Baba Aye's

Response to Osaze Lanre Nosaze's open letter It is quite unfortunate that not once in the 4,407 words of Osaze’s letter is there even the slightest mention of the defining issue of today i.e. the COVID19 pandemic. It shows how disconnected from changing the world his penchant for interpreting it is.* Anyway, I have neither the time nor the disposition for a long-drawn response, for the moment at least. But there are some outright distortions that need to be clarified and a few issues which I will summarily put in perspective regarding the claims and accusations made in his open letter. 1.        On “our phone discussion” and related matters -           Osaze claims that I or as he puts it, the SWL merely “wanted a CORE meeting held where the question of developing a programme for the organisation would be finalised and an expanded leadership established”. This is a half-truth.  -    ...

The news of the death of Rotimi “Molobi” Musa Yaqub Obadofin was a very saddening one for me. I gathered it came from a ruptured appendix whilst he was at Osogbo, on April 7. I did not share some basics of his “Marxism-Leninism”, even at the time I worked closest with him. He did have several flaws (which of us, do not in some form or the other), which did make me wary. But, he was one of the greatest teachers I had on organising within the mass of the people and particularly the working class. Such a debt is one that one never fully pays, not even when you pay a tribute on his departure, from the multifaceted scenes of politics which he was a key player in, for some four decades. I met “Molobi” as we fondly called him at the time, in the first quarter of 1989, at Ilorin. He had relocated to Lagos before then, as far as I could recall. He however was in our beloved Petrograd, Ilorin and was a looming presence at the workers’ study group of the People’s Liberation Movement, ...