Soludo's Intellectual Fraud vs El Rufai's Solution Of Anger And Innuendo.

Who ever invented the saying that "When two Elephants fight,the grass suffers" clearly never had El Rufai and Soludo in Mind.He omitted the fact such a fight could be very entertaining to the 'grasses and trees' watching. 
In between the jabs, DDTs, close lines. brogue kicks,shell-shocks and KO punches,these two intellectual cum political greats obviously never saw the need to be less personal and more objective in their tirades. 

Game face

No doubt, "all is fair in love and war",but not in mud-slinging or "spilling the beans" (to borrow El Rufai's diction.For anyone,whom like, me is fascinated by men who speak from the guts, he'll be quick to applaud the writings of Prof Soludo in these words: 

Contrary to his narrative, most of us in government knew that El-Rufai desperately wanted to succeed President Olusegun Obasanjo as president. He plotted and schemed, destroying anyone perceived to be potentially in his way. Obasanjo scorned him; the scheme through the PDP Reform Forum failed; and with the bid to replace Major General Muhammadu Buhari in Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) still a work in progress, it is understandable that the bitterness would find succour in a book to smear and destroy any known potential threat. 

But wait a minute.As much as I value these guttural 'Confessions of a bankaholic',what I do find unacceptable and questionable is the fact that all these 'beans' of El Rufai's were existent in the knowledge stash of Prof Soludo ,but weren't deemed necessary to be spilled  until TAPS was published, read by Prof and found to smear him and his.

The simple deduction from all this is the truth that Prof's revelation as contained in the quote is plainly borne out of personal,retaliatory,and 'an-eye-for-an-eye'motive ,rather than objectivity, altruism and true patriotism or for  'public records' as some might be moved to think.Who knows? Perhaps, there are other acts and omissions which he has deliberately contrived to keep a secret, maybe until the publish of another offensive TAPSesque memoir.. 

Turning now to Mallam El Rufai,he puts in a quick sturdy defense as such-hear him;

Still spilling the beans

"He repeats the frequent charge about my ambition for the presidency in 2007, a charge that is untrue but that is often echoed as if that ambition, if it existed, is akin to treason. Charles knows that I do not consider illegitimate his desire to be governor of his state or his current hopes to be a presidential running-mate.But he should know better than most that ambition for office is not the only reason for being active in politics. Since Charles has claimed that I ‘schemed desperately’ to succeed Obasanjo, he should please tell all – inform Nigerians what I did, who was involved and spill the beans"! 

Granted, gunning for the apex political position in the most populous and powerful black nation, with the most lucrative political offices in the world would be a sure lure for even a Tibetan monk.His perceived interest in the seat of the boss could never be seen as 'akin to treason'.Never! 
However,what baffles me is how he continues to speak of himself both TAPS and his rejoinder to 'Intellectual fraud'. The highly enlightened Mallam found it very attractive to see himself as the most, if not the ONLY honest and pious member of the  much maligned Obasanjo crew. 

Since I read Mallam's rejoinder on this issue,I have tried to practice what he claimed to have to facilitated his verbatim quotations of meetings,consultations and even private conversations.To empirically follow his theories,5 notebooks were procured by me for this purpose and shared among 4 young men  myself inclusive, with fair brains (if the WAEC, JAMB, UNIBEN and Nigerian Law School standards are anything to go by). But I must hastily confess that the retrieval of an accurate, verbatim record of our conversations with people, have been a total fiasco.Let the reader not be pushed to think these 5 men are intellectually deprived in the least. Except of course El rufai's brain is so perfect that the need for a recorder would be obviated after all. Still yet,Science has it that most details and conversations becomes vague and faint in the mind of the average human being within 3 to 5 minutes.
Thus, if Mallam El Rufai took out his note books and Diaries every 5 minutes to record his transactions with people, rumours of his compulsive note taking disorder would have sipped into our ears.But since we never heard that,then El rufai,never took notes intermittently or made his jottings several minutes or hours after those conversations!Need I tell you how unreliable and inaccurate such recordings would be?
Well,till Prof decides to hit back again,or maybe publish his much awaited book, lets continue to relish the sight of two elephants in a rumble since such scenes don't come too often.
Till I feel irked to punch my keyboard again, its bye for now.Just do me a little favour;keep praying for our Nation!