Until bones are weakened by nature or ailments restricts their dealings, until old age incapacitates or death approach, powerful men with enormous wealth and unchallenged political powers classify themselves above human reproach, or rate themselves supreme beyond downfall. Just like Pharaoh Thutmoses III inflicted pains on opposing voices as a King till the chain of servitude was broken under the leadership of Moses. It’s awkward politically to learn that the key actors that aided the victory of Late MKO Abiola against Babagana Kingibe at SDP Presidential Convention in Jos 1992 only used him as a cannon fodder to bring down the government of Ibrahim Babangida and not to actually support his aspiration to become the President after the June 12, 1993 presidential polls. The motive was that only a candidate from Western Nigeria could gather media influence against IBB as at that time, over signals that he wasn’t ready to relinquish power owing to his consistent ways of shifting earlier transition plans from 1987 till 1993 before the die was cast. Abiola mistaken their gesture for love or chauvinism, only to witness the reality of being used to just achieve a cause that became a curse, what an irony.
Similarly, majority of those influential personalities that supported the emergence of President Muhammadu Buhari in 2015 acted simply to gain prominence over President Jonathan, which explains reasons for their antics at hijacking the control of APC and attempt to place President Muhamamdu Buhari under their whims and caprices, the failure of the handlers of Mr President to permit the aberration, made their team leader to align with PDP to resist every attempt at prosecuting alleged corrupt politicians and create instability in the polity. The losers in this game of throne are the misguided young people that have failed to acknowledge the policy thrust of the present administration especially among the much touted educated folks with access to social media. One keep wondering why young people have suddenly failed to understand the distinction between morals and morality. A well-mannered citizen can be regarded as possessing morals, but when he conspires with others to commit fraud or support fraudulent personalities, whether out of ignorance, affinity or sentiments, such citizen has promoted immorality in disguise. In a different tone, when people no longer respect the law or violate orderliness at will, they no longer regard valuable views of others, which has reared the raging mentality of no morality in politics. The sordid occurrences of the past have now become yardstick to admit wrong doings as normality in the political misgivings occurring today, though with bias interpretations.
Protectionists have no job in a Country dependent on importation for survival, then why teaching protectionism in such Countries? Ideologies generally exist to sharpen perspectives of people towards tailored views, thoughts or actions. The last few years in Nigeria has witnessed semblance of gory past, in terms of outright defense of influential accused personalities within the corridors of power by hired crowds that pollute the public spaces with protest against prosecution cum lip service with chorus of political persecution. The current political travails in Nigeria where notable vociferous voices crying holier than thou, cajoling people to their sides, due to privilege of charisma and oratory power clearly insult the sensibilities of the cerebral among the masses while self-acclaimed proponents of paradigm shift are carried away by emotions and inordinate ambitions.
To imagine that at every point where the security agencies attempt a clampdown on political leaders with ill-gotten wealth, the media space becomes agog and discussions in the society changes from truism in the accusations to timing and political leanings, what a Country!! We seem to have reached a critical moment in Nigeria when the burble will burst, the storm is gathering again, but with different momentum, the real anger is boiling and the unimaginable is on the verge of happening, Nigeria will not collapse, but a national rebirth clearly beckons. The feeling of national rebirth is neither dream nor aspiration, it’s a ripe vision as the grand master’s jewel has been swallowed by a lion in the wilderness.
According to empirical facts, the Egyptian Sufis trained the first Knights Templar during their formative nine years of excavating the Temple of Solomon ascribing that the Temple of Solomon was Pharaonic Egyptian, and that its esoteric secrets from the ancient Magi Priesthood would require initiated mastery to understand with notion that “You may have the Cross, but we have the meaning of the Cross” a literal cornerstone of Christianity and Templarism. When people lack basic knowledge of their immediate family history, how do expect them to even reason beyond their comprehension. Most community rulers today that intimidate migrants especially in the North Central, enquire about their immediate history, their forefathers invaded those towns and became rulers by conquest.
Those that majorly determine the emergence of elected officials are the electorates where votes really count, but politicians take the glory at the expense of the downtrodden that votes without any inducement save for environments where votes are exchanged for cash or other incentives which must be corrected. To present President Muhammadu Buhari in bad light before the youth have been the inordinate preoccupation of Senate President Bukola Saraki and his ilk across the Country. Sane minds keep wondering how a totalitarian like the former governor of Kwara State that ruled with iron fist and condoled no act of insolence or opposing view from his subjects suddenly picked offences in receiving instructions from senior members of his party.
It is understandable that the PDP with the lost jewel likened to the jewel of the grand master in their behaviour like possessed faithful in the Temple of Solomon, are only seeking a return to the presidency to further return us to the era of absolute rot where commonwealth is shared with ignominy. If political leaders in States with huge internally generated revenue behaves irrationally by giving political patronage fetching unmerited finance to underserving members of their States, how do you explain those States with poor internally generated revenues owing Staff Salaries and indebted to citizens through poor road infrastructures and poverty. Youth are expected to be extremely intelligent and have good justification for political decisions, where there is nothing wrong for people to air their views or associate democratically, it’s extremely absurd for anyone from a State where the meagre resources available are not well utilized in the interest of the masses.
Using Kwara State as example, the crime rate in the State only subsided recently when the political leader of the ruling government in the State was under security beam, prior to now, people have lost count of numbers of people maimed under the pretext of cultism and armed robberies. Except the Kwara State University, all other State Owned Tertiary Institutions have poor welfare package for Staff and poor hostel facilities for Students especially in Kwara State Polytechnic Ilorin. Apart from Ilorin with good roads within the city arena, all other roads in the State are in deplorable state and the person that threw the State into ruin is the Senate President, who has been pretending like a saint and crying foul over any attempt to call him to order, no wonder his two major political godfathers are former Presidents Olusegun Obasanjo and Ibrahim Babangida.
2019 General Elections is less than six months from today, dubious politicians like Bukola Saraki and his ilk that recently decamped to the Peoples’ Democratic Party deserves no consideration, they joined the alliance in 2015 against President Jonathan to hold sway and gain more political relevance which fate eventually denied them in the All Progressive Congress, they should be regarded as pretenders seeking power at all cost. Despite surmountable challenges confronting the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari, his continuity beyond 2019 will sure create economic stability and social security for citizens for obvious reasons. The demagogues that pretended as patriots that supported him earlier have all deserted him, he is now left with dedicated members of the All Progressive Congress prepared to work with him to reposition Nigeria for greatness. In the fight against corruption, the two major political bigwigs already sentenced and serving jail terms are members of the ruling party and it is common knowledge that those with huge some ill-gotten wealth under prosecution and security watch belonged to the opposition party-PDP, you can imagine what a second term in office of President Muhammadu Buhari will achieve in that regard.
The masses must grow above pettiness and face reality; it takes collective will to effect positive changes in the society as those that hold sway in different States cannot be exonerated from any flaw of the Federal Government. It’s not that economy is easy for residents of Lagos, Kano and other States growing commerce, good roads and dutifully engagement of residents is not because of enormous resources, but their governments are dedicated towards making the States to work efficiently with the support of the people. This implies that many other States where abysmal failures are recorded attune to the lack of dedication to legitimate duties by their Governors, the Federal Government will fare better if residents of different States hold their government accountable. To imagine that collaborators in sharing of common wealth and fraudulent behaviours at State levels are canvassing the people against a federal government that offered bailout funds to States to pay Salary Arrears and still mismanaged the funds amount to gullibility.
– Comrade AbdulRahman Agboola
Former President, National Youth Council of Nigeria
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