Perhaps, the closest parallel in world history will be the dual spectres of Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler of Italy and Germany of the 20th century respectively, both of whom sought to infest the international community with the virus of fascist, “my view or your death” culture. This is the notion of reality conditioned by the myopia of the diseased lens.
Of course, it wasn’t only the Labour Party candidate that received a full measure of Professor Soyinka’s caustic tongue. The literary giant was equally unsparing of both candidates of APC and PDP , while fielding questions on a wide range of national issues. I witnessed one of the exploratory discussions in Lagos. The meeting took place precisely on 20 August, 2018 at the fifth floor of a high-rise overlooking the Atlantic Ocean on Victoria Island. A day earlier, Professor Soyinka had called and asked me to join him at the meeting with Moghalu. My interest or qualification? Well, let us me say that I enjoy the privilege of being a disciple of Kongi, an instinctive teacher and, above all, a compelling moral authority.
A couple of months later, Soyinka, in his capacity as the convener of the Citizen Forum, eventually declared without any ambiguity in a statement: “Over the past few months, we studied the careers, experiences and track records of most of the presidential aspirants, and most intensely those actually short-listed by the opposition parties themselves. Like millions of Nigerians, we watched the debates.
To an extent, Soyinka’s endorsement of Moghalu as the “consensus candidate” could, therefore, be described as the first most consequential affirmation of a “Third Force” after the tectonic shift of 2015 that displaced PDP and enthroned APC. That symbolic rite of 2019 prepared the grounds for what Labour Party was supposed to embody in the 2023 polls.
As we now witness in typical online conversation in contemporary Nigeria , crass ignorance forcibly seeking to displace knowledge rooted in temperance. The tendency is to quickly resort to vernal abuse once unable to sustain an intellectual argument.
Unfortunately most of them would be unable to read, grasp or situate this beautiful piece for as one confessed “can’t read more than 200 words “
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