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A Response to a Rejoinder by Nne Sylvester Omosun Fadals By Nduwueze 3rd Gamji’s technical setbacks of past days made impossible my usual perusal of current happenings but thanks to a young reader who forwarded Sylvester Fadal’s struggle to look distinguish. A writing that nonetheless betrayed this Igbophobia’s narrow understanding of past, current, and perhaps future affairs as it affects the common folks in that banana republic of his. His dilly-dallying with words, which he too knows full well he’s by no stretch a guru leaves most wondering why this maniac failed to address the salient points raised by the same article that caused him to loose his sense of worth (less). I remain most grateful to God despite all that was written only “grammar” use was challenged not the facts of that poignant, penetrating, bomb that was according to my mail notification marked delivered and opened. Whereas had the same rejoinder flattered Ikimi’s performances in Abacha’s government, Sylvester would’ve described it as the best thing after Jesus the Christ, the language would then take a rear seat. Wouldn’t this make him ridiculously cheap? My civic duty therefore is to continue to expose the “lies and the lying liars who tell them, a fair and balanced” way issues are handled. I will not hide my effort to rattle Sylvester the Igbo hater a little since I am known to write without pandering after all I’m only playing the hand he and his followers dealt to me. I guess his extensive research into choice of words to use whenever he scribbles his drool online must be doing a lot to pump up his image and that's ok with me. In the corridors of American institutions of higher learning I am not a novice therefore let me allow this straggler to review my essays yet again while serious and respected men and women with good intentions continue to wonder what the hell is wrong with him. The aim of this piece is to swat hard at this guy who dealt himself a fatal blow by further lowering the already shaky bar. My article that caused Sylvester to loose some sleeps was not directed at him or his Bini folks although I sent an issue oriented private mail to him with no single word of insult. His reply, “Points noted. I am a Bendelite by the way and do not support OBJ an inch. Just like the Bendelites, the Igbos are marginalized and we need to be much more agressive with a much better unity. That is all I called for. Dr. Fadal ” while I leave the honor of publishing mine to him I will not pass the chance to draw attention to (aggressive) misspelling. Here’s
part of the irritation that won’t go away until they come to a
satisfying conclusion beyond every and/ or any reasonable doubt. Did
Oduduwa drop from heaven chained as posited by the respected monarch
Ooni of Ife, Okunade
Sijuwade, Olubuse II? Or
was he a run away thief as stated by the most high Oba of Bini, Omo
N'Oba Erediauwa?
Why should I draw the anger of any reasonable person for wanting to know
whose assertions I should believe? Is it not the scholarly thing to do
as encouraged in the journalism school Sylvester wears like a badge of
honor? I believe it’s called “investigative journalism.” Further
asking, what really became of the puny seventeen days ultimatum from the
Yoruba elders for the Bini monarch to withdraw unconditionally his claim
that Oduduwa was a common village criminal? I agree this depending on
who’s reading can be misconstrued as offensive but who’s to blame?
If the Bini Oba’s position is believed then the Ooni must come clean
to his subjects on the contrary if convincing holes are established in
the Bini Oba’s fortified position, his dethronement and banishment
would be the only satisfying recourse the Yoruba expect. One of these
two monarchs obviously misrepresented the facts and this as a good
grammar constructor, Sylvester and Tunde ought to have found out and
share with the readers instead of their nonsensical attempt to avoid
issues that relates to them to tell the Igbo how they can never ever be
president of a dying nation. If it were left to me I would rather see
the Igbo have a country of theirs than be part the present confusion, in
police parlance, accidental discharge. Maybe
Sylvester ought to check with his brother Tunde Adenobi to find out why
he used a fake non-existent email address “tunde.adenodi@att.net”
to post his Igbo putdown. Sylvester therefore must be informed at this
point had my private mail reached Tunde my aim would’ve been satisfied
without necessarily going public. But in the absence of these and the
choice made by Sylvester to dance naked in the market square of
intellectual discourse, I must let the readers know how off beat his
dance is. I will also before the end of this piece educate Sylvester a
little about the language (English) he might not know after all. No
doubt exists in my heart of hearts whether informed people are beginning
to question Sylvester’s judgment and credibility after his
sidestepping the issue(s) that jumpstarted this round of salvo. He
avoided the issues while mine to Tunde though filled with choice words I
have no regrets using addressed and questioned the twisted fallacies of
Tunde’s article. A major contrast! Sylvester
should either get on-board the freedom buggy to figure out how to get
folks away from the dilemma his mentors put that country in or shut up
and watch things happen. Though I did suggest he get outta way! This
would pave way for serious minded folks to handle the task of kicking
his uncle to the curb
for real democratic values to take place in that forbidden land. Most
times my preoccupation is to get my ideas, my thoughts out I am not
bothered the least bit about nuances of grammar as long as the bordering
issues are addressed as such the belittling remains meaningless. Tunde
Adenobi, at this point is beginning to look more gracious and stately
with his non-reply or comment as seen by the half page tirade of
Sylvester. Who by the way pledged to remain above the fray but the lure
to betray himself was too tempting to resist due to his myxomatosis
ailment, I guess. The impressive writings of most northern writers
without equivocating always probe the nucleus of an idea unlike
Sylvester and his compatriots whose avoidance of issues to lob bricks
whenever, they can lift one reduce their position to nothing. This
self-acclaimed English teacher, a Prof. or lecturer appellation would be
an unnecessary flatter, refused to discuss the main thread that spiraled
out of bounds thanks to his buddy Tunde Adenobi, but played around with
veiled insults. In consideration of this, it behooves me and in my
jurisdiction to steer him back on cause that is if he quit his wallowing
distractions to tell the readers what part of Aburi or Ojukwu’s
speeches and/ or letters, especially one to Victor “the traitor”
Banjo are false. As someone that have a handle on English at least he
told us, I also expects him to highlight all aspects of Ojukwu’s
letter that drew the insinuation of “lording” over them whatever the
hell that means. Respected readers this is the bone of contention not
how great a writer’s English is but how factual, sincere and to the
point the information is should take the front, middle and last seats,
period. If we were to rely solely on Sylvester’s interpretation of
good grammar folks like William Shakespeare and other great men of the
yore whose grammar were somewhat flawed but their literally works which
were always made with clarity to the understanding of most wouldn’t be
recognized. Someone should inform this dummy that even the Holy Bible is
full of grammar errors that contains words of WISDOM and please let’s
not forget the Quran, which is overfilled with verbiages and hard to
make sense grammar but does in no way impede the believers from
rehearsing and understanding its contents. Seriously, could his
president write one-millionth of the much this writer drops on an
instant yet he’s the president? Great! This
mental midget would want his readers to believe he does not condescend
whatever, that means to a level as low as his height unbeknownst to him
he just did and here we would remain until his brains open up. Why
should Tunde Adenobi be given a free pass to insult with effrontery the
collective intelligence of the Igbo? Listen to him, “Let it be
said loud and clear that if the Igbo really, really wanted to support a
Yoruba, they would have supported Olu Falae who was at that time,
rightly or wrongly, the choice of the Yoruba. Can the north forget the
rhetoric of the Igbo during the short period it seemed that Nzeogwu
succeeded in capturing power in the north in 1966? Or during the 6
month-rule of Aguiyi-Ironsi at the Federal level? These are some
of the lies the Yoruba and Bini folks dispense without crosschecking
their stupid facts yet expect people like me to just sit there and
swallow rubbish. What was the basics for his comparison of General Emeka
Ojukwu to Arthur “the crook” Nzeribe? What formed Tunde’s opinion
to claim the Igbo never supported Olu Falae yet after a contradictory
proof by way of my rejoinder this goat still left the pertinent issues
to expose his blinded stupidity. Now that we are really discussing the
‘issues’ after the challenges to do so I guess the mission is
accomplished? When a supposedly lettered, at least Sylvester Omosun
Fadal(?) claimed to be, falls into a trap to spew his buffoonish
borrowed jingo without touching the important core of the scintillating
concerns raised he must not be seen to get away with it lest a wrong
impression is formed. Only someone as mentally and factually deprived,
as Sylvester would skip the challenge to present any documentations or
references to show the world how the Igbo or Chukwuemka Ojukwu’s
hypocrisies and inconsistencies of the past or present aided the fall of
a thorny nation. Yet he dilly-dallied into inconsequentially trifle
matter as word usage. What does Sylvester have to say about his heavily
accented diction, does he have any explanations for his numerous
mispronunciations does one exist? Who cares how metaphoric or succulent
he writes as far as his writings does not positively impart peoples’
lives it remains insignificant to me and most, I thought this monkey
‘professor’ would have realized. My mistake! From Sylvester’s junk I could see what tweaked his fancy was the mere mention of Tom Ikimi, a wife beater another big time jobber a cheap shouter who the system long moved on without. The Ikimi that wanted to be a “comeback kid” after the facts but was rebuffed by the PDP earlier due to his role in Abacha’s government is the same one Sylvester sees as demigod to spit his primitive and equally full of grammar errors venom. What this fella failed to observe is my effort to apply principles of fairness by adding a Bini name to the least of those who helped Abacha scuttle a democratic system after all the Yoruba alone cannot be held responsible. A fair attempt that would have suffered undue setback had I missed to highlight a Bini actor in Abacha’s ‘play,’ a corrupt government I dare guess this cheap Sylvester benefited from. This writer will neither buckle nor bend by the gangsterism of Sylvester and his cabal to send a poignant lone voice of the oppressed to oblivion, he ain’t seen nothing yet as my American brethren would invoke. If the yardstick to who should or shouldn’t post is based on how better one writes and nothing about issues then I have in the past read one too many junk on Gamji and other sites where verbiages were posted. But let me disappoint Sylvester’s sullied brains by reminding him that if his president, Obasanjo who by every definition is a compound illiterate, could rise to rule a country then every writer’s grammar error begin to look like divine blessings. Sylvester’s character flaw and temperament, which has been well shielded until my appearance on Gamji exposed it is troubling to those who might have inadvertently held him in high honor. Should I get this credit? No way, I refuse to take it I’ll gladly with humility yield to Tunde Adenobi. Now
for those that might be reading me for the first time, at no time in the
past or present have this writer laid claim to the mastery of the
English language, which speaking of is a second and unimportant (in the
sense one could move back to his village where its use is muted
effectively) language to me and many Igbo whose main interest is the
emancipation of our people from the stranglehold of the evil men
Sylvester Fadal love so much, his Yoruba kindred. Please allow me to
digress just this one time, his stated name “Sylvester Omosun Fadal”
to me signifies either a conflicted or confused individual whose
identity based on his Bini claim is yet to secure his true origin.
“Omo” as we know is Yoruba while Fadal is associated with the Fulani
conquerors so he should tell us who he really is. Back on English usage,
since the mastery of syntax, word connections, arrangements, nuances et
cetera were never claimed by me I challenge Sylvester to relate his
one-quarter-grammar claim to the running thread. I do however know to
the chagrin of Sylvester Fadal that I am a common sense scholar who uses
the abundance of his streetwise wisdom in everyday application to
understand why folks like him and his thieving partners in that banana
nation he calls Nigeria do not see the need to implement policies that
would change the nightmares people experience daily in that back
pedaling country? An elder in my community once said, “inasmuch
as he does not understand a word of English, he however, would not
hesitate to run without looking back whenever his name and the word
catch are simultaneously mentioned.” See, Sylvester even an
illiterate do understand enough “grammar” to apply common wisdom in
a tense situation. The
generous use of his bloated and self-aggrandizing “Dr.” appellation
is only an attempt in futility to appear more important than he really
is otherwise he would have known that since Gamji is not a formalized
academic environment, the use of such becomes unnecessary and banal.
There is a course no college/university would teach one, it’s called
Wisdom 101 and one of my professors in college/university counseled that
we acquire a C.S. (Common Sense) degree with whatever diploma we were
pursing. Could Sylvester, Dr./Ph.D., with all due (minimal) respect
please give us his full and unabridged portfolio (school[s], field,
postgraduate research works and stuff)?
Something about this dude is foul since many fly-by Internet
degree mills exist therefore my simple request for him to share his
well-earned accomplishments should not cause a stir. Maybe he is unaware
of the numerous Ph.D.s that have gone through the corridors of real
power here in the U.S.A. (Admiral Poindexter, Newt Gingrich, Condoleezza
Rice, Alan Greenspan and many, many more) they never bothered the
everyday folks with prefixes that makes little or no sense so why the
infatuation? I will therefore and herein inform him that as a holder of
Master’s of Science degree, a scientist, I am not required or expected
to write beyond the most basic English which as he can see to his
surprise I hold my tuff in this reserved arena. Let me also remind the
‘teacher’ that here in the First
of, the Igbo which as you know I am proud to belong would without
waffling, stuttering or cowering let him know the ‘fight’ is on by
descending to whatever level that is necessary to make their points
unlike this side-speaking coward as can be seen by his statement, “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 effect to conclusively
reach an acceptable finding.” And yet journalism school he
attended failed to teach him the need, the importance to shorten a
sentence? Let me say this, I am almost sure whatever education Sylvester
had is not American because in this country they teach you to make every
sentence as short and direct as possible. In journalism school no doubt
nothing was taught about answering or replying to the main body of a
topic, essay or story? This JJD (Johnny Just Drop
- Fela) better ask somebody! The school he attended also failed to teach
him the use of “oxymoron” to qualify someone is as
“condescending” as it gets? Sylvester also failed to inform his
readers that nowhere in any journalism text is the “use of
“retard” to address an opponent dignified yet he’s not
condescending? Guys, don’t be deceived Sylvester is a sneaky Bini thug
who uses a bogus prefix to conceal his crudeness he’s a phony. The
same journalism school didn’t teach him something about parrying;
excuse me, for him, deflecting/debunking something he disagreed on with
counterpoints? In
journalism school, which by the way I did not attend, nothing was taught
about punctuations as his equally flawed piece of junk of the past
indicated that he too is susceptible to grammar error? Review his, “Igbo
Presidency: Not Now, Not Later, Unless a True Solidarity is
Established” and there numerous punctuating and spelling
errors exist starting with comma use in the above quote and his use of
past tense (gained) in the body instead of “gain.” Again, the
question his self-induced amnesia continuously misses is had his Yoruba
uncles an “established solidarity” when they produced a moronic
retard of the highest order that sent the country on its final meltdown?
Sylvester’s deceitful attempt to confuse the readers by avoiding
direct and simple questions posed to his thieves loving compatriots
reinforced my belief that these guys are not about dialogue. They are
about distracting with intent to muddy the issues with childish and not
so important “ABCD” inconsequential nonsense. As if the questions
this clown avoided with his stupid term paper review will go away. Yet
he still expects the serious minded to look upon him with value, is he
kidding? As a self-acclaimed master of English wouldn’t it have
availed Sylvester if he had been cautious about introducing egoistic
nuances in his writings and on this board? See, his folly is being
revealed one after the other I bet he never knew this much could be
written by someone he dismissed as a common writer. Listen up, a rookie
or someone who could easily be swayed who read his might wrongly
conclude that it merits an alpha but the pros here would quickly see
through the smokescreen to deduce the emptiness since in his
disadvantaged cocooned environment he failed also to realize that
one’s inability to properly articulate oneself to Sylvester’s
satisfaction does not in any way impede that person’s ability to
impeccably perform his duties especially if that individual is into
other areas. I
hope I am not asking too much and not a burden one iota to challenge
Sylvester to indulge by taking exams or writing in Applied, Abstract,
Quantum, Nuclear or Atomic Physics. It would also be interesting to see
how well he knows other subjects. To simplify so that Sylvester could
understand, I am in essence saying that the members who are attorneys do
not use court terminologies and jingo to get their points across nor the
mathematics majors among us write in terms of differential equations or
systems of equations to make a point. Dig my drive young man? I would
also hope that folks who are into medical fields would not conclude that
your inordinate and inane misunderstanding of things outside your
supposed field would not in any way mean that you are slow.
Sylvester’s maddening ignorance was sorely exposed when he stooped as
low as eating his own words to derail someone who never insulted him
particularly while the body, the theme, of my rejoinder to his friend
Tunde was left unanswered. To me this could only mean that the
information as contained in mine was impenetrate able, untouchable, I
hope he understood. For want of any real proof I make bold to say
nowhere in the annals of Nigerian history would one read where Ojukwu or
any Igbo leader experimented with the idea to exterminate or clamp down
on her neighbors. Nowhere in any Biafran documents would you find a
contrived design to harm the civilian population of our neighbors beyond
the normal military war plan of recapturing cities that failed to the
enemy hands. Yet this is the position Tunde and Sylvester subliminally
take each time they write their baloney. These roaming charlatans angst
is simply premised on the revelation of their modus operandi of the past
and the more of their nonsense we expose the more cautious their
partners of the yore become. Northerners beware of these folks! Look at
it this way, prior to the introduction of the Internet much of their
bull crap lies went unchallenged and un-dictated but now the virulent
replies and debasement of their cheap but dangerous lies make them
twitch and stand on edge. Today
his uncle, Anthony Enahoro, is running all over the twisted place
screaming the importance on convoking a Sovereign National whatever yet
he was among those who called for the Igbo heads when the Aburi, Long
live, the principled North. Long live, the principled
East. Sylvester continue to waffle! On
Aburi We Still Stand! A
look back at Sylvester Fadal’s GRAMMAR ERRORS: 1.
He wrote, "Ignorance is sometimes equaled to..." when
he should have used “equal.” 2.
"…were raised to recognized, when it should have been
“recognize.”
3.
"…personal as such attacks never gets" his use of
“s” was wrong tense. 4.
"I hope Ndubueze
will learn the rules of literary
engagement and how it works best."
The subjunctive case was wrongly used
above. So let him correct “will” with “would.” Sylvester’s
biggest problem is with the infinitive case. Now he should decide if we
are here for the peaceful resolve of the crap he enjoys in |