To those who say that all those who participated in the Pro-Buhari movement in 2015 (including Soyinka, Obasanjo, and countless well-meaning Nigerians) must be downgraded because they were wrong, and being wrong once means they should not be trusted again; you can now have your reply.
No authority relying on human ability and resources can know in advance the complex march of politics or history nor discern the opaque zone of human intentions. Being infallible should never be a requirement for an epistemic authority.
Further, one can imagine a religious fanatic, who believes that Buhari would turn out to be a failure. He forms this belief not on the basis of good evidence but on the basis of religious bias and raw rage against the North. Even if he turns out to be correct; we still ought to find him blameworthy. His results and procedure are not deserving of praise. Religious rage, bias, guess work, fussy reasoning, ethnic sympathy and the likes do not just lead us astray, they reflect negatively on us as rational inquirers.
This is interesting...! But then, the society at large is really eaten up by sentimental rodents. Hence, if you parade yourself to be objective, you look like an outcast. Well, religious sentiments or biases also affect the 'inhere religious fellows' that pretend to sample 'it is well' when in actual sense, the damage becomes more irreplaceable. Nigeria system of rule is so paradoxical that if you are therein, 'nothing is wrong', all you see is workable system until you are outside before the hazard and the tsunami of overthrowing instability becomes overwhelmingly visible to you.
ReplyDeleteThe call for objectivity and bias free mind is for all in this country. Let us stop to always assuming that the truth is always from a bias and sentimental minds. In actual sense, you see clearly the game when you are outside the court.