June 12, Military Cult And PMB’s Ritual Offering By Louis Odion, FNGE

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louis odion June 12, Military Cult And PMB’s Ritual Offering By Louis Odion, FNGE

It is difficult not to read politics to President Muhammadu Buhari’s avowal of June 12 last week. If posthumous awards for MKO and Gani Fawehinmi were truly intended to re-connect the President to the progressive community in an election year, it has turned out a master-stroke indeed, going by the outpouring of goodwill for the general in the past week.

The man likely to be biting his finger this hour discreetly must be Goodluck Janathan. Like many things he attempted in five years, the immediate past president bungled the bid to appropriate some mileage from June 12. His renaming UNILAG “MAU” (or MAU-MAU as traducers cheekily chose to echo in a backhand invocation of Kenya’s notorious coloinial Mau-Mau guerrillas) dried up almost immediately with the ink it was written.

Perhaps, this time, the fakir from Daura was shrewd enough to engage the right medicine man for a…



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