Bitter kola from Catholic Bishops

While intervening in the ensuing melee between President Tinubu and the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Nigeria (CBCN), Senator Shehu Sani, a veteran civil rights activist and chieftain of the ruling APC, tweeted thus, “From the era of Military rule and throughout the period of Civilian governments, the Catholic Bishops have a consistent history of telling truth to power. They have never been partisan. Every president they visited, they bring him a gift of Bitter Kola instead of Olive Oil.”
The sense in the poetic application of bitter kola and olive oil in the face-off requires analytical dissection. First, olive oil is used for cooking, conditioning of hair, body freshness, and keep...