My Vote Goes To…..

For me, the presidential candidates have emerged. I wouldn’t waste energy this time around arguing with anyone, I’d just watch as things play out. I hope the campaigns and debates would be issues based; not like the Channels tv interview. I hope it won’t be about past records…. I will just watch things play out…. but after February 14, hope some people wouldn’t die of shock or call for the cancellation of the election or reject it which might lead to loss of lives…
For me, anyway, I’ve decided on whom to support -and Goodluck shall it be, except the devil suddenly repents. Till when they stop roasting (or soaking) ”the dogs and the baboons” (in blood)-which seems like a daily thing now -I’ll still vote Goodluck.
Till the youth corp members who were murdered because a single man lost an election are resurrected; till the numerous lives lost as a result of the rejection of an election by a rigid brain-dead retired old soldier are brought back; till then, then, Goodluck it shall be!
He might not be perfect, but he’s not a fundamentalist!
He might not have done everything, but who builds Rome in a day? Who repairs what have been destroyed for decades in a day. Let’s not pretend like nothing is happening; those who came up with bokoharam are getting -anyway, less than they expected -exactly what they wanted -make it look like the government can’t do anything. Thank God that the president never left the humans to worry only about the animals causing problem. They thought he’d abandon the affairs of state to concentrate on the fight against animals.
The president might not be perfect, but even the president of the most powerful country in the world -the US -still has a lot of dissatisfied citizens; how much more a Nigeria that has been run aground for decades.
Today, I feel like a Nigerian. You no longer need to be a member of a particular ethnic group to be admitted into certain institutions.
But I must stress, for me, more than anything, I’d want the president to continue because:
• I’d really want a CORRECT census of the nation, not the LIE that had been conducted in the past! I wanna know, what criteria was used in giving Kano (a state that had Jigawa State under it before) 44 local governments as against Lagos. Worst still, Jigawa -a desert -has 24 or 27 local governments; more than a very populated Lagos. Is the population there more than that in Lagos? The politics of census sha!
• Again, I do not see why some people, in faraway north, should control over 85% of oil blocks in faraway Niger Delta, yet, tomato farms in the north are exclusively owned and cultivated by the ORIGINAL northerners of hausa/fulani MUSLIMS (yeah, because the Christians and other minority groups are seen as infidels).
• Nigeria must move forward, because those who think that this is the personal estate of Usman Dan-Fodio should be made to realize that Nigeria belongs to the man from Kara Mamode as well as the man from Otuoke; Nigeria belongs to the hausas as well as the Tivs; Idomas as well as Igbos, Ibibios as well as the Yorubas! This, to me, is the change we need and have gotten already!
To me, personally, I don’t want to go back to Adam!
Today, more than ever before, our trains are back on track; exactly why THEY wouldn’t want to stop campaigning with bokoharam, because they wouldn’t want you to see the brighter side.
Today, every Tom, DICK and Harry; every idiot, and uncivilized mentally unbalanced imp can vent his anger and disrespect towards the personality of the president without even being noticed. We know it was never like that during the brutal years of the military regime of a 2014 Democrat. We knew how three young men (who shouldn’t have been killed) were killed because, probably, they didn’t belong to the right religion and ethnic group.
I can’t and won’t be deceived; a man who’s not told us how $2.8b disappeared under his watch, a man who would rather jail a Vice president, Ekwueme, for the sin of an administration (because he’s not a northerner) but put the President, Shagari, in a cozy apartment (because he’s a ‘brother’ from the same sacred region) in the name of house arrest, is certainly dangerous to a multiracial state like Nigeria.
A man who could look Nigerians into the eyes and tell us that Abacha ”never stole a dime” has left us with much to desire.
A man whose well-being of his immediate ‘brothers’ -the ‘rankadedeious’ and over pampered lazy brethren from the northern part of Nigeria -is far above that of the whole Nigeria cannot be my president! This was evident in him as the PTF chairman, where he ignored the south for the north.
For me, like millions of others, we have and are moving forward!
If whoever think that, by not condemning bokoharam -and providing moral support for same, they could win the race, they better think twice. There’s one thing for sure, and that is: a victory outside GEJ is a victory to terror; a victory to inhumane animals of bokoharam -and that would mean doom for Nigeria.
They had threatened to make the country ungovernable in time past, and lived up to their threat. Should they MISTAKENLY (yeah, mistakenly has to be stressed because that’s the only way it could happen) win, then, the militants in the Niger Delta, and indeed other groups in Nigeria have been thought a new trade -of GRABBING, not begging for power.
From the time of Adam, to the time of Abraham through to the time of Jesus till now, it’s been proven time and time again that no individual or group has the monopoly of violence. It’s been also proven that, when pushed to the wall, when taken for granted, even the meekest and most gentle would certainly react. It’s been also said that ”once beaten twice shy”
Yeah!, we might’ve been beaten (succumbed to the threats, blackmail etc) in the past, but I guess people are wiser now -especially the militants, whose region has been bastardized by our local ”slave masters” in the name of drilling oil while their solid minerals remain untapped.
Nobody is actually a fool, now, as we’re now ”open eye!”
What truly is the aim of apc? To bring ‘change’ or to take us back to Adam?
If change is the answer, why have all PDP crooks moved to apc?
Is apc now like Akpos, who went to church to be baptized. The pastor dipped him into the water three times and said:
You were Akpos; you’re now John, old things have passed away and you’re now new.
Akpos went home, took his beer, and dipped it into the water there times and said:
You, my beer, you’re no longer beer but soft drink; old things have passed away and new things have come to replace them.
If change is the answer, why then is Fashola -young, intelligent, enlightened young man -not considered? Though, I’m totally not his fan, but I’d prefer him to an outdated rigid old soldier.
If change is the answer, why bring back a man who RULED when men of below 30 years (owners of this present generation) weren’t born?
If change is the answer, why was Rochas (who’s a performer to them) not considered? Don’t tell me that either Fashola didn’t run or that Rochas failed; we knew the arrangement before now. We knew the ultimate aim of apc -to return power to where it ”belongs” -the North! -and not just the North, the North of HAUSA/FULANI MUSLIM.
I think, to me, the ultimate change would’ve been Rochas/Fashola, don’t you think so? At least, they’re of this generation, and if they err, they’d still have to deal with us for a very long time than a man close to his grave. But no, power must ”go home!”
I think I’ve written enough, it’s all left for you and I to use our heads and not our hearts. We’re in a critical stage of either going forward or backward. It’s our choices to make; it’s in our hands to decide!
Out destiny is right before us; do we destroy it or safeguard it? Your choice of candidate determines your answer.
God bless this union of Lugard’s!
Iroha Solomon,
Lagos.