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By Peter Opara
How dare one Godson Ndubueze try to separate a puppet from the master! “In this case”, wrote the doctor, Sylvester Omosun Fadal, “he (Ndubueze) separated the Binis from the Yorubas using Omo N’Oba Erediauwa of Benin as a resource”. Did the doctor mean as a source? Doctor Fadal, whose middle name Omosun, is of Mid western origin – wherever in those parts – rose quickly, startled by Ndubueze’s temerity to posit facts against one Tunde Adenodi’s recent jamboree in innuendoes, high spirited fallacies and obfuscations. But what a flawed and failed defense it was, as doctor Fadal only ended up exposing a derriere, his, to contorted faces, puzzled at the ooze of nothingness therefrom. One wondered if doctor Fadal obtained a doctorate in English, English grammar, to be exact. If so, one would wish to know the professor, the dean it was that vetted his dissertation on grammar, word usage and/or application, and in what school in the United States or Nigeria his learning occurred. It was clear that doctor Fadal’s rejoinder to Ndubueze was to inform Ndubueze and his, Doctor Fadal’s readers, how poorly Ndubueze fared in a field in which he, doctor Fadal is expert. In that exercise, grammar expert doctor Fadal ended up showing his readers what a poor student he had been, and what a poor practitioner of his field of studies he is. Indeed, doctor Fadal showed us his readers what a slash and burn grammarian he is. Here is a doctor of grammar that slashes and burns words, tenses, and structures with reckless abandon. What with hogwash words and phrases like: “non-intellectual brilliancy”; “ignorance equaled to non-significance”; “validate the purpose statement….”; “the good news however, is that most Nigerians were raised to recognized….”; “temper-antic thinking”. Don’t mind his little lie and fraud about “their love and relationship with Igbos…” I refer you to my long ago piece – Omo Omoruyi and his fraudulent pieces – www.gami.com and www.kwenu.com. But, wow! Doctor grammar!! Doctor Fadal is clearly one that is unable to appreciate that writing is not a craft that comes easy. No, the doctor thinks he has it, the craft of writing down. Editing another’s work is no easy task either. But no, doctor grammar Fadal has it down, too. Thus the grammar doctor took on the thankless, failed exercise of his to sub or edit for us readers Ndubueze’s article. In that exercise doctor Grammar Fadal only ended up showing those of us who were from the outset doubtful of his antecedents, this yet another Dr. on our web that indeed there is not a vertebrae to his claim to the insignia he so showily appended to his name. What with a doctor of grammar’s tired essays and lousy effort at correcting one who clearly had more to offer to the public by way of information than the doctor himself. Where is the intellect, where is the beef. In addition to proving himself a non-entity in the realm of prose, grammar, analysis etc., doctor Fadal exposed himself for what he really is, a PUPPET, and a puppet he will fight to remain. Why according to him “separate the Binis from the Yorubas”? None can accomplish a separation of the Binis from the Yorubas, doctor Fadal; we know that the Yoruba and the Edo are, as an Igbira friend of mine used to say, “oil and salt”. Forget about whether Oduduwa was a runner away thief from Benin or whether he was descended from the eastern sky. Tell the later to the MARINES! We know the two – Yoruba and Edo - are one - especially in their common ailment of Igbo phobia- add Ojuneurosis – Odumegwu-Ojukwu induced neurosis. Your kinds are best advised to leave the Igbo out of your analysis. It is enough headache for the Igbo that they are trapped in a cage with a people of much dubious ancestry – whether the Yoruba or Edo. That is why it is not difficult to figure why this grammar doctor Fadal thinks there are no Igbo worthy of Nigerian leadership. Meanwhile the Yoruba is trumpeting the rise once again of their Ogbomosho thieving relative – Ibrahim Babagida, for whom doctor Fadal’s professor brother, Omo Omosun Omoruyi, has just returned to Nigeria to validate; telling the mutt Nigerian press that the thief’s agenda for a country he raped and looted is “robust and acceptable”. Imagine a country where a professor validates and propagates a thief. Omoruyi is not alone, among propagators of a thief that hail from Edo and Yoruba land. The Nobel Laureate himself, the great one, Wole Soyinka, the moralist extraordinaire is saying to the thief, Babangida, a man Wole Soyinka has always accommodated and romanced even in his writings, that an apology from him – Babangida - was enough for him to start all over “a clean slate” he termed his proposed Babangida renewal’ to come back to the helm to rape and loot some more. God! Spare me from this doomed criminal cage called Nigeria! A lineage of thieves propagating thieves for Nigeria’s helm! That is sound for the grammar doctor Fadal, for the great Nigeria that to him the Igbo cannot make. Nonetheless, my question to the grammar doctor is this: Do you teach or do you practice? If you get my drift doctor, I mean, are you an academic doctor or a physician, surgeon or the likes? Whichever you may be, your performance is strictly at the sophomore level, you must know. Two of your articles that I have read give credence to my opinion of you. There is simply no depth to your thinking. I hold this opinion strongly, being one who is ever eager to learn, one who is educable – that I learnt nothing from a whole DOCTOR. In this case, believe me, I am not only disappointed, I am angry that you are so bold upon our rest, to make us think, even believe that you are that which you are certainly not – a doctor of anything, talk less grammar. If indeed you have a PhD of some sort, you have not shown in your two outings so far that you merited a terminal degree. I did read Ndubueze’s article that prompted your failed corrective exercise. It is my belief that the curiosity of those around you – your children, your nephews, nieces and all would be aroused more by Ndubeuze’s article than by your flawed - mistake ridden exercise at editing and analyzing another’s work. Doctor grammar Fadal, heal yourself first; there is a big log in your eye, so big that the insignia Dr. cannot cover. August 2, 2004 |