Olusegun Adeniyi: Initiate Of A dangerous Cult of Liars
Written by Odimegwu Onwumere
In his days at Thisday newspapers, Mr. Olusegun Adeniyi was an editor of
incalculable integrity. He was among the fearless and brave hearts-writers
or human or social critics, who embraced the problems of the populace
dearly to their hearts and solved them on the pages of newspapers, asking
those who they were their duty to help matter. He hated singing the praise
of the government and was against the journalism of brown envelop. Many
Nigerians liked reading his write-ups because he was not suffering fools
gladly. The contents of his articles were bombshells. He was tall with the
truth and was always opening the windows of happiness to many frail
Nigerians because of his articles.
But like the process of aiding or speeding up chemical process by a
substance that does not itself undergo any change, Adeniyi is now
pernicious to the same Nigerian populace he was in the forefronts
defending since he was made or appointed Spokesman to the president. A job
one would not fail to ask if such office like Adeniyi’s was orchestrated
to be misleading people with peripheral information as wont Adeniyi,
leaving the interim.
Like most people wouldn’t accede to any government appointments because of
their stand for humanity in the area of their calling, Adeniyi accepted
his, being the President’s Spokesman, with the view that one cant be
outside the rooms of power to dictate the pace of the political pipers,
like the Nigerian politicians. One has to be inside the rooms of power.
Perhaps what Adeniyi did not understand before accepting that Greek Gift
was that all governments are a dangerous cult of liars, very envious of
the belief of the people they rule.
The social critic Adeniyi were is today not the same. Adeniyi has become
government’s sycophant, who unleash misleading and malicious stories about
the president to the Nigerian masses, in defense of his job or the
president? Nigerians have seen that now and before the president was
alleged to be sick. But is this not the same Adeniyi whom the populace
cheered, for his appointment at the presidency?
It is saddening today that Adeniyi has followed the tirade of change and
now he is drowned by the murky waters of Nigerian politics by exhibiting
expertise in lies, camouflaging innocent, which is the worst forms of
crime against humanity. Adeniyi, because of his prowess in the use of
pen, was to be President Spokesman like a large building or buildings
fortified against attack?
Adeniyi has castrated morality and preferred infecting the general
sensibility of the Nigerian populace who looked up to him for direction in
the profound truth, with disease of falsehood in which Nigerians suffering
from Adeniyi’s misleading stories have lost consciousness. Adeniyi was
supposed to be a catalogue, but he has preferred to be a special disorder
of the people. He is a catalogue to the president, who brings willing
consciousness of the Nigerian people to disagreement.
This disagreement the falsehoods of Adeniyi is causing Nigeria, which have
made many Nigerians become mentally sub-normal, is the application of
yellow journalism into an office which was supposed to be un-tainted;
which was supposed to be a haven of truth about the president.
It’s in Nigeria that politicians tend to die for politics and their
parties than the “common” Nigerians they are supposed to die for. Imagine
the swift our own Adeniyi has become a changed man!
Nigerians always hear harangue of politicians which sounds truthful, but
such harangue is the façade as the voice of Jacob but the flesh of Esau.
And Adeniyi doesn’t exhibit his envied wisdom like the biblical King
Solomon, but like the worldly Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, who used his envied
mandate of eight years in power, as the president of the Federal republic
of Nigeria, to be scuttling, not for the betterment of Nigeria, but
against his political foes, for the betterment of his office.
Adeniyi was supposed to be a harbinger to the masses – like the crowing of
the cock is a sign of dawn. But he rather preferred not to trail suicide
by disembowelment as practiced in the past by Japanese men when they
believed they had failed in their duty
Adeniyi has failed the belief and trust Nigerians had in him. He is now
inspired by the love of money. He is now working only for the love of
money or other reward. He can be called a mercenary. His merciless acts of
misleading information only portend menace: menace of the Nigeria peace,
stability and tranquility.
Adeniyi should know that Nigerians deserve pity, because Nigerians are
rambling, with no special destination, because the various governments did
not keep the subject, they only kept wandering, growing with long shoots
that trailed or straggled, because of such dangerous cult of liars in
which Adeniyi has become a priest.
Odimegwu Onwumere, a poet and author, is the Founder of Poet Against Child
Abuse (PACA), Rivers State. 08032552855. apoet25@yahoo.com