A former English lecturer at the Obafemi Awolowo University’s Institute of Education Centre for Distance Learning, Badagry Study Centre, Mr. Wole Oyenusi, has challenged the Minister of Finance, Dr. Okonjo-Iweala and President Goodluck Jonathan to an open television debate to be moderated by the Nigerian Press on the state of the Nigerian economy in general and the dynamics of fuel subsidy in particular.
Oyenusi, a Ph.D English student from both Ondo and Ogun States and presidential candidate of a new socio-capitalist party, Radical Intellectuals Group (R.I.G.) dropped this bombshell in a release to newsmen at his Lagos base recently.
Oyenusi accused the Minister and the President of spouting what he described as “irredeemably exploitative neo-imperialist demagoguery, capable of precipitating a spinal dislocation of the Nigerian socio-psychological framework.”
“He affirmed that by swallowing the bait of the world’s financial sharks, the International Monetary Fund (I.M.F.) and the World Bank, hook line and sinker the duo have sold the well-being of the masses of this country for the proverbial mass of porridge of these Western financial behemoths, which disguises itself as grants and loans attracting punitive conditionalities that Nigeria could well do without if the nation’s abundant resources were imaginatively developed and managed.
This Ganiesque gadfly demanded that the two meet him on the plane of logic and dialectics in an open national intellectual colloquy if they are sure of their facts and the auspiciousness of their neo-insperialist rhetoric for the nation.
In a related development Oyenusi, who was one of the Professor Wole Soyinka’s outstanding students at Ife has started making plans to challenge the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, at the presidential polls, with regard to the festering corpulent corruption it has immured the nation in, initiating a party of radicals rooting for a paradigm shift and a total overhauling of the nation’s political, economic and social structures.
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