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A Response to Ndubueze Godson’s Rejoinder to Tunde Adenobi's "Igbo: Dating Yoruba but Marrying Hausa/Fulani" By Dr.
Sylvester Omosun Fadal Ignorance
is sometimes equaled to non-significance and the rejoinder by Ndubueze
does not only expose his retarded analytical skills and general
character flaws but also, it shows his level of comprehension of
intellectual discussion.
Ndubueze’s tendency to attack the character/person rather than
the subject is an obvious indication of his failure to understand the
rules of reasonable discussion, augmented by competent reasoning in
effort to reach a valid conclusion and an acceptable/unacceptable
finding. To
avoid condescending to his level of non-insight and non-intellectual
brilliancy, I will not dissect his article and would rather apply a
brief and finite response to shine the light on his weakness as
indicated by the writing of an “oxymoron” who lacks the ability to
establish a solid purpose statement, analyze, support, and validate the
purpose statement with convincing evidence, in effort to conclusively
reach an acceptable finding.
In
his argument, Ndubueze isolated the Yorubas from the Binis stating,
“By the way have you read your history lately compliments (run-on
words) of the most revered Omo N’Oba Erediauwa of Bini? Did Oduduwa
land from heaven chained (ludicrous) or was he a runaway thief who
escaped death in Bini to form what’s known as Yoruba?”
In this case, he separated the Binis from the Yorubas using
Omo N’Oba Erediauwa of Benin as a resource. He unintelligently turned
around and clustered the Yorubas and Binis in the same category by
stating “Did you conveniently forgot (grammar usage)
the overwhelming numbers (mixing singular and plural in the
same sentence) of men from your tribe and countless Bini indigenes
that served the Abacha led junta? Here are few (grammar
usage) to get a handle, Lateef Jakande, Ebenezer Babatope, Sam Aluko,
Ikimi, and the numerous Generals (Diya, Adisa, Olarewajun etc)”
(logical reasoning issue). In defending an argument, it is
unacceptable according to the rule of qualitative and/or quantitative
research to flip flop variables.
Ndubueze ignorantly used the Binis in defending his point against
the Yorubas and in the same vein used both the Bini and Yoruba variables
in the same cluster when he deemed it okay to do so, in effort to make a
flawed point. Sometimes, it is best to restrain oneself from displaying a level of ignorance than to make a blanket accusation of a multitude of honorable professionals because ones weak sense of emotional maturity as displayed by Nwabueze's action overshadows his or her reasoning. The good news however, is that most Nigerians were raised to recognized the importance of not isolating people by their ethnic links and as such, their love and relationship with the Igbos and all other Nigerians will remain unchanged. My objective analysis of leadership in Nigeria will remain regardless of the relative attitude of a select few like Ndubueze. There is no need to get personal as such attacks never gets the intended points across. I hope Ndubueze will learn the rules of literary engagement and how it works best. As much as I don’t know Tunde Adenobi, this response is not about a person but the purpose to encourage a dialogue of literary reasoning rather than temper-antic thinking. |