MrFixNigeria, Please Fix Yourself – By @Obajeun

After my hand washing in my kitchen, I stood still on the topmost floor, expecting the arrival of the day’s musings. It was a cold, brooding day in Lagos, long day and humid. The river behind my apartment had shrunk and black crows gorged on bright mangoes in still, dust-green trees, just by the street side. Bananas ripened by the washing effect of time and the atmosphere, mangoes burst. Depraved green butterfly hum gormlessly in the fruity air. Then they stunned themselves against my clear windowpanes and died, utterly puzzled in the rising sun.

Yours sincerely knew that that morning was clear but suffused with languor and surly expectation. I just didn’t know why until I stumbled over some tweets attributed to Godwin Ohimai’s twitter handle. The tweets were meant to smear GMB. Very clear, somebody needs to fix himself; either GMB or Ohimai, for the tweets weren’t just hollow, but also lacked scions of brainy elements. Somebody is hungry.

There is no point joining issues with a jobber, but for the purpose of fair hearing, I will help you with some knowledge. You have a knowledge gap, my base assumption. Otherwise, you might need more than my tips, may be a total overhaul.

A consensus appears to have emerged that Nigeria cannot continue along the lines of the present economic and political disorder and imbalance. While an alternative is brewing with gusto, fears seem to have engulfed the coast in the ruling class. Now the dogs are barking!

Given the vagueness of development, a condition that had heightened class contradictions, progressives have become critical of state policies, leading to a creeping antipathy between the state and intellectual forces. The state would rather seek economic and political advice from uneducated intellectuals who are now being promoted to lord over unsuspecting populace. But it is one thing to uncover the roots of misbegotten shallowness as in the case of Ohimai’s hallow assertions; it is another thing to know how to reclaim a lost heritage because we have vested wisdom power in the hands of the one whose stomach is hungry for daily bread.

Ohimai should know that the biological nature of human evolution has disproved the essence of age in human management. What counts more is the wits, the cobwebs, the slings, the hindsight individuals have been able to gather in the course of their evolution. So it is not about 72 or 57, it is about what makes up the 72 or 57. I make bold to say that Ohimai’s generation is not ready, not ripe, in terms of its evolution, it stocks, its know-how, its ambition, its influence, to take the lead in Nigeria. Sadly, we are still stuck with my father’s generation, but this is the same generation that has proven its undisputable readiness for complex human management.

Society is a human machine that shapes the evolution of man from past to present, then to the future. In which case, every individual is expected to have a past. In the sociology of human evolution, the past is an in-process to the present, while the present is an in-process to the future. It is based on this evolutionary sociology that football coaches determine the selection of their winning eleven. The players that are currently in form have better chances of winning future games.

Ohimai’s change agent is JEG and based on JEG’s current form, the serial special assistant believes that JEG can deliver the future. Then this brings us to the debate of whether it is possible to have an educated illiterate in a living form as a human.

Buhari’s stiff stance and his unipolar interpretation of any misgiving as corruption shows that his telepathic understanding of our current peculiar mess is urgently needed to salvage our unforced running jump into irredeemable absurdity. If his old age has made him to acquire this needed hunger, then we should pray that he grows older and become hungrier. If this is what we guarantee our future, then he is the future we need.

With Buhari’s roadmap to a new Nigeria document, I am not sure of the extra details of Buhari’s plan Ohimai is so dying to have. The old man never forced himself to lead, he contested, and he won. The same way he will contest in 2015 and win. Why are people mentally lazy to research before they make deductions?

Yes, Buhari has his past, just like Ohimai, even Wole Soyinka he quoted copiously. Buhari may have detained people unlawfully, he may have ordered summary execution of some people, and nobody is disputing this. That is why we are not painting him as Mr. Perfect. But his current form leaves us with no other option. To allow your past to hunt you till death means you never evolved as a human and you never lived.

Ohimai tells stories of the gods, but his yarn is spun from the ungodly, human heart. As he noted in his last tweet, I concede to him his right to be sad, always, till this country is fixed.

Jonah Ayodele Obajeun blogs @www.obajeun.com. He is currently watering his beards. Reach him on twitter via @Obajeun