Devil on the cross
This title is not original. It is Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s 1980 novel, which the Kenyan author wrote originally in Kikuyu, but also translated into English. The devil being nailed here
This title is not original. It is Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s 1980 novel, which the Kenyan author wrote originally in Kikuyu, but also translated into English.
The devil being nailed here is INEC Chair, Prof. Joash Amupitan, for doing his job as a fair arbiter. But his nailers are the real electoral devils, thinking arrant blackmail would trump good conscience. They are entitled to their merry delusions!
That about sums up David Mark’s ADC faction and the vile campaign they wage against Amupitan, simply because his INEC won’t dance to their whims and caprices, on ADC factional matters, still before the courts.
The latest INEC/Amupitan tar just came from Ibadan, where a band of Mark ADC-led, clearly disoriented, opposition figures had gathered, spewing their usual nonsense, because they’re not gutty enough to own up to their self-inflicted debacles.
Amupitan has “shown bias and partisanship in favour of the APC”, they claimed -- the wilder, the merrier -- that “Nigerians across board have lost confidence in him and his capacity to deliver free, fair, transparent and credible elections. His continuous stay in office,” the empty thunder went on, “is vexatious and capable of triggering widespread crisis in our nation.”
Why, Seyi Makinde, the Oyo governor that has boxed himself into political intrigue, even threatened “wet-ie” -- mass scale political arson -- from his “wild, wild, West”!
But Nigerians -- which Nigerians? The same ones that saw Amupitan conduct the Anambra poll that Governor Soludo won hands down; and which none of the losers has challenged -- the very first in recent time?
Or, the FCT council poll. Before, the ADC thundered as the Shakespearean fool, a classic bluff full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. After all the pre-poll bawl and bark, zilch was the ADC win -- not even a councillor’s seat!
Is ADC’s sickly (il)logic then that of a walloped football team, so goals-drunk it now pounces on the referee, yelling for his removal? Everyone knows the real devil, between the Mark ADC, and the INEC chair it accuses!
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But if that ADC faction -- deluded and terminally deranged -- is beyond redemption, what of false lobbies, spewing electoral sanity cant, also trying to blackmail the INEC chair out of office? Even the most cursory look shows these are partisans trying to corral, in rogue activism, what they lost -- fair and square -- in politics!
If you ever built a reputation, why would you clamber on board to savage the hard-earned reputation of another, by parroting the Mark-ADC funny tales?
Still, vigilance is it for the democratic polity! A similar deluded rally tried to impose what Alhaji Lai Mohammed called a Lekki massacre “without bodies”. They failed back then. They will fail yet again in their Amupitan evil mission.
