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In the traditional northern homestead in Nigeria where the protection of womenfolk in purdah from pariahs and predators alike takes a cultural priority, there is always a clear signboard forbidding entrance.
“You will like Richard Nixon. He is so square”. So went a billboard of the late fifties in the bible-thumping American mid-region. Richard Milhous Nixon was widely admired and very well-liked. He was clean-shaven, crew-cut, conservatively tailored and quietly brainy. He was vice-president to Dwight Eisenhower.
Many victims of his political barbs are still reeling from their verbal evisceration. People of a tame and temperate temperament have found his perpetual gallivanting, his grandstanding and garrulity deeply offensive. Let it not be said that this smacks of desperate political opportunism, for in politics, particularly postcolonial politics, the opportunist is the person who converts his opportunities. As the Yoruba people will put it, if you see a man being pursued by dangerous masquerades and you do not help yourself to his pot of soup, when are you going to benefit from the generosity of ancestors?
My brother, that is not politics. In the lingo of postcolonial pillage and rapine, It is political warlordism and economic foreclosure of the state combined. The idea of a gubernatorial overlord overseeing the affairs of a state he has willingly relinquished through direct and remote control is an offshoot of the viceroy system. In a politically cohesive and homogeneous state with the same outlook, this has proved impossible, unless the feudal shogun stays put.
As it has been amply demonstrated in this Fourth Republic, political subalterns who take over the helm of affairs from their former commanders have proved themselves to be masters of clinical execution, often leaving their former bosses without any chance of political resurrection.
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