The man who wears the shoe, they say, knows where it pinches. Professor Wole Soyinka, having never walked even an inch in the worn, mangled shoes of the severely impoverished denizens of Rivers State and other parts of the Niger Delta region.
Having never lived in a region where the land and waterways are so horribly polluted by uncaring oil and gas conglomerates, may never know the depth of their pain and suffering.
Heck, he didn't even care to know the real underlying causes of the Amaechi-Jonathan rift.
Instead, he accepted a one-sided story presented by a clever,
manipulative, and arrogant chief executive with a morbidly fascinating proclivity for self-destruction.
The great professor, I'm afraid, has been thoroughly seduced by a wily, tyrannical, corrupt, and power-drunk provincial overlord who has thus far, done a masterful job in painting himself as a hunted kitten and a persecuted sheep.
Soyinka's recent outbursts, "-mere domestic appendage of power-" was bad enough, considering its chauvinistic overtones. His vitriolic attacks on Mrs. Patience Jonathan, her missteps notwithstanding, was a shocking display of paternalistic condescension quite uncharacteristic of the Nobel laureate.
Hoping to exploit the crisis in Rivers State to its advantage, the APC has made several overtures to Governor Amaechi, including openly inviting him to decamp from the ruling PDP.
Professor Wole Soyinka is not, to my knowledge, a member of the opposition party, but going by his public stances of late, I'm starting to see him as a plant of the All Progressives Congress.
With his frequency in public show of support for Governor Amaechi, acting at times as his mouthpiece and hired gun, the great professor is in fact, becoming a bodacious political auxiliary to a fast diminishing provincial overlord.
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