Basket mouth

The late Dele Giwa, a prominent journalist, was a real one. He would be there to confront anything he deemed unfit head-on and even face-long. He dared not what anyone would do to him. He was later handed a parcel-bomb during the Babangida era which he personally took pains to open.
M.K.O Abiola was determined to become the president at all cost. If it were for him to declare the works of the presidency during that time evil, he did not care. He was tenacious about telling people his views about the situation of things. His incarceration later lead to his death which he picked up from the teacup.
Dr. Tai Solarin (of blessed memory) was more explicit about things he never loved. He brazingly castigated regimes when he felt their actions were bad. His package was frequent visits to the prison. He even had a prison bag which he always kept in his room. He would pick it up each time it was time to go on holidays (all expense paid by the military regime of Nigeria).
Nelson Mandela spent many useful years of his life behind bars because he could not just live with the fact that he would have to keep quiet and simply do nothing to what he saw around him.
Ken Saro-Wiwa was not even given a chance to repent of his words and actions before he was executed by the Abacha regime.
Silvio Berlusconi of Italy would have won the last polls if not that he was too outspoken and did not think that there some things should or shouldn't be said. He said the Chinese (the main backers of his rival) used to boil & eat babies. He goes down as one of the greatest people with basket mouth tendencies.

The show of disgust and dislike or love for a particular thing could incur the wrath of those who are ardent supporters of it. I mean to say that being an antagonist or protagonist is a big deal. You're gonna have to deal with everyone who is passionately against your views. God help you if you don't have the capacity to withstand the barrage.
Chief Festus Odimegwu, who happens to be the MD of Nigeria Breweries PLC and a board member of the highly revered Transnational Corporation of Nigeria Plc (Transcorp) has just steered the hornet's nest by saying that he fully backs and infact will die for a third term for the president of Nigeria. His stance reminds one of someone who broke a wasp's mudhouse. Now the wasps have come out in their dozens. The remaining board members have decided that he should step down because of his utterances. He hadn't even talked when people had started saying that Transcorp was institutionalised by the President to fund his third term ambition. He nailed their coffin by his utterances. The board of directors, wary of being pointed out as a machinery of third term has decided to do away with him.
Many say he's expressing his views and should be left alone. I ask when politics and professionalism had a common room which they share. When did seasoned businesspeople become mouthpieces and towncriers for political programmes. Great wonders Obasanjo has a stronghold on many people, wielding them to sing as he pinches them.
Now shareholders of Nigeria Breweries have decided to dump their investments and people have said they would no more drink his beer (I wonder how that's possible) if he continues to take that stand.
Why is it that politics spreads deep into every part of the Nigerian life. Can't this businessman just continue making his money by facing the business before him? Is it necessary for the industrialists to also join in the puppet game? Even if you are a supporter, who asked to know of your opinion?
There's always a reward for being a basket mouth. Silvio will teach you from experience.
I'm definite that he has a price to pay for his open die-hard embrace of the devilish program. We shall no more drink Star, Gulder, Legend or any form of Odekumicine. Shikena!
Please my people co-operate & stop drinking beer.