“Okey Ndibe Fumbles Again” – A rejoinder

Posted by admin Headlines, Okey Ndibe, Remi Oyeyemi Saturday, December 20th, 2014

By Remi Oyeyemi

One has just read the vituperations of our friend, Mr. Igbokwe against Professor Okey Ndibe. Mr. Igbokwe is very upset that Prof. Ndibe did not see any difference between his All Progressive Congress (APC) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Igbokwe was really riled that such a comparison could be made at all and he went to town screaming like a gong beater grateful for being allowed to yell. He titled his tirade “Okey Ndibe Fumbles Again.” Mr Igbokwe’s tirades sounded more, without doubt, like the rantings of a servile.

While I must admit that I have had my disagreements with Professor Okey Ndibe over a variety of issues in the past, on this one, he is on the money. He is right and very correct. There is no difference whatsoever between the APC and the PDP. Rather than Okey fumbling, it is Igbokwe that is being intellectually dishonest and deceptive to Nigerians. It is evident that Igbokwe is trying to earn his pay from his masters. Just like his masters, he is being diabolical and showing no respect for the truth. He is a professional obfuscator. His obvious disdain for honesty is very abhorrent. Spreading lies and deceit seem to be his trade. Double-speaking is his guideline. His dubious righteous indignation is an insult to the intelligence of the rest of us who know this to be self evident TRUTH – there is no difference whatsoever between the PDP and the APC.

Igbokwe wrote inter alia:

“Each time Professor Okey Ndibe and Chido Onuma (two writers I respect so much) write about political parties, elections, ideologies, philosophical principles, the duo always tells us that APC and PDP are the same. This is one lie they have been telling those who care to listen and the danger is that when you tell these lies a thousand times gullible people may believe it as true”

If Igbokwe is not an obfuscator, a paid and compromised megaphone, he would not write the above. If he is not the one spreading lies to Nigerians, he has to explain to us what the Atikus, Tambuwals, Nyakos, Amaechis, Barajes and the rest of them are doing in the APC? Or was he in Russia when Atiku was the PDP Vice President for 8 years in Nigeria? Even those in Russia could not have claimed ignorance of that fact, not to talk of a so-called politician in Nigeria! Apart from that, Abubakar Atiku is a man who appeared to be strongest in picking up the APC presidential ticket right now.

Let us leave defections and talk about ideology. What is the ideology of the APC as compared to the PDP? What are the policy differences between the PDP and the APC? What are the differences in principle between the APC and the PDP? Is Atiku who is an American Certified and Wanted Fraudster and a former PDP better than say, Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan, PDP governor of Delta State? In what way is APC’s Murtala Nyako, a certified pedophile and concentrated kleptomaniac and PDP’s alleged serial killer in Governor Gabriel Suswam of Benue different in principle? Or did Igbokwe forget that documents revealed that the 10 billion naira allegedly stolen by former PDP Speaker Dimeji Bankole was reportedly shared amongst himself, APC’s Tambuwal and others? Is Tambuwal not one of the leading lights of the APC now? Is PDP’s Olusegun Obasanjo, the man who installed President Goodluck Jonathan not the new godfather of APC’s Bola Tinubu as we speak? What is the difference between APC’s Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State and PDP’s Aliyu Babangida of Niger State? Igbokwe has to come out and tell us.

Then Igbokwe went further and made laborious effort to differentiate between PDP and the APC as follows:

“APC believes in politics with principle, PDP believes in politics without principle. APC believes in work before wealth but PDP believes in wealth without work. APC believes that power goes with responsibility but PDP believes in power without responsibility. APC believes that things can be done differently in Nigeria but PDP believes in the maintenance of status quo ante. While PDP plays ethnic and religious politics, dividing Nigerians to remain in power, APC believes that Nigeria remains a secular state where every religion is respected.”

As pointed out above, the APC is not different from the PDP in any way. Talking about principles, ideology, work before getting rich, power with responsibility warts and all, the APC is even worse in some situations. There are fraudsters in the PDP. They abound two-fold in APC. There are kleptomaniacs in PDP. The kleptomaniacs in the APC even have no blood flowing in their veins. There are murderers in PDP. The ones in APC are more cold blooded and ruthless. There are drug runners and barons in PDP. The drug runners and barons in APC are certified. There are Certificate forgers in PDP. The Certificate forgers in the APC are even more famous and dexterous. There are money launderers in PDP. The money launderers in the APC are much savvier. The PDP at times makes a pretence about its impunities. The APC leadership is even more blatant and flagrant in its impunities. The vampires in the PDP only operate at night because of the effect of daylight, but the vanpires in the APC operate at all times regardless of daylight or not. So, where lays the difference between APC and the PDP? Igbokwe should come out and tell us something that is believable.

Igbokwe then embarked on nauseating inanities against Professor Ndibe as follows:

“Now, beyond reciting the idle and unintelligent credo of ‘all of them use thugs’ and all what not, when will Okey begin to inquest why and how Nigeria ended up the way it is today under PDP’s watch for sixteen years? Or does he want us to also agree that APC is responsible for the prostrate state of Nigeria today? When will Okey ask what happened to the monumental windfall from oil for sixteen years? When will he ask why Nigeria got broke just few weeks after the fall of crude price, even with the price still remaining within the budget benchmark? When will Okey ask what happened to the excess crude account that we are so helpless today? When will Okey ask what happened to the Sovereign Wealth Fund with the high falutin promises that were woven to midwife it? When will Okey ask of the infrastructures the PDP built with sixteen years oil boom in his eagerness to lump APC into PDP failings?”

To Mr. Igbokwe, expressing the obvious fact that “all of them use thugs” is “idle and unintelligent credo” of those who are fed up with the violence of the APC and the PDP on the Nigerian political landscape. One should not be surprised at this kind of position by Mr. Igbokwe because he is one of the sponsors of the thugs that perpetrate violence on our society in the name of politics. When he is not aiding and abetting his masters in this odious venture of using thugs, he is on the social media manifesting signs of intellectual palsy, spewing inanities, engaging in ad hominem debate and nauseating shenanigans. The more flabbergasting aspect of Igbokwe’s obnoxious behaviour is that he is more brazen, unpretentious and shameless about his double speak, hypocrisy and dishonesty.

It is preposterous for Mr. Igbokwe to suggest that Professor Ndibe has not been asking the right questions about the socio-economic and political calamities that have been visited on Nigeria. He has been doing that for a long time. You may disagree with Professor Ndibe’s analysis or question his conclusions, as I have done several times, but you cannot take it from him that he is genuinely concerned about the invalid country called Nigeria. While the Igbokwes of this world have engaged in conscienceless carpetbaggerism, making money out of the misery of others, aiding and abetting the looters of our commonwealth and shamelessly engaging in deliberate obfuscation of issues and confusing the critical mass of our people, the Ndibes of this world have been asking questions and proffering solutions in the best way they know how. The integrity and dignity that the Ndibes of this world have is obviously the envy of the Igbokwes of this world who are political jobbers and contaminators of our social and political space.

The only half truth contained in that diatribe against Professor Ndibe by Mr. Igbokwe is contained in the following:

“Our so called intellectuals have keyed and have been slaving to explain away the indiscretions of our leaders and their profligacy. Either because we are lazy or we are intellectually compromised, we have laid back like willing sluts and have taken the umbrage of our so called leaders.”

Yes he is right that our “so called intellectuals have keyed and have been slaving to explain away the indiscretions of our leaders and their profligacy.” He is right because this is what Igbokwe and his ilk are doing. Igbokwe and his type are the ones that are intellectually justifying falsehood, deceiving our people, calling born-again devils the saints of our time. They see white and they seek to convince the rest of us that it is black. They see certificate forgers, and call them heroes. They see thieves and call them the noveaux -riche. They see political racketeers and profiteers and call them political juggernauts. They see hooligans and moral reprobates and call them leaders. They see the dregs of our society, deodorize them and call them paragon of virtues.

As Igbokwe rightly pointed out, the “lazy” approach of the genre of Igbokwes of this world stemmed from the fact that they are “intellectually compromised.” But unfortunately for Igbokwe, Okey Ndibe is not one of them. He does not belong to that class of crass opportunists, political jobbers, professional obfuscators and servile gong men. Between the Igbokwes of this world and the Ndibes of this world, the difference is crystal clear, unlike the Nigerian Siamese twins of conglomerate of political evil doers – the PDP and the APC!

In my own estimation, the APC is even worse in several ways more than one than the PDP. But Nigerians do not have to choose between these two evils if they have the courage to change their own fortunes come February 2015. There are several options out there including breaking up this God-forsaken country, an option to which Professor Ndibe does not even agree, regardless of the fact that such considerations had crossed his mind before given his writings. But Igbokwe should desist from taking the rest of us for granted and stop insulting our intelligence.

“In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility – I welcome it.” – John F. Kennedy

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