…A Non Romantic View…
…Fair is Foul, Foul is Fair – William Shakespeare (Macbeth)
The Periscope Global Literati
…To please a boss, the boy needs to be conscientiously creative, concretely constructive and critically convincing, lest the image laundering turns out to be more damaging, laughable. The state remains as much as the government and the governed but the governors come and go; do not with diatribe delude the conscience of the united governed for mutual mistrust because of a politician, your paymaster. We do not need a repeat of Rwanda, hundreds of miles away. In the land of beauty we can’t plant the plant the ugly – Adamu Muhammad Dodo
A George Kushi’s creative gaffe, bereft of critical thinking, considered inimical to the pen profession so professed; reducing the ethics to Binani-hate propaganda as a theology to proselytise; to promote unpopular principal recording poor performance, about to be consumed by his very tragic flaws.
A literary theorist would, in the realm of practical criticism, articulate that it is the nature of the subject of inquiry, referred to as a novel, text, an article or a letter that determines how it should be viewed and reviewed, as much as the author’s sentiment should be interpreted, whether or not objective-centred.
To begin with, there is something amiss about the heading: “Binani’s gaffe of claiming to wrest power from kabilu- George Kushi”
Ignore the grammatical incorrectness, who is kabilu or what does the term signify?
Does Adamawa state sitting Governor, Rt Hon Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri have an additional name, “kabilu?” Why does the word, if a proper noun, begin with a small letter? (k)abilu.
After the literally newfangled nonsense, a sound media voice would consider as a noise about the heading, goes the introductory paragraph: “At a time like this Aishatu Dahiru Binani has once again displayed that she is incapable of occupying the Government House in Yola”.
Notice the sentence lacking proper punctuations, if any other than the full stop ending the paragraph.
Is Binani a time? “At a time like this Aishatu Dahiru Binani…” Jump that.
One finds it difficult to continue going through to the end of the piece; a grammatically murderous Genesis to Revelation, revealing the adjudged George’s best logical incoherence; a literary critic would refer to it as the dilemma of misguided media aide, rudely ruled by emotion.
Kushi’s next paragraph: “In the first instance her utterances as pertains the sensitive the issue of the nationalities that constitute Adamawa state has shown how untactful she is. To have uttered that she would “karbi mulki daga hannun kabilu” shows how myopic she is politically. Wether she likes it or not the ” kabilu” she has the guts to deride are the custodians that any candidate needs to make any impact in Adamawa state”.
Notice the distortion; a disturbing discomfort with the conflict of subject verb concord… “her utterances as pertain(s) (the) sensitive the issue of the nationalities… ha(s) shown how untactful she (is). …shows how myopic…” / “(Wether) she likes it or (not the ” kabilu”)…” / “Now that her ethnic coloration has been (expised) by her utterances,she..’/ exposing her primordial sentiments that the PDP (governent) in…/ …Fintiri had in the (past four) struggled to ensure…
The unseriousness as a metaphor to Kushi-Fake, Fear-Induced Binani-hate theology can be found maliciously crafted throughout the piece.
One disturbing point about the piece other than the inability to define or interpret the term “kabilu,” perhaps as “tribesmen,” Kushi failed to mention a single instance or occasion where the APC governorship candidate, Senator Aishatu Dahiru Ahmed, a.k.a Binani, whom President Muhammadu Buhari would be pleased to refer to as the “Governor-In-Waiting” and Murum Mbula would be pleased to describe as “a household name in Adamawa state,” uttered the political diatribe maliciously ascribed to her.
Besides, is there a humankind without a language and/or a tribe? Isn’t kabila a tribe and kabilu the plural, also referred to as “tribesmen” as a people? Doesn’t Binani have or belong to a “kabila?”
Kushi, arrogating to himself the perception of the citizenry, said he was satisfied with the Fintiri’s kind of governance that integrated the “kabilu”. What do you expect from a boy who is paid to eulogise his boss whether or not good?
The APC and PDP governorship campaigns across the state, to say the least, have offered a projection beyond intended malignity or malice, as to who could be the next promising Adamawa state governor.
“A student union leader in one of the state’s tertiary institutions of learning, it is said, was commissioned to package Fintiri during his campaign in Mubi on Saturday, where Binani brought a federal medical centre and won the hearts of the citizenry, depicted in the overwhelming generic support her campaign train enjoyed.
Fascinated by the Binani’s achievements that jointly earned her what HRH Murum Bbula would refer to as “household name,” the student unionist would not control the slip of tongue or perhaps a deliberate mischief in form of protest, to commend the Governor-In-Waiting Binani, then the former Governor Bindow, before pleading for a review to mention Fintiri for providing scholarships to Adamawa indigenes to study abroad. It was so embarrassing and to add insult to injury, was a general applause by the participating gathering rather than uproar.
How uncritical the thinking? Was the student said to be commissioned to speak among those sponsored to study abroad?
It seems the organisers are not school in the art of persuasion, let alone the Public Relations. The Chief-of-the-state.
The same way at a village in Mayo-Belwa, a pupil in a short drama presentation, apparently to showcase Governor Fintiri’s achievements, after a teacher who didn’t even know that the pupils were no longer to pay school fees, courtesy of the Governor, as he sent them back home, until he was informed by the head teacher, before other pupils whose parents probably have already paid – suggesting that the teacher wasn’t current about the state – the pupil said he would want to move to another school in Yola because Fintiri built flyovers there, instead of urging the Governor to upgrade the buildings of the rural school to be like that of the urban area and to build concrete roads leading to the village. Nothing promotional.
The Kushi-fake, fear-induced Binani-hate, George’s renewed, reviewed deceptive theology is indeed defective, lacking merited marketing. Consider another conspiracy, another propaganda.
The phrase “Fair is Foul, Foul is Fair” (Act 1, Scene 1) is chanted by the three witches at the beginning of the play. It acts as a summary of what is to come in the tale. Shakespeare uses the phrase to show that what is considered good is in fact bad and what is considered bad is actually good.