President Obama’s Refusal to Visit Your Ekiti-Style Democracy

By Dr Spinoza | Published 7 July 2009

Of course, we know you want him dead, some people know you want him dead, he probably knows your kind wants him dead. Everybody knows the reasons you want him dead. You know and say you want him dead, but do you understand why you want him dead?

You do not understand why you want him dead for the same reason you do not know who you are or where you came from or where you are going. Therefore, if you were not dishonest with yourselves, you would agree with some of us that the primary reason you want him dead is the same very reason you want all us dead – because death and destruction appear more tolerable to you than the painful awareness of your culture’s congenital backwardness.

You want him dead not because he deserves to die but because you feel entitled to kill and destroy in order to maintain your parasitic lifestyle. It is because the current conditions in Ogun, Oyo, Ekiti, and Kwara are the “best” you aspire to, the “best” achievable according to your conception and understanding of democracy.

To you, democracy means entrenched, deep-seated, and stifling corruption and parasitic lifestyle. Democracy, according to you, is a vehicle to promote your sectional and tribal interests at the expense and on the back of the rest of Nigeria and of the human race. Yoruba democracy is not about transparency or accountability, but about robbing Peter in Niger Delta to pay Paul in Ogun, Kwara, Oyo, and Ekiti. Everybody knows and understands this except you.

Your Yoruba democracy is incompatible with love or order or electricity because, in your warped mind, democracy will come after you kill off everybody and destroy everything in Nigeria and beyond. Hence your strong and combative belief that no other man, no other culture, no other religion, and no other institution contribute to democracy except your own. Your practices and mindset alone are progressive and scientific and democratic because your stone-age rituals and beliefs alone are necessary and sufficient conditions for development and for advancement in science, technology, and economics. Because you believe so and say so and act as if it is in fact so, it must be so.

But this is the summary of how Olusegun Obasanjo understands Yoruba democracy. This summarizes how he practiced Yoruba democracy in Yoruba Nigeria – through your Yoruba constricted and divisive mindset, through your stone-age norms and destructive death instincts.

Unfortunately, your stifling and constricting norms and practices produced nothing, nothing even for you or you would not be here in the man’s domain plotting and crying and begging for his recognition and acceptance.

Unlike you, Ghanaians did not have to plot and cry for him to show up; the results of their brain power and knowledge spoke volumes about where their national spirit and mind are headed to.

Like Ghanaians, had your warped mind thought of producing electricity, roads, order, or water – the very basic things required for the man to visit you – you would not be here plotting and crying for more senseless assassinations.

And had Ghana and Ghanaians produced at your childish level of understanding and knowledge, the man would have looked for another place in the Continent to land his air plane and to power up his teleprompter.

Yet, the man must visit you or die trying to avoid your death-ridden roads and practices, because, in your Yoruba mind, your store of experience has only given your kind the techniques and skills on how to kill and destroy, never on how to build or love.

Even if he dies or even if the rest of us in Nigeria die as you pray and plot, will you stop there, will your internal problems be solved? Will you understand how your divisive, stone-age mindset helped to create the conditions that drove him away? Will you understand how your presence created his absence? Will you realize how your presence is the bad news killing the rest of Black Africa?

One bad news for you is whether the man dies or lives will never depend on your wishes or desires. Another bad news is this: even if the man dies, his death will never change your fate and conditions because whatever you deserve and desire will come to you, for you, from you, exactly in the same manner your past wishes and desires brought you the current wild winds and neglect.

That your desires exist is not surprising, not to him, not to any other Nigerian, because everyone knows that you strongly but slyly think that Olusegun Obasanjo is your “best”, never to be ignored nor his results and thoughts left unrecognized.

Yes, everyone knows and understands that to each and every one of you, Obasanjo is the “best” of the Continent, to be legitimized so that your hard-earned Ekiti-style anarchy can be codified for the Continent.

Yes, you want the man dead and buried because he refuses to be manipulated as you manipulate your kind in Ogun, Oyo, Ekiti, Kwara, and beyond.

In your collective self-delusions, for him to visit Nigeria is to legitimize that which your Noble Laureate celebrated as “aggressive and result oriented on an unprecedented scale”.

Ignoring these unprecedented results is like making a wide-reaching statement against Oduduwa and his children and their results. He must therefore die as your culture believes and practices because his death will benefit you, financially and image-wise, directly or indirectly. Africa is for the rest of us in Africa while Nigeria should remain your staging post for conquering us, and any attempt not to legitimize or recognize your staging post means death and destruction.

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The following revealing comment was written yesterday (7 July 2009) by a Yoruba animal named Paul Adujie (aka Ozodi Thomas Osuji aka Nafata Bamaguje Daura)
(Note what the writer did not say: He did not say that somebody will kill President Obama (This is how many Black Americans phrase this fear of some nut killing the man). Rather, the writer said: President Obama will be killed, which implies he knows somebody who is out there, plotting and waiting to kill the President. When and if President Obama is killed, Americans should know where to look for the killers - in all Yoruba states in Nigeria. Americans will begin to realize what has been holding Black Africa from developing - the Yoruba Animals with their divisive, ritualistic, and deadly mindset)
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Africans never had one voice in the beginning irrespective of their mother dialect, unlike the westerners forcing divisions among black race. African people will continue to be free as long as mankind exists. Because slavery was very brutal to black race psychics, process of division; we can communicate all we want, talk all we want and or write all we want to, the passed wrongs will never disappear.

That’s why Mr. Kofi Annan, as United Nations’ Secretary General, did not have the zeal to promote such relevance, beside, Caucasians never put Africans in positions that they cannot ‘control.’ Equally, Mr. Obama wouldn’t dare promote roles played and or still playing by African soldiers worldwide. Mr. Obama’s political future and or his life will be caught short.

Mr. Obama represents a symbol of weakness! Mr. Obama’s not in the so called White House to serve interests or protect blacks but to serve the interests and to protect whites, especially that George Bush came in disorganize the world for American interests and ran away, America has no one to bail them out, they see half-black and half-white as someone to protect them.

Why Africans are never angry? Simply, Africans are angry! Africans are extremely angry at the past wrongs, without looking forward to disorient the past wrongs, therefore allowing the past held them hostage. With or without recognitions of Africans contributions to mankind, we must move on, as westerners will never recognize Africans, mind you Africans are always considered slaves.

Source:
http://www.nigeriavillagesquare.com/forum/articles-comments/33262-africa-soldiers-how-africa-saved-europe-during-world-wars-2.html#post369467

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African (Yoruba Man) Held at Obama’s Hotel
08 July 2009
By The Moscow Times

A Nigerian native posing as a diplomat was detained Tuesday as he tried to enter the Ritz-Carlton hotel where U.S. President Barack Obama was staying with his family, Moscow police said.

Police officers guarding Tverskaya Ulitsa, where the hotel is located, noticed the man loitering around the hotel and stopped him as he tried to mingle with Obama’s security detail, police said.

“The man provided documents saying he was Prince Henry Obasy, a diplomat with Nigeria’s embassy in Moscow, and he said he had received [the documents] from the Foreign Ministry’s state protocol department,” Viktor Paukov, police chief for Moscow’s central district, said in a statement.

The papers turned out to be fake and he was detained. The man refused to elaborate on what he was doing at the hotel, police said.

The Foreign Ministry told police that it had not registered anyone named Prince Henry Obasy, and the Nigerian Embassy denied having a diplomat with that name.

Police have opened an investigation on the matter.

Obama and his wife, Michelle, traveled around Moscow for meetings for most of the day Tuesday, while their two young daughters stayed at the hotel with their grandmother.

Source:
http://www.moscowtimes.ru/article/1010/42/379384.htm

(Yoruba Warlord Olusegun Obasanjo and his Yoruba Mad Dogs want President Obama dead because these people live and breathe death and destruction. Every world leader, every world nation, and every other world culture crave to visit President Obama or they crave to see President Obama visits their nation. Only Yoruba animals want this man dead. But why? The why is related to why Nigeria is dying a miserable death at the hands of these Yoruba animals) 

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Exit Ribadu?
By Wole Soyinka
The Guardian, 28 December 2007

I can only hope that Benazir Bhutto’s followers will forgive me for saying this, but the news of Nuhu Ribadu’s removal from the anti-corruption Nigerian organisaton known as the EFCC will have, in all likelihood, a far more devastating impact on the psyche of the Nigerian nation than the deadly event that now threatens to further destabilize the tortured nation known as Pakistan, through the assasination of her democratic front runner, Benazir Bhutto. Let me pause here to express my sincere condolences to the people of Pakistan.

What is at stake for us in Nigeria is not much different however: the restoration and consolidation of democracy, not in any sentimental or rhetorical sense, but as a lived reality that restores dignity to the people of any nation and guarantees their day to day security. The precarious socio-political condition into which the Pakistani people have been thrown echoes, in both parallel and divergent directions, the blow dealt to the Nigerian nation by the ‘assassination’ of the head of an organization that commenced the process of restoring dignity to a people whose nation has become a byword for the most breath-taking scam in high-places, for endemic corruption, a contempt for accountability and transparency and the abuse of national resources in the pursuit of personal and party power consolidation.

At every opportunity, we have stressed the obvious but ignored fact that the liberalization of political space is contingent upon the moral cleansing of such space. Thus the need to identify and contain – including by punitive means - individuals and organisations that operate on the open nexus easily summed up as : power derives from corruption which in turn fuels and guarantees power. The battle against corruption therefore goes beyond the walling out of illegal economnc advantages. Corruption is the very bedrock of political illegitimacy. The tree of democracy cannot thrive on the compost of corruption. 

This obvious attempt at crippling one of the two anti-corruption crusade agencies of the nation, unarguably aggressive and result oriented on an unprecedented scale, must therefore be read as an assault on the very bastion of democracy. Again, I refer to my earlier indications: that the riddle of most of the political murders in the nation will be solved when the anti-corruption project has attained its ultimate goal of unearthing the hidden. Let me refer yet again to the notorious case where a presiding judge on a politically motivated murder case threatened early to withdraw from the case. Soon after, he withdrew from the case altogether - the pressure, he openly announced, coming from the most unexpected quarters, had made his task impossible. That judge noted down details of monetary inducements that were offered to make him grant bail to a high-profile suspect. The upward spiral of that political suspect since his ‘acquittal’ says much about the umbilical cord that trails from material to political corruption.

The ruling party of Nigeria, the PDP has proved yet again that there is no reformist agenda possible within its ranks. The presidential incumbent bears the primary and ultimate responsibility for this grotesque reversal of the nation’s frustrated push towards possible redemption, but it is the ruling party itself, the PDP, that continues to suffocate the nation in its folds of corruption, negating every attempt to rid her of this incubus, since that party has exhibited itself, again and again, as the very quagmire of corruption, nurtured on corruption, sustained by corruption and dependent on corruption for its very survival. 

Let all sophistry be abandoned - the removal of Nuhu Ribadu is not about the removal of one individual. We are talking about signals, portents for future conduct, about the erosion of credibility, abandonment of principle, all of which of course transcends any individual. The timing, when viewed with the recent call to re-open the case-files of unsolved political murders, will be regarded as a coincidence only by starry-eyed innocents from space – good luck to them. Those of us who have the slightest knowledge of behind-the-scenes manipulations since the trail of detection moved ever closer to the very apex of governance under the past regime, know that the nation was being brought closer and closer to the dismantling of one of the most sinister and corrupt governance machines that this nation has ever confronted – including even the incontinent reign of Sanni Abacha. 

Ribadu’s removal is therefore not an individual predicament. The situation here does not permit of the familiar cliche of any one individual being less than an institution or agency – no, that is not the issue! The issue is that an effective agency has been tampered with, unnecessarily, but with transparent motivations that constitute an assault on the corporate integrity of the nation. The trust of the nation has been abused - that is the issue. Instead of reinforcing the autonomy of an organization that is clearly dedicated to probity and political integrity, notice has been sent to all four corners of the nation, and to the international community that, at the slightest threat to the hegemony of corrupt rule, the credibility of even the most laudable institutions will be eroded.

Is this the last word? Is Nuhu Ribadu yet another sacrificial lamb on the altar of success and promise of more and more success? If so, the nation has indeed been brought to an abysmal low. Confusion has been deliberately and liberally sown. The reign of vanishing files, denied directives and ambiguous legal advices has begun where dubious Attorney-Generals fill the vacuum created by high level movements of personnel in multiple directions where those in the most sensitive and knowledgable places vanish into the bureaucratic maze, with hardly a trace of the rewards of their long dedicated industry. Technical extensions of cut-and-dried prosecutions will now lengthen into eternity and of course – oblivion. 

What a dismal, contemptuous New Year gift to the nation! Again, I lament with the democratic people of Pakistan but, even in the midst of your grief, spare a moment of pity for that land of eternal missed opportunities and blighted hopes, that clay-footed giant sibling on a continent to your West, known as – Nigeria.

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The Nigerian malaise
By Abiola Phillips
Guardian, 9 July 2009

THERE is little to be said about the Nigerian malaise that has not already been said. In my personal odyssey of recantation, whenever faced with the challenge of the blank screen I ask myself - what new perspectives can you offer that have not already been divined? Few are the areas that have not been dissected and distilled, and all to what avail? Such is the unrepentant optimism of the scribbler however that though previous attentions remain unrequited, one continues to return to the arid well in the fading and forlorn hope that the earth shall one day give forth a hint of moisture.

I have for some time now been convinced that our desire and designs for material advancement have become the pre-eminent danger threatening our aspirations to sustainable nation-statehood. They lie at the root of our disabilities. While democracy is rightly prized, it is not and never has been anything other than an expression and reflection of the collective will. It is the very existence of the collective however that stands threatened by carnal cravings born of greed, acquisitiveness and avarice.

Before I am cast in the cloak of the sanctimonious, let me straightaway affirm that we are all daily deluged with ethical, moral and social challenges that test our rectitude - it goes with living in this territory. The degree of angst that accompanies such challenges is clearly a matter for the individual. The degree to which that angst predicates high-mindedness or otherwise, is also within the province of individuality. The consequences of how we react as individuals however speak to the wellbeing of the collective, making it fair and appropriate game for public comment.

Ours is a society where public idealism is constantly desecrated at the altar of private greed - a genre of greed that suspends and then abrogates ethical, moral and social imperatives. It is that form of greed that has facilitated the elevation of rationalisation to a species of reasoning. So it is that the gap between the anarchical state of our existence and our hopes for an ordered and orderly society continues to grow geometrically, propelled by the depths of our desires and our willingness to cast asunder all sense of propriety. In Nigeria, corrupt behaviour is regarded with equanimity, firmly positioning the nation in its own netherworld - a moral and ethical-free zone.

We are trapped in daily existential battles - the battle to be and the battle to have. Ideals are blunted and hope peremptorily denuded and discarded. Materiality subsumes our moral landscape, bespeaking ethical, moral and spiritual compromise and bankruptcy. Individual hypocrisy of Faustian proportions blot out perspective, dissociating the drive to satiate individual needs from the requirement to rise above our baser instincts.

We have neither hope for, nor expectation of rectitude from the guardians of our gates; righteousness has fled the coop and the word honourable is nothing more than a titular taunt our representatives flaunt in our faces. Where we come across these virtues we are struck by such a sense of dissonance that our reflex is to search for an Achilles Heel that will restore our faith in faithlessness. Whether we reflect on the conduct of those who serve the public or those privileged few in the public and private sectors for whom the public purse is their personal fiefdom, there is never a dearth of cause to despair. So it is that the principal impediment to the advancement of the Nigerian idea has become its own people.

There are, of course, deep flaws and structural defects aplenty in the Nigerian body politic - some congenital others not - that shall, with the effluxion of time, be addressed. They do not however obviate the requirement that Nigerians, individually, take responsibility for the nation’s frailties. I speak of Nigerians as individuals rather than as some abstract collective precisely because that theoretical construct is what has allowed the infernal buck-passing that has enabled the guilty evade their just desserts.

The concomitant of a renaissance of individual responsibility and accountability is that the state must not continue to constitute itself as a restraint on the people’s efforts; it cannot continue to be the cause of paralysing fear rather than the enabler of our self-realisation. That process will be by both systemic change and a rejuvenation of the pool of participation in active politics.

We require a deeper, more acute appreciation of the degree to which society’s structures are built and broken, elevated and energised, demeaned and diminished by individual deeds and omissions. What we daily do and fail to do as individuals - our deficits of personal and public integrity - have a direct bearing on the nation’s wellbeing.

Those that ought to be teaching these lessons and living these creeds have severe attention-deficit disorder, and are in dire need of reminding of the nexus between what they say and what they do. Instead of being the engine room of change and redemption, our social, political and economic elite have stymied us by overseeing a body politic founded on rampant dishonesty and rank hypocrisy. This disposition has attained critical mass, leaving us with a society with a collective energy for ill rather than for good.

The delusions that the self-congratulatory messages on the occasion of 10 years of democracy bespoke were mind-numbing, especially as they came from those that ought to be able to read the auguries more accurately. Most disheartening was the fact that much of the breast-beating was amoral; I personally was left feeling I was either witnessing denial writ large or evidence that the propagators inhabit a twilight zone.

Whilst not wishing to rain on the puerile and plentiful parades that commemorated a “decade of democracy”, I invite those that were deceived to please take a closer look. The likelihood of democracy being midwived by the reprobates and renegades that hijacked the opportunity for catharsis provided by the passing of Abacha, is as far-fetched as the idea of a self-reforming kleptocracy. Abandon hope all who look to these for renewal.

May 29, 2009 was the 10th anniversary of the return of civilian government and nothing more. Democracy remains very much in the realm of the aspirational. I have no difficulty in accepting that democracy is a process rather than an event but 10 years on, I find it difficult to discern the green shoots of growth in the parody that has been our lot; and, impossible to rejoice with the very persons that strangle the baby at birth. Even if one were to concede that the nomenclature of democracy is properly attributable to the last decade of bad governance (shameless examples of which abound from the executive, legislature and the judiciary), surely we are not absolved from our duty to be ever watchful. Our rights are repeatedly emasculated by the custodians of our common will and the guardians of our common good; their wanton disregard will not abate unless they are confronted with a high price for their high-handedness.

As a starting point, our public officials must be named and shamed. Most are thick skinned so the shaming must be palpable, shorn of subtlety for they do not do subtlety. People must be held accountable for their words as well as their deeds. The responsibility for and of public service and public office will not allow for the subtleties of similitude. Where actionable evidence exists or can be obtained it must be deployed to demonstrate zero tolerance for abuse in all its guises. There can be no statute of limitations on those acts that have rendered over two per cent of mankind confined and comatose. We cannot afford the leisure of grey areas as we seek to slay the dragon of corruption for it will not be slain while its spore and spawn reincarnate through their vice-like grip on the instruments of representative government.

Phillips, a legal practitioner, lives in Lagos