NewsOPINION: Like 1993, Like 2023... Like Tom Ikimi, Like Lai Mohammed

OPINION: Like 1993, Like 2023… Like Tom Ikimi, Like Lai Mohammed

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By Steve Osuji

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I have been struck by de ja vu

Struck in the face I felt a vuum

UBA

1993, about 30 years ago

MKO won election free and fair

They voided it and Nigeria plunged into the abyss

P.Obi wins election 30 years after

They steal his mandate…

And pointed him to the courts

’93 Election Observers booed

Nigeria became a pariah

’23 Nigeria’s becoming a pariah state

The world is sniggering

Like 1993, like 2023…

… 30 years ago, 30 years today

Nothing has changed!

Government became desperate and engaged vultures

Vulture T. Ikimi hefted mega estacodes

Went on foreign junket

Vulture L. Mohammed hauls a bullion

Off on foreign junket

Image launder as money launder

Abacha marched down on home media

Ikimi feted western media

Mohammed bludgeons home channels

And cavorts with American media

Ever seen an American official explaining American politics in Nigeria?

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Like 1993, like 2023…

… 30 years ago, 30 years today

Nothing has changed!

30 years ago Vulture Ikimi shuttled America

(Vultures eating from the carrion of national crises)

30 years after vulture Mohammed shuttles America

How they laugh us to scorn

Questioning our very DNA

What do you tell a man who knows you more than you

What do you tell a man who daily navigates your nudity

What do you tell a man who daily

Endures your stupidity

Your dripping nose stupidity…

Like 1993, like 2023…

… 30 years ago, 30 years today

Nothing has changed!

Vulture Ikimi told them no political prisoner in Abacha gulag

But they merely chuckled at the scruffy ruffian

Vulture Mohammed tells them INEC pulled the plug from election server to ward off attack

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Like destroying your  soul to save body!

But it’s a damned lie!

APC breached server to steal mandate

Vulture Mohammed has ample capacity to make white black

He paints Obi black: victim is villain

Winner of a stolen mandate is a felon

A treasonable felon!

But there are lies…

There are foolish lies

And there are foolish man’s lies

Like 1993, like 2023…

… 30 years ago, 30 years today

Nothing has changed!

A foolish man is adept at foolish lies

Vulture Mohammed never addressed home media

Vulture Mohammed never addressed Nigerians

When did he last speak to us

We haven’t seen him for a while

But he trots the globe feeding off the cadaver of a self-made catastrophe

It’s like re-looting a loot

Like 1993, like 2023…

… 30 years ago, 30 years today

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Nothing has changed!

A simple election process

Long perfected across ages and climes

A press-button implement

To  capture and upload data

A well programmed process

Working like magic

Until Vulture Mohammed and APC poked filthy fingers in it

A simple  civilised process subverted by Vultures, power mongrels and kleptocrats

Like 1993, like 2023…

… 30 years ago, 30 years today

Nothing has changed!

30 years of stunted growth

And arrested development

A democracy advocate yesterday  (Mohammed)

Anti-democracy hound today

Champagne democrats

Bare-necked Vultures, preying on the entrails of the people… 30 years…

Nothing has changed!


Osuji, prolific writer, columnist, former member Editorial Board, The Nation Newspapers, was Media Adviser to former Imo State Governor, Rt. Hon. Emeka Ihedioha


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