By Ameenu Aym, Abuja
I just finished reading one piece titled :
*Letter from Prof. Ndubuisi Ekekwe to Aliko Dangote:* https://lnkd.in/e_WAZ7GS
This writer did nothing but engaged in hailing and goading of Aliko to take on the government over a problem that can be solved once prayers, wisdom, tact and patience are applied!
I didn’t want to write to you but an inner voice kept nudging me on and telling me to put my thoughts to paper and offer you a piece of unsolicited and public advice based on my perceptions over this issue.
The purported letter of encouragement to you is filled with silly pride and Truimphantalism !
It does not offer a single word of advice to you on how to peacefully resolve the issues but has done a lot to encourage you to take on the gauntlet and fight, and fight.
You will receive many of such letters and messages and proclamations where you’ll be pronounced and tagged as “Our New Hero” and other such idealistic tags etc.
Take no heed to them as these letters and many more to come before you in the next couple of days and weeks will do nothing but encourage you Aliko to commit a form of self immolation or Hari-Kari, which is a form of self suicide practiced by the Japanese warriors in ancient times, and of recent during the Second World War.
The attached piece is nothing but a poisoned chalice that you Aliko should and must beware of.
Beware of hailings at this point in time.
In my opinion, failure to heed to my timely advice is to go along the path of self destruction, where you are virtually and literally going to be set up to take on the myriad of the internal and external forces lined up against you.
The goading and hailings has the tendency to send you into the same cesspool of carcasses left in the cemetery where the victims from their past hailings and goading are dumped into the coffin of history.
Take no heed to their songs of praise now or in the future, but simply plan on how to achieve an amicable settlement with the other side in order for peace to reign, and for the continued economic progress and stability of your good self and of our nation.
Your latter day advisers are not sincere people because most if not all of them were those who attacked and called you all sort of negative names and toxic tags in the recent past.
They are your traducers who turned around to become your hailers today because they believe they have found a new folk hero who can take up the fight against the enemies, which is the government on their behalf.
These class of people are those who would praise any man they perceive as being confrontational with the government in Nigeria, and they have seen you as their latest recruit !
For them, they look at your case as that of, “the enemy of my enemy is now my friend !”
Be mindful that a vast majority of these class of people hate Nigeria, and hate anything associated with any government that would emerge in Nigeria once they are not the ones in the saddle of power !
Their publicly stated vision and mission is to destroy Nigeria from within and without.
If you have to, go ahead and fight your fight Aliko but don’t listen to the morbid gang of hailers and haters lest you loose it all. They are nothing but coffin chasers!
This is an advice from a man who considers you to be an elder bother, and who has known you along with another man he considers as a lifelong friend, brother and in-law, i am referring to your late brother of blessed memory, the late Sani Dangote whom I have known and associated with right from our childhood over 50 years ago, right from the famous Koki quarters of Kano City where you all grew up.
Problems are meant to be solved, solve this problem Aliko … but don’t fight anyone’s battle please!
Beware of the ides of March, No beware of the ides between January to December – Aliko.
@aaa
