except that which emanates from him or is ordained by him.”“He is surely
a better wine connoisseur and a more successful “aparo” (guinea fowl)
hunter than a political critic, not to talk of what he would do as a
politician,” adding “I take him seriously on almost all issues except on
the political particularly Nigerian politics.” Obasanjo wrote
Soyinka described Obasanjo as an expert in telling lies and a
shameless man. Read below:
“I despise that species of humanity whose stock-in-trade is to concoct
lies simply to score a point, win an argument, puff up his or her own
ego, denigrate or attempt to destroy a fellow being.(Continue)
“However,
even within such deplorable species, a special pit of universal
opprobrium is surely reserved for those who even lack the courage of their own lies, but must foist them on others.”
For now, let me single out just one of the most glaring instances of this man’s compulsive career of lying, one sample that the media
can readily check upon and use as a touchstone – if they do need one –
in assessing our author’s multifaceted claims and commentaries on people
and events.
“I refer here to the grotesque and personally insulting
statement that he has attributed to me for some inscrutable but
obviously diversionary reasons.
“In the process, this past Master of
Mendacity brazenly implicates an innocent young man, Akin Osuntokun, who
once served him as a special adviser.
Instead of conferring dignity on a direct rebuttal of an ignoble
fabrication, I shall simply make a personal, all-embracing attestation:
“When
an old man stuffs a lie into the throat of an age-mate of his own
children – omo inu e! – we can only pity an irredeemable egomaniac whose
dotage is headed for twilight disgrace.”
“In this season of goodwill, we owe a duty to our immediate and distant
neighbours: CAVEAT EMPTOR! Let all beware, who try to buy a Rolex from this indefatigable watch peddler,” he said.
“Our
author invokes God tirelessly, without provocation, without necessity
and without justification, perhaps pre-emptively, but does he really
believe in such an entity? Does our home-bred Double-O-Seven believe in
anything outside his own Omnipotence?
“Could he possibly have mistaken the Christian exhortation – ‘Watch and Pray’ for his private inclination to “Watch
and Prey?”“This is a seasoned predator on others’ achievements – he
preys on their names, their characters, their motivations, their true
lives, preys on gossip and preys on facts, preys on contributions to collective undertakings…..even preys on their identities, substituting his own where possible,”