In celebration of good riddance
One of the Daily Trust columnists, ‘Farooq Kperogi’, has been banned from writing both the Saturdays and Sundays columns, with immediate effect. It a welcome development and widely celebrated in the social media. If one should, and without sentiment, judge Kperogi’s write ups since the coming on board of APC-led government, will come to realize […]
One of the Daily Trust columnists, ‘Farooq Kperogi’, has been banned from writing both the Saturdays and Sundays columns, with immediate effect. It a welcome development and widely celebrated in the social media. If one should, and without sentiment, judge Kperogi’s write ups since the coming on board of APC-led government, will come to realize that his Saturday column is gibberish, irrelevant and weird in the art of journalism, proffering nothing as regard tackling national malaise and menace, only a faux pas and disrespect of our principals at the mantle of the leadership.
Well, I am a learner, learning from daily articles written by the Daily Trust columnists, starting from Monday to Sunday, which are nice and knowledgeable. No one can begrudge columnists the capacity and prowess of communication. Most of them are University lecturers, good technocrats, philosophers and of the rank of professorship. They are arguably the ‘think tank’ and senior members of our “intelligentsia.”
Going through many columns, one would sometimes get away with the adoration of wanting to write like this columnist or that columnist, especially when it holds one spellbound and riveted to the flawless prose and command of the grammar. I am thrilled and intrigued by most articles.
I respect columnists like ‘Dan Agbese’ my role model, Gambo Dori, Yakubu Muhammad, Monima Daminabo, Mahmud Jega, M U Ndagi, Solana Olumhense etc… I appreciate the way they are being balanced and objective. Most of the columnists’ write ups are sound and discreet. They really write well, and some of them have started writing and have been in the field of journalism before Kperogi was even born, or was a toddler. They have the talent and natural skill of writing, unlike Kperogi’s that is full of ironies, metaphors, sarcasms, innuendos etc.
At the early stage of the Buhari government, I used to be an ardent follower of Kperogi’s column every Saturday, which I eventually withdrew from reading having realized many bizarre and outlandish manners in them.
There was perhaps, since PMB came to power, no Kperogi write up that did not indulge in making fun and ridiculing the person of PMB. It is discernible that Kperogi has on one ground or another was so harsh and damaging the person of PMB in particular and his coterie of supporters in general. And that is because if I may guess I may see one: it is borne out of emotional hatred of people he considers charlatan and below his mere mental capacity; he sees himself above everyone in terms of knowledge and sagacity; and boasting his so called dexterity of writing. Kperogi is deign, pompous and arrogant, who sees every one’s views contrary and inferior to his. He never accepts corrections. Discernibly, Kperogi has the proclivity of looking down at even people with “genus-blessed-memory.”
It is universally acceptable that constructive criticisms are always welcome, especially in the democratic setting and nascent constituency like ours. On rare occasions, not many of them tend to be mischievous. They have often been neutral.
Glad now that the scoundrel had been stopped from writing in the globally acclaimed newspaper (The Daily Trust). He is cocooned in the US comfort zone and mocking our sensibilities.
Ahmad Hussaini Baffa, Hadejia, Jigawa State