THINKERY: ‘Ki Se Eeyan Wa’ | By Monsuru Adeyemo ‘Socrates’
THINKERY: ‘Ki Se Eeyan Wa’ | By Monsuru Adeyemo ‘Socrates’.
Politicians have two statements they often use: ‘Ki Se Eeyan Wa’ and ‘Eeyan Wa Nin’. ‘ Ki Se Eeyan Wa’ literally means he or she is not ours—he or she does not belong to our camp or he or she is our enemy—and ‘Eeyan Wa Nin’ simply means he or she is ours—he or she does belong to our camp or he or she is our friend.
Sometimes, genuinely, they say this to affirm and reaffirm political camaraderie and fraternity. Meanwhile, mostly, they say it to enforce gatekeeping premised on their selfish interests.
Leaders, candidates, and aspirants from councilorship levels to presidential levels have been blindfolded by this ego-appealing statement. Of course, everybody inherently likes his or her own friends and detests his or her own enemies.
Even a leader, candidate, or aspirant who is complaining about this at the upper level might have had his or her heart poisoned against his or her would-be genuine lovers in the past through this means.
Only God knows everything; he is omniscient. We don’t know it all, so we cannot continue blaming ourselves for being blindfolded in the past or blaming our superiors for being victims of this approach against us.
Meanwhile, as leaders, it is our role to validate our pieces of information from sources that have no vested interests, and as lieutenants, we also need to work on our patrons or patronesses up there, especially when slanderous traducers and detractors are trying to knock us out based on their personal interests, not necessarily on collective ones.
Even if you’re committed to any course the way a northern brother is committed to his transistor radio, you might still be a victim of ‘Ki Se Eeyan Wa, and if you’re an aggressive opponent like ‘Bosun Tijani’, they can still package you in as ‘Eeyan Wa Nin Omode Lo Nse’. All are based on the interests of courtiers and gatekeepers.
‘Ki Se Eeyan Wa’ and Eeyan Wa Nin’. Indeed, these two statements are too complex, deep, reflective, and effective. It is a double-edged sword. Those people that have enjoyed the good sides of it have seen themselves as lucky, able to get God’s grace, smart, or favourably favoured, while those that have experienced the bad sides of it grit their teeth intermittently over its potency. Yes, its effects are painful, especially if it is the negative side of them that the victim in question has experienced.
‘Ki Se Eeyan Wa’ is a lethal political conspiracy, mostly seen as a deep psychological issue or perceived as a serious spiritual problem.
Whichever one is your view, always vet your updates through unbiased and objective means before arriving at ‘Ki Se Eeyan Wa’ or ‘Eeyan Wa Nin’, and if you’re short-changed in the inner court of the power corridor, try to find a strong “Oniduro (guarantor) that can speak and stand for you up there. May God save us from ‘Awon Onitara ati Itara Won(Amin).
Monsuru Adeyemo ‘Socrates’, philosophically reflecting in his “Thinkery”.
