There'll be no election in 2015 - Tunde Bakare (Saturday Sun) continues...

I can guarantee you that the best is to ask them to refund the money they took and they will not tell us whether it was refunded or not. The Yoruba say the man who stole palm oil is not the only thief; the man who receives it is also a thief. It is all in the Internet that some of these people gave money to Diezani for the election of Mr. President. There has been no denial from them. At best, they askthem to refund or at the worse scenario, they will sentence them to two years imprisonment in VIP prisons, part of which they will spend in five star hospitals. The surprise is that the children ofpublic office holders are behind it. It takes a thief to produce a thief. If your father is a thief, what else would you be? If the children of the powerful are behind the oil theft, their fathers are thieves that show them the way-Ali Baba and 40 thieves. They say in Yorubalandthat: You see the face of a thief and you did not catch him, Your son is not a drycleaner, He is bringing cloth home, You see the face of a thief and you did not catch him. Like the lecture, Professor Niyi Osundare gave: His father was invited for a party sponsored by one of the village truants who hadgone to town and came back and in a shot period very rich and Professor Osundare’s father said he was not attending such a party,where did he get his money from?Less than six months after, the man was brought back home in handcuff. Where I come from, if you are sent to jail, you never return. You go to Oke-oya – beyond the Niger, to live because we have compound and the nameto protect. They have neither names nor compounds. A thief begets thieves. But the parents said their children are old enough to defend themselves and in any case, they have not been convicted. As far as I know, parents of these people are law-abiding citizens. If their children behave in a way that is not consistent with their value system, it is not wrong to distancethemselves because if they have trained their children in the way they should go and they now depart from it, something is wrong. However, if they say their children are old enough to defend themselves and that they have not been convicted, that is double speak. I would be concerned if myson is found in the midst of armedrobbers. I would be concerned if my son or daughter is found among those who are pilfering from public treasury because that is not the value I gave to them. That will give me concern. Look at a clear example of Mutalab. The father went to the embassy to report that his son is behaving in a way that is not consistent with the value that he had given to him.If he had not done that, he would be roped in as one of the sponsors of terrorists. So, let us see what happens whether these fathers have enough value system in themselves to dissociate from the activities of their children or whether at the end of the day, what happened in a courtroom in ancient Yorubaland would happento any of these fathers. A son was about to be convicted and sent to prison and as the judge announced that he will give sentence, he said please let me speak to my mother. The mother came near the son and the son used his 32 teeth to cut off the earof the mother. He said: “You are a wicked woman. You didn’t tell me that what I was doing was wrong.Each time I stole and brought it home, you took from me. You are a wicked mother.” Let us see what will happen because Jesus said: “ Do not think I have brought peace on earth. I have brought sword – father against son and son against the father.” We would soon see whether they are birds of the same feather or they are people who are a chip of the old block. The old block may be corrupt-ridden or might be corrupt-free. Let us talk about Madam Patience Jonathan who is the First Lady andat the same time a permanent Secretary in Balyesa State. Is it a normal development? It would be normal to political imbeciles and morons. That was what I said at a press conference. It is like you are the Imam of a mosque and at the same time you want to be the Seriki of the mosque. It is greed. Itis covetousness. At best, it is a preparation for a key position in Niger Delta Republic if they succeed in balkanizing Nigeria (laughter). Again, it has been reported that Patience and wife of the late President Umar Yar’Adua, Turai are fighting over a piece of land inAbuja and it has gone to court. I am not aware that they are fighting over a piece of land. I wish them well. It is not a personal matter. Turai has an NGO and Patience has an NGO and bothare laying claim to the land. What is not personal in it? The NGO of a former first lady and the NGO of another first lady are personal issues.