OGUNLANA, RAMINBA'S EXPOSITORY MESSAGE TO ALL NIGERIAN LAWYERS (1)

Ogunlana Adesina Ademola, the Chairman of the Radical Agenda Movement in the Nigerian Bar Association and presidential aspirant in the forthcoming 2020 national elections of the Nigerian Bar Association has taken to his Facebook wall to write series of expository messages to the members of the Nigerian Bar Association.

This was revealed in a statement issued by Ayo
Ademiluyi, Secretary of Radical Agenda Movement in the Nigerian Bar Association and Director of Media, Strategy, Publicity and Communications of #RadicalBar2020.

Mr. Ogunlana commented on his Facebook wall thus:

"HOW TRULY LEARNED ARE WE?

One fond ,popular belief of legal practitioners  at least in Nigeria is their class superiority . We proudly assert our profession as ' NOBLE'  and say no other set of persons,  no matter their education or discipline are LEARNED . We describe our offices as ' CHAMBERS', the courts as ' TEMPLES,  the logo of our job is a ' GODDESS', our part of the court room is named the BAR , the part for the Judges is the 'BENCH and the judges are reverred as LORDS. Instances of the distinctions attached to the legal profession are many jndeed . Not only do we commonly consider ourselves as top breed of class , character and knowledge , we expect , even demand of nonlawyers to see us as such and give us due regard accordingly .

However , one  sometimes wonders whether our professional class claim to elevated pedigree and cerebral distinction are not in the main self flattery and deceit ? By our values, conduct , speeches and reflections are we really any much better  and greater than the common run of the society?. For example just consider how we approach ELECTIONS in the association of lawyers

Most of those contesting for high offices behave very much like 'outside' politicians,  promising and promoting  to the electorate what they have no time , capacity,  commitment to deliver . Essentially these characters TELL and SELL , fat , round , humungous LIES to the electorate to gain the positiobs of their covet . I cant see what is consistent with claims of NOBILITY , HONOR , DECENCY  in that sort of behaviour on the part of DISTINGUISHED members of the NOBLE profession, or can you ?

Now it is one thing to tell a lie deliberately with intention to deceive and mislead another person  , it is another for the scheme to jell. For a fact , it is difficult to take in a learned person and lead such by the nose , but the history of elections in the association of noble and learned persons in Nigeria at least since 1998 is that the electorate therein even though very learned , deeply knowlegeable and oracularly persicacious, as always  pathologically claimed ,are  REGULARLY, ,, SERIALLY ,  EASILY , PREDICTABLY , THOROUGHLY  fooled by lying candidates . In fact the more fantatic the spins , yarns , fables etc , the more prostrate the LEARNED ELECTORATE fall 'yakata' for the the fib flingers .

You may wish to enquire  into the  ways and means by ths which the learned SMART ALECS snag the LEARNED GULLIBLES .

Interestingly , the stratagem is neither arcane not complicated , but rather simple  basic  and even down right primitive ! History has it that many African Monarchs in the  18th and 19th centuries  gave away their lands  and sold their peoples to slavery to European merchants and empire builders in exchange for  tawdry gifts like beads , gin, mirrors etc .  A  similar despoilation  promoted by crass , myopic  and shameful greed and self shortchanging apetitiveness afflicts the NBA biennially .

Candidates fling ' bananas ' as it were at the electorate as if they were but  monkeys  and the learned monkeys rush at the bananas and  and make banana givers their  leaders who now lead them to  blind alleys of little or no performance

The 'bananas' here are the emergency gifts of cash , meals, hotel accomodation , souvenirs ,  donations to Branches , Sections,  Lawyers Fora , lawyers wears and texts as well as gracing of several programmes and events , meaningful and meaningless ones,  throwing of parties , holding of hang outs and sit ins . These are the sort of things that  have been influencing  our learned electorate  , year in , year out, in their choice of leaders.Clearly that is a solidly unwise way of  choosing leaders and so little wonder for the perennial disappontment at the end of the day with the performance of leaders chosen by that method .

Learned gentlemen of the noble profession for how long shall we continue to allow ourselves to be used and ultimately shortchanged  ?  Look at our direction, at least this once ,  the direction of the RADICAL AGENDA , the AGENDA that is not deceiving,  misleading  and seducing you  with '"ephemeralities' and dubious , spurious gifts  Try us, taste us and see the goodness of the Lord !"