Fani-Kayode: The Howling of a Damned Naked Dancer
Posted by Kelechi Jeff Eme | 10 years ago | 3,624 times
The worst of our politics especially in the present dispensation is the elevation of idiocy as the essential barometer in gauging the relevance of political actors. This negative tendency has not only enveloped the entire political class but has dangerously permeated the fabrics of our collective psyche. It has fuelled the burning desires of unredeemed nation wreckers to continuously entrench prejudices in the minds of Nigerians. Such characters in quest of alimentary loading disguised as nation building have ruined our democracy and without doubt abridged our march to glory land. If this fundamental flaw in our political orientation is not addressed, we shall continue our descent into developmental abyss. The choice is totally ours and this is not the time for grandstanding.
The latest piece published on "Fact News Online" by one Femi Fani-Kayode, a political inferno with zero electoral value is the most-feeble attempt by any political opportunist at carving relevance for oneself. I do not begrudge his kind of politics which he is democratically entitled to. The problem however is his penchant for emitting falsehood to hoodwink the gullible and create enmity among the different federating units of our country. When this opportunist joined the All Progressives Congress (APC), many cheered him and called him a patriot. Those of us that saw through his antics simply laughed him off. In a widely published piece I penned on 17th August, 2013 titled: "Fani-Kayode: A bigot in search of redemption" I posited that "Unfortunately for him, the Yoruba political establishment on the left flank rarely forgives "vagabonds" no matter the staccatissimos of their music. So my summation is that Fani-Kayode is on a blind mission in pursuit of relevance." Was the door to political relevance slammed in front of him? Did that push him to not only eat his PDP vomit but lick the floor to at least be allowed to be a janitor at PDP banquet house?
After reading the contents of his misguided piece, I reached the conclusion that only a man soaked with the products of a demonic farm house could have effused in the manner he did. Characters like him must be purified at the "Rivers of Sanity" that flows from the 'Atewa Ridge' and empties at the 'Weija' dam enroute to the Atlantic. This "River of sanity" is called Densu River in Ghana. It is after this purification that he can engage in a sane public debate.
My heart is gladdened that at last the Federal Government of Nigeria is finally in bed with a man who is in possession of relevant information that could help it in nailing the opposition. Fani-Kayode is emphatic on his knowledge of those that not only kidnapped the girls to score cheap political points but responsible for the unabated blood-letting in the land to ridicule the government and project it as incapable of protection Nigerians. The Department of State Security (DSS) should extend an invitation to him on this matter. We cannot indulge the "killers" as claimed by the obtuse minded one. There is a limit to political propaganda and sophistry and this to me is that point we can no longer use politics and propaganda as a clearing house for the naked dancing of individuals who ordinarily should know better.
In a failed attempt at consolidating the puerile straight jacketing of APC as a Muslim party, he linked the party to the Middle East with little or no evidence to back his claims. However, beyond the infantile tattles of Fani-Kayode, the party must continue on the path of all embracing policy it has adopted in its pursuit to liberate the country and save it from the present mess engulfing all of us. He is not alone in the propaganda battle he is waging against the party. This is exactly why the PDP welcomed him with both arms as he rightly posited. They needed a man with no honour and personal reappraisal. This is why I believe that the bane of our country is the overwhelming number of the intellectually corrupt in our system. It is only an intellectually corrupt individual that can effuse the manner he does. Intellectualism is wasted when it is only focused on destroying the fabrics of humanity.
Our democracy is practically fifteen (15) years and it is the duty of all and sundry to preserve it no matter the teething problems we are facing. However, the likes Fani-Kayode must be denied the opportunity of further endangering our democracy. This man was the harshest critic of former President Olusegun Obasanjo. He never allowed the then President a breathing space until he was appointed into his government. When he was shunted aside by President Jonathan he romanced the northern political class in pursuit of personal ambition. Is this a man any Nigerian should take serious? Where is the humanity in this man? Must life be perpetually anchored on continuous realignment of the stomach at the expense of the interest of all citizens?
Finally, the APC must not take the ranting of the likes of Fani-Kayode lightly. The man is aware that he is operating in an environment where the perception of logic and reality is functioned on tribe, religion and self-interest. The party should allow freedom and internal democracy to reign supreme and shame its detractors. The 2015 election will not be a normal electoral process. It will be a battle of ideas and programmes hinged on positivity. The PDP through its "attack dog in chief" has fired the first shot and there is no going back. The APC can decide to operate under the old order of political communication and be doomed or face the challenge of the new order and prevail. There is no time for procrastination. The time to act is now.
KELECHI EME
Kelechi_eme@yahoo.com
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