SOYINKA HAS LOST HIS MIND, DEMENTIA OR A HATE-FILLED SNEER?

Icheoku queries, what indeed does Mr Kongi Harvest expect or want Nigerians to make out of his now obvious prevaricated positions on the two major presidential candidates running for election in Nigeria? Muhammadu Buhari, he eviscerated in his "Crimes of Buhari" treatise as unelectable due to his crimes against Nigerians, including crime of murders? Now the same Wole Soyinka has directed his laser at President Jonathan, whom he chastised in his latest "Challenge of Change, the burden of choice" article, as someone Nigerians should not elect? Icheoku queries, which other candidate then does Professor Wole Soyinka want Nigerians to elect as their president, now that he has technically disqualified the two front runners for the office? 

Icheoku says Wole Soyinka's current posturing does not pass the smell test and it is very possible that he has been compromised into making this unusual somersault? Despite the numerous reasons he canvassed against electing Muhammadu Buhari, weighted against the only ONE reason he gave for also rejecting Jonathan's candidacy, he still titled Buhari and you ask why? Icheoku says barring any clear case of a compromised mind, the only other plausible explanation for the conclusive decision he reached would  be that he is troubled by his faculties? It is possible that his great learning has made him somewhat mad and the Nobel Laurette is  battling early stages of Alzheimer's disease and/or dementia. Otherwise how could a man fabled for his usually well considered firm thoughts and opinions, be vacillating between two major candidates for president,  simultaneously condemning both as not what Nigeria desire nor want nor would settle for; yet went on to repudiate himself by pitching his tent for one of them considered a worse evil? Icheoku says if Wole Soyinka has left it at merely condemning both candidates without more, may be some people would ask if there is candidate Wole Soyinka running for president?

Icheoku asks is it safe to argue that because the hatchet job now carried out by Wole Soyinka on President Jonathan came later in time, that his previous diatribe on Buhari has been overruled? Icheoku does not know about you, but this erudite professor of Literature lost Icheoku with this his latest attack on President Jonathan and his now seemingly new found romance with the man he was decried as a murderer and an unelectable quantum in the present dispensation - a Nigeria democratic politics? So Wole Soyinka, what affliction is it that has got hold of your brains or is it merely a sign of your troubled mind, where President Jonathan is permanently lodged in and you are pulling all the stops to disgorge and dislodge him? It was Wole Soyinka who said that history matters; that records are kept not only for the recollection but to serve as a guide for the future; so how does he expect Nigerians to consider his well reasoned opinion which is now a record, about Muhammadu Buhari juxtaposed with his current rattling and jarring seeming flip-flop in favor of the same murderer Muhammadu Buhari

Icheoku asks Wole Soyinka to please explain to a dumbfounded and bewildered Nigerian electorates how he reached his warped conclusion that the kidnapped girls of Chibok is now a more heinous crime than the murder of three innocent Nigerians plus more? Further how he arrived at his findings that a kidnap which was not masterminded  nor carried out by President Jonathan, but by anarchists Boko Haram, has now become weightier and heavier in criminality against President Jonathan than the murder of three innocent Nigerians by Muhammadu Buhari? Icheoku asks Wole Soyinka to please explain to an askance Nigerian electorates how he reached his verdict of guilty by reason of occupying of an office on President Jonathan, especially when the occupier of the office is making every reasonable effort to secure the safe release of those kidnapped girls under the very challenging circumstance? Icheoku asks Wole Soyinka when was the law of criminality changed to now hold liable a person who merely heard about a crime post commission like every other Nigerian, when security agencies charged with securing the country were the derelict party thereto?

So what indeed is the beef Soyinka has with President Jonathan that would make him to go so too far in his attempt to crucify the president; to the extent he shamelessly licked his vomit, Muhammadu Buhari, in the process?  Icheoku asks what manner of hatred does Wole Soyinka has against President Jonathan that would make him to not wish Jonathan a reelection, especially in view of the fact that the other choice is not a choice at all? A consequential fact, the same Wole Soyinka eruditely harped on and published extensively, in his well chronicled article, "Crimes of Buhari?" Icheoku asks Wole Soyinka, was it Jonathan that kidnapped those girls or was it Boko Haram that did the dirty deed? Wole Soyinka, please answer Icheoku, is it President Jonathan's job to personally charge into Sambisa Forest and rescue those girls or is it the job of Nigerian paid military? Icheoku asks Wole Soyinka to explain to Nigerians whether President Jonathan must first adorn military fatigues and with a Kalashnikov strung on his shoulders, go in search of those kidnapped Chibok girls inside Sambisa Forest and continue attacking Abubakar Shekau until he vomits those girls back to Chibok before he is convinced that the president is doing his best under the challenged circumstance?

Icheoku says if as Wole Soyinka pointed out in his latest article "Challenge of change - burden of choice", that '2015 election is not a choice between “saints and demons, not one between salvation and damnation; that both candidates are not palatable choice', is it not then more discerning a choice for Nigerians to settle for the lesser devil they know rather than Lucifer himself? Icheoku asks Wole Soyinka, is it not a wiser decision for Nigerians to settle with the current "devil" who at least does not have the blood of Nigerians in his hand, unlike the other head devil who has killed Nigerians before and will likely kill them again? If as Wole Soyinka would like Nigerians to believe, "the choice between Jonathan and Buhari is closer to a fork in the road where uncertainty lurks - whichever choice is made,” is it then not better for Nigerians to go for the safer, choice-road already safely, travelled once? Icheoku is emphatic that the "timid" President Jonathan, who can do no harm, is definitely a safer bet than the other sadistic brutal guy, who does not shy away from inflicting a punisher's harm and seemingly enjoys it too? 

Icheoku admonishes Wole Soyinka why still yearn for an encore of Buhari's presidency, when according to him, in his "Crimes of Buhari" treatise, Buhari's first coming resulted in “grievous assaults against Nigerian humanity, with a landscape of broken lives that continues till today to lacerate our collective memory.” Icheoku says it is only a sadist or a person who has lost his mind or one with an axe to grind with a more palliative incumbent, that would rather so grudgingly hanker for a caustic despot, whose first time around was indeed very bitter and bone-chilling scary.  So Wole Soyinka, once again, Icheoku asks you, what did President Jonathan do to you to stir your bile to this level of caustic hatred; and cause this level of angst in your choler that made your repudiation of him to rise so disproportionately too high? What is it Wole Soyinka?

Icheoku rebukes that contrarily, a leopard does not change its spots and so it is most unlikely that Muhammadu Buhari is now a “born-again” civilized human being, worthy of a second chance at power. It also does not matter how saturating the pretentious APC propaganda is, that would like Nigerians to believe that suddenly the mean and lean Buhari has morphed into a Mother Theresa, waiting to lead Nigeria to the promised land of no malice, no toils, no travails, no trials, no tribulations, no want and of course, no lack. Icheoku says it is not so Nigerians and even Wole Soyinka knows this; except that he has forcibly joined some of his "kpalakpos" in the Southwest in their conspiracy against President Jonathan reelection bid. A grand conspiracy which has now come full circle and so crystallized that Nigerians can now finally see how deep and multifaceted it is. 

When Buhari ran against Obasanjo, he was unelectable; when he ran against YarAdua he was unelectable; when he first ran against Jonathan, he was unelectable but suddenly now, his baggage of stinking skeletons have suddenly become disinfected and deodorized? Wole Soyinka's several years of gospel of the unelectable Buhari has suddenly changed, just a few short weeks ago, to now an electable Buhari? Icheoku says Wole Soyinka has thus soiled his hands and will now be counted among the haters of a Nigeria moving forward, who wants to halt the progress by bringing Jonathan down through intimidation. Icheoku says Wole Soyinka knows that "it is pointlessly, and dangerously provocative to present General Buhari as something that he probably was not,” yet he wants Jonathan OUT; and who replaces Jonathan but his challenger, the same murderer Buhari, about whom Soyinka said the above?

Icheoku says the greatest tragedy in this whole Wole Soyinka volte-face about Muhammadu Buhari is that he is fully aware of the "inflexibility and unchangeability of a military man," yet he wants Nigerians to proceed full throttle in choosing Muhammadu Buhari as their president, despite "the ill experience of Olusegun Obasanjo, the other military man?" Quoting Wole Soyinka, "Obasanjo, a former military ruler who was presumed to have become democratized, yet showed Nigerians pepper of autocracy. A former ruler, who, having been presumed to have been “purged and transformed by a close encounter with death, and imprisonment, has turned out to be an embodiment of incorrigibility on several fronts, including a contempt for law and constitution" and regrettably." So in view of this, ask yourselves Nigerians, whether Wole Soyinka is still possessed of the faculty and retains the credibility to advise Nigerians against a civilian President Jonathan who is running against "another untransformed former army man?"

The former vintage personality Wole Soyinka knows that Buhari would not be any different from Olusegun Obasanjo, since both men were cut from the same army cloth, yet he clamors for Buhari? Icheoku berates that it is also a wishful thinking for Soyinka to think that 'the demon that got into Buhari which made him declare his intention to spread Sharia throughout Nigeria' has been exorcised, yet he craves Buhari for president of a secular Nigeria? Icheoku surmises that this Wole Soyinka's thinking, without any verifiable or viable basis to anchor it, is but a puerile indignation fueled by his acute hatred for President Jonathan and nothing more. Wole Soyinka is by necessary implication, cutting off his nose in order to spite his face; and because Jonathan made him mad, he now wants Nigerians to descend into a fellowship in hell with the devil Muhammadu Buhari?

Icheoku says the worst part of this conspiracy against President Jonathan, which Wole Soyinka is now a full bona fide member of, is that it has no basis or rhyme or reason but fully fueled by eternal hatred. Imagine, against Buhari's many strikes, totaling about eight; Jonathan has only one strike against him - the failure to rescue kidnapped Chibok girls, yet Wole Soyinka wants Nigerians to hold this one failure against him far and above the over eight more serious failures of Buhari, including the murder of three innocent Nigerians? Icheoku says a logic canvassed and a conclusion reached have never been so paralleled before; and you wonder if Wole Soyinka's great learning has finally made him mad? Could Wole Soyinka  have purposely lost or relaxed his intellectual reasoning and situational assessment  simply to get at Jonathan? Otherwise how could a person who scored lower points of strikes ever be the one adjudged more culpable than the guy who got much higher and much serious strikes against him? 

Possibly, Wole Soyinka, like Obasanjo once pointed out, is such a petty rascal; a jealous extrovert, who does not accept that any other person is better than him or has superior ideas more than him, and therefore may be begrudging Jonathan's successes as president of Nigeria? A position President Jonathan attained before Wole Soyinka,  the Nobel Laurette. After all they are both PhD holders and if Jonathan can be president, why not Wole Soyinka - a President Wole Soyinka? Icheoku is convinced that there is something more Wole Soyinka is not telling Nigerians for his sudden repudiation of Jonathan and love for Buhari; but it is certainly not solely because of the Chibok girls incident. Icheoku asks how can kidnapping ever out-weigh murders of innocent Nigerians in degree of heinousness; as to merit such outright condemnation by Wole Soyinka, moreso of a president who neither orchestrated it nor authorized it. Please Wole, Icheoku says, give Nigerians a break, a very fat ass BREAK for that matter. This your irreconcilable somersault on Muhammadu Buhari, a man whom you previously dubbed a murderer, and to prefer him over a man who is merely trying his best under the circumstance, is convoluted at best and very weird if reasoned; otherwise what logic from hell justifies your preferring a murderer as Nigerians' president?