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What hunters see in the forest is enough to make children of men without balls blind. An ethnographic study of hunters in a wild called Ìgbẹ Alágogo conducted by a scholar at the University of Ibadan, Ayo Adeduntan, gave birth to the narrative.

Ọláníyì Ọládèj̣ọ Yáwóọ̣ré had gone hunting one day and came face to face with a deer breastfeeding her young. Stupefied by this weird sight, an unusual dizziness pounced upon the hunter. But “an animal is pursuing me” is a disgraceful song that must never be sung by a man born to hunt.

Yáwóọ̣ré quickly picked himself up and fought back with a dose of potent Ọfọ (incantation), one of the priceless assets he inherited from his father: “The ladybird beetle does not suffer from sight impairment…”

Hunter dipped his hand into his cloak and brought out a phial, the content of which he then used to wipe his face. Now he can see! Now that he could see, he had very little difficulty making sumptuous meat of the deer. At home, hunter skinned his game and hung its hide to dry in the open. This is where the story starts to be sweet like a soup of deer meat.

The second day, a mysterious woman visited Yáwóọ̣ré and a conversation ensued. The mysterious woman then told the hunter: “I know you killed a deer. But you did because we wanted you to. Now, why do you show off with its skin? Why did you spread it out, pegged to the ground outside?

You sure want to show the whole world that you it was that killed the animal. Were you the one who actually killed the animal or we gave it to you? Don’t you know spreading out the hide in the open that way is exposing our clothing to the mundane world?” Yawoore got the message. He made amends.

At the APC Renewed Hope Agenda Summit held at the State House last Thursday, President Bola Tinubu was Yáwóọ̣ré, the ostentatious hunter. The sniper had just killed a sacred deer with a marksman’s dexterity. Like the hunter, it was time for Tinubu to gloat. Trust our president, he was at his best turf.

Armed with his ancient Cockney, the president, who had just killed an elephantine game, said “nothing (is) wrong with a one party state.” He asked his people to “wipe them clean.” You would think he was talking about a bowl of pounded yam accompanied by a plate of ram meat.

I looked at his face. The whole world was like a colony of ants before the president. APC, he boasted, was “one party ruling and carrying on with the aspirations of Nigerians,” in what actually came in an incoherent waffle. “You don’t expect people to remain in a sinking ship without a life jacket. I am happy with what we have accomplished and expecting more people to come; that’s the game.”

Yáwóọ̣ré then told the Old Woman, “Old one, it was Ògún (the god of iron) that killed it.” The mysterious woman would not have that claim and promptly interjected. “Not Ògún, we allowed you to kill it.” Sobered, the hunter accepted his guilt, soberly retorting that, “I did not know that it (the skin) is your cloth.”

Yáwóọ̣ré then reported the encounter to Ọlaifa Adigun, the Olúòdẹ, head of hunters, proceeded home and removed the deer skin. His open ment of conquest against the unseen forces was going to be his nemesis. The hunter must have known that, to dare Witches by counting their nine-finger arm in their presence had repercussions. It would have been a declaration of war against women Yoruba call Ẹlẹyẹ.

Unlike Yáwóọ̣ré, on Thursday, Tinubu was not sober. He had similarly spread a sacred deer hide in the open to dry. He was even unconscionable. In what appeared to be an of his 730 days in office as the Nigerian president, Tinubu gloated about what he called his government’s economic reforms.

Echoing Bongos Ikwue’s line in his evergreen track, ‘True Love,’ the president hid behind the ancient wisdom of “Nothing good comes easy” in life to justify the people’s suffering under his government. He maintained that, “sometimes, only hard decisions can make things easy in the future.”

Leading an istration which, while campaigning for Nigerians’ votes in 2023, carried the heftiest baggage of anticipated elasticity of corruption, Tinubu’s testimony on Thursday of fighting corruption in 730 days was the imponderous, “You could see EFCC recover over seven hundred and fifty-something houses from one person”. He also claimed that life had become better and the future assured for the people of Nigeria. But, is it?

At that State House gathering, a picture was raised for all to see. It was that of Tinubu and his coterie of palace jesters, having written a national qualification examination, marking their own scripts and awarding themselves marks.

Take the National Security Adviser (NSA) Nuhu Ribadu, for example. Ribadu regaled Nigerians with statistics of a Nigerian security Eldorado under Tinubu. A few days earlier, Babagana Zulum, governor of Borno state, had punctured his deceptively inflated balloon. Persuaded that Ribadu’s fawning statistics of securing Nigeria were an embarrassing fallacy that cannot save his people, Zulum asked Borno to look heavenwards for salvation.

He declared last Monday for fasting to seek God’s intervention. Zulum also alleged that some military officers and politicians were informants and collaborators for Boko Haram terrorists and the Islamic State’s West Africa Province (ISWAP) terrorists. Many of them are contractors who feed on the blood of the people.

This came on the heels of another revelation by the chief whip of the senate, Mohammed Tahir Monguno, who, last Wednesday, disclosed that 63 residents of two communities in Borno North were killed in a clash between Boko Haram insurgents and ISWAP insurgents. So, what was Ribadu blabbing about?

Like one watching a surreal film, then slid the secretary to the government of the federation (SGF), George Akume, onto the stage. Borrowing from Godswill Akpabio, who asked a female legislator if she thought the parliament was a nightclub, I was tempted to ask if everyone at the State House that Thursday was inebriated.

Akume’s words sounded bombastic, high-sounding but lacking grounding in reality. “Mr President’s leadership reminds us of the legendary Lee Kuan Yew of Singapore — the man whose foresight, discipline, and tenacity transformed a small nation into a global model of prosperity and order. This is the quality of leadership Nigeria is privileged to have today,” Akume waffled shamelessly.

I had to race for my book of history. Were there two Yews? Did Akume truly liken this same Tinubu to the father of modern Singapore, or was he on a junket of figures of speech? The Yew of Singapore transformed his country from a struggling port city into about the most prosperous and efficient worldwide. His countrymen were not recorded to have died in droves during this period.

I have heard of the words ‘bootlicking,’ ‘sycophancy’ and ‘grovelling before power’ before now, but I had never felt its coarse texture as this. Akume brought its feel and colour to me vividly.

Then entered Akpabio, a major cast member at the State House circus. In the last two years as Nigeria’s senate president, Godswill will seem to have triumphed more in wordplay and legislative buffoonery than lawmaking. Like one primed to play in an orchestra, Akpabio was at it again last Thursday.

He lauded what he called “Tinubu’s political sagacity,” submitting that “Nigerians are grassroots people, they are very excited” basing this on “the fact that even the of the national assembly and senators said they have never had it this good.” Why won’t they, legislators who now collect N1 billion and N2 billion for constituency projects?

After this stellar buffoonery, Akpabio now mimicked the same uncritical legislative showmanship for which the Nigerian parliament has a notorious renown. He then “move(d), and let it be moved, that not only President Bola Ahmed Tinubu will be a sole candidate for the presidency in 2027, but he will also be a sole candidate for the whole Nigerian population.” That is a recipe for disaster.

Nigerians will know that Akpabio doesn’t disappoint. He didn’t last Thursday. He is a known serial groveler at the feet of power. In 2015, as chairman of PDP Governors’ Forum and governor of Akwa-Ibom state, this same Akpabio, on July 15, 2024, announced his endorsement of Goodluck Jonathan and projected victory for him in 2015. He preceded his endorsement with the same longish hogwash as this.

Like they do at the bioscope, everything for Akpabio is in the superlatives, garnished with theatrics. Both collided at that State House event, as he said, “other political parties have been turned into shreds.. and (he saw) the umbrella of the PDP (with) over 100 holes” and “everything in the south-south has collapsed for you (Tinubu)… same thing that is happening in the nation.”

I am sure Mr. President enjoyed the circus. But I know he is too steeped in the waters of Nigerian politics not to know that the likes of Akume, Akpabio and Uzodinma were merely playing the politics of the stomach and recycling the usual Nigeria’s tree-falls-bird-flies politics.

Persuaded that the president, while growing up like every Yoruba child, must have heard the story of the great elephant in the hands of destructive fawners, let me recall it here. Represented as a character with power, majesty and acclaim, the mammoth-sized beast was the untouchable king of the jungle whose humongous size was a huge bother to other animals.

Several efforts were made to oust his prowess, to no avail. So, a plot was hatched using his majesty as his destruction. Tortoise, a clever and serpentine animal, was procured to do the hatchet job. Tortoise resolved that, given Elephant’s size and height, violence would not bring him to his hilt but a seemingly innocuous strategy of deception, praise-singing and boot-licking.

One day, tortoise then went into the cave of the Almighty Elephant. His message was that all animals had purposed to make him King of all Animals in the jungle. Elephant was to come to the palace adorned in the full regalia of a King. Prior to the day, Tortoise dug a very deep hole that could occupy Elephant’s mammoth size by the palace. It was decorated with a beautiful wool carpet worthy of a king’s royal feet, complete with an ornamented chair just at the edge of the royal carpet.

Encircling the carpet, Akume, Akpabio, Abdullahi Ganduje, Uzodinma and all their tribe of Hallelujah Boys clapped and hailed the new King. He was dressed in flowery royal robe. As he walked majestically towards the royal carpet, they cheered the Elephant on, shouting “a o m’erin j’oba, eweku ewele.” In turn, fascinated by the splendor and cheers, Elephant walked majestically until he fell into the ditch and unto his death.

We are the only ones who can tell our Elephant the naked truth. If the president can look out through the windows, he will see how Nigerians deride him. Not because of his tribe but because he has allowed himself to be captive of unrealistic statistics. Yes, apart from the Ibrahim Babangida military government, there doesn’t seem to be any other government that has midwifed policies as much as the present istration.

The reality, however, is that those policies fall flat on their faces, without a corresponding positive effect on the people. Nigerians are hurting; they have been since May 2023. Halfway through his first term, I stand to be corrected, Tinubu is the most hated Nigerian today.

Rather than the PDP being a faulty aircraft and engers stranded with no life-jacket, Nigerians under Tinubu are the ones marooned in the cloudy sky of Tinubu istration’s malfunctioning leadership. They have no life jackets. It is simply because they are not better off than they were almost two years ago.

Electricity tariffs keep castrating the people. The cost of fuel is prohibitive. Nigerians are dying because they cannot afford drugs. Insecurity is sending hundreds of Nigerians to their deaths. Joblessness has become a pestilence while our young ones still find it a comparatively better succour to perish in the Mediterranean.

Only last week, one of Akpabio’s allies, Onyekachi Nwebonyi, senator representing Ebonyi North, canvassed the demolition of houses contiguous to the Abuja airport. He claimed they were unsightly for the FCT status, would scare off investors, and, whenever he was in the air and saw the slums, he probably felt like puking in a lavatory.

The senator’s call is a total clone of the theme of Aminata Sow Fall’s The Beggars’ Strike. Set in the Senegalese capital, Dakar, the elite called for action against what they termed ‘human detritus’ noticeable all over Dakar. This was a term for beggars who must be got rid of for driving away tourists. While Mour Ndiaye and his assistant, Keba Dabo, succeed in carting the beggars away, when Ndiaye desires to become vice president of Senegal and needs to give alms to beggars for spiritual advantage as prescribed by the Marabout, he finds the beggars unavailable for his bid.

Forget Tinubu and his cohorts’ misleading doublespeak; the prospect of a de facto one-party state is possible. This is so especially when you realise that funny legislative characters like Akpabio are Tinubu’s consorts. While Akpabio won’t have any qualms about licking the president’s spittle and stamping APC as Nigeria’s constitutionally recognised sole party and Tinubu, sole candidate, in exchange for a life tenancy in the senate, Nigerians will make this impossible.

A de jure one-party state is, however, possible. Its prospect is ripe in an APC where all Nigerian forces and absolute powers are fusing inside one party under Tinubu’s “sweep them clean” triumphalism. In a de jure one-party state, other parties would exist, but the APC and the president will certainly be so lawlessly authoritarian that they would criminalized public smile.

Yes, as Tinubu said, “freedom of movement and association is not a criminally punishable, (sic).” However, with this gale of defection sweeping all and sundry inside his party’s pouch, it may be a recipe for tyranny of the majority. By either hook or crook, the president has killed the sacred deer. His audacity in choosing to spread the deer skin for all to see may eventually court the disaffection of the Old One, the Nigerian people.

Now our own Ndiaye in Fall’s satiric novel, when Tinubu needs Nigerians, the beggars he treats with such conceit, he may not find them. Again, like the urchin who cursed the Iroko tree and persistently looked backwards in fear of immediate repercussion, does the president think the Oluwere ghormid resident inside the bowel of the Iroko strikes with immediacy?

https://www.thecable.ng/tinubus-life-jacket-and-a-deers-sacred-skin/

This is the ironic end effects of political psycophancy, asslicking and grandiosity. It impairs sound judgement till reality resets the brain. But then it will be late. This is how the French peasants revolution against their elites happened.

“Tinubu said nothing (is) wrong with a one party state. Wipe them clean.
I am happy with what we have accomplished and expecting more people to come; that’s the game. They think this political party is a failure, but I listen to you, not them. "

With criminals and unkind leaders in govt offices .....naija will always be a crime scene

We get the leaders we deserve.

Ds

Reading…

Bootlickers Congress of Nigeria.

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If you finished reading this gather ;Dhere Hmmm

When Tinubu will need the help of Nigerians that he's treating like beggars, he may not find it.



Vox populi, vox dei (The voice of the people is the voice of God)...... This will be 2027 motto...

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He was not in POWER then

Wow..a very deep and insightful read..

The article is written only for the wise and discerning..

The Halelluyah boys would be too blind to even understand what the writer is talking about.

A word is indeed enough for the wise..

I don't know if anyone noticed how BAT called the leaders of the NASS, he sounded like he was calling his houseboys.

"Senate president, speaker. . ."

Tinubu , A proud man that is always looking down on things and people because of his gain's from ceremonial magic, sorcery, witchcraft and high criminality . Of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you.

That thing that is above you, will bring you down to your knees, down to the dust, where all these your hype men will look at you and tremble with fear of the unknown

WTF!?

Who has the time on earth to read this nonsense long epistle

Damn

DeepSight:
I don't know if anyone noticed how BAT called the leaders of the NASS, he sounded like he was calling his houseboys.

"Senate president, speaker. . ."

Are they not
He singlehandedly put them there
APC will implode
It's just a matter of time
You can't cook for the whole village and satisfy all

But why is NL working for Tinubu? They have been banning all my posts about him.

Kelklein:
Wow..a very deep and insightful read..

The post is made only for the wise and discerning..

The Halelluyah boys would be too blind to even understand what the writer is talking about.

A word is indeed enough for the wise..

such a beautiful article.

Posted at 1 pm. See how many comments.


People just saw the length of the article and gave up.

If it was yansh or party or relationship matter it would have gotten to page 10 by now.

Nigerians

DeepSight:
I don't know if anyone noticed how BAT called the leaders of the NASS, he sounded like he was calling his houseboys.

"Senate president, speaker. . ."

You people are too funny. Pls how did Tinubu called them? Did he slapped them or shouted on them? Did the senators complained? Were you there to see how he called them?

Guys leave all these hating stuunt it's not working you can not understand how politician relates with each other unless you are in their midst so pls calm down. Ok.

Chucks13:


You people are too funny. Pls how did Tinubu called them? Did he slapped them or shouted on them? Did the senators complained? Were you there to see how he called them?

Guys leave all these hating stuunt it's not working you can not understand how politician relates with each other unless you are in their midst so pls calm down. Ok.

Maybe you didn't watch it.

Thanks giving for reading it to the end.

But truth still remains Either APC lose and another Party comes in. They are still bird of the same feather.

Regional government or Nigeria depart is the only solution but Western world never want it

Really glad I took my time to read this and digest it.

Tinubu's case will be like the proverbial fly that didn't listen till it was buried together with a corpse.

I took time to read your write-up. It's actually interesting.

In as much as I don't like Tinubu, I still think he will win and I guess I will be voting for him. Why? Because he know how to play the game.

He told us that it was his time, and it was actually his time. And now he is the president you think he will just hand it over to someone at a platter? Forget it.

Even VERYDARKMAN during the next election would not be heard or seen. You want to use Tinubu and play baa.


Tinubu is not Good luck Jonathan oh

This piece succinctly captures the arrogance of bat and the grovelling praise singers he has surrounded himself with.

They all did the same for buhari, praising him even in his obvious incompetence. Now, they have turned thier vile vuvuzelas to bat.

armadeo:


such a beautiful article.

Posted at 1 pm. See how many comments.


People just saw the length of the article and gave up.

If it was yansh or party or relationship matter it would have gotten to page 10 by now.

Nigerians

Nigerians don't read. Any post wey don dey 100 words, people go jump am

And it's worrisome. Politicians love it this way.

Kelklein:


Nigerians don't read.

And it's worrisome. Politicians love it this way.

Mental laziness is a terrible thing.

Once again, something worthwhile to read on NL.

This piece is an eye-opener to those in the corridors of power.
The people are angry and lost while the political class shield themselves from the people. The people are looking at the opposition to get their acts together, once this is done then it will be the people vs the oppressors come 2027