Current political scenario in 9ja

I have numerously tried to ignore the current political scenario in my home country, Nigeria. You might not take sides with me but 9ja is the greatest place on earth, believe me. I’m not about to paint the natural resources picture here, or the massive deposits of human resources, and energy. I only intend to share how I have been handling the incessant surprising displays of the uses of a few of our human endowments.

In my opinion, this is the best time for movie makers to make award-winning stories and movies. At the end of this yarn, you would see why. I’d want to take us back to the penultimate political transition.

I bet you remember the 1993 SDP vs. NRC national competition. Remember that late guy MKO Abiola. Good. Did you ever know that Abubakar Atiku a.k.a. Turakin stepped down for him just before the elections. If you also remember, the NRC presidential hunter, Tofa, is/was Hausa. Had the elections gone that way, we would have been stranded in a no-choice solution with a Northerner. (Un)Fortunately for Kashimawo (literal meaning: ‘let’s keep watching’), he watched his days thin out into a cell and an unbelievable six-footer. If you want to sympathise with him, you might want to investigate the rumour of his involvement in the 11-year civil war in Liberia. I also heard that was he was in sync (about Liberia) with the guy who ensured he remained messed till death, Baba (if you put ‘ngida’ na u sabi). My extraction here’s simple; if Tura had been perfectly in the shoes of the guy he stepped down for, I want to believe that the June 12 alibi might not have existed, or, better still, existed as an ‘aboki’ matter.

As regards June 12 (as an alibi), AD had endorsed late Funso Williams as their gubernatorial marksman, then, from nowhere, the thug trafficker, Bola A Tinubu, shows up with June 12 in one hand and, I believe, the story of him being a descendant of the historical Tinubu babe that salvaged Lagos or something similar. (I will check my social sciences text book to find out what she did exactly. You can check it too; it’s one of the Macmillan series.) He tells the story about how he was steadfast to ‘June 12’ and Williams defected when late Abacha had guns and cash to every politically meaningful head in Nigeria. I don’t remember ever coming across BAT, except recently. Who knows, he might have been there, but meaningless. But Believe it guys, that’s how Williams lost out. And remained lost thereafter. Now, he’s lost forever by his family who still shamelessly and fearfully root for the party that stripped them of their last chance of a political compensation, or so it seems. Today, Tinubu’s biggest challenge is how to get rid of his own mistake, raising Obanikoro. (In secondary school, ‘Koro’ meant to sneak or dodge away from a senior. ‘Obanikoro’ in mumbo-jumbo terms would then mean ‘King of sneaking,’ which he showed when he switched parties and worked his way to such a deeply contended job of Lagos state governorship candidate; that Ogunlewe, Bode George and Williams (R.I.P.) had sought for and lost.) Okay.

On the national scene, I see a repeat broadcast of the last of the Abacha days when Generals and other senior rednecks stooped for recognition before Abacha’s CSO, Major Mustapha. If they had foresight, or true self discipline, they would not have entertained us by their acrobatics of prostrating and pleading on national TV! Previously serious-minded men like Ribadu, Bayo Ojo and Iwu are now entertaining us again by their inglorious attitude about who the ‘Bastard’ or ‘Born Bastard’ is, because both Abu and Segun are guilty as they hide. The head cannot move without the consent of the neck. The most annoying part of this charade is that we know the back-ends of this whole trash. I need to understand what these guys are loosing their hard-earned integrity for because that beats me. I admit.

I would have understood if this was a vendetta based on June 12 but Segsy and Luku-luku MKO were hardly friends when MKO was alive and who would he have avenged on, the guy who stepped down, or what? I think what we have up there; no, down there because these guys are simply lucky fools in power: what we have down there is similar to what we’d have seen in a blend of Jack Bauer’s 24 and Michael Scofield’s Prison Break. Don’t get me wrong, I seriously mean to extricate the pure entertainment purpose of TV not the wisdom or expertise it requires to produce such classics.

To me, this is the point in a movie where you think why the bad guys can’t come together and negotiate a sharing formula of their spoils and figure how to enlarge their cults and keep a tab on their secrets. Well, I must thank my God for greed, distrust and stupidity. They may be all these animals need to get themselves to their proposed destination, HELL on earth.

I deliberately ignored the others like Buhari, Adedibu, Akala, Orji, Ebe ano Nnamani, banker Pedro, Ojukwu e.t.c. they form the part of the movie that do not count initially but gain importance in the analyses. Things like crew members and cinemas where the movies premiered.