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| Okupe handing Abati roaring lessons |
Dr Reuben Abati would have made
Nas proud. Nas is the American rapper, just in case you were wondering. ““THEY” in this piece refers to all the cynics, the
pestle-wielding critics, the unrelenting, self-appointed activists, the idle
and idling, twittering…”
Well, he is done hauling his own
rocks at Nigerians exercising their fundamental human rights in demanding better.
The coast appears to be clear to haul the stone he says we should hold. Unlike
Dr Abati, I’ve spent the last 6 months ignoring the “Jonathan question”. I
figured we were all just nattering, and that there were a lot of natterers. One
less cynical, twittering natterer would slip by unnoticed. And so it was. But
now, I’ve decided to fetch my pestle - the one we don’t have to pound yam with
anymore – from the backyard. It’s moldy but it’ll do the job of pounding humans
well enough. I do not have a lot of pounding to do, as the “facts” Dr Abati
presents or neglects to present in his missive can hardly bear scant empirical
examination, not to talk of the type I was required to carry out as an
undergraduate in Dr Shittu’s lab in the Department of
