Our Nation In Wrong Hands By Saleh Yamusa
The year 2005 is gone and it has left us with unprecedented nostalgia of President Obasanjo’s unpalatable leadership since 1999 and so he will continue to rule despotically until his exit in 2007.
In mathematics, when you are given a complex homework to solve, you follow certain steps based on specified principles to arrive at the correct answer, right? OK! But if you don’t know the steps, you keep on making blunders annoying the tutor marking your script. Considering the above example, it is a popular news that OBJ has given himself and his cronies a more complex homework to solve, which he rightly knows the answer but doesn’t know the right steps to make use of to arrive at that answer. He is just making blunders in try and error. It has be come clear that he is now more than power drunk and has become used to Aso Rock Villa and doesn’t want to vacate and give way to the next occupier as the constitution permits.
He wants to be a permanent occupier of the number-one sit of the nation so that he would do and undo as he wishes by all means. The irony is that not even secondary school pupils are happy with his unpopular policies that directly influence the compounding absolute poverty ravaging Nigeria as typified by his social and economic injustices.
Let me pause for a moment here and give Baba, (as most of his associates call him) a piece of advice. Let him not allow his chronic addiction to power guide him make political miscalculation for it may likely show the way to a gigantic political uproar, God forbid. Alas! He is already missing the steps.
He thought sabotaging his VP’s ambition to bid for the presidency would clear his way of any stumbling block towards achieving his ambition. I really sympathize with Atiku Abubakar. But that will not guarantee him my vote because I don’t have any confidence in him either. He is not the choice for the country because he has been a party to this government right from its inception and has agreed in its harsh policies until recently when he feels he needs to be the president that he starts to dissociate himself with it. We have identified his deceptive maneuvers. Let sincere statesmen like Buhari have the chance to rule the country and see wonders. They are afraid, so nervous and terrified by his ambition. They know him!
The government of the day in our nation is always mentioning things that they say are dividends of democracy. Where are the evidences of dividends for God’s sake, while we are still one of the leading nations that fail to cure the most infectious and dreaded social disease – corruption? Just like HIV/AIDS, which is a syndrome that leads to many opportunistic infections, corruption in the same way leads to many social infections such as political subterfuge, economic epilepsy, social injustice, homicide, religious, ethnic and communal intolerance and general insecurity. Look, in Nigeria, in Kano, the wife of a former governor was brutally slaughtered in her room. Oh! See the level of the insecurity?
I want to advice the members of the National Assembly that they should n ot allow the executives to play with their intelligence. The national Assembly constitutes people that have achieved the pinnacle of their professions like Professor Jibril Aminu and others. They are the lawmakers. They should use their intelligence and office power to safeguard the country from any form of turmoil. Obasanjo has confidence in them to tamper with the constitution. They would benefit immensely, especially financially, when they ensure his continuity beyond 2007. They all know that. On the other side of the coin, innocent Nigerians in millions also have confidence in them not to tamper with the constitution. They would benefit and enjoy our respect and be political icons worthy of remembrance and simulation. So the choice is theirs now to choose between money and prestige. Even though many would prefer money to prestige, especially knowing Nigerians among which many have extraordinary affinity to money, that should not deter them from taking an exemplary decision. It’s either for them to honour the executive’s request (minority) and become more enriched, or to honour the citizen’s request (majority) and gain more respect. Let them not prove to us that Nigeria is really in wrong hands.
In the end, the labour of our heroes past shall never be in vain, for they greatly contributed in uniting our beloved nation. Let’s not allow minority people with unbelievable appetite for power cause its disintegration in the course of fulfilling their personal ambitions.
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