By Bamidele Johnson
There are not many things I’ll put beyond a guy, who once took his four wives-as though they were Olympic medals-to the House of Representatives where he’s the majority leader. Not many things, I repeat, because he can do all things. Well, almost all things-to avoid exaggeration.
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The purpose of taking his wives to work was to tell his colleagues how powerful he is. In his bizarre world, the SI measurement of power is multiple marriages, prolific breeding that had yielded 27 children at the time and, according to him, to be continued. His own father, he said, left 40 children, including very young ones he’s taking care of. The father, by the way, lived for a little over eight decades.
Ado-Doguwa, safe to say, is comfortable with absurdity, perhaps from childhood. The wife parade was found hilarious by many except women who quickly explode at perceived denigration of their gender and those who constantly shop for outrage.
But many, including his colleagues, laughed at the time. His latest installment of absurdity is, however, unlikely to provoke the high-wattage laughter enjoyed by his colleagues when they saw his wives. It is evidenced by a viral video in which he assured a crowd of less than pleasant consequences if they do not vote for his party, the APC, in the coming elections. They will be dealt with was the message.
Unless you’re of the same persuasion as Ado-Doguwa, you must see his words as nailed on, stonewall, granite fireplace, marble kitchen counter voter intimidation. No ifs. No buts. Freedom of choice is a concept that is alien to him. But I doubt that any of his four marriages was at gunpoint, which would mean he exercised his freedom of choice when assessing the women’s assets and even the number to marry.
Ado Doguwa has for company in the blooming local neo-fascist community a peacher in the South East whose name I can’t remember. In a video I first saw around July, the preacher-obviously with a large following-could be heard telling his Igbo audience that whoever fails to vote for Peter Obi of the Labour Party in the presidential election should be chased out of Igboland. I’ve seen preachers try to influence voting decisions, but never as coarsely.
In 2015 in Lagos, Oba Rilwan Akiolu, who is rarely sighted in public these days, told Igbo voters at a meeting that they must vote for Akinwumi Ambode, the APC candidate at the time, or perish in the Lagoon. A video recording of the meeting showed him telling his audience that he was not begging them and sneeringly said something like you guys can’t be doing in Lagos what you do in Onitsha. I wonder why he didn’t even make them sign a pre-ballot agreement. I doubt if members of the Igbo community in Lagos felt said when #EndSARS protesters smashed up his palace and put his staff of office for sale on Jiji.ng.
There are many more with this neo-fascist mindset and they’re thriving and will continue to because we’re inclined to be silent when such hideous rhetoric is of potential benefit to our political desires. What is wrong can’t be right.
Culled from the FB page of Bamidele Johnson
