{"id":35856,"date":"2015-02-05T10:29:22","date_gmt":"2015-02-05T09:29:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=35856"},"modified":"2015-02-05T10:29:22","modified_gmt":"2015-02-05T09:29:22","slug":"soludo-okonjo-iweala","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/articles-opinions\/soludo-okonjo-iweala\/","title":{"rendered":"Between Soludo and Okonjo-Iweala"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jideofor Adibe<\/strong><\/p>\n

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I will like to start this disinterested intervention in the media feud between Professor Chukwuma Soludo, former Governor of the Central Bank and Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Co-ordinating Minister of the Economy, with a full disclosure: I have known Soludo from our undergraduate days (1980-1984) at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka and we have been close friends at least from our days as postgraduate students at the same University (from 1985). We were also contemporaries in student union politics – he contested to be the students\u2019 union secretary in 1982\/1983 \u2013 just as I contested to be the Director of Transport, (I was elected).<\/p>\n

I struggled within myself whether I should really write this article or simply call Soludo and give him my piece of mind on his exchanges with Dr Okonjo-Iweala. The conflict was on whether, as a public intellectual, I should dabble into the debate and say my mind or bypass it out of loyalty to a friend.<\/p>\n

My personal opinion is that the media feud and the puffing and huffing between the two distinguished professionals has inevitably diminished and demystified both. What accolade awaits the person who throws the murkiest mud in their critical constituencies \u2013 the Economics Society, their Igbo ethnic group and the technocratic class \u2013 among others? \u00a0On the contrary their below-the belt exchanges raise a fundamental question of the extent to which our technocrats, especially those regarded as role models, have imbibed the necessary \u2018technocratic temperament\u2019. \u00a0I will define this as emotional intelligence and the ability to remain calm under pressure or make one\u2019s case with grace and panache even in the face of provocation.<\/p>\n

While I blame both professor Soludo and Dr Iweala for the mud-fight, I will apportion the greater blame to Soludo, for being the first to throw a barrage of punches below the belt.<\/p>\n

In his first salvo, \u2018Buhari vs Jonathan: Beyond the Election\u2019, Soludo claimed that his aim in writing the article was to stimulate a debate because, according to him, \u00a0nearly five years after he called for \u00a0\u201creal debates\u201d to begin in the run-up to the 2011 elections, \u201cthe real debate is still not happening.\u201d \u00a0When I read this I felt that Soludo was either indulging in Nigerian politicians\u2019 usual license with hyperboles or was simply condescending towards the rest of us. If \u201creal debates\u201d never really happened since Soludo called for such in 2010 \u2013 as he claimed \u2013 it means that opinion writers, columnists and commentators in both the print and broadcast media on various aspects of our national life have been talking crap (or \u201ccommentaries\u201d \u2013 as Soludo often calls it) or that it is only him, the philosopher king, who will be capable of igniting such \u201creal debates\u201d. I am not sure how such apparent haughtiness will resonate among his fellow public intellectuals. This is only a digression.<\/p>\n

There are a few issues with Soludo\u2019s first article, which made many people read other motives into it:<\/p>\n

One, Soludo failed to observe the first rule in what is called \u2018fair comment\u2019 in defamation law. This is simply a practice where, if you want to critique a person or regime, you have to ensure that you also recognize and give credit to the person\u2019s or regime\u2019s strengths. For Soludo, neither the APC nor the Jonathan-led PDP government has done anything right – though he reserved the harder punches for the government. It is precisely for failing this \u2018fair comment\u2019 test that some accused him of attention-seeking with his writing. \u00a0Also by criticizing in hyperbolic language, without giving credits where they are deserved, he opens himself up to charges of the Obasanjo hubris, \u201cif it is not from me or done by me, then it cannot be any good at all\u201d.<\/p>\n

Two, when Soludo gave an \u2018F\u2019 to the management of the economy, he also by innuendo gave an \u2018F\u2019 to Ngozi Okonjo Iweala who is the Finance Minister and Coordinating Minister of the Economy. Here again Soludo failed the \u2018fair comment\u2019 test. Can an economy that has really been growing on an average of six per cent per annum in a period of global recession be scored an \u2018F\u2019? Can any good teacher, (except one animated by vendetta), really score a thesis supervised by another lecturer an F \u2013 as Soludo apparently did with the economy? Had Soludo given credit to one or two sectors of the economy before scoring the economy an average of \u2018C\u2019, or even \u2018D\u2019, people can at least excuse that as his own opinion. But an \u2018F\u2019? What quality of work do we really as University teachers score an F?<\/p>\n

\nThree, in addition to scoring Okonjo Iweala an \u2018F\u2019 in the management of the economy (a very personal attack in my opinion), he also criticized the President for \u201coutsourcing\u201d the management of the economy (apparently to Dr Iweala). In another dig at Ngozi Iweala, Soludo reminded us that that the Constitution envisaged that the Vice President should be the Coordinating \u2018Minister\u2019 of the Economy, not Ngozi Iweala.<\/p>\n

Four, using Obasanjo \u2013 who is known not to be a friend of the Jonathan regime – as the benchmark for assessing the Jonathan regime and making the latter come short on each count is bound to arouse suspicion in the camp of Jonathan\u2019s supporters \u2013 as it did. Remember the saying: the friend of my enemy is my enemy? Moreover, even if Obasanjo is such an administrative and economic genius as Soludo projected him (I have respect for Obasanjo\u2019s courage and famed capacity for working long hours but I also see him as seriously flawed), you cannot judge any weather only by its clementine side. While Obasanjo might have been a good economic manager as claimed by Soludo, it is also on record that impunity, including the kidnapping of a sitting governor and series of unsolved political murders, marred his regime.<\/p>\n

Five, Soludo\u2019s comments on Peter Obi also failed the \u2018Fair comment\u2019 test. True, Peter Obi may not be as academically gifted as Soludo (Soludo never ceases to allude to Peter\u2019s Third Class degree and to his own First Class degree), but he did well for himself even before becoming Anambra State\u2019s Governor.\u00a0 Obi\u2019s achievements as Anambra State Governor may have been exaggerated but to argue that he did nothing in Anambra state is clearly to be uncharitable.<\/p>\n

In her rejoinder to the Soludo article entitled, \u2018Soludo\u2019s self-serving article deficit in facts, logic\u2019, Dr Ngozi Iweala, through her media assistant, Paul Nwabiukwu, did no service to her image. Rather than a dignified response \u00a0that would tersely address some of the issues raised\u00a0 by Soludo, Dr Iweala,\u00a0 chose to mimic Soludo\u2019s pettiness by calling him \u201can embittered loser in Nigeria\u2019s political space\u201d (as if it is a crime to lose an election) and labeling him Nigeria\u2019s worst Finance Minister (which is really ridiculous).\u00a0 She also intemperately claimed that \u201cthere is definitely an issue of character with Prof. Charles Soludo and his desperate search for power and relevance in Nigeria.\u201d \u00a0Could Dr Iweala have used such a language against any of her colleagues when she was at the World Bank?<\/p>\n

Soludo\u2019s second salvo, \u201cNgozi Okonjo-Iweala and the Missing Trillions (1)\u201d is a continuation of the irresponsible and vainglorious exchanges between the two, this time sinking to a new low. We are told that Okonjo Iweala did not really secure debt relief for the country but merely led the team that negotiated the debt relief (as if the leader of a delegation is not often credited with the achievements of such a delegation \u2013 hence we can talk of Udoji Award, the Orosanya report etc.).<\/p>\n

I was disappointed in Soludo\u2019s articles because I do not believe that the personality that comes across in those write-ups do justice to him \u2013 the way I know him. What often comes across in several of Soludo\u2019s public engagements is his competitive and \u2018aggressive\u2019 side.\u00a0 Sometimes I wish that the human side of Soludo comes out more in his public engagements. He has an endless repertoire of wisecracks and his company never bores.<\/p>\n

From our undergraduate days, Soludo has always been competitive and always wanted to think big \u2013 or bigger than anyone else around him. For those who do not know him well, this can come across as intellectual hubris \u2013 which can be variously interpreted as either arrogance or self-assuredness. \u00a0This is both Soludo\u2019s strength and his fatal flaw. We all already know that Soludo is very talented and gifted. To keep blowing on it comes across as being self-conceited.<\/p>\n

I do not know Ngozi Iweala and have never met her one- on-one.\u00a0 I therefore cannot speculate on what animates her. But I certainly expected a different pattern of response from her, given how highly many people regard her in this country.<\/p>\n

Criss Jami, a budding American poet and existentialist philosopher (born only 29 May 1987) and the lead singer of the rock band Venus in Arms (based in Washington, D.C) appeared to have successful people like Soludo and Okonjo-Iweala in mind when he advised: \u201cThe biggest challenge after success is shutting up after it\u201d. Elsewhere he also wrote: \u201cBe careful not to appear obsessively intellectual. When intelligence fills up, it overflows a parody.\u201d Michel de Montaigne, one of the most influential philosophers of the French Renaissance, known for popularizing the essay as a literary genre, also reminded us that \u201cOn the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Jideofor Adibe can be reached at: pcjadibe@yahoo.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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