THROUGH A FILM DARKLY: MUSINGS ON THE GLADIATORS FOR THE CAPITOLEUM

Basil Okoh

YEMI OSINBAJO
A man for all seasons. A quintessential Man-Friday, ready and willing to be used by any manner of men for all purposes. A diffident man with pretensions to the cerebral. Academic but not knowledgeable. Pretends to live above the muck but needs the grime to breed. No beliefs, no ideologies and no standards. Ready to serve anyone with a good paycheck and a chance for frequent photo-ops. A man without audacity and incapable of deep introspection cannot be a moral man. Christianity is reduced in him to catch-phrases and expletives.

PETER OBI
Smart Alec on the loose in the market. Devoted to money and it’s potential for public good. Frugal anarchist. Quick witted and ready for barnyard fight anytime. Carries with him a pouch of silver bullets to silence critics on the go. Has no patience with non-believers in his ideals of the capitalist ethos. Lots of guile. Nemesis will be an overbearing boss. Assured of a contract with immortality.

MUHAMMADU BUHARI.
Misguided patriot with a foreclosed mind. Irredeemable pessimist. Provincial potentate. Sees the world in monochrome, black and white, them and us. Anarchist with a regressive mind. Infatuated with yesterday and scared of tomorrow. Antediluvian precepts. Stoic and reticent character. Can give pain but can’t take pain. Non-adaptive and sees public office as a self and ethnic Fulani entitlement. Unable to function without the other, so surrenders himself to the initiatives of the other.

ATIKU ABUBAKAR
Carpetbagger. Aspiring national potentate. Trickle down absentee capitalist. Self assured and confident, thereby drawing hordes of malignant devotees. Huge sense of self and Fulani entitlement. The Pied Piper with the charm of drawing the ambitious, the ruinous and the social climber. A man born alone and so afraid of the dark, the lonely and the gloomy. Head hunter of a special kind with the dexterity of using other people’s money, skills and abilities for self and ethnic Fulani advancement. Ultimately self-perpetuating.

Bola Ahmed Tinubu
Wily black cat, owner of the dark alley. No home, no past and possibly no future. Gross in tastes and ambitions and now determined to grab the promise of the pie in the sky. The lie defines the life. Grasping and self entitled, would trade his people for a taste of the ambrosia. Has gained the world and now about to lose the soul.
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