What a drama on Nigerian stage, though it is a farce yet a comedy of shame common to African nations. The political terrain is tensed but it is interesting. How can masses amuse themselves in the midst of ravaging poverty, epileptic water and electricity supply, increasing accidents on Nigerian road, politically motivated ethno-religious crises, bombing jamboree and insecurity to mention a few.
Our politician are amazing characters in this ‘electioneering plot’ with the theme ‘Do-or-die Affair’ concerning forthcoming election. These amazing characters fit into Nollywood even better than Baba Sala, Baba Suwe, Akin and Pawpaw altogether.
We hear of a father dumping once-beloved son, emigrating to another platform to raise his daughter’s hand up in an arena where the Islamic clerics have made public on several advertorials how chauvinistic or, maybe, religious they are.
How paradoxical the leader of a state incapacitate a fellow leader, a political stalwart so to say, though from the chamber where laws are assembled and doctored for the land because of a deceased thug who had been an instrument of persecution against the antagonists of his beloved second term bid, a threat to the people his supposed to serve. Oh, we say he is upholding the course of justice? That is nice.
However it is pathetic how people’s representatives go home every month with tens of millions of Naira plus execute incentives in form of bogus contracts, not to mention some unethical settlements from heads of ministries just to favour them in the nation’s budget and from who are milking the nation’s economy, while 2/3 of their people are in abject poverty and groveling in darkness, even though the freedom of information bill is worth sweeping under-carpet. They fought for automatic membership of the inner-circus of their various political parties, blind to bloodshed in Jos and deaf to the bombings and bomb scares around the nation.
With these people emerging from the ongoing primaries of their various parties, the cup of poverty may still remain with us to drink from as from May 29 onwards if we remain a passive observer in this unfolding events. We must shine our eyes and choose right: one man one vote. We must defend our motherland and help restore her dignity among the comity of nations. Let the youth refused to be pawns in the hands of politician. If he’s killed in the course of another man’s greed, his corpse may even rot away and only shame and grieve would he bring to his family. Let our fathers and mothers sell their votes. For in doing so, not only they are expending their future for present satisfaction but mortgaging their children destinies.
As good Nigerians we must oust out those that loot out treasury and yet restore those who serve the land well. We must stand by our co-patriots who will give themselves for the change we need regardless of where he comes from. From North, south, east or west we must stand by those who have the love of the land and the fear of the Lord in their hearts.
We may watch the unfolding drama as long as it last, yet we will not let them make ‘peaceful change impossible’ while we vote in, come April, the politicians who does not only have us in heart but in action do what is right for the land.
