By Obi Nwakanma
Last week, I felt nauseous just watching “our own WS” stand
at a podium talking-up the Buhari gesture of naming June 12 “Democracy
Day” and awarding the GCFR to the late Moshood Abiola. It was a
dog-shit fare clothed in damask. I half hoped that Soyinka would not be part of
this hollow ritual; but in the end Soyinka’s presence there served to remind us
all that Nigeria
And Nigerians were properly entertained in what I still
regard as the hollow ritual of forgetting. Every time, this government and its
mind-warpers try to turn us all into amnesiacs, so that we will forget for instance,
that Muhammadu Buhari himself was not only a key beneficiary and supporter of
the abrogation of June 12, he himself led a military coup that overthrew a
properly elected civilian government on the last day of 1983. Nigeria
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| *Nnamdi Kanu |
