Abacha's Son (Sadiq) Takes Soyinka To The Cleaners Over Comment On Dad

Dear Sir,
If you want to think, speak and act logically then you should know all three.
1. The law of identity
2. The law of excluded middle
3. The law of non-contradiction.
Now let’s look at each one of these and see what they mean in practice.
1. The law of identity
The law of identity means that things are what they are, which at first doesn’t seem very illuminating, but wait; it implies also the following, that things are what they are, whether you like them or not, it implies that things are what they are whether you know them or not, it implies that things are what they are whether you agree with them or not. However, if you don’t like the facts as they are you are going to have to put up with them, because facts are what they are, if it’s raining on your golf day, get used to it! Because the facts are what they are and are often not what you want them to be, like if the traffic lights turn red when you approach, stop complaining! The law of identity means that you must adapt yourself to the facts and start your work from there; it implies that the facts will not bend to meet your expectations. You must first adapt yourself to what life is and then get to work changing and improving things in your life, be brave to meet reality as it really is and not how you would wish it to be.
2. The law of excluded middle.
The law of excluded middle means that you should give a straight yes or no answer always and there is no middle ground. The law means that there is no kinda yes and kinda no, there is no ‘sort of’ being married because you are either married or you are not, you are either a thief or you are not, you are either on time or not, you are either living in Nigeria or you are not. The law is the idea that you should not try to keep all of your options open by staying in the middle or hedging, when it suits you, like when you accepted an appointment during IBB’s regime as chairman of FRSC. I bet that was a military regime you partook in. Please pick one wife and state your claim 100% to her, pick one idea and go for it 100%! Decide and commit Sir! There you might find great power and self-satisfaction in the doctrine of decide and commit. No half way measures, no middle ground, exclude the middle! Here! The law of excluded middle Sir.
3. The law of non-contradiction.
The law of non-contradiction says don’t contradict yourself simple. If you say you will be there then be there. If you say you will do it then do it. Don’t say or fight for one thing and then do the opposite. Don’t say one thing and then later deny that you said it. Don’t say one thing and then later contradict it. Be consistent in your thoughts and actions. Observing someone who was a socialist in the morning but then became a capitalist in the evening is a textbook on contradiction, these are two polar opposites, such a person is clearly inconsistent and is therefore considered a flip flop, confused, easily led or misled or at best a lunatic who has no clear understanding of the basis of either doctrine.
Apply these three logics to others with consistency and then you can ask for the same or expect the same from others, and then you can also ask for others to deal with facts not fantasy, which is the law of identity. Ask others to make up their mind to decide and commit. The law of excluded middle. Then ask others to follow through on the things that they say they would do. The law of non-contradiction.
Sir, I believe brilliance is not perfection. I have grown and watched you criticize regime after regime and at that young and naive age I was thinking why wouldn’t this man just contest to be president so that Nigeria can be saved, I would have defiantly voted for Mr Soyinka if it would have brought an end to Nigeria’s woes. To my utter surprise, I heard about your FRSC leadership and how funds were misused and a great deal of it unaccounted for. “Oh my God! In the end he turned out to be just the same as everybody else” were my next thoughts. My hopes for you, all ended up in great disappointment.
Here I find myself defending my father 15 years after his death because some of you have no one else to pounce on, or rather, you have chosen a dead person to keep pouncing on over and over again when you have more than an array of contestants. A coward’s act I believe. “A common writer” is what I have heard you being referred to lately, and I believe a mature mind would now agree to such referrals. With all due respect, there is a great challenge that faces the country, we have to put our heads together, rather than clashing, our collective ships must sail in the same direction, let us leave the ghosts of past contention and face the future bravely as one, criticizing the past does not help the present or define a path to the future.
You say, with the weight of your sense of history and the authority you possess on national issues that ” a vicious usurper under whose authority the lives of an elected president and his wife were snuffed out” referring to my late father, you must be growing old, or you would rightly recall that that president elect you refer to did not die while my father was alive. Did you slyly change your facts to fit a history that would better serve your narrative, or are you just plain forgetful? Either way, it shows you are losing your grasp of reality.
Comparing my father’s leadership to Boko Haram’s current reign of terror, is a rather cheap shot, you are in no position to examine, judge and sentence an entire regime based on the information you think you have, you are privy to almost none of the true facts, what is at your disposal is at best, hearsay, or were you ever Minister of Defence? Did you ever sit in during security meetings; evaluate the facts and subtleties of national security? You remind me of Obama criticizing the Republicans before he became a sitting president himself, vouching to put an end to all American occupation, this all came to an abrupt end once he had access to the briefs and security issues, economic and political, facing his nation. Surely he did what he could, and history will judge him. To lead is not to be a rock star, and to be a Nobel laureate is not to be a an antagonist of this countries legacy..We are Africa’s leaders, whether we like it or not, we cannot trivialize the centenary celebration, it happens only once, let us come together, if only for this one occasion and agree to disagree.
Open rebellion against the current government at this time, on the manner of the centenary celebrations, for whatever reason, is tactless, it is not about you, and it is about our nation, our beloved country. There is a time and place for everything. My late father was a Nigerian, lived in Nigeria and died protecting our interests to the best of his ability, critiquing, placing him on the honor roll, along with many deserving dignitaries is your right, you have the right to your own opinions, but you do not have the right to your own facts. Facts stand alone, regardless of who espouses them, let posterity judge, but you are clearly politicizing a dead issue, how could you not be? Having an issue with the naming of a hospital after the late General and leader? really ? Now ?
It almost seems as if you want to turn back the hands of time, what else would you like to undo besides the naming of the hospital, would you like to unmake Bayelsa state, Zamfara state or the others? What about the advances we made in commerce, reducing the inflation rate, what about security and welfare, how many projects, hospitals and schools were created? Inflation went from 54% to 8.5%! my father oversaw an increase in our foreign currency reserves from 494 million dollars in 1993 to 9.6 billion dollars by the middle of 1997, that is unprecedented, 15 years after the PTF the benefits are still being reaped today in Nigeria, What of peace keeping and nation building, not just in West Africa but the entire continent, restoring democracy in Liberia and Sierra Leone, all these under my father’s leadership, are all these not laudable? Or would you like to undo them all. All this on 8$ per barrel of oil! You have to be kidding me.
You are a learned man, you would have to undo all your learning to knowingly wish to undo all these achievements! I will be the first to proclaim that my father’s leadership was not pitch perfect or spot free, that does not exist, maybe in utopia but not here on this earth, so let us keep our discourse set in the sphere of reality please, he deserves the award, and he did not campaign for it, let it go, Sir…and allow Nigeria to at least bask in our survival and endurance in our growing prosperity and development in these trying times. I have been accused of being an optimist, hence, I am optimistic that you will come around and accept that we can all come together and face the future together, forgive each other our wrongs while celebrating our rights, I am still an admirer of your works after all, however, I cannot and will not attempt to answer your every charge, this is not the time or place, this is a time for solidarity, if only you were wise enough to grasp this.
I applaud the patience of President Goodluck Jonathan and his composure and restraint in not having a knee jerk reaction at such a pivotal moment in our nation’s history, but you would mar the occasion, Sir, in the future, please pick your battles, and do better to safeguard your relevance, Enough Sir!
Sadiq Abacha

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11 Comments

  1. Olanrewaju CEO Bewaji5/3/14 8:11 pm

    Words can be manipulated so easily, but peeps who are not gullible and who don't play to the gallery can read between the lines. Abacha may not have been a murderer as that was never been proven anywhere (the details we will leave for another days discourse). But what we all certaily know for sure is that he was an unrepentant, ignoble looter of common wealth, surely no different than other Nigerian leaders or citizens who have been in such a position, but most assuredly without any doubt whatsoever an infant terrible looter, given the tons of looted Nigerian funds repartriated back to our shores from his ghostmode offshore accounts all over the world. In other climes he would be tried and convicted even in death and all this spoiled brat kids would have had to start afresh like all others if none experiences jail time for aiding and conspiring with the deceased.

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  2. The boy can defend his father to high heaven afterall he was a product of a man whose sadistic orgy knew no bound. We still remember the dwarfed dark googled illiterate solder who ruled by brute force and whose perverted mind was legendary. In sane climes, this spoilt boy should be striped of all ill-gotten well and made to pick his live from the street. Bi oka ba bimo sile, oro lobi.

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  3. Wahala goes to town! Abacha is all that you guys have said and much more but seriously,he had some achievements.That isn't even what bothers me. What bothers me is that every Nigerian knows the problems in Nigeria but no one is talking about solutions. We go round and round in circles playing the blame game and no solution is forthcoming. We can blame Abacha all we want but that wouldn't make Nigeria a better place.
    So many times someone will do a well composed piece of how money has been looted or the evils of a serving public servant or something(they all always fall under the category of problems) and then they send it round on all social media,from BBM to facebook and the likes. Such write ups always ends with "repost till it gets to the authorities". I have no problem with such but I await the day when such write ups will be suggestions of brilliant ideas and solutions to specific areas of economy,security e.t.c.

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  4. Nice one sadiq, Soyinka is as guilty as charged.

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  5. So is Abacha's Son (Sadiq) saying that the $9.6billion foreign currency reserves left by his father was stoled by Abdusalam Abubaka because Obasonjo said that he met the foreign currency reserves empty when he resume office in 1999?

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  6. Politics of looting in Nigeria will make an intereting academic reseach for nigerian students.

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  7. Sadiq,it is rather unfortunate that it is only in nigeria we can have likes of you talk... if you must know your father was a mistake a great one that still affects the image we have a s nigerians in general...Barely a day after this nonsense article you think is meaningful the american govt has declared confisticated over $400million your assumably honorable father stole,not to mention the livesa he took.
    please my brother beg for forgiveness because the sins of the father will come to hunt you and your sons,nephews and nieces....our God is a God orf vengeance..can you ask yourself why none of the abacha clan cant come out to socialise and mingle like an average nigerian,go for parties or venture into politics if indeed your father left a good legacy....
    Look dont be decieved Pres Jonathan remains the president of this country and we all should join hands and pray for him,he seems to lack the guts and bravado to be the president like nigeria,but he is so at the moment,his mistakes are so unforgiven among which he has deemed it fit to honor your father late Generak sani Abacha......
    please no beef intended hust stating the obvious,the Abachas remain nigerians anyway...

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  8. Yes agreed abacha was a tyrant and a thief who stole most of the country's wealth but he is dead and we have recovered some of the funds.But the problem is that we like decieving ourselves in this country because I know if Abacha were to be alive today he will be seen as an elder states man regardless of his atrocities.Nigerian citizens are filled with cowards that is why the future is always worsth than the past.We are here talking about a daed thief when we can not face the living ones.IBB is still alive today being celebrated as an elder statesman even though I see his atrocities worsth than that of abacha what have we done to him.TY danjuma is alive despite the fact that almost all the illegitimate military coup in nigeria was masterminded by him,Obasanjo spent eight years in Nigeria he couldn't build even one refinary not even renovating the old one but within that period he built himself a refinary in soutome,today he is one of the celebrated leaders in Nigeria.this is just to name few of the thieves we have in nigeria we still have many more criminals like this ones I mentioned but what have we done to them.If we can't bring this criminals to book while they are still alive then I suggest we should just shut up cos talking of the atrocities of a dead man is act of cowardice.

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  9. Hmmmm,what I have to say is that in Nigeria here stealing of public funds by d people connected or approved by d cabals are legitimate and right and dat is y u see Jonathan honouring Abacha who stole so much that d stolen money is been talked abt till today even by d American government and his shameless and stupid son called Sadiq could open his mouth to talk,Jonathan himself is not ashame to honoure Abacha bcause himself has surpass d stealing rate of Abacha despise he has not rule upto 8 years so they have all legalise looting of our treasure and that is those criminals will never want Nigeria to split so that they can keep stealing our money and at d same time enslave d masses wit poverty,lack of good education,lack of power supply,fuel scarcity,using boko haram to sacrifice d innocent blood to their demons that supply them evil power among many things they are using to enslave d people

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  10. As far as am consigned abacha is no difference from IBB, T.Y danjuma and obasanjo..because all this people also murdered and looted immensely during their time...the surprising person there is T.Y danjuma, though he was never the president but believe me that man looted and even murdered more than all the president. .if anybody in this country is to be blamed for the present woeful condition this nation, that person is LT Gen. T.Y Danjuma bcos he was a part of virtually all the coup in this nation. one thing i do agree with sadiq is that wole soyinka was never a leader of any thing in this country but always want to criticize ..and hearing sadiq say the only leadership position IBB gave him as chairman FRSC was also filled with discrepancies also proves that.
    Finally, i want to appeal to Nigerians to please forget the past and face the future, let us only use the past mistakes to correct the present. let us restrain from attempting to incite and provoke the masses to turn them against our leaders...let us take a leaf from other nations that have gone through revolution recently and know its not the best for our nation...i see GEJ as a humble and gentle man willing to change Nigeria but without our support that might be very difficult or won't work. God bless our nations and Nigerians.

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  11. Sadiq we are going to watch, your family closely because your father has exausted your relivance, just look for some were peaceful and enjoy your share of the loot till it runs out because I will tell my children what your family is made of so that in there time they will not make any mistakes. I give it to you, you are well grounded academically looks like brilliance runs in you family along with wickedness people should not be on the same stage with your family for any honours

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