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Babaginda: No Reconciliation's! No Vanquished By Femi Oyesanya Wole
Soyinka, the Nigerian civil rights activist and Noble Prize winner,
recently called upon the Nigerian ex Dictator, General Babaginda, to
tender a request for national collective forgiveness. The tender for
forgiveness, according to Soyinka would be the bridge for the Dictator
to attain a clean political slate. The atonement of a Tyrant!
Reconciliation's of a usurper! Well,
Wole Soyinka's political vigor must be getting old and tired. Only
recently, Wole Soyinka kissed Gowon in the same spirit of forgive and
forget. Soyinka is aging, what is left might just be the savor of old
wine. Drink to his yesterdays, the man is really dying! Transgressions
against the collective will of the Nigerian people are intransitive to
forgiveness, and no Nigerian intellectual can advocate that we forgive
tyrants. We are incapable. Soyinka confused helplessness with a
forgiving Nigerian demeanor when he said, “Nigerians are kind, very
tolerating people, and then after that he (Babangida) would then start
presenting his credentials like a candidate and a new applicant to the
2007 race" We might be helpless, but we are not sheep. We will not
clean the slate of history for men that bastardized our existence. The
history of Nigerian tyranny will forever be written in blood. This is
the truth that must not be reversed. No reconciliation's! No vanquished!
It's as simple as that, an eye for a scrotum! Babaginda's
sins resulted in the bastardization of the Nigerian political
consciousness. The annulled election was an overwhelming Injustice. It
is a definitive political history that cannot be cast away with the
magic wand of atonement. Now, I suspect that even if God showed up in |