Now for those whom the name means nothing, Dr Patrick Wilmot was a Caribbean intellectual who lived in Nigeria for eighteen years. He was so Nigerianised that he even married to a Nigerian woman. Patrick Wilmot was one of the more ‘radical’ university teachers in the heyday of collegial excellence in Nigeria. Although Wilmot was not as vocal a ‘radical’ as Dr Bala Usman, he was an effective grey eminence behind the amorphous progressive movement in Nigeria. For most of the years he spent in the country, he taught Sociology in Ahmadu Bello University.
In 1988 his deportation from Nigeria by that greasy dictator, otherwise called Ibrahim Babangida, was a cause celebre. Babangida’s cheka-like secret service had come up with obscurely-explained charges against Wilmot and had railroaded him out of Nigeria. Although Wilmot has been living in London for years now, he still sees Nigeria as his de-facto country.
Patrick Wilmot was Jackbooted out of Nigeria just because he dared to state things as they are no bullshitzing...his Pedigree is not of this world...he was quite a threat and was sent packing because of all the security reports received in respect of his activities(by the gap-tooth one).
Eherm...a very effective agent of real change does not have to be Vocal.....what you say and do sets you apart from all the obviously radical ones.....thanks
