Thursday, April 06, 2006

Dumb and dumberer

It's been a while that I heard very funny remarks and I became stupefied when I heard some recently.For someone to be appointed as the Deputy President of a country, it must have been confirmed that he is sound both physically and mentally. His IQ rating would have been confirmed high enough for him to occupy the revered position.It's not news that people who aspire for such posts are astute men of great wisdom and integrity, who are knowledgeable about many things,especially the ones that affect people's lives.I therefore became flabbergasted when I heard that to prevent infection after he knowingly slept with (not raped) an infected lady, he simply went to the bathroom. In his words, " I took a shower to reduce the risk of infection after unprotected sex with an HIV-positive woman".What in the world was he thinking? That the AIDS virus is like filth which caan be washed off?! C'mon!Haba! I know without any element of doubt that Mr Jacob Zuma is much smarter.Could it be that the shame of impeachment steals composure and understanding from a man?And to even think that he was once considered to be a favourite for the President of South Africa after Thabo Mbeki is stupefying.
And nothing worries more than the thought that a journalist who works for an astounding media house like BBC who cannot simply relay someone's words to the whole world without manufacturing insinuations.As much as I am against third term, I did not see anything that looked like Mr Fani-Kayode saying that the president will run for third term. "What he [Mr Obasanjo] said is that God is not a God of abandoned projects. What he was referring to are the economic policies of this nation. What he's referring to are the economic reform programmes that this administration has set in place," the presidential spokesman explained.
"It does not necessarily mean that that means that God is going to use him in the future." Abi how does that correlate with "Nigeria's president will consider his options to stand for a third term, guided by God and other considerations, his spokesman says" tori olorun?!
Please report what you hear and not what you think.
The saying is true that the world apppears yellow to a man with yellow fever.
It's a funny world you know.

2 comments:

EKENYERENGOZI Michael Chima said...

I want to commend all the Nigerian bloggers who have taken time to discuss the topical issues in Nigeria and you are in fact doing so with so much passion.

Our leaders and our elites and the ruled are the same garbage in garbage out.

But, God is not deceived by the hypocrites who are fond of name dropping of God to fool the ignorant masses.

Power belongs to God.
Nigerians are on trial and God is the supreme judge.

God has shown me the future and the future is brighter and greater.
God will not fail us.

"Only the best is good enough for us"
~ Bishop Ajayi Crowther.

Anthony Arojojoye said...

Amen Oriki.
Thank you very much.