06.12.2014
All members of People’s Democratic Party (PDP) are not devils as not all members of All Progressive Congress (APC) are saints. With the hardheartedness of the PDP and the boyish resentment of the APC, both parties do not represent future for Nigeria. And with these psychotic and neurotic parties, these two fingers oof a leprous hand, parading themselves as contending forces for 2015 polls, I see 2015 as akin to killing or ignoring a tsetse fly on a swollen scrotum. The either choice is a tragedy.
The PDP is psychotic and believes that two plus two make five. The APC is neurotic and believes that two and two make four but he is mad about it. The neurotic holds to the real and forgets the ideal.
A good party ought to be the proverbial rock that produces living water when struck. The rock is permanent constituent of a society while the waters represent the change which society witnesses without diluting the fundamental. Our problem is that the psychotics hold to the rock and forget the waters; the neurotics swim in the waters and forget rock. The psychotics want only the bed of the river; the neurotics only the flowing water.
In 2015, Nigerians will be making a choice between six and half a dozen, between half empty and half full cup in the name of electing leaders. It will not make any difference either way we cast our votes. I was one of the great enthusiasts of a new Nigeria which APC pretended to embody at its emergence. I heaved a sigh of relief that power-intoxicated PDP will now live with fears of surprises under opposition’s sleeves. But that enthusiasm is no longer there. I have lost hope in Nigeria project at least for the next four years. I now owe my votes to individuals and not to a party.
APC as a party lost focus at national level because of its desperate quest for power shift to the north. The northern politicians that form the nucleus of the merger are willing to go any length including causing sorrow and traumatizing the citizens on the pretence of whose redemption they seek mandate. They opine that causing trauma is the best way to blackmail the personality of the president. From Imo to Rivers, from Bornu to Yobe, Kano to Adamawa, these neurotics nicknamed ‘progressives’ are ready to ground government just to discredit not a party but one man called Jonathan whose crime is that he is a better thief. Each sunrise brings with it further evidence of a plot to make Nigeria unsafe. From utterances they have moved to action even compromising ancient institutions of morals and governance which Hausa oligarchy prides in.
Everything is feeling the pitch of the conspiracy to plant a northern president. Multiple plots are being simultaneously implemented to the regret of many just because we want one man out of power. The reputed Hausa oligarchy is not spared. The ancient institutions of faith and morals are being politically lubricated to complicate the headache of Jonathan and build more hatred from tradition and politics. The party has left no one in doubt that they want power not governance, benefits and not the responsibility of office. Common sense restricts us to exhibit civility when we disagree with another’s point of view.
I will not be surprised waking up one day to hear of a massive dead of Nigerians from food poison perfected by those who have insatiable lust for power. A progressive can bet to pay any bride price to marry a relative of Jonathan just to reduce his potential electorates. A progressive can afford to organize a mass rape of ladies suspected to be potential voters of President Jonathan. That is why it took many weeks before people came to believe that Chibok abduction was not a scam and I bet you not many are convinced yet that the whole scenario is not a huge hoax.
Granted that President Jonathan has not demonstrated political will that will raid Nigeria of corrupt practices, I insist that anybody posing as the Moses of Nigeria must show us a sign from God- turn stick into a big snake and vice versa- when we demand it. The progressive leaders must show us alternative governance we have been looking for by using their different states as foretaste of Nigeria under APC rather than sit back to lapoon Aso Rock. But if there is no difference between Bornu and Ebonyi, one is wont to view the opposition optimism as false hope.
The most unfortunate is the recent politicization of the throne of Kano emirate. As soon as the confirmation of former whistle blower of CBN was announced, one of the progressives said Jonathan should go to lagoons now that Sanusi is on the throne. With such statement, one is not left in doubt that Sanusi’s ascendancy is a political game. If ever was there, we never heard it in the history of Kano emirate that protest greeted the appointment of a new emir. The protest that followed the announcement of Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, as the 14th emir of Fulani Kano was unusual and revealing. Perhaps, that was the only way people could registered their dissatisfaction with such political calculation. The protest speaks volume of how politics has infected and desecrated the ancient throne.
Yeah, the appointment of Sanusi in many people’s opinion is to make his personal hatred for Jonathan a hatred of the entire emirate. Sanusi is calculated to use his throne against the man he loves to hate and pave way for landslide victory of the opposition party. That is why at his appointment Gov Amechi abandoned his official duty to fly to Kano. The noise of whether Jonathan should pay him homage is all political calculation and a thinking of a boyish man. It is as if Kano emirate has become larger than our country. Does it even make sense whether Gov Elechi bows before Igwe Agom-Eze or vice versa? Will it make any of them less since the tribute is due to a position and person? Is it even in constitution that the president must bow to emir before he is recognized by law? If Sanusi was appointed to frustrate Jonathan’s ambition, what becomes of his throne if Jonathan wins in 2015? Nigerians have got to reason.
I am indeed awe for parties reputed for making mountains out of moles. Both PDP and APC are two fingers of a leprous hand. Nigerians should be deceived that one is better than the other. It will take the combine effort of ‘Triple Edge and Mohammed Ali’ to take me to the polls next year. I am undecided. And the Romans would say ‘In dubilo noli agere’ (in doubt, do not act)
