By Louis Odion, FNGE
A humour bag of arguably inexhaustible depth, former President,
Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, would make even the most consummate stand-up comic
feel inadequate on a good day. From improvising the risqué to trafficking the
folksy, his creativity, as he himself once famously put it in one such fit of
self-deprecating humour, is fed by a certain native resourcefulness, being
"Omo ma lo le gbesi" (scion of he who is prodigiously adroit at
tackling single-handed any public loud-mouth without help from home).
"Wait and get", for short.
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The reason it is therefore rather surprising, if not troubling, that the witty
general has kept a studied silence to the avalanche of weighty revelations by
Ayo Fayose, the feisty Ekiti governor, in the current edition of wave-making The
Interview. Since release last Thursday, Fayose's wide-ranging expose on his
one-time political godfather has been widely reproduced by all leading national
dailies with massive rebroadcast in the social media.
At this writing, five uneasy days had passed
without as much as a whimper from Ota. More and more, the ensuing silence
conveys an eloquence not even a thousand words can possibly describe.
Whatever happened to the fabled facility of "Wait and get"?
Hell hath no fury than a woman scorned, Shakespeare tells us.
Now, with Fayose, we now know no venom is as lethal as an estranged godson on rampage. For all his unalloyed loyalty and submission to be used for dirty jobs, he regrets Obasanjo eventually betrayed him by orchestrating his kangaroo impeachment in October 2006.
Of course as a former OBJ enforcer, the "Oshoko" of Ekiti was an insider. What seems to complicate matters is that he did not just squeal; he named living witnesses in the series of infamies OBJ perpetrated asNigeria
Whatever happened to the fabled facility of "Wait and get"?
Hell hath no fury than a woman scorned, Shakespeare tells us.
Now, with Fayose, we now know no venom is as lethal as an estranged godson on rampage. For all his unalloyed loyalty and submission to be used for dirty jobs, he regrets Obasanjo eventually betrayed him by orchestrating his kangaroo impeachment in October 2006.
Of course as a former OBJ enforcer, the "Oshoko" of Ekiti was an insider. What seems to complicate matters is that he did not just squeal; he named living witnesses in the series of infamies OBJ perpetrated as
The revelations surely stink. The image of
Obasanjo revealed is pathetic indeed. They include how public funds were used
to bribe lawmakers to support Third Term Agenda which OBJ has in the last
decade fought tooth and nail to deny. Going down memory lane, for instance,
Fayose recalled that the day the bill was shot down at the National Assembly,
OBJ dozed off in bitterness as they rode together from Akure airport to Ado
Ekiti. Midway, he recalled, OBJ jerked up from slumber, muttering, "Ah,
(Ken) Nnamani (then Senate president) willl not leave in one piece".
