Please, permit me to begin by expressing my deep and sincere appreciation to all those who in various and diverse ways elected to be involved in the decision to “begin our future” and resculp the ailing non-durable infrastructure and our existential reality as a people.
From the outset, we set out fueled by the realization that we are first Igala brethren before opting to be Political Party members (of any/our choice) and ideologues of our convictions or affiliations. We didn’t determine to foist or impose our thinking, beliefs or mannerisms on anyone while being open to those thinking, beliefs or mannerisms that are validly and verifiably superior to ours.
My decision was to engage in politics and not with politics of the type, kind and caste that ensued on 23/02/2019. I hoped that ideas, offerings and discussions would guard, guide and measure all levels of the engagement but, I think, my thoughts were either overboard or too futuristic.
I shall exercise utmost temperance in expressing my concerns just so that I don’t unwittingly encourage anyone to take laws in their hands. That said, what happened on Saturday was for want of a better description, a tragedy of monumental ramifications.
Guns and machetes were freely displayed and applied. Voting centers became haggling centres. Assurances of a safe return home for the few courageous voters was incumbent on allegiance to a particular Party. The security authorities provided cover for people who should be in the gulag. Some INEC officials were forced to re-write results while others were just too willing for some money. This is just to mention a few.
Because it was never about me, my desire to work and support any enterprise that would positively impact our sovereignty and communion is sacrosanct and would not abate on the altar of self, greed or personal/group interest.
In the final analysis, two things to think over and about:
There comes a Pharaoh who doesn’t know Moses and what becomes of the “used and dumped” who were only too willing to maim, to kill and to destroy.
The other thing is akin to the “Stockholm Syndrome” where as victims we appear to be comfortable with our disposition and would in fact fight to maintain status-quo.
In conclusion, this are not just rantings or musings but a call-to-order at best. I must draw our attention to a story in which a house rat feeling bad and worried at the sight of a mousetrap bought by the mother of the house (apparently to kill the mouse which was feeding on her documents) in which it lives approached the chicken, the pig and the cow for advice on a preventive line of action; they all rebuffed stating clear that it was none of their business since they don’t leave indoors.
That night, the mousetrap caught something and the mother of the house happily went to see the wicked mouse but didn’t realize, the trap had caught the tail-end a snake. With the lights out, she got bitten severally before she knew it.
At the hospital, she need some pepper soup, the chicken was the first victim. She didn’t improve as fast enough, the pig had to go to cater for her and visitors to the hospital.
Later, she died from the several bite and the volume of venom. Funeral was organized and the cow had to go.
The chicken, the pig and the cow who thought it was all about the indoor mouse fell victim while the mouse was unscathed. I pray this isn’t the kind of irony that would befall us.
P.S We are keeping a close watch of goings-on and shall not accept all results that do not represent reality
– Dr. Victor Alewo Adoji (DVAA)
ADC Senatorial Candidate for Kogi East
