What does a mad man do? He walks randomly half naked or completely naked on the street. He picks pieces of papers along the street. He busies himself reading the papers even when there is no writing on them. He talks alone to himself. He laughs alone to himself. He is in the world of his own. He believes and swears that whatever he is doing is right while every other person is wrong.
Of course, psychologists and or medical scientists have concluded that every human being has some elements of madness in him or her: that the difference between the one that roams the street naked and the one that prides himself as normal is the percentage of normalcy and madness. They say that if the percentage of madness is high, the person is mad and if the percentage is low, he is normal. But that the one with low percentage would once in a while display some form of madness, even if in a flash.
One then begins to wonder what percentage of madness has gotten into a man who is supposed to be in charge of affairs of millions of people down south Nigeria. This man has been doing things exactly like the one that walks alone, talks alone and laughs alone on the street.
Here is a man who is so obsessed with President Muhammadu Buhari that he has virtually gone crazy or mad or both. Here is a man who says and does strange things, like how much the President spends in travelling to particular places as if he is the chief accountant of the Aso Rock that dispenses the cash; like what the President does and says even with his (President’s) wife as if he is an evil spirit that follows the President around even in private confines; like accusing the President of being the cause of the nation’s economic woes as if he is just coming from the outer space and therefore doesn’t know that the country had been battered for sixteen years before the coming of the President; like saying that the President is persecuting members of a particular party as if he doesn’t know that it is only that party that had been in power for sixteen years and therefore, it is only those who were members that had the opportunity of access to its financial resources which they stole with impunity, and so on and so forth. Even today, the man down south accused the President of traveling to the United States of America to attend an international Security Summit when power generation had stopped for some hours in Nigeria, as if it is the President that was in the power generation house.
And, just on Tuesday, the man down south came out with a bang: no Chibok girl was abducted!!!
To be sure, for over two years now, the nation had been agog about the abduction of over 200 female students of the Government Girls Secondary School, Chibok in Borno state by members of Boko Haram. There has also been international outcry over the kidnap. Parents of the girls have not only come out to shed tears but at a certain stage, were privilege to meet the immediate past President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan in Aso Rock. Photographs of the parents were taken and featured in both national and international media of communications. And, yet, the man woke up from an obvious deep slumber, feeling giddy and dizzy, about two years after, to say publicly, and with pride, that the girls were not abducted? What is this if it is not a high dose of madness?
Even when someone like Olisa Metuh, the de-facto leader of what remain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has piped low, as a result of the baptism of EFCC fire for his fast fingers that would not allow Naira and Dollars to rest; even when someone like Godswill Akpabio, the man with sharp mouth against the President has slowed down to acknowledge that the President and indeed, the All Progressives Congress (APC) were not responsible for the economic crisis, even when his accomplice in the Buhari’s phantom illness during the campaign, Femi Fani-Kayode has been silenced against the backdrop of the EFCC’s open fire on him over N800 Million he looted, and even when the former Senate majority leader under the PDP, Senator Victor Ndoma-Egba is now drumming support for the President, our man down south, now virtually isolated even by the people in the same party, still believes that it is only him that is right.
Indeed, he believes and swears that whatever he is doing is right while every other person is wrong.
Yes, democracy allows free talks, but it doesn’t envisage a situation where a man would talk alone about just anything that comes to his mouth without consulting with his head. Democracy doesn’t envisage a situation where a man would constitute danger to himself and relishes in it. Democracy doesn’t envisage a situation where an ex motor park tout would put a whole state, made up of highly educated, highly enlightened, widely traveled and intelligent people into shame.
Take it or leave it, there is this philosophy about a normal man, through his efforts at attaining height in his calling, earning fame at the end of the day, and an abnormal man – the mad man – through his efforts to pull down his personality and the personality of his fellow human being earning notoriety. Our mad man down south has attained a first class notoriety, and shamelessly so. So mad he is that he doesn’t even know that each time he opens his foul mouth and the news media help him with what comes out of such mouth, his notoriety shines the more.
This man down south may not know, but the fact is that he is hiding behind his finger, democratically. It is madness unlimited. [myad]
