With the wide plenitude of information that can be retrieved from the Internet, we sometimes have to be guarded by intuition, common sense and rationality or else we might ship into sweeping , dangerous judgement . If the luminous dirty details gathered from the quietly defiant and bravura writing styles of Rudolf Okonkwo about David Mark were to be true, then we should all suspend our biases and issue citizen's arrest warrant on the senate president. But if all the ugly revelations were to be a mere writer's salacious pretensions to entertainment and titilation, then we should all hail this unfolding chrysalis of journalistic experiment.
With the wide plenitude of information that can be retrieved from the Internet, we sometimes have to be guarded by intuition, common sense and rationality or else we might ship into sweeping , dangerous judgement . If the luminous dirty details gathered from the quietly defiant and bravura writing styles of Rudolf Okonkwo about David Mark were to be true, then we should all suspend our biases and issue citizen's arrest warrant on the senate president. But if all the ugly revelations were to be a mere writer's salacious pretensions to entertainment and titilation, then we should all hail this unfolding chrysalis of journalistic experiment.
Okonkwo, a columnist with the online and combative SaharaReporters was rudely bolshie with his piece titled "How To Properly Insult David Mark" . In his anger he segue into permissible journalistic bathos which enhanced his prolonged and unrestrained insults against David Mark which then leaves readers in sheer astonishment . In summary David Mark is portrayed as a wanker who has come to see politics as part fun, part laziness, part robbery, part accumulation, part deceit, part licence to engage in fornication, part plundering and part hedonism. And because Nigerian politicians are flamboyant liars, we have to regard David Mark as not above suspicion.
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First, is it true that David Mark is a rascally thief? Rudolf Okonkwo says, "But we know that he can open offshore accounts in New Jersey and the Cayman islands. We know that is the place he hid most of the Gulf oil windfall for himself and his boss, Babangida. We know that is where he hid proceeds from NITEL deals he cooked up as Minister of Communication when he famously said that poor people had no need for phones and as such he siphoned the money allocated to his ministry. We know that he spent about 6 million British pounds sterling to purchase significant interest in the 18-hole St Margaret’s Golf Club in Ireland. We know he owns a 2.5 million British pounds sterling home on Thames River in London. We know he has millions and millions of pounds sterling in trust for his numerous children and wives all over Europe and America. We know this because his nasty divorce from wife number five, Victoria Preye, exposed some of his hidden investments".
Secondly, is it true that David Mark has a dual nationality? Rudolf Okonkwo says, " Not even one of the 400,000 people of his other country, Belize, will nominate him to be a janitor for their senate". Thirdly, is it true that he supported the tenure elongation dream of Olusegun Obasanjo? The inquisitor says, " He supported Obasanjo’s effort to amend the Nigerian constitution to serve a third term. For that effort he collected the lion share of the billions that Obasanjo’s supporters used to bribe senators. He became the Senate president in 2007 as a reward for his loyalty to the PDP". Moving on, is it true that our number three democrat supported the annulment of Chief MKO Abiola's election victory of June 12, 1993? Okonkwo says, " He played a prominent role in the annulment of the June 12, 1993 election. He headed the gang that threatened to kill M.K.O. Abiola if the military had dared to hand power over to him".
Is it true that David Mark hates the flowering ferment of the new institution of social media and its power to muckrake? Dr Damage says, " Mr. Mark hates a marketplace of ideas because he has no confidence in his own opinion. So he dislikes any media that challenges his opinion and tries to hold him accountable. This is why David Mark does not like the social media. He cannot buy them over. He cannot pay them retainership to publish only favourable stories about him. He cannot get them to submit drafts of their stories to his office for approval before publication. He cannot fly them to an expensive resort hotel and give them lectures on how to do their job as the Fourth Estate. He is mad because he cannot stop social media from writing what one of his six wives said in anger".
Furthermore, is it true that David Mark, the senate president goes home with 600million naira a year? Okonkwo says, " Mr. Mark loves the compromised media that does not ask him what he does for Nigeria for which he gets paid over N600 million a year". Is it true that David Mark is a phallicratic philanderer who engages in fornication? Rudolf says, " He is mad because he cannot stop social media from writing what one of his six wives said in anger". Has he renounced his Nigerian citizenship for other country? Dr Damage says, "... he renounced Nigeria’s citizenship to become a citizen of Belize when his investment in that country was threatened". Lastly, is David Bonaventure Mark an arrestable criminal? Okonkwo says, " If an American newspaper places its searchlight on him for just 24 hours, as soon as the report comes out, Interpol, FBI, Scotland Yard, KGB, SSS, MSS, BNI, ICPC, EFCC etc will all be fighting over whose handcuffs will be on David Mark’s hands, legs, waist and ankles".
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Now I am in a dilemma. If the above revelatory stench is true of the misadventure of David Bonaventure Mark, it is criminal, convicting, treasonable, seditious, shameful, vexatious and scandalous. Rudolf's effusion and journalistic knightliness in their most strident lamentations have all gone to showcase how we have fetishised a rogue and deadender like David Mark. It has gone to show how our democratic experiment needs a quick release from illusionist like Mark who has been damning millions of Nigerians and acting as a leading, proud wreckers of their destinies. The relentless reinforcement of Mark's excesses has gone to promote further the genetic dissonance of Africa's leaders natural submission to greed, debauchery, tribalism, arrogance, dictatorship, corruption, , godfatherism, militarisation, fornication, political opportunism and primordial vandalism of their nations. Even his delirious burlesque on patriotism, "I will die for Nigeria" is Mark's adroit way of deceiving the Nigerian society he had destroyed and a childish way to hide his Belize's nationality. A pragmatic lesson in David Mark's life is this: the chinless, unpatriotic, degenrate, thieves, fin de race, political charlatans, blood suckers, betrayers, fornicators, occult grandmasters, looters, imbeciles, foolish and sadistic are governing Nigeria while the visionary, resourceful, patriotic, intelligent, trustworthy, sincere, progress-driven, creative and transparent are floor sweepers.
David Mark portends a bad omen for our politics, our future and our continent. We are seeing the death of democracy of vision, virtue, merit and probity. We are seeing the enthronement of "parasitic excellencies" whose reputation would eventually be reduced to a tarnished historical footprint. Before then, can somebody please do a citizen arrest on David Alechenu Bonaventure Mark on the above charges? And when his file is ready, would someone pass it to Scotland Yard? That is, if all the allegations of Rudolf Okonkwo against the senate president are as real as the horror of our time.
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