Re: The Year of the Crocodile et al

It’s our first encounter and it’s the brand new year 2018 and all I wish was that I could throw 2017 and its events in the trashcan of history and get going. However those who play possum with history are bound to endorse the most ludicrous things in their present and suffer amnesia in their future. So for most people, the best news that should have come from the Camp Buhari in his January 1 address was a full-fledged apology to all citizens and a resignation for being overwhelmed. But it didn’t happen because in Naija, people don’t resign, they rationalize.

Sai Baba exposed a two-year list without crosschecking the contents. As it happened, there were more than half a dozen-cemetery residents on the list. Naija people did not see the ingenuity of it all. As Garba Shehu explained it with the flippancy of a spokesperson gone rogue, there was nothing embarrassing to it. APC loyalists are assured of one thing, they would have their rewards either on earth or in the cemetery. That’s pure unmatched ingenuity.

For this column, the year doesn’t wrap up without these two rejoinders on the penultimate column titled - The Year of the Crocodile. Some of the views may have been edited for the purposes of clarity.

“TB Joshua and Theophilus Olabayo have both claimed to be true Men of God. As stated by Tunde Asaju I doubt if God chit-chat with them on any moves he is making in the Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Arctic or Antarctic Ocean. The absurdity of their claim is that none of them could have accurately predicted happenings in Nigeria in 2017 or the Balfour Declaration by Theresa May especially as it relates to Israel and Palestine today and in future. They failed to predict the moves of US blabber-mouthed President, Donald Trump because who did nine bizarre things in 2017 to wit: Gave Russia classified intelligence that compromised an undercover Israeli spy inside ISIS.

Told the wife of the French President ‘you’re in such good shape’.

Shoved the Prime Minister of Montenegro

Hung up on Minister

Revealed a covert CIA operation on Twitter

Used his Chief of Staff’s dead son to make a false claim about Obama

Thanked Russian President, Vladimir Putin for kicking US diplomats out of Russia

Picked a Twitter fight with London’s Mayor after a terror attack

Complimented a brutal military dictator’s shoes

This is not to mention the declaration of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel which raised a UN uproar in which 128 states disagreed, 35 abstained and nine voted against. We have not mentioned the epic resignation of Robert Mugabe.

Coming to Nigeria, various Australia’s Prime interesting things missed the two seer’s radar. They include The return of Buhari from London The Executive vs Legislature debacle The sack of Babachir Lawal Boko Haram degraded Nnamdi Kanu released detention The Paris Club refund The disappearance of Nnamdi Kanu

Buhari’s two day visit to the South South states of Ebonyi and Anambra ASUU Strike Atiku quitting APC The artificial fuel scarcity during the festive period.

It looks to me that the year 2018 would be the year of Nairabet, not the year of these Men of God.

Zanna Samaila, zannahsamaila@ gmail.com from

I don’t know how you arrived at 17 years of Guinea’s President. Alpha Conde (born 4 March 1938) is a Guinean politician who has been President of Guinea since December 2010. He spent decades in opposition to a succession of regimes in Guinea, unsuccessfully running against President Lansana Conte in 1993 and 1998 presidential elections and leading the Rally of the Guinean People (RPG), an opposition party.

Standing again in the 2010 presidential election, Conde was elected as President of Guinea in a second round of voting. When he took office that December, he became the first freely elected president in the country’s history. Conde was reelected in 2015 with almost 58 percent of the vote. ( Wikipedia)

Satires are good, but facts are sacrosanct!

Abdullah Muhammad amuhinab@yahoo.co.uk

Note: I stand corrected.

Happy Year 2018 to you all, let’s hope that we get compensated for our good deeds on earth and not a posthumous appointment letter. After all, we all agree that the hereafter is going to be nothing compared with the most blissful thing here on this plane. As for the bumbling bunch in the presidential villa who promised change but have thus far offered us lemons, we have a choice, use their lemons for lemonade or just stay so far away from them and their fake promises later this year when they come running with their rice, gari, fufu and tomatoes.

Liberia

Esq,

I wish I could say congratulations to George Oppong Weah. He has succeeded in the field of play and we hope he won’t be worn out with the demands for a new Liberia. He took all the necessary lessons on life to get this far, let’s hope he doesn’t overwrite the good things that endeared him to his people by biting the same bug that killed his predecessors.