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nd theorist-in-chief of Yoruba Nation, had disowned the Ibadan tragic romantics of April 13, with the same fervour as he had serenaded Sunday Igboho’s earlier rascality on the same cause.
Yet, Adams too was among the South West non-state actors punching above their weight, at the feverish froth of anti-Fulani hysteria. “Gbogungboro”, you will recall, was Professor Akintoye’s now rested column in The Nation. It did for the Yoruba what Camara Laye’s Radiance of the King and the French Negritude Movement did for the Black race: over-praised the past of both almost to a stupor.Gbogungboro soon burnt itself out. But its intellectual ferment would later find a new and vicious home in Yoruba arrogance and gangling hubris during PMB’s Presidency.
That was the explosive ogre that brought Sunday Igboho storming into the picture as “saviour” of the Yoruba interior from the imperial Fulani — Igboho, hitherto known as a partisan fixer and enforcer. Between the “peaceful” bragging of the Akintoye/Igboho letter of April 17 and the DRY damp squib of April 13, it isn’t clear which was more reckless.
Yet, Tinubu got “nominated”; and was promptly “defeated” by Akintoye as the Asiwaju Yoruba! Talk of a “me-too” syndrome! It was the classic Yoruba “egbinrin ote”! Yet, Prof. Akintoye’s Yoruba radicalism at old age hardly differs from Prof. Chinua Achebe’s exit drama. That iconic writer left his people that bilious book, There Was A Country, with its skewed history of the Nigerian Civil War .
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