Pius Adesanmi Thanks folks. I am trying to get to the bottom of this matter. It all started yesterday when BM Dzukogi put up an update about seeing my picture in a TV advert for President Jonathan. I thought it was his own version of April fool in September or he saw someone who looks like me. Only for Odoh Diego Okenyodo to confirm that he saw my picture on TV in the same advert and even told his wife about it. Now, BM and Odoh are two of my personal people. Yet they didnt even bother to contact me. Youd think they would. Then I woke up this morning to text messages and voicemails from more people in Nigeria saying they saw my picture in a Jonathan ad. Thats when I knew that, like play like play, the matter dey serious. Of course, one is not surprised by these antics from our enemies. Intimidation, blackmail, desperation, fraud, indecency - there is no pestilence you look for in their sakani that you will not find. Earlier this year, it was anonymous phone calls to intimidate and scare my old mom. They told her that her only son was in danger and she should warn him to tone it down; then they opened a fake Sahara Reporters Facebook page and used my picture and Okey Ndibes to broadcast pro-Jonathan nonsense. Now they have apparently put me on TV campaigning for 4 more years of filth. And that is not counting the army of anonymous commentators that a certain Pastor Wendell Simlin recruits to post those comments abusing our fathers and mothers when we write our columns for SR and Premium Times. Yet, in public, in private, I have told our friends that I have a price, an affordable price. In essays, in interviews, I have always named my price. It has never varied, never changed. I have never adjusted it for inflation. In Your Headache, My Panadol, I still named my price: Yes, indeed, I can be purchased. I have a price. If you can pay it, you have me where you want me. My price? I always name it. A good friend of mine who was once a Nigerian High Commissioner in a Western country would relate easily to this if he is reading this piece. I always told him what it would take to go easy on his Ogas. My price is very reasonable. There are 170 million of me. Give ALL 170 million of me water, light, job, infrastructure, security, health. When you have done that, stop stealing from all 170 million of me. That is what it would cost to buy my voice. That is what I always ask for. That’s the only condition for my silence. I just haven’t found anybody in the political establishment willing to pay that price. They always give me the impression that I am asking for the impossible; that my price is too high; that I am not important enough to be bought at the price of, say, stable electricity for all 170 million of me. My price hasnt changed. Is this asking for too much? Why not pay this price and stop using pictures fraudulently? Anyway, one of the very few career Jonathanians who has a permanent immunity clause with me is my man, Ken Agala. Ken, if you know these yeye House2House for Goodluck Jonathan people, tell them that a withdrawal of my picture from their advert and a public apology will suffice.
Posted on: Wed, 17 Sep 2014 08:47:20 +0000
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