He is so commonly cited or recited that it can be rightly said of him that he was, to all men, all things. In friendship or treachery, in love or hatred, in prosperity or wretchedness’ in turbulence or in calm, in fear or courage, in wisdom or tom foolery, in sincerity or in dissembling, in fecundity or aridity, Shakespeare always finds a place.
Shakespeare, I tell you is like a magic condiment that fits any soup. So is the Bard that
You can quote him not only to the living, but even to the transposed.
However, Bill Pearl (as the Yankees would have known and called William Shakespeare were he of the 21st century)and his genius as I have always suspected was exaggerated by his legions of admirers
His philosophy, his insights his perceptions, so highly adulated are not always right, or apt.
One example suffices to prove my point. Let’s look at one of his most popular lines-
“hell hath no fury like a woman scorned”
This Shakespeare discloses two furies - one of hell, the other of a woman. According to Bill Peare, the fury of the Woman is greater than that of hell. This may sound impressive, possibly touching, but on what justifiable basis was this statement made?
For one, Peare was his assertion and in no other way privy to the volatility of the angst of the infernal region .So how did he know about the quality of Hell’s fury?
Second, how many women did Peare know, in the real sense of the relevant know? History does not tell us he was a Lothario, or a Casanova or Solomon or even an M.K.O. Abiola.What much can any man who walked the narrow and shallow straits of monogamy know about the fury of women to now pontificate on it?
But an even more annoying assertion in the –
“Hell hath no fury……. saying is the reckoning of a woman’s anger to be the greatest and worst in creation.
How can that be true? What of the anger, fury, vexation of a frustrated Politician? A frustrated Nigerian politician like Iyiola Omisore, a former murderer accused but now a distinguished Senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
For quite some time now, the Ile-Ife born politician has been dreaming of becoming the Governor of Osun State. As far back as 1999. The most he had risen was to become a deputy Governor of a tight-fisted, old school Awoist of a Governor, in the person of Chief Bisi “Imposer” Akande.
After the ouster of the School head master –in - politics from the Governor’s seat in Osun State , a strange obstacle, in the person of Olagunsoye Oyinlola, a retired military officer but an acolyte of the bullish leader of the people’s Democratic Party (1999-2007)and the president of Nigeria (1999-2007).
This obstacle proved stronger than Omisore and he had to make do with a seat in the Nigerian Senate.
But he never forgot his dream
The patient dog, as they say, eats the fattest bone. Soon it became clear in the PDP that once Olagunsoye Oyinlola left the Gubernatorial seat in Osun State in 2012, Omisore would come in.
Alas, for the plans of men and mice! Suddenly another last minute obstacle rolled itself onto the path of Mr. Next Governor of Osun State in the person of Mr. Rauf Aregbesola of the Action Congress of Nigeria.
Aregbesola battled Oyinlola for three and a half years in the law courts, in challenge of the supposed Electoral Victory of Oyinlola at the polls in 2007.
Then late 2010, the Electoral petition Appeal Tribunal nullified Onyinlola’s victory and Aregbesola become the Governor and presumably so far the next four years at least. Everybody knows it will not be easy to dissolve a civilian who dislodged a soldier from power. Well where does that leave Mr. Next Governor? It left him exactly in the position of the proverbial, hungry hunter whose quarry, the squirrel had run up the Iroko tree (Okere gun roko oju ode da)
Feeling very frustrated, depressed Omisore, like most sorely disappointed human beings went near manic with rage;His target was not the Squirrel or even his own gun, rather he sent his bullets flying all over the forest blaming the foliage and the woods for his misfortune; it was the very forest that gave cover for the Squirrel to give him the slip!
I pity Senator Omisore. Boy it is not easy to be this near yet so far! How do you expect a man already hailed all over, even in the Senate as “Obalola” – ‘The incoming’ to feel, when his fortunes that looked so promising suddenly and forcefully vaporises.
In the hell of his anger , frustrated Omisore is ready to pull the judiciary down and consequently the nation with his wild and scurrilons attack or the integrity of the court of appeal judges.
Which scorned women has such tsunamic fury? She would rather destroy her wretched lover her rival and he self, all still being in the family.
If not for anything else, by his latest ‘determination craze’ I am of the view that Omisore now Mr. Next Time Better Luck Governor is a very desperate politician. Now politicians can do just about any thing.
These Court of Appeal Judges need to be careful – when you are the friend of a politician, especially of a frustrated politician be careful, not to talk of when he has marked you down for an enemy.
Beware! Hell hath no fury like a frustrated politician.
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