{"id":31486,"date":"2014-09-24T17:14:43","date_gmt":"2014-09-24T16:14:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=31486"},"modified":"2014-09-24T17:14:43","modified_gmt":"2014-09-24T16:14:43","slug":"wole-soyinka-price-partiality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/articles-opinions\/wole-soyinka-price-partiality\/","title":{"rendered":"Wole Soyinka &#038; the price of partiality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">By Tochukwu Ezukanma<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">After the election of President Goodluck Jonathan in 2011, my cousin, who<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">lives in my hometown, called me. He told me that he, in concert with many<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">other supporters of President Goodluck Jonathan, was celebrating the<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">president\u2019s electoral victory. In such elation and jubilation over the<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">triumph of their preferred candidate, it is possible for them to get<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">carried away and restore to behaviors not entirely in conformity with the<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">law. And these will happen without any knowledge of the president and his<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">aides. So, there is so much that the supporters of the president can do<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">without his knowledge.<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The hanging of the banner, Bring Back Jonathan 2015, at one of the entry<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">points into Abuja was despicable. With that detestable banner, a bunch of<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">supporters of the president, in their sycophantic intoxication,<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">defenestrated all decency. Like every Nigerian, Goodluck Jonathan reserves<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">the constitutional right to vote and to be voted for. Therefore, he can<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">seek re-election in 2015. But to make a case for his re-election by<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">exploiting a national tragedy was repulsively callous. It was<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">insensitivity take to a nauseating extreme. It made a mockery of a<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">national misfortune and the grief of the parents and other loved ones of<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">the kidnapped Chibok girls. Refreshingly, the president has stated his<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">lack of complicity in the hanging of that obnoxious banner.<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In a recent newspaper article, the Wages of Impunity, in addition to<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">criticizing the banner, Wole Soyinka also censured the president for<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">including the ex-governor of Bornu state, Ali Modu-Sheriff, a suspected<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">sponsor of Boko Haram, in his entourage on a recent visit to Chad. The<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">president denied travelling with him to Chad. Ali Modu-Sheriff has<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">longstanding business interests in Chad and often spends a lot of time<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">there. He happened to be in the Chadian capital, N\u2019Djemena at the time of<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">the president\u2019s visit. He joined Nigerians residents of the Chadian<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">capital to welcome the president, on his arrival, at the airport.<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Therefore, the insinuation that the president is hobnobbing with an<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">alleged sponsor of Boko Haram is totally incorrect. The president,<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">according to his spokesman, is fully aware of the allegations against<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Sheriff and is awaiting the outcome of a security probe on him. Like most<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Nigerians, I believe the president on both counts, especially, as there is<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">no evidence, in either case, to the contrary. Moreover, it is reasonable<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">to trust the judgment and believe the words of a man overwhelmingly<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">elected by Nigerians to lead them, and thus, determine their collective<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">fate for four years.<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In the article, Wole Soyinka was acidic, and he did not mince words in<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">excoriating President Jonathan. The problem with Soyinka is that he is not<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">an impartial critic; he is biased. He turns a blind eye to the corruption,<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">lawlessness and political blunders in the Southwest and the Southwest<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">dominated All Progressive Congress (APC). He gives the false impression<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">that only the federal government and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">are culpable of political sins. Well, Mr. Soyinka, other governments and<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">political parties are also guilty of some political offenses.<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">After all, one of the most corrupt politicians in Nigerian, who is also<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">the most despotic and domineering political godfather is from the<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Southwest and a member of APC. Of all the geo-political zones, the<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Southwest is an anachronism, at least, in one respect \u2013 it is a zone still<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">run by an imperious political godfather as a personal political fiefdom.<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Governor Rajiv Fashola, in one swoop, raised school fees at the Lagos<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">State University (LASU) by up to 1000 percent? It is understandable that,<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">occasionally, school fees are increased, in line with inflationary<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">pressures and other insinuating economic and academic realities. However,<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">decency and sensitivity to the economic plight of the generality of<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Nigerians dictate that such increases should be reasonable and modest. A<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">one thousand per cent increase in school fees was unconscionable. It was<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">an exercise in arrogance, superciliousness and disregard for the pervading<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">economic predicament of the masses and their struggle to acquire an<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">education.<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Quite naturally, the students protested. Their protest was peaceful.<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Still, policemen were called in by the state government. The police fired<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">(life ammunition) on students. The state government and the police tried<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">to excuse away what was a violent and unlawful repression of the<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">constitutional right to peaceful protest, by stating that the police fired<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">into the air. Still, the use of live bullet in dealing with a peaceful<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">student protest, for whatever reason and\/or under any guise, was excessive<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">and unconstitutional.<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Wole Soyinka is on a self-serving mission. He is driven by personal<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">interests: greed for money and love for the spotlight. In retrospect,<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">there was the Wole Soyinka that prevented the falsification of election<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">results in the old Western Region. Armed with a pistol, he entered the<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Western Broadcasting Corporation and forced the radio announcer to<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">announce the accurate election results. There was also the Wole Soyinka<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">that drove into Biafra through the battle field at Nsukka. He returned to<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Nigeria and, in an unusual act of courage, denounced Yakubu Gowon for his<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">stances on Biafra; he was jailed by the Gowon administration. That former<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Wole Soyinka was selfless and honorable, and his credibility was<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">unimpeachable.<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">But over the years, his integrity and honor were compromised by his<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">dalliance with a number of military dictators and subsequent political<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">leaders. Presently, his business interests entangle him with a number of<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">APC governors. So, as he speaks and writes, he is motivated not by the<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">public good but by his business interests and the political interests of<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">his political sponsors. As such, Nigerians cannot trust him. For the price<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">of partiality is distrust.<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Tochukwu Ezukanma writes from Lagos, Nigeria.<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><a style=\"color: #196ad4;\" href=\"mailto:maciln18@yahoo.com\">maciln18@yahoo.com<\/a><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">0803 529 2908<\/span><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Tochukwu EzukanmaAfter the election of President Goodluck Jonathan in 2011, my cousin, wholives in my hometown, called me. 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