…J.P Clerk’s “The Wives Revolt”. Reflection! Retrospection…
The pro Binani for governorship peace protest procession is gradually working across to capture Adamawa state.
The procession started from Yola, the Adamawa state capital. keying to the minister of women affairs, Helen Tallen’s popular call, the electorates in Numan Federation have in their amazing population, joined in the march chanting justice for Aishatu Dahiru Ahmed, a.k.a Binani, the lone female governorship candidate in the county, justice for good governance and participatory democracy, the electorates interviewed would reveal to the Periscope Global reporter.
The electorates argued that instead of deploying technicalities that would count for judicial disenfranchisement of the electorates owing to the two insignificant votes, the ballot papers that were casted during the APC governorship primaries should have been requested for recounting.
the federal high court sitting in Yola has on Friday voided the APC governorship primary election conducted on May 26, 2022 that Binani polled 430 votes to defeat her closest contender, Nuhu Ribadu, who scored 280 votes
Ribadu had challenged the emergence of Binani in a suit filed on June 9, 2022, claiming that 1,009 delegates were accredited, contrary to the outcome which indicated that a total of 1,011 votes were cast.
Ribadu, prayed the court to nullify the election and order for a fresh conduct of the governorship primaries.
The electorates conceived the Anka judgement as being harsh when it should have been soft on the lone lady in the entire country that emerged as the governorship candidate considering the fact that she was not to Blame as much as she would say, the God is not to blame, while calling for calm, assuring that the judgement would not be without appeal.
“The Sai Binani,” “Sai-Matan-Nan,” “#Kiranjama’a” displayed banners and placards as the electorates on peace protest procession passed through the major streets in Yola and Numan chanting, reminded the literary minded of a play, “The Wives Revolt,” by the poet playwright John Pepper Clark, where women demand equal opportunities, justice and fairness as the central theme.
The Wives’ Revolt tells the story of a Niger Delta community that received a payout from an oil firm drilling in its land. It turns out that the money eventually stokes the flame of revolution in the town.
The money is to be shared in three places — elders, men and women. The elders are all men, meaning they enjoy a second helping from the payout, women of the town who have long suffered injustice and marginalisation, however, kick against the formula, saying, ‘enough is enough’.
The women ask for equal pay, asking the elders to divide the money into two equal parts by scrapping elders from the class, leaving everything to just be men and women.
Angered by the women’s insistence on male-female sharing formula, the elders decree that goat, which is mainly reared by women, be removed, because women cause havoc in the land with their goats. The eventual decree does not go down well with the women.
One of them, Koko, who is the wife of the community leader, Okoro, leads a protest against this injustice.
From wives to women, maturing to electorates revolt, taking to the streets in Adamawa, staging that state must not be subjected to the caprice, whim, vagary, and crotchet of the opportunist few, scheming with impunity, dictating with outright sadism, who should and/or who shouldn’t, wouldn’t and musn’t… to be muscled out… defining a dictatorial democracy, Yunusa Abubakar, a literary critic would articulate.