By Ibrahim Kabiru Dallah
Deji Adeyanju exudes a petrifying stench and debauchery. It is very easy to sight or sense a Nigerian adult whose childhood was disfigured permanently in formative years. Even as adults, they still flaunt an aura of self-importance very egoistically; but act like untamed forlorn urchins, whether in cities or villages of domiciliary.
The basic belief in such fellows is that muscular might or insensible vociferousness solves every problem around them in the world. So, they hanker to fight in public to attract attention and loudly demean anyone suspected of antagonism or disgrace to a deserted dignity from birth. Devout your precious time to listen to anyone of them, but you will not find a plausible point to take home.
Usually, these delusive beings would claim knowledge of everything in the world, but barren of the idea that their daylight shadows trail them behind. Self-styled, Nigeria’s street/ emergency activist, Deji Adeyanju fits into the description perfectly. He holds a sharp sword that noone should dare come close to contest the crown with him.
In the university as an undergraduate, in Bayero University Kano (BUK), Adeyanju was in the faculty of humanities. He was nowhere even near social sciences, much more science! Adeyanju studied English, spent less time in lecture halls, but wangled his way to have a certificate of graduation as a terror and gangster leader.
A university environment populated by over 5, 000 students, only Adeyanju and a few members of his gang in same varsity were fingered in the murder of a Kano millionaire businessman in his house under the cloud of darkness. Thereafter, he romanced jail.
And desperate to exculpate himself, he aligned with the godfathers in PDP; a political party Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka once described as peopled by a nest of killers. Adeyanju was freed by what the Ota farmer, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo (OBJ) would call “magu magu” arrangement and he returned to his natural habitat – the PDP. And today, Adeyanju is a PDP national official, with the country’s pot-bellied power monks perceptibly still shielding his unknown or insidious atrocities.
But Adeyanju is not to be blamed! He is a painful product of Nigeria’s poor family upbringing; celebrating his repulsive debauchery. Anyway, he has to survive. And the diction of survival in Nigeria is that you turn rogue, criminal, dubious, and blend it with idiotic noise. That’s the only way society notices and knows you exist in your world of pigsty.
Adeyanju knows the tricks and he is exploiting it to the fullest for personal material capital. He has enough area boys who cheer and clap for him each time he visits the village or stage mock protests in cities, disguised as public interest or pro-masses cause. So, he parades a swollen head, steeped in pride at public arenas as activist.
Inwardly, Adeyanju celebrates Nigeria’s fall or any calamity which befalls his country of birth. He is the Biblical Judas Iscariot of present times; a betrayer of anything progressive about his country. Adeyanju prefers to make merriments over the victories of enemies of Nigeria than to see Nigerians smile.
In a recent Facebook comment, Adeyanju betrayed his unpatriotic emotions/actions on troops clearance operations of residues of terrorists at Nigeria’s Northeast. With the COAS and leader of the counter-insurgency operations, Lt. Gen. TY Buratai personally in the trenches, leading troops to battle against Boko Haram and ISWAP terrorists, Adeyanju sighted nothing good in it.
As factional Boko Haram leader, Abubakar Shekau is stiffly scared over Gen. Buratai’s ongoing exploits in the frontlines and exploring silent, beggarly ways of armistice and surrender. While the Nigerian military tinkered w…
