A PLEA FOR LUCIDITY: A REBUTTAL TO THE OBDURATE OBFUSCATION
By adakole Elijah
Dear Eche-Ofun,
I perused your Rebuttal with a mixture of amusement and incredulity, and I am compelled to entreat you to elucidate the veracity of the statements uttered by the Distinguished Senator Abba Moro in sundry media fora.
Specifically, I implore you to clarify whether the following averments were not deliberately targeted at the venerable Senator David Mark, a titan of Nigerian politics.
Senator Moro’s words, “to take decisions based on grievances, failed expectations arising from frustration of rising expectations,” were ostensibly employed to vilify the leadership of the coalition. Pray tell, who is the leader of this coalition? Is it not the inimitable Senator Mark? And if the Senator’s depiction of the leadership is couched in such pejorative terminology, does it not constitute a direct assault on the Senator’s character?
Furthermore, in a subsequent television interview, Senator Abba Moro ignominiously averred, “Don’t forget that we still have two former Senate Presidents and many ex-governors already still in the PDP. They are not walking away. Sometimes, some of these exits are good riddance to bad rubbish because some of them may have been responsible for the crisis we have in this party today.”
I pose the question: Is it not patently obvious that the Senator’s insinuation regarding the two former Senate Presidents was a direct allusion to Senator Mark’s egress from the People’s Democratic Party?
Is Senator Mark not endowed with the inalienable right to exercise his freedom of association and decamp to any party of his predilection? Should he be subjected to calumny, opprobrium, or even vilification for exercising this fundamental right?
I beseech you to pinpoint where I have perpetrated a calumnious falsehood.
Let us eschew obfuscation and equivocation, and instead, let truth and clarity reign supreme.
