Ose Anenih: The folly of an insolent son

Anenih

By John Igbinovia

Dear Ose,

I read, with consternation, your pathetic attempt to defend your dad, “Mr. Fix-It” (sorry, Chief Tony Anenih), in your rather insolent rejoinder to Mr. Bayo Onanuga’s passing reference to the original author of “No Vacancy in Aso Rock”.

A truly sensible boy would have avoided getting involved in such sensitive issue, lest ancient family skeletons were excavated from shallow grave.

Not surprising, a firestorm of ripostes has since greeted your juvenile musings in the media space.

However, I observed a few points were missing in those epistles. Hence, this addendum of sorts.

Ose, it is obvious your dad told you lots of “tales by the moonlight”, to gaslight your impressionable mind. Far from principled, your dad’s politics was characterised by treachery and mercantilism. Your dad not only betrayed MKO and Nigerian nation as SDP chairman in 1993, but also Shehu Musa Yar’Adua who had made him SDP chair at the Jos convention in March 1993.

At the 1994 national confab sponsored by the military to “bury June 12”, General Shehu Yar’Adua (Rtd) had moved the motion for Abacha to end military rule latest by January 1996, with your dad as one of the foot-soldiers at the confab.

Of course, that resolution by the confab headed by Justice Adophus Karibi-Whyte riled dictator Abacha. Hence, the intrigues that necessitated the confab to adjourn indefinitely, almost immediately.

Not long afterward, Yar’Adua was detained over the 1995 “phantom coup”. And no sooner had the confab recovened thereafter than your dad switched loyalty to Abacha after accepting a dirty brief to move a motion to counter the motion earlier moved by Yar’Adua. Just like Judas Iscariot betrayed Jesus Christ over 2,000 years ago!