ENVY OR CRITICISM
By
John Danfulani, Ph.D
Jondanfulani@gmail.com
John Danfulani, Ph.D
Jondanfulani@gmail.com
APC urchins and some of their unprincipled elements are desperately hoisting a notion in the public domain that dissenting and critical voices against the deceitful, mindless, and elitists policies of regime of El-rufa'i are saddists and envious of his aides like Mr. Samuel Aruwan.This notion was placed on top gear after Goerge Clement Makeri( GGCM) unveiled a house recently acquired by Mr. Aruwan in Buyaya.
These people are spiritedly and desperately trying to link that singular act by GGCM with other actions taken by advocates of equity, good governance and respect for Southern Kaduna people as an act of envy and deficiency in the glorious culture of "celebrating success" . In this case, I think otherwise. All critical voices against Mr. El-rufa'i and his aides like Mr. Aruwan celebrates genuine success.And will continue to celebrate people who made breakthroughs and recorded giant strides in life.
The critical voices horizontal and vertical humming against Mr. Aruwan are historically and morally triggered.Mr. Aruwan's activities during the regimes of late Patrick Ibrahim Yakowa and Ramalan Mukhtar Yero were critical of the system and actors.He was part of the advocates and advocacy that gave those regimes sleepless nights and cold shivers down their political spines. He deployed terms like gerontocracy, neglect of our people, and genocide. He narrated petty and largely undocumented history of our people. When the tenure of Governor Yero came to an end and time for hunting for a fresh mandate arrived, he was part of those that fought hard to oust Yero.They were lucky that their ship of ambition successfully weather the political storm.
From 29th May 2015 Mr. Aruwan the activist, local historian,public relations link of our struggle ,and later opposition spokesman became the media aide to Governor Nasir Ahmed El-rufa'i of Kaduna State. Since what goes around comes around,his turn to taste the bitter pill of opposition came. Instead of Mr. Aruwan to know, and accept, the fact that it's his turn to taste the bitter, he started behaving ala bull in a china shop. Mr. Aruwan and his ahistorical army of sympathizer are crying blue murder and saying people are envious of his achievements.
Let's move to Aristotlian class of logic and syllogism and see whether Mr. Aruwan and his cohorts are not dancing necked in the wonderful hall of logic. If criticism is envy, history shows that Mr. Aruwan criticized Yakowa and Yero regimes, fiercely. Can we then say, he was once infested with the virus of envy? I have evidences that we strategized how to put them on hot seats. Then, is there anything wrong for the goddess of vengeance to begin to act now that he is in power? Misters Reuben Buahri and Ahmed Maiyaki were his very friends, did that deter him from criticizing their governments? If friendship couldn't deter him, why is he and his supporters thinking that some of us his former comrades will let go? The bible holds that, those who live by sword shall die by sword. Can the bible be wrong? That aside, don't the goose and gander share the same pot of sauce?
Mr. Aruwan and his supporters are insinuating that people talking are those who didn't get appointments. When Mr. Aruwan and those spewing this took on Yakowa and Yero, was their raging predicated on lack of appointment? If it wasn't,why saying people resisting their bad and discriminatory policies are frustrated for lack of appointment? On this, Mr. Aruwan and co must be disclosing to the world that they were criticizing then because they were denied appointments. And if that was Mr.Aruwan's motivating factor, who told him/them all hearts are like theirs?
Let those who care (now and forever) accept the fact that people are only placing Mr. Aruwan on moral scale and reminding him of history. He has nothing to trigger the beast of envy in us because he is yet to be a trailblazer in any department of life. Before his present position, many were there, some of us even worked in the media and publicity office- long ago. Presently, there are four people that headed the media office( not even assistant) living in Kaduna city. These men had powers,helped groups and individuals- yet, when we criticized them(including Mr.Aruwan himself), none of them or their supporters said we were envious of their achievements.
All Mr. Aruwan has today that they are pillaring their envy mantra on, and the power he thinks he has garnered are like a diamond ring on the nose of a dirty pig to me. His inability to also accommodate criticism like Reuben Buhari and Ahmed Maiyaki is a sign of moral and ideological deficiencies, and that has buried the dregs respect we have for him. If Mr. Aruwan wasn't in government today, I knew what he would have said about the religious bill, having four Moslem LGA chairmen in Southern Kaduna, advertising of building a mosque in a proposed gold ore in Birnin Gwari etc.
So, let the ranting and envy theorists rage on. Nobody will abandon his long principles because some urchins are busy spreading some silliest tales of envy of a nonstarter and political toddler who accidentally saw power for the first time in his life.
These people are spiritedly and desperately trying to link that singular act by GGCM with other actions taken by advocates of equity, good governance and respect for Southern Kaduna people as an act of envy and deficiency in the glorious culture of "celebrating success" . In this case, I think otherwise. All critical voices against Mr. El-rufa'i and his aides like Mr. Aruwan celebrates genuine success.And will continue to celebrate people who made breakthroughs and recorded giant strides in life.
The critical voices horizontal and vertical humming against Mr. Aruwan are historically and morally triggered.Mr. Aruwan's activities during the regimes of late Patrick Ibrahim Yakowa and Ramalan Mukhtar Yero were critical of the system and actors.He was part of the advocates and advocacy that gave those regimes sleepless nights and cold shivers down their political spines. He deployed terms like gerontocracy, neglect of our people, and genocide. He narrated petty and largely undocumented history of our people. When the tenure of Governor Yero came to an end and time for hunting for a fresh mandate arrived, he was part of those that fought hard to oust Yero.They were lucky that their ship of ambition successfully weather the political storm.
From 29th May 2015 Mr. Aruwan the activist, local historian,public relations link of our struggle ,and later opposition spokesman became the media aide to Governor Nasir Ahmed El-rufa'i of Kaduna State. Since what goes around comes around,his turn to taste the bitter pill of opposition came. Instead of Mr. Aruwan to know, and accept, the fact that it's his turn to taste the bitter, he started behaving ala bull in a china shop. Mr. Aruwan and his ahistorical army of sympathizer are crying blue murder and saying people are envious of his achievements.
Let's move to Aristotlian class of logic and syllogism and see whether Mr. Aruwan and his cohorts are not dancing necked in the wonderful hall of logic. If criticism is envy, history shows that Mr. Aruwan criticized Yakowa and Yero regimes, fiercely. Can we then say, he was once infested with the virus of envy? I have evidences that we strategized how to put them on hot seats. Then, is there anything wrong for the goddess of vengeance to begin to act now that he is in power? Misters Reuben Buahri and Ahmed Maiyaki were his very friends, did that deter him from criticizing their governments? If friendship couldn't deter him, why is he and his supporters thinking that some of us his former comrades will let go? The bible holds that, those who live by sword shall die by sword. Can the bible be wrong? That aside, don't the goose and gander share the same pot of sauce?
Mr. Aruwan and his supporters are insinuating that people talking are those who didn't get appointments. When Mr. Aruwan and those spewing this took on Yakowa and Yero, was their raging predicated on lack of appointment? If it wasn't,why saying people resisting their bad and discriminatory policies are frustrated for lack of appointment? On this, Mr. Aruwan and co must be disclosing to the world that they were criticizing then because they were denied appointments. And if that was Mr.Aruwan's motivating factor, who told him/them all hearts are like theirs?
Let those who care (now and forever) accept the fact that people are only placing Mr. Aruwan on moral scale and reminding him of history. He has nothing to trigger the beast of envy in us because he is yet to be a trailblazer in any department of life. Before his present position, many were there, some of us even worked in the media and publicity office- long ago. Presently, there are four people that headed the media office( not even assistant) living in Kaduna city. These men had powers,helped groups and individuals- yet, when we criticized them(including Mr.Aruwan himself), none of them or their supporters said we were envious of their achievements.
All Mr. Aruwan has today that they are pillaring their envy mantra on, and the power he thinks he has garnered are like a diamond ring on the nose of a dirty pig to me. His inability to also accommodate criticism like Reuben Buhari and Ahmed Maiyaki is a sign of moral and ideological deficiencies, and that has buried the dregs respect we have for him. If Mr. Aruwan wasn't in government today, I knew what he would have said about the religious bill, having four Moslem LGA chairmen in Southern Kaduna, advertising of building a mosque in a proposed gold ore in Birnin Gwari etc.
So, let the ranting and envy theorists rage on. Nobody will abandon his long principles because some urchins are busy spreading some silliest tales of envy of a nonstarter and political toddler who accidentally saw power for the first time in his life.
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