A nation that forgave a certain Muhammadu and made him president has no moral scaffold to stand on and condemn James Ibori who served a six-year prison term for his crime. If your grouse is that he sought to celebrate his freedom, then look around you properly, and see the other crooks you celebrate, from the Lagos strong man, to the Kaduna short man, down to your Daddys and GOs who emotionally manipulate the ignorant and vulnerable and part with their money; look to the very cabinet of the "incorruptible one" that presides over you at the very top, the one who cleared his grass-cutting staff from all wrong doing, look to your cowardice in the face of these staggering stealing, and talk about something else. In the face of soaring prices of food and commodity, in the face of a currency that is continuously turning to mush, in the face of near genocidal onslaughts in Kaduna, in the face of everything that should make a people squirm in horror, Ibori is the least of your problems right now.
One realises the kind of mindset our 'national' leaders have when one sees their response to ethnic issues. How would one explain that Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso left everything he was doing and went down to Ile Ife to became a self appointed mediator in the Ife crisis insisting that "justice must be done"? While it is absolutely wrong for there to have been such senseless carnage in the first place, one cannot but wonder how cat got His Excellency's distinguished tongue when dastard killings took place in Agatu, Southern Kaduna, Nassarawa, Zaki Biam and other places where herdsmen were reportedly the prime aggressors. There was no need for justice to be done in such situation. Those lives did not matter. Unwittingly, he has shown that his classification is in the category of the FFKs of this world: national by face, tribal by mind.
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