A branch directly from the tree of Chinua, …not surprising.
Chinua (Achebe) almost at the departure lounge parted this planetary realm with a brilliant work of art titled “There was a country”, an account of Civil War, where the Giant of Literature and author of one of the most celebrated works of art ‘Things Fall Apart’, forsook decorum and divorced the truth to denigrate The Great Awo. Heaping all the blames on the respected nationalist, Prof Achebe was only a letter short of accusing Awolowo of his (Chinua’s) paralysis in later years.
A fatal misrepresentation of history, abandonment of facts and assassination of the truth, and as Prof Wole Soyinka, the first Africa’s Nobel Laureate (in Literature) and one, who was an active participant in the war, said, “That was a book I wished Chinua never wrote”.
As there was Chinua, there now is Chi; another writer of international appeal, one widely considered as brilliant, talented and highly industrious, but as we have seen with our men of God, even the greatest of men are still men.
She threw her literary weight behind Obi in full exercise of her fundamental human rights as a proud citizen. But the election had come, gone and determined and a winner has duly emerged with a name bearing letters not forming Obi.
Our president elect is Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
Candidates in the race are at liberty to disagree with either the process or the outcome. The displeasure could even be extended to questioning nationality of the president elect, his gender, his age, his duration in bed or even his height.
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The judiciary is an all comers affair where the good, bad and the ugly are so tolerated including the sane and insane demands like that which assumes Abuja residents are all hermaphrodites, and their possession of both genitals should confer upon them dual votes.
Obi’s special agent at Upper Iweka had certainly been elevated from granting just security counsel to legal matters, for only from such deserted Wells, can such filthy waters be gathered.
Chimanmanda writes United States of America to complain about (the) elections held in far away Africa; the same USA whose election is at this very moment being contested?
Our dear Chimanmanda must have forgotten Nigeria is sovereign and not at the whims of any country. Chimanmanda must also consider that her public pre-election support for Peter Obi renders any post election position of hers deeply partisan and would best be considered as any other political jab from spokespersons.
I made reference to the judiciary earlier. It remains the only window provided by our revered laws where post election dissatisfactions and disagreements must be channeled for interpretation and reconciliation, and anything outside the legal perimeters could easily be termed treason and the gifted author stands so warned or is our learned literary giant suggesting extra constitutional means for Obi to be president?
No one is too young or too old or too gifted to be jailed if their path infringe upon the law.
Chi didn’t live through the colonial Era, I could have suspected post-colonial trauma, perhaps our dear Chi is a slave in love with her chains.
The struggle of the likes of Anthony Enahoro and Awolowo has since broken such shackles of slavery, and never again are we going to submit ass for ramming.
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Your man lost, Ngozi. He lost woefully, live with it.
Chi dwells in a world of fiction and she had received deserving laurels for brilliantly presenting imagination as reality. I fear Ngozi is now stuck in that world of make-believe.
Politics however isn’t fiction, remain in the terrain you are most familiar with and leave politics to the men with the breeding for it.
She referenced self inflated online polls which predicted Obi the next president, the same polls that projected victory for Obi in Ekiti 😆 Again, politics is not fiction.
Obi did not just lose now, but he would never be president.
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Wow. I enjoyed reading this from the begging to the very end. From chinua Achebe’s subjective perspective of the civil war with his book titled “there was a country” to Soyinka’s concern, down to Chi’s refereeing in a match she’s playing. I love this!
Perfectly curated and excellently delivered.
More ink to your pen Mr Joe
This was truly truly ‘a slave in love with her chains’.
Nigerian elections have always been flawed, rigging is common all around.
All the parties rigged, including Obi’s party. Things are getting better,but we are certainly not there yet.
Suddenly Obi has been elevated to the level of a political Saint by the likes of Chimamanda.
Far from it.
Obi came from a party that had been split into 3, and they (Obi, Atiku, Kwankwanso) shared the votes.
Obi would have defeated Tinubu easily if those 3 had worked together, but they didn’t.
They are all licking their wounds now.
Hopefully they don’t end up destroying the country.