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The Love Between Objand and Atiku

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Author: Okah Ewah Edede
Posted to the web: 1/31/2009 4:20:23 AM

The love between OBJ and Atiku

 

Omnia vincit amor

     I truly do not understand all the ding and furor over the said meeting between former vice president, Atiku Abubakar and former president, Aremu Obasanjo at the latter’s Hilltop country home in Abeokuta. I am totally flummoxed at the deluge of negative reactions trailing the meeting. I sincerely can not fathom why the average Nigerian seems to be so myopic and mono-dimensional in their thought process and ventilation of ideas!

     What transpired between Turaki and his former boss is nothing but the reaffirmation of the perpetual triangle of love. In the geometry of love (am talking of all kind and type of love, even political love), everything is triangular. For every Atiku and cohorts, there is an Obj; for every Kunle Obasanjo and wife, there is a father Aremu; for every husband and wife, there is an ex-boyfriend or a soon-to-be lover lurking in some opaque portfolio of the heart; and to cap it all, it is sapient to realize that, the tongue of desire and ambition is forked like that of a serpent, kissing two but loving one or none. So the reconciliation between Obj and Atiku is nothing but the macabre orchestration and histrionic of Cupid (political cum personal survival Cupid) drawing horizontal and vertical lines between us like a demented astronomer plotting geometrical constellation from empyrean bodies, joining points into patterns that have no basis in mundane nature because love alone is transcendental. This is the reality in the tessellation of love affairs.

     After the reconciliation tumble between Obj and Turaki, the media went insane with feverish retrospection. Everyone started reminiscing on how Obj and Atiku murdered national patriotism and jingoism on the altar of personal aggrandizement. They threw decorum, in their quest to promote their individual political ambition and serfdom, to the wily Bacchus and his Leopards and danced naked in the market square. This led them to degenerate – in their political pugilism – to the ghetto boy level where anything goes, and urchins fire unsavory philippic bullets at targeted enemies. The volley was so fierce that the Nigeria nation was almost burnt to perdition by the fire that blazed from both titans.

     Yet, love conquers all.

      Nigerians shouldn’t be agitated over the said reconciliation between Atiku and Obj. come to think of it, the man in the news, Atiku Abubakar, has said that God enjoined us to forgive those who have wronged us, and to love our enemies like ourselves. This is true. I believe. Besides, Atiku wronged Obj, and Obj also wronged Atiku, now they must bury the hatchet so to be able to aspire into new realms unfettered with the luggage of bad-blood, for love has conquered hatred.

     Wait a minute, have you forgotten that these men are Nigerians? Obj and atiku are not Sicilians who carry grudges for eternity. They are Nigerians – a loving people.

     Cupid is a winged baby boy, but he is so powerful that he has a quiver full of arrows and can strung a bow. And according to how Geoffrey Chaucer’s prioress brooch interpreted Virgil’s tenth eclogue, Cupid is not supposed to be on your side. You fight with him; you try to undo what he does to others; you beseech him earnestly to pitch his tent with you; you implore him to be wise. But he is too stubborn and powerful. He doesn’t think the way you think. No matter how you suffer and cry and shout and faint, Virgil says, your hardship cannot move him. Omnia vincit amor, love conquers all.

     Aha! And to you, Femi Adesina, just know that Aondoaka is in love with himself. He will do anything and say anything to be able to continually dine and wise in Aso Rock. So please, my brother, do not be surprised at his pseudo-religious dipsomania and stupor. Personally, I wish Umaru Musa Yar’Adua the very best. May he live long in and out of office, and may he not suffer from the Ayatollah Mahdi-syndrome. Amen

 

By Okah Ewah Edede

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