The highlight of the drama that is the Ibori trial at Southwark County court, South Eas
t London occurred when a lady, who claimed to be a family of the Iboris’, came to the public gallery and rained curses on Nigerians shouting: "what is the business of you people (Nigerians) in London to come to court, Na only Ibori steal money? You Nigerians will die in poverty"! That woman’s query "na only Ibori steal money”, got me wondering; how did Ibori, of all the big time crooks in Nigeria manage to turn into the bogey man of the Nigeria polity and came to epitomise all that is wrong with Nigeria?
Nigerians used to associate the evil genius, IBB, with all that is evil, but it appears Ibori and Aondoakaa have dethroned IBB from the throne as our national symbol of hate.
It used to be that Nigerians- and indeed people of other lands - used to heap the multitude of their
national problems at the feet of the person at the helm of affairs. Ex-head of state, Ibrahim Babangida used to say that a Nigerian villager whose goat suffered abortion would blame IBB.
But in the case of Yar’adua, many Nigerians seemed willing to agree with BERTH OBI, a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), that Yar'Adua is simply a good man working with bad people.
t London occurred when a lady, who claimed to be a family of the Iboris’, came to the public gallery and rained curses on Nigerians shouting: "what is the business of you people (Nigerians) in London to come to court, Na only Ibori steal money? You Nigerians will die in poverty"! That woman’s query "na only Ibori steal money”, got me wondering; how did Ibori, of all the big time crooks in Nigeria manage to turn into the bogey man of the Nigeria polity and came to epitomise all that is wrong with Nigeria?Nigerians used to associate the evil genius, IBB, with all that is evil, but it appears Ibori and Aondoakaa have dethroned IBB from the throne as our national symbol of hate.
It used to be that Nigerians- and indeed people of other lands - used to heap the multitude of their
national problems at the feet of the person at the helm of affairs. Ex-head of state, Ibrahim Babangida used to say that a Nigerian villager whose goat suffered abortion would blame IBB.But in the case of Yar’adua, many Nigerians seemed willing to agree with BERTH OBI, a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), that Yar'Adua is simply a good man working with bad people.
