By
Ugo Egbujo
In 2014
The great Soyinka said Nigeria was a furnace.
He said the poor masses were like Shedrack, Mishak and Abednego without any hope of a miracle
Then all progressives agreed with Soyinka because President Jonathan was deemed fantastically corrupt and clueless
Nobody felt Soyinka was chasing away foreign investors
In 2024 ,
Davido said the the economy of Nigeria was in shambles
Indeed the poor can’t buy food
The sick can’t buy drugs
Except they are like Tinubu and Buhari who go to London at poor people’s expense to treat malaria
I don’t believe they are seriously ill.
Davido didn’t call Tinubu a Herod
Soyinka called Jonathan a Nebuchadnezzar
And Jonathan’s wife a shepopotamus
The progressives relished the political poetry of Soyinka and these pejorative tags
But now they can’t stand the political rhymes of Davido
And Davido hasn’t even gone skelewu on Tinubu
Soyinka was right. Nigeria was deteriorating under Jonathan
Davido is right. Tinubu has messed up the Nigerian economy.
Tinubu is preaching reforms and practicing wanton prodigality and relentless parapoism
Tinubu’s Nigeria is a thousand times worse than Jonathan’s Nigeria
Unfortunately the great Soyinka has gone mute
So poor Davido has stepped in to speak the truth
The problem is that many of these characters who call themselves Progressives
Are just noisy political fanatics with switched off moral compasses betrothed to one or two personality cults.
Herd mentality. Outstanding ignorance. Shallow emotionalism.
They can’t see that Tinubu who is turning Nigeria into a Yoruba PLC for blatantly selfish reasons needs to be challenged to do better and unite the country to find some cohesion.
