Written by Pius Adesanmi Wednesday, 17 February 2010 19:07
rses behind it would do themselves a whole lot of good to pause and think – if only horses could think! As the rudderless and integrity-challenged Executive Council of the Federation decides to send yet another jamboree delegation to Jeddah to continue the tragi-comedy of a state in search of her missing (former?) President, the new delegation is advised to learn from the plight of those who have gone before them. Strange things have happened to every delegation.
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Dear Governor Ikedi Ohakim: Greetings from Stellenbosch, South Africa. I write you on behalf of the Commission for the Preservation of Afrikaner Heritage. We have been trying to contact you ever since we received reliable information that you are one Nigerian leader with whom we could potentially do business. Our attempts to get in touch with you through the High Commission of your country in Pretoria were initially unsuccessful as we were told that your High Commissioner, one Alhaji Buba Marwa, now operates from the city of Jeddah in order to be close to his boss. However, the High Commission was quite helpful. They eventually directed us to the BBC in London where we were able to get your address in Owerri, Nigeria.
I saw Rachel Maddow on MSNBC yesterday discussing Nigeria. What grated most was not what she had to say about our current political impasse but her mode of address and style of delivery. Everything, including her facial expressions, pointed to humour. She was struggling not to burst out laughing on camera. She even poked some good old fun at Goodluck Jonathan. As I watched and squirmed in pain and embarrassment, taking a mental note of how the buffoons running – or not running our lives – in Abuja and Jeddah have turned us into the butt of depraved jokes at the international level, the telephone rang.
