Abacha family members don’t play at all o. Anyways, the season of open letters which ended two months ago has started again. The battle-line now drawn between Nobel laureate, Prof Wole Soyinka and late Military dictator’s family. Less than 24 hours after the writer was called out by Abacha’s daughter Gumsu Sani Abacha’s facebook page, another family member, Sadiq Abacha has penned a long open-letter to him. (It reads like an history lecture note tho’).
If you want to think, speak and act logically then you should know all three.
1. The law of identity
2. The law of excluded middle
3. The law of non contradiction.
Now let’s look at each one of these and see what they mean in practice.
(1) The law of identity
The law of identity means that things are what they are, which at first doesn’t seem very illuminating, but wait; it implies also the following, that things are what they are, whether you like them or not, it implies that things are what they are whether you know them or not, it implies that things are what they are whether you agree with them or not. Continue…
However, if you don’t like the facts as they are you are going to have to put up with them, because facts are what they are, if it’s raining on your golf day, get used to it! Because the facts are what they are and are often not what you want them to be, like if the traffic lights turn red when you approach, stop complaining!
The law of identity means that you must adapt yourself to the facts and start your work from there, it implies that the facts will not bend to meet your expectations. You must first adapt yourself to what life is and then get to work changing and improving things in your life, be brave to meet reality as it really is and not how you would wish it to be.
(2.) The law of excluded middle.
The law of excluded middle means that you should give a straight yes or no answer always and there is no middle ground. The law means that there is no kinda yes and kinda no, there is no ‘sort of’ being married because you are either married or you are not, you are either a thief or you are not, you are either on time or not, you are either living in Nigeria or you are not.
The law is the idea that you should not try to keep all of your options open by staying in the middle or hedging, when it suits you, like when you accepted an appointment during IBB’s regime as chairman of FRSC.
I bet that was a military regime you partook in. Please pick one wife and state your claim 100% to her, pick one idea and go for it 100%! Decide and commit Sir! There you might find great power and self satisfaction in the doctrine of decide and commit. No half way measures, no middle ground, exclude the middle! Here! The law of excluded middle Sir.
(3) The law of non contradiction.
The law of non contradiction says don’t contradict yourself simple. If you say you will be there then be there. If you say you will do it then do it. Don’t say or fight for one thing and then do the opposite. Don’t say one thing and then later deny that you said it. Don’t say one thing and then later contradict it. Be consistent in your thoughts and actions.
Observing someone who was a socialist in the morning but then became a capitalist in the evening is a textbook on contradiction, these are two polar opposites, such a person is clearly inconsistent and is therefore considered a flip flop, confused, easily led or misled or at best a lunatic who has no clear understanding of the basis of either doctrine.Apply these three logics to others with consistency and then you can ask for the same or expect the same from others, and then you can also ask for others to deal with facts not fantasy, which is the law of identity. Ask others to make up their mind to decide and commit. The law of excluded middle.Then ask others to follow through on the things that they say they would do. The law of non contradiction.
Sir, I believe brilliance is not perfection. I have grown and watched you criticize regime after regime and at that young and naive age I was thinking why wouldn’t this man just contest to be president so that Nigeria can be saved, I would have defiantly voted for Mr Soyinka if it would have brought an end to Nigeria’s woes. To my utter surprise, I heard about your FRSC leadership and how funds were misused and a great deal of it unaccounted for. “Oh my God! In the end he turned out to be just the same as everybody else” were my next thoughts. My hopes for you, all ended up in great disappointment. Here I find myself defending my father 15 years after his death because some of you have no one else to pounce on, or rather, you have chosen a dead person to keep pouncing on over and over again when you have more than an array of contestants.
A coward’s act I believe. “A common writer” is what I have heard you being referred to lately, and I believe a mature mind would now agree to such referrals. With all due respect, there is a great challenge that faces the country, we have to put our heads together, rather than clashing, our collective ships must sail in the same direction, let us leave the ghosts of past contention and face the future bravely as one, criticizing the past does not help the present or define a path to the future.
You say, with the weight of your sense of history and the authority you possess on national issues that ” a vicious usurper under whose authority the lives of an elected president and his wife were snuffed out” referring to my late father, you must be growing old, or you would rightly recall that that president elect you refer to did not die while my father was alive. Did you slyly change your facts to fit a history that would better serve your narrative, or are you just plain forgetful? Either way, it shows you are losing your grasp of reality.
Comparing my father’s leadership to Boko Haram’s current reign of terror, is a rather cheap shot, you are in no position to examine, judge and sentence an entire regime based on the information you think you have, you are privy to almost none of the true facts, what is at your disposal is at best, hearsay, or were you ever minister of defence? did you ever sit in during security meetings, evaluate the facts and subtleties of national security?
You remind me of Obama criticizing the Republicans before he became a sitting president himself, vouching to put an end to all American occupation, this all came to an abrupt end once he had access to the briefs and security issues, economic and political, facing his nation. Surely he did what he could, and history will judge him.
To lead is not to be a rock star, and to be a Nobel laureate is not to be a an antagonist of this countries legacy..We are Africa’s leaders, whether we like it or not, we cannot trivialize the centenary celebration, it happens only once, let us come together, if only for this one occasion and agree to disagree.
Open rebellion against the current government at this time, on the manner of the centenary celebrations, for whatever reason, is tactless, it is not about you, it is about our nation, our beloved country. There is a time and place for everything. My late father was a Nigerian, lived in Nigeria and died protecting our interests to the best of his ability, critiquing placing him on the honor roll, along with many deserving dignitaries is your right, you have the right to your own opinions, but you do not have the right to your own facts.
Facts stand alone, regardless of who espouses them, let posterity judge, but you are clearly politicizing a dead issue, how could you not be? Having an issue with the naming of a hospital after the late General and leader? really ? Now ?
It almost seems as if you want to turn back the hands of time, what else would you like to undo besides the naming of the hospital, would you like to unmake Bayelsa state, Zamfara state or the others? What about the advances we made in commerce, reducing the inflation rate, what about security and welfare, how many projects, hospitals and schools were created? inflation went from 54% to 8.5%! my father oversaw an increase in our foreign currency reserves from 494 million dollars in 1993 to 9.6 billion dollars by the middle of 1997, that is unprecedented.
15 years after the PTF the benefits are still being reaped today in Nigeria, What of peace keeping and nation building, not just in West Africa but the entire continent, restoring democracy in Liberia and Sierra Leone, all these under my father’s leadership, are all these not laudable? Or would you like to undo them all. All this on 8$ per barrel of oil! You have to be kidding me.
You are a learned man, you would have to undo all your learning to knowingly wish to undo all these achievements! I will be the first to proclaim that my fathers leadership was not pitch perfect or spot free, that does not exist, maybe in utopia but not here on this earth, so let us keep our discourse set in the sphere of reality please, he deserves the award, and he did not campaign for it, let it go, Sir…and allow Nigeria to at least bask in our survival and endurance in our growing prosperity and development in these trying times.
I have been accused of being an optimist, hence, I am optimistic that you will come around and accept that we can all come together and face the future together, forgive each other our wrongs while celebrating our rights, I am still an admirer of your works after all, however, I cannot and will not attempt to answer your every charge, this is not the time or place, this is a time for solidarity, if only you were wise enough to grasp this.
I applaud the patience of President Goodluck Jonathan and his composure and restraint in not having a knee jerk reaction at such a pivotal moment in our nations history, but you would mar the occasion, Sir, in the future, please pick your battles, and do better to safeguard your relevance, Enough Sir!
Abacha.
I can't make heads or tails of your lecture note but one thing is, you can never equate your father's atrocious acts to Prof Wole Soyinka's alleged FRSC fund embezzlement. Your father caused many people pain, sorrow and agony. That will not be forgotten by Nigerians. You all should bury your heads in shame.
Oo ga! E ka boo!! C story!!! I almost choked when I read *my father died protecting our interests to the best of his ability* am sure d interest was 4 Abacha's family n not Nigeria as a nation.. Now we knw say ur papa try send u go schl maybe its in d north PTF still work not here…. Ur father's regime was bloody n d worst in our history… Shikena
PR
Its not the Abacha's fault now is it? If not for our dumb president who does not know his left from right,those Abacha brats wont be sying trash now. All their assets should have been liquidated.
Sadiq you did not tell us how your father and you anass all the billions of dollars stashed away in Swiss banks and banks all across Europe and elsewhere. The money your own mother said your father was saving for Nigeria in his private account?. How come you were the sole importer of Nigeria's oil you shipped and refined abroad? What about the raid on the central bank with military vehicles? All these you want us to forget? Professor Soyinka said the truth.
I don’t expect a different response; of course Abacha was his father! Even if ur papa na thief, na still ur papa#bloodspeaking#.
However Mr Sadiq, it still doesn’t change the fact that ur father was a tyrant, a killer and a big thief! The worse time of my life, a time of untold suffering and hardship was during your father's reign. I remember how we used to take it as a serious prayer point during morning devotion for God to KILL ur father!! God indeed answered us!!! I have not seen the Nigerian people any happier, even when we won the world cup, like the day your father died. It was jubilation in its highest!!!!
Young man, we are really not supposed to be directing all of these accusations at you, but the fact that you dare to raise your voice trying to defend your father is sickening to me and a direct insult to all of us that were mercilessly downtrodden during his reign.
So plssss take my advice, park well and SHUT UP!! Make I no hear ur voice for media on dis issue again oooo!!!
Law of identity..law of goat meat..law of Ewa agonyi..blah blah blah!!!…bitch shut the fuck up and stop trying to sound like u have any common sense. This idiot sef wan dey use literary euphemisms. Are u not the son of a murderous armed robber? So what makes u think any normal person will wanna hear what u have to say? Its like being hitlers son and trying to give a speech about world peace! Hahaha! FUCK OFF
Still laughn at "I remember how we used to take it as a serious prayer point during morning devotion for God to KILL ur father!! God indeed answered us!!!". Sadiq, u'r nt worthy to insult a literary icon like Wole Soyinka, from where to where now? Yorubas have a saying, "Oro o dun lenu iya ole" meaning speech isn't pleasant in the mouth of a thief's mother. Your father must be clapping for you in his fiery grave now. Rubbish, who else in your clan is talking cos I've seen you guys are taking turns.