EKITI: YOU MAY NOW KILL THE BRIDE

By BISIKAY, PhD, London, UK

The EKITI Logjam. Debacle, Quagmire, Fiasco, Confusion, Impasse, Stalemate, Crisis, Imbroglio, Mayhem, Palava, Brouhaha, Deadlock will be better appreciated if seen in light of the following Allegory of The Bride:

All the invited guests were already seated and the wedding party was ushered in. After all the conjugal formalities had been performed and the priest was, very sluggishly, about to pronounce the Groom and the Bride as Husband and Wife when rushed in the “Impostor”, the notorious ruffian, with his terror gang and put the whole place under siege and held the people hostage. The Impostor ordered the priest to marry the Bride to him, immediately or else… So the priest then quickly but curiously happily pronounced the Impostor and the Bride as the Husband and Wife to the chagrin of all.

At the end of the Marriage charade, everyone went home in disbelief hoping for a reprieve, especially as the Groom had paid a hefty price for his Bride.

The real Groom went to petition the courts about the stealing of his Bride. Eventually when the case was heard and adjudged, it was already over 730 days of waiting by all.

Judgment came and it was simply this: Let the Impostor return the Bride to the right man, the original Groom. No more, no less.

However, there are a few little complications. The stolen Bride had been defiled by the Impostor, who was a Virgin Bride. In the two years, the abducted Bride has given birth to two kids, a boy and a girl, for the Impostor. The innocent Bride had been put through several marital tortures by the Impostor.

Now, all that the court had declared was for the Groom to take his Bride back and for the Impostor to simply let go of her. That they say was all the law of the land provided for. And the Impostor was very pleased looking forward to the next Marriage date.

It should be noted that a similar scenario close to this Allegory of the Bride had actually lead to the Trojan War, (1193-1183 BC), arguably the first world war in human history.

Ladies and gentlemen: is this fair? What is the punishment for the initial crime of abduction? What about the stealing of the Bride’s precious virginity? Who should equitably have custody of the children?

There are several impostors out there who have stolen and continue to brazenly steal other people’s legitimate mandates in government and legislative houses all over the pathetic country called “nigeria”, ( please note, the small “n” of nigeria is as very deliberate as it is well deserved.).

The terror of political imposition persist since 1965 till date simple because it is very profitable to do so. You are rewarded beyond the means applied. You do not need to woo the Bride to be, you simply snatch her at the alter on her sacred wedding day, and you have the licence to rape her as you may desire! What kind of society allows such political barbarism for nearly half a century: only nigeria.

Will the kind of RERERUN, sorry re-run, in Ekiti ever stop in the country? NEVER!

Why? Because the impostors have taken over the polity and we have refused to stop them. Hence, they have become more emboldened to continue their defiling of the democratic Brides. So, let the priest intone: You may now STEAL Bride ( as usual). He could equally say: you may now KILL the Bride. After all it is a nation of primitive political and legal animals who can and will never learn any lesson about wrongdoings all through their existence.

Anyone who wants a change for the better for the politico-economic destiny of the country will appreciate there is an urgent need to eliminate the current bunch of impostors through direct people’s action as the women, men and youths of Ekiti are doing unlike in other previous reruns where everyone went to sleep as if they had all been bribed to do nothing about the secondary perfidy.

If the constitutional system is as corrupt as it has been and remains to be and may be for ever and ever ( from the signals around us) , then all there remains for the innocent folks is to resort to the Ekiti self-help strategies.

Let Ekiti be the model to guide all towards any further re-runs there might be lurching around the corner to Anambra 2010 and all over the country in 2011. Let people see the struggle in Ekiti as everyone’s struggle, from Calabar to Kafanchan, and from Kajola to Kaltungo. When there is a need to ACT, let us all act in unison across the land, and not in isolation that the Ekiti Struggle for Electoral Justice does not concern you, it does affect us all! Let all patriotic workers, mothers, women, youths, students, men and even children prepare to be organised to be MOBILISED for the continuous PROTEST marches and the petitions and the actions required to send the strongest message to the odious cabal, the political criminals whose only job is to drag the country backwards into the stone-age. Other nations have done it including Madagascar, most recently. If our people remain docile, the vampires will forever continue to suck our electoral blood, and really democratic democracy will remain a dream.

Therefore, let us all remember and heed the warning of the German anti-Nazi activist Pastor Martin Niemöller (1892–1984) in his classic poem, First They Came:

"First they came for the communists, and I did not speak out--

because I was not a communist;

Then they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out--

because I was not a socialist;

Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out--

because I was not a trade unionist;

Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out--

because I was not a Jew;

Then they came for me--

and there was no one left to speak out for me".

BISIKAY, a global analyst and business philosopher lives in London, UK

He is the acclaimed author of the global executive development bestseller:

WHY MANAGERS CAN’T LEAD AND LEADERS CAN’T MANAGE (lulu.com)

Robot  # 1 | 03.05.2009 22:25

The EKITI Logjam. Debacle, Quagmire, Fiasco, Confusion, Impasse, Stalemate, Crisis, Imbroglio, Mayhem, Palava, Brouhaha, Deadlock will be better appreciated if seen in light of the following Allegory of The Bride...It should be noted thata similar scenario close to this Allegory of the Bride had actually lead to the Trojan War, (1193-1183 BC), arguably the first world war in human history....Read the full article.

OLUMIDEMI  # 2 | 04.05.2009 11:11

It is so convenient to sit in the comfort of some posh office in London and incite us here to violence just as your compatriots here had mandated a group of Ekitis to rig and the other half of Ekitis mandated to roast them. Don't be fooled by the orchestrated media campaign to go and involve your self in violence on behalf of either group. Both the AC and PDP are simply engaged in a power struggle to determine who will control the material resources on behalf of the people. They are all the same. Outside the purview of the media and the people they are one and the same group- the political elite. They belong to the same clubs, went to the same schools and they are all friends! Why would I with my limited knowledge and exposure encourage the women in my family to be protesting naked on the streets while the beneficiaries and potential beneficiaries of the so called mandate kept their own mothers, sisters and other women in their family at home wraped in fine linen. Wake up people the AC and the PDP is half dozen and sixes. You need to understand this struggle for what it is- pure and simple intra-class warfare. Once they finish their mutually assured destruction of each other, we moderates will move in to put the pieces together and move forward. I don talk my own