You know, when our politicians get hit by conscience, they become entertainers in a bid to curry favour and hoodwink the people
Symbolism becomes the currency of their trade, and from there, we start to see vacuous projects and initiatives backed by a massive media push.
One such happened very recently in Imo State
The Governor decided to host one of those huge talkfests that amounts to nothing
By the way, we are now the world’s capital of talk
Daily, we are assailed by one conference or symposium. Breakfast dialogue or the other
The labelling is so creative that you begin to wonder precisely what is going on
The one that gets me the most is the fireside chat. That one really makes me laugh unendingly
Anyways, back to Imo. That is how someone had the clever idea of bringing the Former UK Prime Minister to come and speak
This would have been massive in their eyes. A UK PM in a backwater IMO Sttate would bring the world’s media, reposition IMO as being ready for business, and finally and much more importantly position the Governor as a man ready for international inclusion.
What they didn’t factor in was the ‘fabu’ that one was going to regal them with
As is the case with me and all these multi-million Naira talk shops, which achieve nothing but put money in the pockets of the organisers and event handlers, I paid no heed
Then I ran into a clip of Boris and decided to take a small listen, and what I heard was pure fabu
He was in the Middle East with a very wealthy American. According to Boris, this American was so wealthy that he had tens of billions of dollars, and he owned villas too numerous to even remember.
Mr Johnson, looking at the very gullible audience, complete with a Governor looking lost, continued.
He even flies two Private jets at the same time just in case ‘pea nut finished in the bar of one’
So he asked this very wealthy American, Which country is the next new wave of growth
He stopped at this juncture, the camera panned to the Governor, who by this time was already messed up with a combination of an inferiority complex, lack of capacity and being star-struck, kept his eyes and mouth wide open waiting for the answer
A good liar says the lie with a straight face and moves on, but a terrible one will start to dress the lie, package it before he drops it
He does this cos he himself does not believe in the lie, so his conscience will be beating him, and he will need to really mould it like the Ibo man moulds his morsel of eba bf swallowing.
Mr Johnson, I kid you not, did precisely this on the clip I saw
.. I asked him which country was the next wave… He stopped for a second, looked at the audience and started moulding the lie
You will not believe what he said, “he continued. I kid you not, I asked him which Country is next, and the American looked at me straight in the eye. You will not believe…
He stopped for effect, rustled his hair and shouted – Nigeria
Big lie. He knew he had just given the biggest fabu of the year and was worried that it may not have sat well with some people in the audience
Mbok left to the Governor, that one had already been sold to the devil, but Mr Johnson was not sure of the rest of the audience
I kid u not, he said Nigeria – he continued very emphatically
Nigeria will surpass China and Russia. Nigeria will have 5million new babies, he screamed, and that is growth, he concluded
Mbok, I look at this mumu ex-PM and wonder why these things still happen to us
He didn’t end there but hailed the ‘giant strides in Imo, the wonderful development in the place and reserved special hailings for his host very quickly…
By this time, the hokus-pokus was already too much for me, as I just switched off and left.
Mbok, who is this scattered-haired blonde with a rumpled cheap suit who, for a morsel, came here to massage the egos of deflating politicians
That was just such a terrible outing, downright disgraceful, and the worst kind of puppeteering that I have seen.
I didn’t watch to the end, so I will give the benefit of the doubt that just may be somewhere in that talk, he would have redeemed himself
But from what I saw, this palace clown certainly had no intention to go against his briefing
He just came to pancake the Governor, lend his weight to a gullible audience and give us fictitious stories that we were expected to swallow cos he once peed at No 10 Downing Street
Could he have been a Trump and said exactly the truth about the situation in our country and offered workable solutions based on his experience as PM?
God forbid, would he have offered to send me advice or work on projects in Imo with a view to strengthening corporate governance and the rule of law, with the hope that it would positively impact the people?
This one was a rap artist who had his time on stage, rapped, and jumped on the next available flight, having done his bit and left.
This Boris was just a lacklustre performer who came and whitewashed his audience to the elegant joy of his hosts
This Boris was part of a sick pantomime, and he was the worst performer and should never try an encore.
Thanks
Come and beat me
Duke of Shomolu
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