By Chidi Obineche

A pernicious outburst by Kaduna state governor Nasir el Rufai last week reverberated with startling unbelief and frothing anger. He had warned his political opponents of the inherent danger in fighting him claiming that the late president Musa Yar’Adua fought him and ended up in the grave, the immediate past president, Goodluck Jonathan lost power for doing same.

It was a marked descent into icy heresy and superstition which George Iles observed as a “premature explanation that overstays its time”. It is far more brutal, irrational to hook up with the thread that a particular behaviour can influence an outcome. It belies logic, mangles conventions and reverses principles.

The governor is no stranger to controversies, but his servile awe of president Muhammadu Buhari and the credulity of thirsting for the miraculous have combined to  breed a mongoloid metaphics which he only understands its abstractness. Weighed under the circumstances of the weird proclamation, he must have come down heavily with fear, a strain that breeds psychosis, and foreboding. And what Voltaire underscores as” the mad daughter of a wise mother”.

When it wraps up the mind, it is dead, shutting the eye of reason. It is lethal, often dwelling on the smallest feline. It interprets every occurrence in suggestive effects and as Groucho Max said: “If a black cat crosses your path, it signifies that the animal is going somewhere”.

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For the petite governor who has an excess of religious feeling, there is a confluence that binds the two morbid instincts and an unspoken threat that he must not be dared. Although a fad and unventilated, his thinly veiled fear of 2019 from whose womb he churned out the clotted mass of putrescence and  indiscretion betrayed his feeble mind and outranks the  poison of enthusiasm. El Rufai walks with his legs and not head, and it matters not to him.

He waddles in a superfluous confidence of the supernatural, a man of muscle and the ‘lord of the flies’, the pedantic demagogue in whom resides the power to subdue and uplift. He is the spirit-man gifted with necromancy who can explain the pathetically absurd, the foolish, the primitive and the puzzle. He can even knock on wood. Perhaps, in deference to his iconic odyssey which is a panther in daring adventure and intellectual fecundity, there is a relief. In a manner of speaking, he is looking at the girls when many others are looking at the band.

This new found religion is incongruous with intelligence especially as his evidence flies in the face of a home run. Regardless of the pitfalls of his statement, he was merely loosing his mind to roam. Not even swathes of detractors can confine this abundance of intelligent thinking which may translate to an increment of freedom , action and emancipation from fatality and chance. Perhaps. He is the new oracle that jerks and speaks of a rod of gold inserted into a hollow stick of cornel.

He is the one that has a deity in his soul on whom men gaze in stupefaction. He is the master with an odourless soul who breathes in the seed of a God- self. He is the oracle of the past who works with an old and faded database. His belief may sound like heresy but it can become the orthodoxy of 2019. As has been said earlier, it can only spring from a system that is in full vigour. And if this postulation succeeds in 2019, he should be a recipient of an award for convincingly disproving established models. In plain sense, the governor is not a malefactor, he is not a novice in faith, he is merely showcasing his own brand of identity politics that may save damns who bluster in the hard drive.

Born on February 16, 1960, in Daudawa, Faskari Local Government Area of Katsina state, he attended Barewa College Zaria and graduated in 1976. He subsequently bagged a Bachelors degree in Quantity Surveying from the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria.   His other academic qualifications include a law degree from the University of London and a Masters degree in Public Administration from the John F Kennedy school of Government, Harvard University. From November 1999 to July 2003, he was the Director General of the Bureau of Public Enterprises, BPE and the Secretary of the National Council of Privatization. From July17, 2003 to July 27, 2007 he was the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT. He is married with children.