I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. -Robert Frost, “The Road Not Taken” Reacting to news that our friends in the Federal House of Representathieves were quibbling as expected over the N320 million they had voted for Kolanuts, Gulder, and nkwobi to celebrate the joke that the rulers of Nigeria call “Democracy Day”, Rotimi Ogunsuyi, a progressive voice in Nigerian internet listservs, wondered aloud if epe (curse) didn’t come automatically with the territory of rulership in Nigeria. Interestingly, one of Dimeji Bankole’s paid quislings, totally tone deaf to the irony and gravity of the big picture, had forwarded the story in a laughable effort to showcase his corrupt Principal’s probity. I am beginning to think seriously about the plausibility of Ogunsuyi’s funereal reading of ...
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