Remi Oyeyemi’s jaundiced opinion about Tinubu a disaster

You have no choice but to feel sorry for Mr Remi Oyeyemi. An active mind languishing in the recesses of great men. A patriot nonetheless battling with his beliefs and obsessions. It’s quite early in the year for front and back word trading but we must take time to put a few words in for our straying compatriots and kin.

Mr. Remi Oyewole’s posts recently made in the Sahara Reporters on the “Pains Of a Godfather: Tinubu” is like that of a child who was taken to see a movie that changed his entire being and aspirations. He marveled at the man that took the leading role, so much so that anytime he told a narrative on the movie to his friends he began to blow out of proportion the magnitude and finesse of the “actor”. Make no mistakes this is not to castigate anyone for airing their opinion [even though it intrudes another man’s reputation] no, no its not – Mr Oyeyemi is obviously a fan of Bola Ahmed Tinubu. In fact it is the exaggerated accomplishments he heaped on the chief that piqued my concern.

He referred to chief Bola Tinubu as the man that put the President and almost all governors and ministers of Nigeria in office! He called Tinubu kingmaker and a king. He even called him a lion; in fact he called him God! Haba. So, this not an “in the defense of BOLA TINUBU write up, no its not. This about showing concern for the good of showing concern to someone that might be in need of our concern.

This is worrisome because the “Tinubu obsession” is being noticed to be a fast growing epidemic among wannabe political ladder seekers and pundits like Remi Oyeyemi – if they aren’t pestering at his gate, they are right here online, pestering with all sorts of comments and “notice me” analysis. But of course yes you can climb a man to fame, but come on do it with some class. Don’t sit in your house and claim to know by some bizarre calculation the feelings and pains of a man you read about in the news papers. It’s a fixation, unhealthy and harmful. such scrawls illustrates severe obsessive afflictions.

I urge every caring Nigerian to join us as we take Oyeyemi’s write up [along with him] as our evidence on the symptoms of his prolonged intellectual [I never said mental] ill health and show both to a competent psychiatrist. Portions of his write up where he said the home of Chief Bola Ahmed Tinubu is now deserted and the man lonely and sad should be areas of serious interest to the diagnosis of our ailing brother. Idle, he displays tendency of attention deficiency sydrome.

Though we must stay caution ourselves not to laugh because even the average Lagos street passerby knows that solitude and quiet is a luxury chief Bola Ahmed Tinubu cannot afford in his Bourdillon home – constantly swamped with by dignitaries and masses alike. For someone to sit sweating in dark isolation and scripting from a disturbed imagination as Oyeyemi has done is a thought for grave concern. We must show love and attention that’s all that is missing in the life of the man. Dr Sigmund Freud explained one of the reasons for outrageous behavioral patterns common in obsessive compulsive patients is actually to seek love and attention. The more the merrier, I urge all well meaning friends and family to join in the excursion of Mr Oyeyemi and his write up to” Yaba left”.

By Razaq Bab

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