Certainly, no nation can experience genuine growth and sanity with what the Sarakis, Akpabios, Tambuwas, Atikus, Ahmeds, Ogbes, etc are dishing out blatantly to our faces today; and above all, the anti-democratic posture of the Buhari administration – with the brazen display of disregard for the rule of law and human rights which are the hallmark of democratic governance. For the nation to progress, it is not enough to fire Lawal Daura as DG of DSS, but the government must investigate all those involved in the plan to lay a siege on the nation’s heart of democracy – The National Assembly by men of the Department of State Security, assisted by the police. We must reclaim our country by hook or crook because the lives of majority of our people are now like flowers without dew, it has become colorless and dry, they are now enveloped in shackling poverty, and we have no friends here!
[dropcap]I[/dropcap]t is quite expected the current whirl wind of events rocking the political climate in the Federal Republic of Nigeria today. This development is nothing but the incredible show of shame that is normally associated with party politics whenever a major election is about to take place or has taken place.
Show of reckless and unprincipled defections by politicians in our clime is nothing new. What appear new nowadays is the way pedestrian views are being hawked around successfully as the sacred facts by some individuals who have chosen to bow to the current of ignorance, emotions and sentiments.
Overnight experts, early morning critics and sunshine patriots are having real fun in town forgetting quickly that the problem confronting the Nigerian nation was actually activated, nourished and proliferated since late1950’s, by the rogue political elite who have clearly and demonically sown and adorned the toga of ethnicity, religion, tribe and violence to placate and mesmerize the masses.
Who says the current cancer eating down the country at an alarming rate was ignited by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) , All Progressives Congress (APC), etc? Who said that it was the National Party of Nigeria (NPN) that destroyed the country during the Second Republic between 1979 and 1983?
Why did the First Republic collapse in 1966? Why did the legendary political avatar, Chief Obafemi Awolowo try in vain to secure a united progressive front in the First and Second Republics?
The military monsters had their fair share of the ravaging poisonous political valise which they unleashed mercilessly on the hapless and hopeless masses until the likes of Ibrahim Babangida, Olusegun Obasanjo, Abubakar Abdulsalami, Jeremiah Useni, Theophilous Danjuma etc became satanic ring leaders for national retrogression, ridicule, stagnation and insults.
The June 12th, 1993 Presidential Election won overwhelmingly by Chief Moshood Kashimawo Abiola was dumped aside because a brutal desperate collection of eternal foes of Nigeria trembled at the dawn of drastic march to accelerated progress.
For sixteen years the so called political class at the center engaged themselves in unbridled wanton self-enrichment and avarice using a badly built vehicle, called Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), before the likes of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu dreamt of fulfilling the last political wish of Chief Obafemi Awolowo.
In 2015, General Muhammadu Buhari who had fought frantically to snatch the Presidential stool in Abuja became a fantastic political bride that every rotten, nasty, and egoistic political prostitute befriended.
Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, seeing the electoral asset available in General Buhari took the greatest political risk of his entire life by jumping into the bed of strange alliance that eventually grabbed the supreme seat in the land.
Many Nigerians went to sleep on May 29th 2015 and dreamt that President Muhammadu Buhari would conjure up social, political and economic miracles cum progress, but very few of us thought otherwise because we knew there were formidable enemies within the inner caucus of power; rogues, unrepentant rogues for that matter.
President Buhari from his body language right from onset appeared alone in his fixated island of fighting corruption, insecurities etc. This fact manifested early in the life of the government of the All Progressives Congress (APC) when Senator Bukola Saraki, Yakubu Dogara and other professional turn coats and fair weather characters exposed their true identities by wrapping the National Assembly under their sleeves.
The greatest undoing of the Buhari ‘progressive march’ was when the old Lion was heavily incapacitated and locked up by sickness in a London Hospital. In the absence of Mr. Integrity, things nose-dived for the worse as everybody took good care of themselves.
Today, ideological hollowness, acute selfishness and incredible greed have manifested full circle as cross carpeting has taken over the affairs of the nation, as most politicians as usual have become too afraid to wash their urine from their dirty panties.
In a country where some people were born with government spoons, fed with government plates, drank with government cups and are being buried with government caskets, while the masses are being flushed down the drain of hunger, disease and certain death, everything must change!
The civil society must assist the Nigerian masses to reclaim the Nigerian State from political tricksters, conmen, mean scoundrels who have mastered the acts of political banditry and brigandage over and above urgent national ideological path way, economic stability and societal redemption.
Certainly, no nation can experience genuine growth and sanity with what the Sarakis, Akpabios, Tambuwas, Atikus, Ahmeds, Ogbes, etc are dishing out blatantly to our faces today; and above all, the anti-democratic posture of the Buhari administration – with the brazen display of disregard for the rule of law and human rights which are the hallmark of democratic governance.
For the nation to progress, it is not enough to fire Lawal Daura as DG of DSS, but the government must investigate all those involved in the plan to lay a siege on the nation’s heart of democracy -The National Assembly by men of the Department of State Security, assisted by the police.
We must reclaim our country by hook or crook because the lives of majority of our people are now like flowers without dew, it has become colorless and dry, they are now enveloped in shackling poverty, and we have no friends here!
Foot soldiers of violence and rascality must be identified and neutralized. Patriotic Nigerians must make themselves available as road blocks against hideous disregard for humanity in Nigeria.
We must identify and pluck down all the fraudulent political Goliaths as we approach 2019 general elections and insist on a new social contract as a precondition for those that will enjoy our electoral blessings.
Nowinta wrote Where We Are: A call for democratic revolution In Nigeria
