Playing With The Power of Questions

Playing With The Power of Questions

In castigating the volte face of certain kindred of the former president who have publicly denounced him as being lily-livered (especially one grand pa like that), the impervious Abati expressed a very common local sentiment no sensible subscriber will argue against: "Will all these have been said had GEJ won?"

He moved beyond those initial stinging comments to claim that Jonathan's loss was attributable to power-play. That nebulous attribution, clear as it may be to him, evokes questions that may not jell well with him and his co-travelling acolytes. But that has never stopped my asking, anyway.

They shouldn't bother you too. I pray.

Here:

1. Back at him, straight away - If Jonathan had won, would he have come forth so?

2. If this was true, was the patriotic thing not to join in the titanic battle to make sure the rest of the country is rescued from the power game that had Jonathan locked on all fronts?

3. In the power-play to which he referred, was the GEJ-camp stolid? Or were they not that play's most vociferous and active component thoroughly trashing the weatherworn image of the ex-general?

4. Had they spent a fraction of the energy expended on their own version of this power-play in burnishing the image of their principal and another fraction in hemming in the excesses and rambunctiousness of Mama Peace's utterances, perhaps oga Jona would still have a job better than being an Election Observer in Africa.

5. If anyone was to cry of power-play victimisation, is he utterly certain that the GEJ-camp's whining is justified?

6. Aren't these the antics of a cremated pen pusher seeking to once again command some relevance?

7. Can't he at least confess that Nigeria is finally free to claim her lost glory and redeem herself so that while he quietly resigns to the dustbin of history's lost and forgotten, he can perhaps get closure?

I have more questions but never mind.