CONFIDENTIAL LETTER TO MY FELLOW NORTHERN BROTHERS

My dear brothers and sisters, compatriots,

I have waited patiently and can now say that the moment is ripe to share some critical concerns about the state of the nation.  Please listen very carefully to what I’m about to say. To paraphrase a wise dictum, those who fail to heed the lessons of history are bound to repeat its mistakes. As you probably are aware, this nation of ours has been drifting aimlessly – others will consider it stranded in the middle of nowhere – for the past one and a half years. This is a long time in the life of a nation, especially one that is facing so many daunting challenges of underdevelopment.

I don’t intend to be discourteous, but let me begin by saying that our beloved president, Umaru Yar’Adua and his lackluster regime are constituting themselves into veritable nightmares for the average Nigerian. And since our competent, if occasionally mischievous Central Bank governor, Prof. Soludo, has said so, our region, Arewa, is perhaps the poorest and the most backward place in the whole of Nigeria. What this means in simple turenchi  is that, although we may not be the most indigent, an aggregate of complex sociological factors makes it in such a way that bad and visionless leadership like the type our country has been afflicted with, thanks to the wholesale rigging of the 2007 elections by the ex-tyrant, Obasanjo and his PDP, is bound to adversely affect our people most. We cannot afford to be complacent in the face of the present and continuing danger posed by the increasingly paranoid and intolerant Yar’Adua government. Put differently, the president’s illegitimacy and abdication arguably do hurt the North more than any other region. It is unconscionable to continue to blindly support those whose idea of politics is the illegal acquisition of power for power’s sake. We must learn to tell ourselves bitter truths. That is the only way this part of the country and Nigeria in general can sincerely hope to transcend the painfully dismal circumstances that we find ourselves in today.

You see, their current proselytizing posture notwithstanding, during much of the previous regime of Olusegun Obasanjo, what used to be called Kabiyesi press because of its deferent relationship with the ex-dictator’s eight-year misrule, did play a cheerleading role and thus refused to transparently cover the excesses and failures of the Obasanjo tyranny. That journalistic irresponsibility on the part of key segments of the southern press in particular no doubt contributed in no small measure in the bastardization of our democratic project. One useful lesson here is that total or even partial monopoly of the media is bad. Our people must learn from past mistakes or omissions and not repeat the errors that have brought us to this sorry pass. That is one reason why all progressive voices of the North and beyond should rise and tell our “servant-leader” that he is on a very slippery course with his hounding and harassment of the national media, both local and in the diaspora.

The unwarranted assault on the management and staff of the Abuja newspaper called Leadership has been particularly savage in its scope and magnitude. Both the SSS and the police have taken turns to detain, intimidate and basically disrupt the day-to-day operations of the media outfit. The sins of Leadership? The partly erroneous publication of a report on the health-related administrative difficulties of Mr. President for which the paper promptly tendered an apology. Although Yar’Adua has finally sued Leadership for alleged defamation, his repressive tactics remain a terrible source of worry. The cowardly resort on his part to coercive measures that seem designed to financially ruin one of the foremost media organs of the country must be seen as quite unfortunate indeed. This war that is being waged against Leadership (and before it,  Elendu-reports.com, Channels TV and AIT), is increasingly assuming the contours of an anti-intellectualism campaign with serious economic, social and political ramifications. Only the ultra-conservative status quo voices of the region and elsewhere will condone the illegal onslaught by a regime that is noisily laying claim to the mantra of due process and the rule of law. Yar’Adua and his grey eminence should know that this is a war they cannot possibly hope to win. They should start by calling the SSS hounds led by one Afakriya Gadzama to order.

It is also worth mentioning a profoundly sinister dimension of the anti-media discourse emanating from Aso Rock. “There is no truth in the entire report and the lies on which it hangs are so easy to disprove that the only reasonable conclusion is that the publishers of the newspapers ran the report in furtherance of their reprehensible efforts to embarrass the President and destabilize his Administration…”. This kind of reckless outburst seeking to equate a press report with an imaginary destabilization plot should be condemned as unbecoming. It requires reminding also that it is dangerous to consider Yar’Adua’s personal dislikes as being tantamount to our national interests. Historically, such nonsensical claims by an incompetent and undemocratic regime have often been a pretext for greater repression. As Yar’Adua’s illegitimacy albatross weighs heavily on his frail shoulders of reaction, what is being revealed is a power-hungry individual whose desperation is helping dismantle a carefully nurtured façade that can no longer conceal the man’s duplicity.

Significantly, Yar’Adua and the paralysis of which he is an embodiment have to be seen as constituting a symptom of a much wider malaise. It is a worrying statement of the  state of anomie being felt all over the country but perhaps more acutely in the North than elsewhere. That said, one must hasten to add that the incumbent president symbolizes a special aspect of the rampant malaise, namely, the ineffectual national political elite whose northern manifestation has historically been the subject of questionable scrutiny on the part of sectarian champions and biased pundits alike. This kind of stereotypical representation of the North’s political elite in particular has invariably led to an indolent and unacceptable stigmatization of the region and its peoples.

It was Alhaji  Dokubo Asari, a self-styled Niger-Delta activist who, not long ago, did launch a blistering, if essentially illiterate verbal attack against the North and its key political figures. In that diatribe, he sought to portray the people of the area as barbarians and unproductive parasites ever so eagerly waiting to gorge on the windfall accruing from the sale of oil-related resources of the Niger-Delta. What the likes of Dokubo have consistently failed to say is that the real parasites within the Nigerian polity can be found in all zones of the country, in varying degrees, to be sure. They mainly belong to the sleazy political class. It is a confederacy of corrupt and sedentary ex-military men, carpetbaggers of every hue and provenance, the fossils calling themselves traditional rulers, high profile hustlers and con men as well as election riggers and their allies in the private sector and the nation’s civil service. Yes, the North has a fair share of the Babangidas, the Abachas and the Yar’Aduas. We challenge others to name (and shame) their own bacchants. These are the true tormentors of the masses. They are a sharp and depressing contrast to the hard-working majority whose productive spirit is viciously being thwarted by the predatory elements in power. Nevertheless, as I keep saying to my people, some of the most unpatriotic elements in the country today are to be found in the North. Nowadays, the average northern politician or “big man”, it would seem, is as spineless and as morally challenged as any local tin god elsewhere.  Opportunistic and devious to the core, the northern ‘shagba or’ (that is ‘big oga’ in Tiv) is a personification of hypocrisy and other turpitudes, much like his southern counterpart.  As a Northerner with deep social and emotional affinities to the region and Nigeria in general, one feels particularly saddened that this grim situation, instead of improving, is actually getting worse. We are daily being confronted with the selfishness and lack of redeeming values on the part of the northern pols. Those within the PDP are such obvious basket cases that there is no point dwelling on them here.

 These days, a reactionary wing of the ANPP whose elected representatives are mainly from the North has taken the art of turncoat politics to an abysmal level with a single-minded and sadistic desire for primitive wealth accumulation. Their brazen truancy and vacuity do call for an appropriate riposte on the part of the victims of their mindless conduct. Not long ago, a former ANPP governor from one of the impoverished rural states in the North revealed publicly how he spent over a billion naira of the state’s allocation on Obasanjo’s failed ‘third term’ scam. Unbelievably, this did not lead to any public outcry against the reprobate. In Kano, Maiduguri, Zamfara, Bauchi, etc., the depressing tales of profligacy and misgovernance associated with unscrupulous ANPP pols are all too familiar now. There is also this renegade - a despicable old man who goes by the name of Ume-Ezeoke. The scallywag parades himself as the chairman of the party but his nauseating schemes reveal him more as a greedy and insouciant hatchet man in the service of his PDP handlers who seem bent on thwarting the blossoming of a viable democratic alternative. Yet, the Ume-Ezeoke nuisance is a footnote that the ANPP’s more credible wing led by General Buhari can afford to ignore. What one cannot ignore, though, is the unabashed treachery of some of the party’s elected men at both the state and federal levels. The indecent antics of these apostates have acquired a banal character that leaves nobody in doubt whatsoever as to their profound disdain for the people they claim to serve. That the so-called ANPP governors and senators in particular have become such a huge disappointment should serve as a lesson to Buhari and his followers across the country. If they must remain within the ANPP, Buhari and his supporters should work toward wrestling the control of the party from the sleazy and unprincipled bunch whose dalliance with the PDP can only lead to further misery for the citizenry.

In conclusion, let me say this: Media monopoly, total or quasi-total, as has been historically enjoyed by the South, is not advised for any polity. That is one reason why the savage and short-sighted scorched earth campaign the Yar’Adua regime is waging against the Leadership group of newspapers must be condemned as both reckless and irresponsible. It is high time the masses started seeing the likes of UMYA, Babangida, Yerima and their confederates for what they truly are. Enlightened self-interest demands so. So also does Allah. The folklore seeking to portray Yar’Adua’s tainted ascendancy as an act of God should be dismissed as both fallacious and heretical.  

Aonduna Tondu

New York

Robot  # 1 | 02.12.2008 11:33

The moment is ripe to share some critical concerns with you. Please listen very carefully to what I’m about to say. To paraphrase an adage, those who fail to heed the lessons of history are bound to repeat its mistakes. Your collective future could very well depend on how effectively you handle the bitter truths contained in this epistle....Read the full article.

afasodewu  # 2 | 02.12.2008 17:35

'You see, their current proselytizing posture notwithstanding, during much of the previous regime of Olusegun Obasanjo, what used to be called Kabiyesi press because of its deferent relationship with the ex-dictator’s eight-year misrule, did play a cheerleading role and thus refused to transparently cover the excesses and failures of the Obasanjo tyranny.'...Hmm, by 'kabiyesi press' i take it you mean the Lagos-Ibadan media. I challenge you to name any of the indepedent media in this axis {not of course state goverbment-controlled ones} which were unduly deferential, and played cheerleading role to OBJ. Opinions could be subjective, but facts should be sacred.

Ispy  # 3 | 02.12.2008 18:31

Your article finally leads me to question your view on issues!! I read your article on Ribadu and was to say the least amazed at your take on the issue. Now you claim the "southern press" in some way failed to take on Obasanjo during his administration!!! Come on!! This is to say the least a misrepresentation of history as all fair minded Nigerians know this is definitely untrue. The press were so critical of Obasanjo that whenever references were made to newspaper articles Obasanjo always replied he had stopped reading Nigerian Newspapers. I guess if they were so favourable he would be their number one fan however considering their aggressive and consistent assault on him he never hid his disdain for the so called "southern Press"(on which by the way nobody has ever stopped the numerous nothern money bags from setting up media houses!!). You need to be more objective in your articles pls!!! Haba

icglobalsystem  # 4 | 03.12.2008 02:45

The Northern elite cabal should held responsible for it backwardness in all spheres of human endeavour.Branding the media as southern press doesn't add up or make any logical argument. For all you care to know,what Soludo said about the situation in the North is 100% real-truth...You guys up North are chronically lazy,backward and religiously dangerous to humanity. I'm sorry for the southerner for having a dangerous neighbour whose elite doesn't invest in it youths. caio

MrOneNaija  # 5 | 03.12.2008 03:05

THE MANY SINS OF KABIYESI MEDIA =afasodewu;296120>'You see, their current proselytizing posture notwithstanding, during much of the previous regime of Olusegun Obasanjo, what used to be called Kabiyesi press because of its deferent relationship with the ex-dictator’s eight-year misrule, did play a cheerleading role and thus refused to transparently cover the excesses and failures of the Obasanjo tyranny.'...Hmm, by 'kabiyesi press' i take it you mean the Lagos-Ibadan media. I challenge you to name any of the indepedent media in this axis {not of course state goverbment-controlled ones} which were unduly deferential, and played cheerleading role to OBJ. Opinions could be subjective, but facts should be sacred. And do I take it that you are not expressing a subjective opinion in your reaction? There may be no need at this point in time to name those newspapers in the Ibadan-Lagos axis of the national press who, through their editorial positions, columns and general coverage of the previous Obasanjo regime, did, singly or collectively, earn the derisive sobriquet of Kabiyesi press. Almost all the major newspapers in Lagos in particular were, at one point or the other, guilty of having adopted brazenly pro-regime attitudes. I did not coin the expression "Kabiyesi press". That usage must have entered our journalistic jargon as an attempt to define an ideological orientation on the part of a key segment of the local media. What I can do here is suggest certain broad characteristics of what used to be called Kabiyesi press. Part of the kowtowing culture of the Lagos-Ibadan press as far as its relationship with the Obasanjo regime was concerned did involve the uncritical coverage of the actions (or inactions) of the ex-tyrant especially between 1999 and 2004. As I did mention elsewhere, instead of taking to task the hypocritical and fraudulent "born again" posturing by Mathew Okikiolakan Obasanjo, many of the media outfits in Lagos and Ibadan became, instead, veritable advocates. For instance, there is this influential columnist of one of the Lagos dailies who, apparently echoing others, went as far as stating that there existed what he termed a " religious rationalization" at the heart of the Obasanjo presidency! By that, it was meant that Christian values did inform Obasanjo's activities in government. This kind of questionable rhetoric around Obasanjo was happening when the dictator was already exhibiting his sadistic tendencies in places like Odi and Zaki-Biam. Also, there was no serious and consistent attempt to question the numerous failures or excesses of Emperor Olusegun Obasanjo.In 2002, when the National Assembly, through its officials, did draw up articles of impeachment against the erring tin god at Aso Rock, much of the press in Ibadan and Lagos went to war to crusade against those forces of evil that were so impudent as to contemplate the unthinkable. Another area Kbiyesi media is said to have failed is its coverage of the policies of the Obasanjo regime. A case in point is the privatization mantra and how that scheme was hijacked by Ali Baba and his acolytes who used it as a vehicle for the criminal expropriation of the nation's assets. In the run-up to the "419" elections of 2003, the woeful failure of the Obasanjo dictatorship did not prevent much of the Lagos-Ibadan press from behaving as if they were the media-wing of Obasanjo's PDP. Of course, Kabiyesi press and its principal voices brazenly sought refuge in untenable arguments that barely disguised their primordial allegiances. The rest, they say, is history. So, I know what I'm talking about when I affirm without fear of contradiction that Kabiyesi media did contribute a great deal toward the bastardization of our democratic project. At any rate, my allusion to the transgressions of 'Kabiyesi press' was first and foremost intended as a cautionary tale.

Agidimolaja  # 6 | 03.12.2008 03:15

It is strange but intresting though that Tondu can come out of his jungle to bark at his so called Northern leaders. Few days ago his lead song was Rebadu but today he is taking on his own so called people.Maybe, he is finally having a new awareness or possibly just waking up from his slumber.Thanks though. While few things were quite correct as Tondu stated them,nevertheless, Tondu, as characteristic of him mixed sand with salt for us especially when making refrences to southern based media houses. I need not speak out against that aspect here now since former respondents have cried foul in respect of the falsehoods about Southern based media houses.Now Tondu,you can see it with your own eyes how wrong and biased you are. Tondu,you disliked Obj with passion and it shows, considering the dirty mouth with which you always refered to him as tyrant etc. But Tondu,if I may ask you;if Obj is a tyrant as you alleged,what then is each of your past and present Northern leaders who wrecked this nation to the horrible point that she is today? I mean your Northern leaders like ,Balewa,Gowon,Muritala, IBB,Buhari,Shagari,Yaradua etc.Are they not worst tyrants than Obj yes,they were and still are by far worst than Obj. You must be blind to the truth if you failed to see and realised it that the great national mess that Obj inherited in 1999 were put in place by your Northern leaders, yet,shallow thinking people expected Obj to clear up the entire mess within the span of eight years. How?With magic wand? Tondu and others have forgotten that the Nigeria which Obj inherited was quite different from the Nigeria inherited by Balewa,Gowon,Muritala,Shagari etc. The Nigeria that all those Northern leaders inherited was a healthy Nigeria. These Northern barbarian leaders however plundered the country and almost put her out of existence before they later handed it over to Obj. It was expected of Obj to clean up the entire mess within eight years and handed Nigeria back to them since they percieved Nigeria to be their personal property. I asked them,HOW and with WHAT? With majic wand? Fools and dogs have been crying day in day out that Obj did not perform during his eight years in office;that his eight years was a total waste etc. These fools failed however to see facts that cannot be denied, that those who put Obj in power and many of those that worked with him were old and traditional crooks.They were the same wolves that ate up the nation's vast resources during the era of past regimes. Look at the list of PDP leaders.It is a parade of rogues,looters,cheaters,crooks etc. With such monumental odds against him,how can Obj perform? Yet,he tried his best even though his best was not good enough for a dilapidating unfortunate country like ours. But spectators are always the best players.The question is this;if any of Obj's bashers{including Tondu} was the President and faced similar odds as did Obj,could they do any better?I doubt it very much. The worst thing that has happened to Nigeria is not Obj as certain individuals have falsely said.It is an indisputable fact; the worst thing that has happened to Nigeria is Umaru Yaradua. Apart from his failing health that he continued to hide from the entire nation/ electorates;this man has been in office for more than a year now,yet he has not started to work. He has a name that he is alive, but he is "dead". This President have stopped the investigations and prosecutions of crooks and treasury looters because they are his friends and financiers.He has set them free. Because of those certificated looters, our President got rid of a very effective EFCC boss and replaced him with a spent-out weakling who just told us that the case files of crooks to be prosecuted have all got lost. This President closed down media houses and unjustly detained Eledu for several weeks for no apparent reason. Yet he is crowing about "rule of law". He lied! What else could be worst for Nigeria if not Yaradua? What was really worst in the past for Nigeria was having been governed/ruled by Northern leaders,both military and civilian. They are the worst enemy of this nation. You have at least taken the courage to speak to your so called Northerners.Whether they would hearken unto you is a different case.

ttonjo  # 7 | 03.12.2008 03:33

icglobalsystem;296223>The Northern elite cabal should held responsible for it backwardness in all spheres of human endeavour.Branding the media as southern press doesn't add up or make any logical argument. For all you care to know,what Soludo said about the situation in the North is 100% real-truth...You guys up North are chronically lazy,backward and religiously dangerous to humanity. I'm sorry for the southerner for having a dangerous neighbour whose elite doesn't invest in it youths. caio @inglobalsystem, In fact, you have totally summarised very briefly and excellently what exactly is wrong with Nigeria in general and the backward northern Nigeria in particular. What else can I say? The earlier the southern Nigerians wake and smell the coffie the better. I am sick and tired of this unholy alliance that enable certain region of the country, (the backward northern Nigeria in particular), that arrogated the power of 'all in all' or should I say 'born to rule' to themselves, thereby dragging the rest of us backward. In fact, what happened recently in Jos, where a southern NYSC member was hacked to death and beheaded, (just for being a christian and from southern NIgeria), by the barbaric Hausa Fulani Jihadists youths in their usual pre-meditated violence with impunity, should serve as a WAKE UP CALLS for us. This is the twenty-first centuries for God sake. Enough is enough!:evil::evil::evil::twisted::twisted::twisted::no::no::no: Read the sad story below: Print version ‘How My Son Was Butchered’—Father Of Slain Corper December 02, 2008 18:07, 933 views By Moyo Fabiyi & Tunde Lemuel With tears rolling down his eyes, Mr. Akintola Akinjogbin, father of slain NYSC member, Ibukun Oluwatosin Akinjogbin, who was killed during the Jos mayhem, yesterday, in Meiran, Lagos narrated how his son was brutally murdered by rioters in the Tin City, on Friday. Speaking during a condolence visit by the Coordinator of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) in Lagos state, Mr. Anthony Ani, to his home, Pa Akinjogbin said Ibukun’s head was cut off by his assailants who stormed the room where he and others were hiding. “My son was soaked in his blood and his skull was shattered by his assailant who refused his pleas,” the old man stated. “Prior to his death, Ibukun was always calling us, relating to the family the step-by-step account of the movement of the assailants. “There were six of them in the house of his uncle who works in Abuja. The three men were abducted by the assailants who initially attempted to rape the women. But after entreaties, they left the women to concentrate on the men.” “After they had left, the women started a frantic search for the abducted men. They saw the blood-soaked body of my son, his skull was broken. His cousin was slaughtered in the same manner a ram was slaughtered in the neck. “The wife of the landlord narrated the gruesome murder to me on phone. She added that if the facts were not suppressed, those massacred might be up to a thousand. “After they had killed Ibukun and two other corps members, they set the house and others in the neighbourhood on fire. The house belongs to my brother, Bisi Akinjogbin, who works in Abuja. His wife, family and corps members were residing in the house, situated at the Katako Junction area of 7-UP, Jos. “When he had been killed, we continued to call his GSM number. It was ringing without reply. When, finally, the call was picked, it was a Hausa man speaking on his phone. He informed us that: “your brother has been killed…’ and later he switched off the phone,” Pa Akinjogbin recounted. He reiterated his earlier call for a review of the NYSC scheme, if it is not scrapped, because of the dangers corps members are exposed to. According to him, corps members are exposed to carnage on the roads, attack by armed robbers and religious or political mayhem. “In our days, I can remember well that we enjoyed serving our fatherland. But these days, many things have changed. They now look for mammy markets where to eat due to poor feeding. The last time my son visited home, I gave him N20,000 to support his feeding,” Pa Akinjogbin disclosed. He said he was fond of Ibukun though he was the third in a family of four children. Others, he said, referred to him as “Ibukun the baby”, adding that: “he was brilliant and lived a holy life worthy of emulation by every christian.” Pa Akinjogbin said he planned to ask his son his plan for wedding before his death because “Ibukun was not interested in the amorous lifestyles of many youths of today. I’ve never seen him play around with ladies.”

DaBishop  # 8 | 03.12.2008 05:43

Tondu: This is ingenious. You know that sectional bashing sells... so in order to divert the attention of the group from ya Tiv brother, Anaconda, and his rule of lawlessness you brought this diversion. Anaconda is the one now who has the opportunity to right the wrongs, why is he reversing every little step that is good? You move it to press coverage instead of the Benue/Delta plan to wreck the rule of law? You fail, sir. I am Tiv and I approve this message. lawlessness

Tunde meee  # 9 | 03.12.2008 05:43

Not on this forum would we allow anyone to misrepresent the fact or to turn fact on his head. The Southern press have always been at the fore front of the war against all past tyrant leaders in the history of our great Nation. They have always paid dearly for it but never have they relent in their effort to put things as it should be. Having said this, I am not as naive as not to realise that in every 12 apostles there must be a judas but they should not all be tarred with same brush as you have done Mr.Tondu. The period referred to in your Mr.one Naija submission comes to mind as the Honey moon period of OBJ regime when most Southerners,especially the South Westerners , sort of "siddon look"(apology to the late Cisero of Esa Oke) to see what good could come out of OBJ Nazareth. Remember OBJ was never their choice anyway, your greedy guys on the other side of the Niger forced him down their throat. Even then, he was not being praised neither was his short comings overlooked. The press only melowed down their criticism to give the new regime a chance. They were not going to be accused of derailing the so called nascent democracy. They were not going to serve the ball directly to the waiting bats of the military guys. If you are truly honest in your submission you will agree with me that this lasted only a short time as OBJ started baring his fangs not too long into his administartion. I could remember reading a very critical editorial in the Guardian about the Odi massacre. The war against 3rd term which was fought and won by the Nigerian masses was made possible only by this same press axis. To whom honour is due, we shall give it. Many kudos to Nigerian press in general. To whom little is given not much is expected. But they have managed to achieve more than expected with the little given to them.

nijalaw  # 10 | 03.12.2008 06:41

=Tunde meee;296248>Not on this forum would we allow anyone to misrepresent the fact or to turn fact on his head. The Southern press have always been at the fore front of the war against all past tyrant leaders in the history of our great Nation. They have always paid dearly for it but never have they relent in their effort to put things as it should be. Having said this, I am not as naive as not to realise that in every 12 apostles there must be a judas but they should not all be tarred with same brush as you have done Mr.Tondu. The period referred to in your Mr.one Naija submission comes to mind as the Honey moon period of OBJ regime when most Southerners,especially the South Westerners , sort of "siddon look"(apology to the late Cisero of Esa Oke) to see what good could come out of OBJ Nazareth. Remember OBJ was never their choice anyway, your greedy guys on the other side of the Niger forced him down their throat. Even then, he was not being praised neither was his short comings overlooked. The press only melowed down their criticism to give the new regime a chance. They were not going to be accused of derailing the so called nascent democracy. They were not going to serve the ball directly to the waiting bats of the military guys. If you are truly honest in your submission you will agree with me that this lasted only a short time as OBJ started baring his fangs not too long into his administartion. I could remember reading a very critical editorial in the Guardian about the Odi massacre. The war against 3rd term which was fought and won by the Nigerian masses was made possible only by this same press axis. To whom honour is due, we shall give it. Many kudos to Nigerian press in general. To whom little is given not much is expected. But they have managed to achieve more than expected with the little given to them. My sentiments exactly. Tondu loves controversy & being in the limelight with his warped & biased articles just like Chidi Anyaeche aka Odenigbo who quickly fizzled out.

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