Your nation, my nation, our nation is presently burning with “burning” points. It wasn’t my intention to think about to any of them or to look at any of them right here at the moment. I’m, nevertheless, attempting to safe-guard myself as a columnist towards tomorrow by uttering the little statements I’m uttering now with regard to the burning points I’m going to call shortly.
Earlier than then let me re-state myself: By my giving my little consideration to what I’m going to concentrate to now, I’m solely attempting as a columnist, common or unpopular, erudite or not erudite, to disembarrass myself. How or why would a columnist or a public mental or public commentator price his or her salt not touch upon public or burning problems with the day? What a humiliation it will be if she or he is mum or neglects to make an observation of any vital matter of public or of seeming public curiosity and concern?
Thus with out irony of additional debate with myself I made a decision to talk from my coronary heart wholly and sincerely in a spirit of enlightened magnanimity or of considerable generosity – which isn’t and may by no means be in need of beneficiant generosity. My practice of thought now derives from this consideration and understanding.
The primary burning difficulty which I’m beginning with – is the favored – or higher outlined by me because the infamous Farotimi-Babalola tug-of-law. I’m amused by it. And the whole lot I’ve been studying from and by particularly those that can simply cross because the pro-Farotimi people and anti-Babalola chaps is especially out of tune with the practicability of the reality or of the very fact of the matter which they need to promote or are selling.
As far as I can understand it or as I’m perceiving it they’ve turned or are turning Aare Afe Babalola who has claimed to be defamed into the under-dog relatively than the top-dog. Afe Babalola, SAN, isn’t any imply lawyer. He’s a prime, prime Nigerian lawyer whom many Nigerians have been schooled to see and settle for as a legislation genius and as somebody who has lived the lifetime of a person of genius.
His accomplishments in legislation and outdoors the follow and educating of legislation, no matter his traducers might say, communicate volumes and take the sample of inevitability related to the person of sound sense. He’s thus very outfitted because the top-dog within the drama that Farotimi has created and dragged him into.
Within the eyes of the “human rights” preachers and advocates who’ve taken the case of the duo into the court docket of public opinion the younger, upstart of a lawyer and possessor of a caustic rhetoric and tongue, is the top-dog-who shall and should defeat the now down-trodden Afe Babalola. How has the mighty one fallen! However is that this actual or can this ever be actual in the end? Time will inform from its womb on the appointed time that it’ll instruct it to inform us what it should inform us.
However what the pro-Farotimi people and human rightists have dished out and are shelling out is half of the reality or removed from the reality: A lot of them – like this poor man, yours – very sincerely, haven’t learn the ebook whose claims towards his status and particular person Afe Babalola is contesting, difficult and has written a petition to the Nigerian Police about. Those that disagree with Babalola achieve this and are doing so – on the grounds of his methodology or process which enervated the Police to behave because it has acted.
They don’t seem to be saying that Aare Babalola has no grounds to allege that Dele Farotimi, the ebullient younger lawyer of the Obidient camp, has defamed him. They’re saying that considered one of this nation’s final legal professionals ought to have adopted a distinct process or methodology to prosecute his case and struggle for his rights which he’s entitled to as Farotimi is equally entitled to his.
I’m not a Barrister-at-law so I don’t brabble as a brabbler right here. Or ought to I be brabbling as a brabbling brabbler now? In any case, ought to the anti-Babalola chaps be allowed to dictate – as they’re dictating – to him the best way to go about his complaints/case? Abruptly they need Babalola to just accept that they’re higher and smarter than him within the matter and enterprise of legislation. Fascinating occasions are right here in your nation my nation our nation! How disgusting are our fascinating occasions! How disgustingly fascinating and apparently disgusting!
I’ve fastidiously learn Aare Afe Babalola’s petition from the start to the tip a number of occasions. I’ve my opinion which I’m maintaining to myself on a number of grounds. I’ve not learn Dele Farotimi’s ebook so no matter I’ll utter right here might not and can, the truth is, not cross as an goal or balanced opinion – although I’ve watched Dele Farotimi’s movies a number of occasions on the difficulty. In addition to, the case is within the court docket already. I don’t need to be accused as an offender of the legislation. The courts of legislation, or higher, of justice, will ship their judgments dispassionately and impartially consistent with what presently exists as our justice system as our structure dictates.
However let me comment as follows: Regardless of the disabilities of every get together could also be, might they even stand them in good stead consistent with the neutral, dispassionate and goal practicability of the decrease courts as much as the Supreme Courtroom.
Public opinion or crowd intimidation or gang up towards the top-dog or bottom-dog from which angle anybody views the matter, this burning difficulty, shouldn’t matter and shouldn’t come into play or into rivalry or into consideration. No distractions of no matter color or of no matter form ought to be given any consideration in any way by the legislation that’s the legislation.
Let me, nevertheless, utter what might enter right here or ought to cross right here as an anti-conclusion. Let those that need to die or reside dangerously Die or “Stay Dangerously.” I’ve in my very own peculiar means echoed Friedrich Wilheim Nietzsche (1844-1900), German thinker, poet and critic. The selection is Dele Farotimi’s and Afe Babalola’s.
No matter occurs, or, what’s going to or that shall prevail should prevail. Stay or un-live dangerously, Oh combatants! You’ll go away an eternal legacy for our age and posterity. I say this as a literary detective within the method of Nietzsche.
To be continued.
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