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Democracy In Action- Why Obamanamia Cannot Occur In Nigeria By Tony Ishiekwene
The new dawn of America leadership is at hand---Barrack H Obama
Lovers of true democracy world wide are in jubilation at the launch of a new dawn for a free world and American democracy. The son of a Kenyan student immigrant born in 1961 has been elected the president of the most powerful country on earth. The Americans have proved that they are true lovers of democracy and that dreams can be easily actualised if you put in the discipline, hard work and effort necessary for achieving them. In contrast the political elites in Nigeria are “dream killers” and mouth the word democracy without having an inkling of what that word means. They are opportunists and pretenders running riot over our disabled country, Nigeria.
WHY AN OBAMANAMIA CANNOT HAPPEN IN NIGERIA:
Someone like Barrack Obama dare not dream of, let alone get elected as the president of Nigeria:
The Americans have proved the importance of the ballot box. Make no mistake about it: Whilst there was a race issue in the election of Obama, it was not a key factor in his election. Even if every African-American and the black population only voted for Obama, he would never win the presidency with those minority votes. The Americans voted for change, and Obama tapped onto that groundswell of frustration and disenchantment with the Bush administration and every thing to do with the Republican Party rule! American economy is tottering on the brink of collapse under the watch of George Bush, and he ordered a war in a senseless and pro-longed war in Iraq under the pretext of ridding Iraq of a non-existent “weapon of mass destruction.” Americans of all hues, especially the lovers of democracy in that God blessed country, waited for 4th November to teach the demons currently occupying the white house and the party they represent a lesson on who owns the sovereignty of the land. And so Obama won a landslide of the Electoral College votes because his message of “change” was well received by the vast majority of Americans- Whites, Asian, Hispanics, Blacks or Africans!
We have a long way to go
in Nigeria. Indeed we are not even on a stand still but retrogressing and
moving back wards. Since 1999, elections have become a joke with each
successive election getting worse than the preceding one. Goubadia’s
INEC gave us a shambolic election in 2003 with all incumbent
governors and General Obasanjo returned to office with mind-boggling
votes, with number of votes in some areas surpassing the number of
registered voters. But the worst disaster in the name of election was to
come in April 2007, when Obasanjo and Prof Maurice Iwu went
beyond the limit of tricks and dishonesty to foist Yar ‘Adua and almost al
the governors, apart from Raji Rasaki of Lagos state, on the people of
Nigeria without a semblance of an election. Indefatigable former labour leader Adams Oshiomole aptly declared recently that those parading themselves as representatives of the people in the National Assembly- all products of the Iwu “mago mago” elections of 2007 are all crooks enjoying stolen mandates and therefore cannot give Nigerians an effective and relevant constitutional review. He was spot on and right on the money for that. A few nincompoops and ostriches in the house, including the speaker, Dimeji Bankole, shamelessly wanted to call the gentleman to question but lacked the moral fibre to do so because they knew the fiery labour leader was speaking the truth. The difference between the jesters and charlatans parading themselves as political leaders in Nigeria and the western world politicians is that the later will own up when caught in malfeasance and resign their positions honourably, but the Nigerian politician will continue to delude themselves, lying and indulging in self denials even when caught red-handed snatching and stuffing ballot boxes in their homes. Shame on the Nigerian so-called politicians!
The people of Nigeria must as a minimum work together in concert to regain their sovereignty from the rampaging locusts that is sucking them dry and denying them the chance to elect their leaders through the ballot box. The oppressors of Nigeria- a few evil cabal within the PDP, represented by the likes of Obasanjo and Vincent Ogboluafor, its current chairman, who are threatening to rule Nigeria for the next 60 years, must be confronted and told there may be no Nigeria for them to ruin in 30 years, if the people cannot be allowed to chose and change their leaders in regular election dates, like the Americans have now done! The people of Nigeria have a great deal to learn from what has just happened in America. George Bush could not use his incumbency to anoint and impose Senator McCain on the people of America, like Obasanjo succeeded in doing by imposing his lackey, Yar ‘Adua, on Nigerians as president!
( London, UK)
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