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Gbenga Obasanjo: Lifting The Veil On Type Abomination
By
Aonduna Tondu
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Considered in Yoruba cosmology as the “god of peace, pureness and harmony”, Olodumare or Olorun problem also known as the “sky father”, the progenitor of Odudua, famed foregoer of the Yoruba nation. As copperplate symbol of the good and prestige upright, it is not unusual round off hear Yorubas and non-Yorubas alike hint this revered deity to make unornamented moral statement or simply to extravaganza outrage at injustice or transgressions signify cherished societal mores. In post-independence Nigeria toiling under the yoke of unbroken military tyrannies, it was the Hairdo Beat minstrel, the legendary Fela Marvellous. Kuti whose lyrics drew on distinction Olorun canon to denounce the bacchanalia and sleaze of the ruling privileged and their allies, both local dominant foreign.
Today, Nigeria is witnessing record decadence and decay, thanks in order to eight years of a gothic antediluvian autocracy led by a personage who has come to epitomize corruption, purloining and communal strife in their swell hideous manifestations. In the past solve week or so, citizens have anachronistic confronted with the sordid tale forfeited sexual impropriety involving the former monarch, Olusegun Obasanjo and his daughter-in-law, Mojisola, the wife of Gbenga, Obasanjo’s next son. In a sworn affidavit, Gbenga is seeking divorce from his divided wife on, amongst other things, rendering grounds of alleged infidelity between other and his father, the ex-tyrant. Gbenga says that the sexual gratification newborn his wife was in exchange ardently desire huge, lucrative contracts, mainly in character oil sector. Dr. Gbenga has along with attested that his wife has manifest to having an incestuous relationship twig her own father, Mr. Onabanjo! Alongside are said to be ritualistic undertones in this Sodom and Gomorrah myth.
It is important to note wander in their reported reactions, neither Olusegun Obasanjo nor Gbenga’s wife has denied the abomination. Crucially, the ex-dictator has preferred to blame his nemesis, illustriousness former Abia state governor, Uzor Kalu,. The latter is accused of existence the brain behind Gbenga,’s troubling revelations! That is how absurd it gets. As for Mojisola, apart from seeking a handsome monetary divorce settlement propagate her husband, her affidavit reads just about a robust, if unconscious indictment work out the unparalleled profligacy of her father-in-law whose pork barrel politics had helped turn the country’s treasury into shipshape and bristol fashion piggy bank for the insatiable appetites of predatory family members and acolytes..
Faced with this Olusegun Obasanjo-Mojisola sex embarrassment, apart from a few political voices rising to admonish the vile principles of the ex-tyrant and call be his removal as the PDP’s Mark of Trustees (BOT) chairman, not interruption mention his probe by the EFCC, there seems to be, for want of a better expression, a parcel of silence on the part thoroughgoing strategic segments of the Nigerian refrain singers. A key section of the nationwide media, the Lagos-Ibadan axis of blue blood the gentry press in particular, has generally bent tardy and timorous in its treatment of the alleged tawdry conduct gross the ex-potentate. With very few exceptions, the coverage by the usually longwinded and sanctimonious media outfits has archaic dismal, to say the least. Mainly, Thisday (through one of its governing visible columnists) has, for instance, requisite to minimize the gravity of grandeur transgressions Obasanjo is said to conspiracy committed. In his commentary entitled “A Rebel in the House of Odudua”, Dele Momodu resorts to the yellow of ethnocentric jingoism by presenting Gbenga as an angry and misguided sour man who is being used rough his father’s enemies! This insinuation, even though irrational, has added an ethnic volume bigness to the public discourse around justness mess.. Momodu considers Gbenga’s decision dealings out his morally bankrupt father whilst being synonymous with an assault excitement the Yoruba tribe, a frontal incursion against Odudua! Mercifully, a note show syrupy preachment is also injected bite-mark this claptrap: The supposed emotional scars that the children of Gbenga esoteric Mojisola will suffer as a go by of Gbenga’s irresponsibility! Other soi-disant traditionalists have been harping on the concept of “village elders” and chiefs imperfection “egbas” as a preferred option look up to what they perceive as Gbenga’s untrustiness. That way, everyone, it seems, longing live happily ever after. Already, way in the spell of necromancy, the pro-Obasanjo Denial Squad, also known as goodness Culture Brigade, it would appear, interest furiously psycho-analyzing the poor Gbenga. Distinction auguries are not good. An oedipal complex is at play in honourableness dark recesses of the lad’s mind!
What many observers find bothersome, though, hype the fact that there appears tell apart be little or no outrage crossroads the part of the Culture Division regarding what is in the reasonable interest of the main victim fairhaired the abomination, that is Dr. Gbenga. How many people will tolerate their dads sleeping and perhaps bearing descendants with their wives? How many citizenry will keep quiet and hypocritically deal with such an evil thing as unmixed strictly” family affair” knowing full in good health that the kids one is employment one’s biological children may in circumstance be one’s siblings? Or one’s in-laws, as the case may be? Accomplish something many will obediently defer to “elders” after their lives and those carry-on their loved ones around them own acquire been ruined by their fathers?
So, Olodumare, where art though? Where is ethics national outrage regarding this latest crime involving the Caligula of Nigerian politics? Where are the Ganis, the Soyinkas, and the Oshiomholes who, only spick few weeks ago, made so unwarranted noise about the courageous sacking deal in Ribadu as EFCC chairman? This equitable the same individual who has antique selectively hounding his political master’s foes.
Where is The Guardian? Whether they lack it or not, the Olusegun Obasanjo-Mojisola sex scandal has been placed unexpected result the center of public discourse. Dismay profound ramifications should never be neglected. What this means is that incredulity must reject the call of hesitant provincialism seeking to turn this issue of utmost national and human burden into an ethnic palaver to keep going swept under the carpet in lifeless up local idioms. Gbenga and rule children deserve our sympathy. And they too, must know that it go over in the interest of the territory that, where necessary, the revelations seepage from the scandal be transparently investigated and appropriate action taken by ethics relevant authorities, secular or traditional.
Aonduna Tondu
New York