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March 27, 2006
President Obasanjo is "a Dog in a Manger" for Ndi Igbo
by Oyibo E. Odinamadu (Mrs.) (Raleigh, North Carolina) --- It is odd how President Obasanjo is using the Igbo to play on the Igbo – all for money. Are these Ndi Igbo that he uses trying to live up to the proverbial Igbo whose death is tested and confirmed only when he does not awaken to the sound of a few pieces of coins in a tin-can, shaken at his ears? Almost all of Obasanjo’s chorus boys are or have been Igbo – Ojo Maduekwe, Paul Udujie, Okey Ndibe, Frank Nweke Jr., Chris Uba, Governor Chimaraoke Nnamani, etc inspite of all the atrocities Obasanjo has committed against Ndi Igbo, and continues to commit on daily basis.
Do these people not realize ythat they are selling Ndi Igbo for a mess of pottage? Obasanjo’s latest on Ndi Igbo is his order to close Ibeto’s Cement Factory in Port Harcourt, which provides employment for hundreds of the people that he could not provide for. There is no Federal Government presence whatsoever in the South East, especially in Igbo land, except civil war memorials. And what Ndi Igbo are able to do for themselves, the President, who is supposed to cater for all the citizenry, closes down and destroys. Is this the type of Obasanjo’s wicked diplomatic finesse that Paul Udujie wants Ndi Igbo to write home about – to herald?
This is a proper case of “a dog in the manger” – who would not eat what is in the manger, but would allow the any one that would eat to come close or to eat. How much more wickedness could President Obasanjo exhibit towards Ndi Igbo to satisfy his sadism and cruelty towards them, simply because they had to defend themselves in a war that he and his colleagues unleashed on them? Are Ndi Igbo the only people that have ever been involved in a civil war? What about the US to which he turns for everything? Ndi Igbo have been made to understand, according to an interview granted to Chido Nwangwu by Ikemba Odumegwu Ojukwu that he, President Obasanjo, had asked Ikemba Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu to denounce Biafra so that they could work together. I suppose, by extension, so that he could also forgive Ndi Igbo and Biafra. I think that he would wait forever for Ikemba to renounce Biafra. Ndi Igbo would also be ready for more of Obasanjo’s antics against them; continue to work for the realignment of Nigeria; and do all they could to outlive Obasanjo and his ilk!!!
NDI IGBO WHO ARE PROMOTING OBASANJO TO BEWARE
Ndi Igbo who are promoting Obasanjo for credibility and a further term of office, like Chris Uba and Governor Chimaraoke Nnamani should as Ndi Igbo put it: “Fie isa n’anya”, which , literally, means to: “Wipe their eyes with all their fingers seven times”, Furthermore it is said that: “Onye atu gbulu nna ya ejiro mpi atu anwu mmili”, that is to say that: “One whose father was killed by a buffalo does not drink with the cup of a buffalo’s horn”. Besides, “Ejiro okwu ochu amu okwu”, and that is to say that: “One does not learn to speak by adopting murderous words or expressions”. Ndi Igbo who are supporting and promoting President Obasanjo’s further term in office should know what they are doing and where they are heading. Do yhey not know that the longer he stays in office, the longer he would be in a position to persecute Ndi Igbo? They should also take a cue from the cases of Major Hamza Al Mustapha, Lt. General Ishaya Bamaiyi, and Co. with General Sani Abacha. That direction would appear to be leading to the promise of: GOD’S CASE, NO APPEAL!!!!
Oyibo E. Odinamadu (Mrs.)
Posted by Administrator at March 27, 2006 12:15 AM
Comments
As a longstanding admirer of Mrs. Oyibo Odinamadu, I regret the carelessness that led her to include me on a list of Obasanjo's chorus boys, in company with such names as Ojo Maduekwe, Paul Udujie and Frank Nweke, Jr.
To say that it feels like a cruel joke does not even come close to describing my sense of grief. I'm one of Obasanjo's staunchest, most consistent critics; indeed, I consider the man morally reprobate, an initiator of multiple criminal acts, and I have written as well as said so on numerous occasions and in different fora.
It is painful, then, that Mrs. Odinamadu, by gravely misreading a satirical piece I wrote to poke fun at Femi Fani-Kayode's "decree" that Wole Soyinka was a godless man who should be ignored, has accused me of propagandizing for a man I deeply detest and put me in the company of men I hold in utter contempt.
I feel like wailing to be saved from this Kafkaesque nightmare! Those who know me, and others familiar with my established record of public commentary, can attest that there isn't enough money in the world, or enough madness in my head, to make me turn into a defender of a president who is a proven disaster for all Nigerians--and Ndigbo in particular.
I have since written privately to Mrs. Odinamadu to disabuse her of this notion that I'm Obasanjo's lackey. I seize this opportunity, then, to publicly repudiate this injury to my reputation and to reclaim my good name from odious company.
Posted by: Okey Ndibe at April 9, 2006 12:36 AM
