By Anthony Cardinal Olubunmi Okogie
“Beware the Ides of
March,” said the soothsayer to Julius Caesar in William Shakespeare’s famous
play Julius Caesar. In those words, Caesar was given an alert about
his imminent assassination in the hands of Roman politicians, among whom was
his friend Brutus. Approaching another year of elections, this admonition
has become frightfully pertinent.
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| *Cardinal Okogie |
For what is being witnessed looks like a
reenactment of the Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar. In this reenactment,
Julius Caesar would represent Nigeria,
the Roman politicians who plotted his assassination would represent the average
Nigerian politician, with Brutus, the politician pretending to be Caesar’s
friend, representing politicians who, in their diabolically deadly intrigues,
pretend to love Nigeria,
but are actually plotting her descent into bloody disintegration.
