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Saturday COUNTERPOINT

By  Femi Akintunde-Johnson

If you love to complain or criticise, come to Nigeria… or perchance you originate in this great country with such grumpy tendencies, you will have a hundred lifetime of issues, situations, incidents and countless ruckuses to provoke and agitate your senses. In one week, you will have a Ganduje bloody fight-back in Kano supplementary election…the legal and political yo-yo in Bauchi…the acrobatics and semantics of crucifying citizen Walter Onnoghen by the denizens of anti-corruption crusade… the blood-letting wizardry of Wike-Amaechi and ‘benediction’ of ultra-politicking rocking Rivers State…and the list goes on.

 Yet, in this and many other things Nigeriana, wisdom counsels caution and circumspection. The roiling of aggressive contestation of political, legal and economic power blocs may lure some patriots to intervene and interrogate surrounding tissues of civil affairs…but, we have learnt overtime that Nigerians are past…



Source: Thisday Newspaper