Renowned scholar and newspaper columnist, Prof. Pius Adesanmi, just took Gov. Ayo Fayose of Ekiti State, to the cleaners. The controversial Governor incurred the cerebral writer’s wrath over his recent trip to China and amidst unrelenting criticism of President Muhammadu Buhari:
By Pius Adesanmi
You said he was sick.
You said he forged an interview.
You predicted his death.
You got money that was meant to fight Boko Haram and spent part of it buying newspaper centrespreads predicting the death of your fellow man.
You have spent one year being the face of the opposition. A tragic indictment on the opposition that a clown like you could become its spokesman. The man is not delivering on too many of his promises. An intelligent opposition could help him and also help deepen our democracy. But in a field of mediocres you have emerged as less mediocre and slightly less lunatic than your kinsman, FFK.
The man has greeted your juvenile tantrums with silence.
Instead of facing your ponmo and eja shawa so beloved by the folks you govern, you put one leg on top of another leg and went to China to humiliate your President.
Now see what lack of critical intelligence has done to you. Behold your funny and laughable self behind a bare podium in a shopping mall. The laughing stock of the world. You leave the ponmo – loving crowd always hailing you in Ekiti to go and struggle for photo ops in front of a faceless mall crowd in China.
The most painful part of this messy business for me is that the carpenters of Afao Ekiti can make far better wooden podiums than the one you travelled all the way to China to admire.
As for the aides who allowed those backfiring and tragic photos of you to circulate, take them off the ponmo roaster for five months. ‘