GEJ’S VISIT TO OAU AND AJIMOBI’S VISIT TO U.I.: A PARTY OF SYCOPHANTS!

‘Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process, he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you’- Friedrich Nietzsche

I left the Great Nnamdi Azikwe Hall for the library that evening to hearken to the cautionary cries of my books. Of course, it was the period of our first semester examinations and the heavy log of accumulated courses on my neck needed to be lightened. I advanced towards the Students’ Union Building and met a fleet of cars with an intensively built security around them. For a moment, I feared commotion would let loose amidst the deafening noise that occasionally erupted from the building. Someone nearby shrieked, ‘Ajimobi is around’. In the early days of September 2014, gubernatorial elections are around April 2015. Shoes of dishonesty must be laced; the race must go with a corrupt pace!

I wriggled my way into the room, and was greeted with an energy negating our collective regrets on insensitive administrations. I saw students brewed in intellect and character, hopping and sweating as though GOD Himself was physically in the hall. I saw ‘stake-plunderers’ swaying and singing in disdain and in cheap sales of integrity. I saw my friends trampling on the tears and worries of our nation as their feet thumped the grounds. I felt a mother betrayed and humiliated by her own fruits. That night, every word uttered by Ajimobi albeit uninspiring was greeted with polluted ecstasy, bitter laughter and applause that plugged the nation into further mess. We were doing a terrible thing! Our consciences whispered it. Unfortunately, the whims of greed enveloped our reasoning!

Senator Ajimobi squeezed #500,000 into bellies that night, stomachs that would have still survived if he never came. Bellies that by now, have long forgotten the tainted money consumed. Everyone looked like monsters unwilling for a change and desperate to devour the miniature value left to treasure. I left the building with falling hopes as their sweats fell off their bodies!

Just last week, our dear President visited Obafemi Awolowo University. Annoyingly, we were made to believe stones were thrown at him and that Ayo Fayose was showered with tantrums. To what end is a protest when supposed frontiers have been silenced with hopes of enlarging pockets? What relevance is attached to a battle wherein the gladiator has sold his men? Similar to Ajimobi’s visit to the University of Ibadan, dear Students’ Union Executives of the University gave the President a surprisingly warm reception even after the wrestle of several months in an internal strike owed to the merciless increment in tuition fees. Contrary to the cock and bull story that flooded media houses on GEJ’s hypocritical visit, the administrators of this Union having swiftly obliterated memories of the recent travails and anguish subjected to by the Presidency, they were all out in the business of deception. Youths were swept off by his coming and easily forgot his thoughtless involvement in the sky-rocketed fees that rendered thousands useless for many months. Pilots of Obafemi Awolowo University clustered GEJ like ravenous wolves around carcasses, only to take pictures and selfies. Reels of disgraceful and polluted laughter followed in the session with the students of great ‘aluta’ IFE.

When one gets in bed with the government, one must expect the diseases it spreads!

We sit in our rooms and bemoan the state of the nation; we hold meetings and condemn the corruption bedevilling every sector of the economy. However, every slight opportunity afforded us to drive in our grudges and dissatisfaction as youths, our anger is always soiled by greed. Suddenly, we become temporary worshippers of a deity swaying shamelessly to the beats of corruption.

I hope our hearts are pierced with the woes we wallow in at the moment and we stand for justice regardless of whose ox is gored!

We cannot continue from where they stopped. It is unacceptable!

Jegede OluwaKayode

Editor-In-Chief TechPressOrg

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