Hero Wanna-Be? -By Abubakar D, Sani, Esq.
Abubakar D. Sani, Esq.,
This portrait may come throughout
(Not with out some justification)
As an try to demystify or deconstruct
One in all Nigeria’s presumed best (at the least, to some)
A person who, from the onset
Made it his life’s mission
To – in his personal phrases,
“Dominate (his) surroundings”
The title of his biography mentioned all of it:
‘The Prince of the Niger’
His persona was so gregarious,
That he was implicated in all Nigeria’s coups d’état
Having reportedly put in
Or assisted in putting in
All, however one, of his navy predecessors in workplace
He lastly seized the Crown
Within the yr that was notorious
Internationally
For the Ethiopian famine
By which tens of millions perished
By no means one to do issues in half -measures,
He adopted the title of ‘President’
One other first,
In a glittering array of non-public ‘accomplishments’
This was a departure from the norm
As, all his navy predecessors
Have been content material merely to be addressed as ‘Head of State’
And, certainly, after him, that remained the case
It was the primary signal
Of what would show to be a
Bigger-than-life public persona
As he sought to deliver everybody to his aspect
Brutally epitomized by crushing
A putsch in opposition to him
By his supposed childhood buddy
Whose different life was as a poet
Affable and genial,
That exterior was so beguiling
That almost all Nigerians (and, certainly, foreigners)
Have been all taken in
Together with the Iron Woman herself
The previous British Prime Minister
Mrs. Margaret Thatcher
Who visited Nigeria at his behest
He continued to delight in well-liked goodwill
spite the dire warning
Of the likes of Gani Fawehinmi
That our man was bent on a Life Presidency
Certainly, his report
Of newspaper closures
And detention of critics
(Together with the aforesaid Gani) –
With out trial
(Beneath the infamous Decree 4)
Should have been the red-flag
However, alas, we had been ‘misplaced’
Even when the financial system
Floundered so badly
Beneath the load of his Structural Adjustment Programme
That all of it however worn out the Center-Class
Nigerians – and, crucially, the navy
(Properly, with the exception Main Gideon Orkar
And his co-travellers)
Stored religion with him
Everybody appeared to be below his spell
Together with the supposed consciences of the nation
The Tai Solarins and Wole Soyinkas of this world
As all of them accepted to serve his Authorities
He lastly misplaced the plot
When his transition-to-civil rule programme
Resulted in one thing of an anti-climax
With the callous annulment of the Presidential election
Which his buddy, Chief MKO Abiola
Was poised to win
The singular act
Value him all of the credibility
Which he had labored so onerous to earn
And, which, to be truthful, he deserved – at the least partly
By his reportedly single-handedly
Confronting mutinous troopers
Who had holed up in a radio station
In the middle of a coup that by no means was
For that demonstration of non-public bravery
He earned the respect of one and all
Till, that’s, he blew it
In what was presupposed to be
His swan music
Speak about placing a foot mistaken!
In doing so (he took private duty)
He lastly emboldened his critics
Who had accused him all alongside
Of institutionalizing corruption
It was a tragic finish for a tenure
Which had began with a bang
However ended with a whimper
Because it ensured that his departure was unceremonious
This, absolutely, is a lesson
In sincerity of goal
As one’s guiding credo
Anything is, properly – poison
Abubakar D, Sani, Esq.
thirty first December, 2020
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