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| Amaechi and Jang |
In Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar,
there is a talk about two lions littered in one day, one being more
terrible. The same cannot be said for Governors Chibuike Amaechi and
Jonah Jang, the way they are going about their roforofo fight
over the imaginary chair of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum. Amaechi calls
Jang an impersonator while Jang calls himself the authentic NGF chair.
It is a dance of the absurd that is taking the toll on the polity.
For a fact, this issue must be quickly
resolved. If Jang is an impostor, he has to get the hell out and if
Amaechi is, so be it too. This macabre dance is good to some extent, but
it is losing its fervour for lingering for rather too long. Such a
dance is executed without delay and much care. It is like the one called
“Opanda Ichida” in Igboland. The Igbo say that if the dancer does not
dance to it like one newly gone insane, it does not synchronise; and so
is the macabre dance engaged in by Amaechi and Jang, too. To decide the
winner, the duo has to dance naked in the hot afternoon, as one Abuja
itinerant poet once put it.
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