BURNING POT BY PRINCE CHARLES
DICKSON
...As Jonathan Resigns?
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Fellow Nigerians...
Surrender is not defeat.
I do not know how to start this, but I have started it and indeed
starting is what matters. There's
always a first time and this is the first time, it is not just going
to be the first time in Nigeria, but Africa.
Few years ago, I was just an ordinary me, gradually by the twist of
fate, destiny and whether we believe it or not, by God--I became
deputy governor, soon I was governor and then I was vice president,
and I soon became acting president.
I recall too well, all the goodwill, all the efforts, the save
nigeria group, the human and my apologies inhuman rights community
who fought the cabal and then without shoes despite the
irregularities you voted me overwhelmingly and I became your
president.
You would note this is my first time acknowledging that Jega's INEC
wasn't perfect but I still won.
I have always had Nigeria at heart, over 160million of you. But what
could I have done, with moles everywhere, a party like the PDP, and
with opposition like (need I mention), all willing to sell the soul
of this nation for a mere spoonful of porridge.
I am the least the problem of Nigeria. I agree that I am your
president, but the truth is that you are the problem. Yes, Nigerians
are the problem of Nigeria...
In the few years I have been president. I have seen things, I have
seen how the fertilizer cartel operates, I have watched on as Boko
Haram ravage the North, because of a few and the price we have paid
and keep paying for long time neglect of our people.
Each Wednesday I have supervised all sorts of contract awards, not
once have I seen an Ibo in my cabinet fight a Muslim or an Hausa man
fight a Christian for contracts hardly executed and by companies
acting as fronts for same people that criticize me.
It hurts me as I address you knowing I cannot make the refineries
work, I cannot, because it is not about subsidies but rather
thousands of illegal refineries run by big shots in the Niger Delta
and the need for billions to keep the party running.
I have been your president even when my spoken English was terrible
or my explanation incomprehensible. However our problems are beyond
all I have said and haven't said in my media chats or interview with
Amanpour or whoever that pours.
As I speak to you, I see a nation that is beautiful, one not just
with potential but is indeed living its potential. A Lagos living
its 'eko oni baje' axiom and Kano living its potential. One in which
we 'co-epted' we 36 states competed and co-operated.
I do not know so much about state police, indigene/citizenship
rights and all those constitutional matters. But I know that we need
a National Assembly that is indeed national by its schedules and the
job it does not by the billions of naira it earns for doing little.
As your president I can barely look you all my dear Nigerians in the
face and say I have worked or my ministers, advisors and assistants,
either the special ones or the senior ones. We have failed or at
best done little.
It remains a painful journey...everyday I go through past files at
the villa. I wonder what went wrong and how we just can't get it
right. My immediate boss Yar'adua had good intentions, Obasanjo too
had good visions, even the military with all the 'fellow Nigerian
speeches' meant well for Nigeria. But why are we here...
Here where my wife is compared to Michelle Obama, here, where I
painfully read same boring templates condoling families because
people won't do their jobs.
Managing a police that hates its own, an army that cannot even help
during floods or is it a custom service simply serving itself.
Despite all the funds approved for the immigration I can't begin to
tell us, about illegal entry points or illegal immigrants.
Like you all, I love Nigeria. It's our only nation. We want it to
work and it can work. We need purposefully leadership, not
promissory notes by a conglomeration by whatever name and make-up.
My party may not be able to offer it, but only Nigerians can offer
it, we have the ability but as I speak to you all. My question is
are you ready, do we as a people want to make change and are we
going to shift for it to happen or we are just going to keep
wishing.
It is unfortunate that I could not keep my promises to you all as a
people, however I want to tell you it is not just about me, it also
about whoever is in charge as your local councillor or local
government chairman.
If the tiers of government did their job, I may not have been
addressing you all today. If the councillor did his beat, chairman,
legislator, minister, or governor was patriotic enough, I would not
be the most criticized president.
If our wealthy people would give as little 10%, not that they are
under compulsion, if you would obey the traffic rules though you
were in a hurry. If you and I would just not be Farouk or Femi,
maybe if I had governed and we all govern when given the opportunity
on merit, not as Niger Deltan, Fulani, Nupes, Ibos or Yorubas there
still maybe hope for Nigeria.
I have a lot to say to us on this once in a lifetime occasion, but
really it's tense enough and I don't want to add to an already
charged atmosphere...I Abdul-Jonathan Omo-Goodluck Chidiebele hereby
resign as president of the federal republic of Ingeria
And all of a sudden, I woke up sweating profusely, it did not
happen, I have been dreaming lately since I started taking the local
concoction for my malaria, as I could not afford good hospital care.
There is hope for Nigeria, as long as we recognize there is a
problem. The solution may not be far away, but only time will tell.
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