrace the ideology of his oppressors because
\nof hate and politics of the stomach. I took time to remind the leader in
\nIgboland all the things he spent his life fighting for and only to dump
\nthem for selfish reasons when it mattered most. I cannot disclose who
\nthat leader was because he is no longer alive to defend himself.<\/p>\n
Before settling down to put these words on paper, I tried to dig into the
\nbackground of this character and Political bigot called Mr Femi Aribisala.
\nI wanted to find out if his name is attached to a single achievement in
\nadvancing the cause of this country for the better. I wanted to find out
\nif he has taken any risk at all in his life to achieve a cause. I wanted
\nto find out if Femi Aribisala has given leadership to his family,
\ncommunity and Nigeria. I wanted to find out if he has any pedigree at
\nall. My aim of doing this is this: If Femi Aribisala had been a great
\nman or an achiever he would have no need to try to pull down a great man.
\nThis is because nobody who aspires to be a great man will seek to bring
\ndown another great man. In fact, the only way you can become a great man
\nis to admire great men. I could only find little achievement to ascribe to
\nFemi Aribisala\u2019s name in my search.<\/p>\n
Femi Aribisala has been trying without success to pull our leaders and our
\ngreat party down with his scurrilous drivels every Tuesday in his column
\nin one of Nigeria\u2019s leading Newspapers thinking that he will succeed
\nprobably by chance. But this wind chaser of our time has always failed in
\nthis ugly mission. Femi Aribisala must have read the book: 48 Laws of
\nPower. One of the laws in that book says the only way to destroy a great
\nfollowership is to bring down the leader. This ugly man with his ugly
\nproject has been trying to tarnish the reputation of our great leader
\n,Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu. This wind chaser thinks he can sway the tide
\nof public opinion against our leader with his useless postulations and
\nrenditions. This man who lives in the past has been applying a 10th
\ncentury solution to a 21st century problem. Femi Aribisala has failed and
\nfailed woefully.<\/p>\n
The problem with Femi Aribisala is that he wasted his youth without
\nachieving anything. What he did not achieve in his youth is what he is
\ntrying to achieve at more than 70. No, you cannot reverse the hands of
\nthe Clock. Time lost can never be recovered. Sycophancy is not a trade.
\nNobody goes to the university to learn sycophancy and praise singing as a
\ncourse. If you cannot make it in your 40s and 50s forget it. The truth
\nis that Femi Aribisala works for PDP just to make up the lost glories and
\nopportunities of the past. But must you earn a living by shooting others
\ndown? Must you ride on the back of great men? No, success is not an
\nevent? It is a result of years of hard work and commitment to the welfare
\nof the common people.<\/p>\n
Femi Aribisala may not know this man called Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu and
\nwhy he is what he is today. When the likes of Femi Aribisala are
\nsleeping, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu is working. This man is trying to cut
\nan Iroko tree with a kitchen knife. Femi is trying to dig 20 meters well
\nwith bare hands. I want to throw these questions to Femi Aribisala: Do
\nyou know the man you want to bring down? Do you know his level? Do you
\nknow his followers, his friends and associates around the world? Do you
\nknow his capacity? Do you know his network and contacts? Do you know
\nwhat he controls? Do you know the thousands he has groomed and
\nestablished? Do you know how many leaders he has brought up? When will
\nyou ever know the capacity and the strength of the man you are fighting?
\nEniti o mo Oba lo nfi Oba sere (Is he who does not know the real king that
\ntoys with him). I advise this noise maker to stop the noise and go back to
\ndo the real work that will make him get to the level of Asiwaju BAT.<\/p>\n
This man who invests in the wind has been talking about the outcome of
\nEkiti and Osun elections. He and his gang in PDP stole Ekiti while we
\nslept. When thieves at our gates got to Osun they met us awake even at
\n3am in the morning of August 10, 2014. In Osun Femi and his robbery gang
\ncame with helicopters, guns, bombs, jackbooths, tanks, etc but ordinary
\npeople with bare hands stopped their open robbery. Iyiola Omisore, a fake
\nand bad product could not have gotten 50,000 votes if not because of Femi
\nAribisala\u2019s gangsters and vote robbers. In the State of Osun Femi
\nAribisala and his forty thieves came to steal and to destroy but were
\nstopped by the rugged will of a determined people. They shut in the air,
\nmarched on the streets, bought votes in thousands, scared APC supporters
\nto their homes and oppressed the poor but they were not enough to stop the
\ncourage of the people of the state of Osun.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Femi Aribisala has turned a blind eye on the excesses of PDP in the past
\n15 years in Nigeria, he cannot see the rot in Nigeria, he cannot see that
\nPDP wants to turn Nigeria into a one party state; he does not see the
\nchanges everybody sees in his South West and beyond where APC is holding
\nforte. Aribisala, choked in his petty jealousy, hate and greed cannot see
\nthat he has a long way to go to join the class of Asiwaju BAT. The
\narticulation of the breath and depth of his pretty politics, and
\nmediocrity tells us at once that Femi has no respect successful people.
\nYour intelligent and duplicitous lies lacked elementary norms of decency
\nin every aspect of life. I am at a loss why you are fighting and judging
\nour great leader and APC by innuendo, speculations and gossips. When Femi
\nAribisala wrote about how APC lost Osun, I ran away with the thinking that
\nhe is still displaying his imbecilic sense of articulation once again. We
\nare still investigating how this political leper got 292,000 votes in the
\nland of the late Chief Bola Ige.<\/p>\n
Great men discuss ideas, average men discuss events and little minds
\ndiscuss people. Femi Aribisala is no longer a young man. I guess he
\nshould be in his 70s. When a man in his 70s behaves like a 15 year old
\nboy, my people call that person, Efulefu. Is Femi Aribisala an efulefu?
\nTime will tell.<\/p>\n
\nJoe Igbokwe
\nLagos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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