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Adeniyi Initiate of cult of liars
By ODIMEGWU ONWUMERE
IN his days at Thisday newspapers, Mr. Olusegun Adeniyi was an editor of
incalculable integrity. He was among the fearless and brave hearts-writers
or human or social critics, who embraced the problems of the populace dearly
to their hearts and solved them on the pages of newspapers, asking those who
they were their duty to help matter. He hated singing the praise of the government
and was against the journalism of brown envelop. Many Nigerians liked reading
his write-ups because he was not suffering fools gladly. The contents of his
articles were bombshells. He was tall with the truth and was always opening
the windows of happiness to many frail Nigerians because of his articles.
But like the process of aiding or speeding up chemical process by a substance
that does not itself undergo any change, Adeniyi is now pernicious to the
same Nigerian populace he was in the forefronts defending since he was made
or appointed Spokesman to the president. A job one would not fail to ask if
such office like Adeniyi's was orchestrated to be misleading people with peripheral
information as wont Adeniyi, leaving the interim.
Like most people wouldn't accede to any government appointments because of
their stand for humanity in the area of their calling, Adeniyi accepted his,
being the President's Spokesman, with the view that one cant be outside the
rooms of power to dictate the pace of the political pipers, like the Nigerian
politicians. One has to be inside the rooms of power. Perhaps what Adeniyi
did not understand before accepting that Greek Gift was that all governments
are a dangerous cult of liars, very envious of the belief of the people they
rule.
The social critic Adeniyi were is today not the same. Adeniyi has become government's
sycophant, who unleash misleading and malicious stories about the president
to the Nigerian masses, in defense of his job or the president? Nigerians
have seen that now and before the president was alleged to be sick. But is
this not the same Adeniyi whom the populace cheered, for his appointment at
the presidency?
It is saddening today that Adeniyi has followed the tirade of change and now
he is drowned by the murky waters of Nigerian politics by exhibiting expertise
in lies, camouflaging innocent, which is the worst forms of crime against
humanity. Adeniyi, because of his prowess in the use of pen, was to be President
Spokesman like a large building or buildings fortified against attack?
Adeniyi has castrated morality and preferred infecting the general sensibility
of the Nigerian populace who looked up to him for direction in the profound
truth, with disease of falsehood in which Nigerians suffering from Adeniyi's
misleading stories have lost consciousness. Adeniyi was supposed to be a catalogue,
but he has preferred to be a special disorder of the people. He is a catalogue
to the president, who brings willing consciousness of the Nigerian people
to disagreement.
This disagreement the falsehoods of Adeniyi is causing Nigeria, which have
made many Nigerians become mentally sub-normal, is the application of yellow
journalism into an office which was supposed to be un-tainted; which was supposed
to be a haven of truth about the president.
It's in Nigeria that politicians tend to die for politics and their parties
than the “common” Nigerians they are supposed to die for. Imagine
the swift our own Adeniyi has become a changed man!
Nigerians always hear harangue of politicians which sounds truthful, but such
harangue is the façade as the voice of Jacob but the flesh of Esau.
And Adeniyi doesn't exhibit his envied wisdom like the biblical King Solomon,
but like the worldly Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, who used his envied mandate
of eight years in power, as the president of the Federal republic of Nigeria
, to be scuttling, not for the betterment of Nigeria , but against his political
foes, for the betterment of his office.
Adeniyi was supposed to be a harbinger to the masses like the crowing of the
cock is a sign of dawn. But he rather preferred not to trail suicide by disembowelment
as practiced in the past by Japanese men when they believed they had failed
in their duty
Adeniyi has failed the belief and trust Nigerians had in him. He is now inspired
by the love of money. He is now working only for the love of money or other
reward. He can be called a mercenary. His merciless acts of misleading information
only portend menace: menace of the Nigeria peace, stability and tranquility.
•Onwumere, wrote from Rivers State
