By Chuks Iloegbunam
I don’t want to be uncharitable to this Moses Oludele Idowu. But he was the fellow I called “a conceited and disreputable ignoramus” when I dealt with his provocative nonsense on Professor Ben Nwabueze.
Please consider this from his write-up: “Some well- dressed men gatecrashed to a christening ceremony of a child and begged the woman in charge of food to just give them soup, out of the leftovers. She should not even bother with meat but just only soup which they would take home to make garri. This is not in Hausa or Igboland, it happens here in Yorubaland, and they are Yorubas – land of culture and honour, now under siege of poverty, extreme poverty as a result of gross misrule by pseudo- progressives of APC.”
This means that, to him, Ndigbo are an uncultured and dishonourable lot reeling through time from the interminable punches of starvation. I do not know where he learnt that the Yoruba fed better than the Hausa or the Igbo or any other ethnic group through the ages. I do not know if he understands the relativity of culture.
Now, to the seed of the matter. This fellow is wailing that the house is flooded with water. But he did not bother to address what led to the leaking roof that created the waterlogged reality.
This fellow never questioned his president and his baggage of lies, corruption, and dwindling health during the electoral campaigns. This fellow was among the certificate forger’s cheerleaders. He was a factor in the crowds shouting Awa Lo Kan – It is our turn!
Now, he expects his president to perform miracles, including economic miracles, when the man cannot even sustain attention for ten straight minutes.
Doesn’t it warn everyone that this Idowu guy is burdened with inherent confusion? Shouldn’t he first take a position on whether his man won the presidential election?
What is new in his warning that extreme conditions begat intolerable repercussions? Any secondary school boy knows that!
Idowu should face realities and desist from chasing shadows. He should stop living a life of Let’s Pretend!
