I have no reservations in saying that this is the saddest day of my adult life. All along, even though I believed that the PDP is hell-bent on winning the Ekiti governorship rerun, I had thought some level of decency and common-sense would prevail if not anything, but at least to showcase that the PDP is a little repentant but my hopes have been dashed. Why the PDP is interested in winning Ekiti at all costs is strange to me. In the first instance Segun Oni has been an underperforming governor. He is not loved by the people of Ekiti state. I think he is the most unpopular politician in the state even within his own PDP. What the PDP fail to realize is that the people of Ekiti have rejected the candidate and the party altogether. I think we have put up a show of shame before the whole world and yet we want to be at the G-20 meeting. People who attend such meetings are not vote riggers or stealers. Only to add to our shame, South Africa recently concluded its national elections and everything went so well and Obasanjo, the most shameless maggot on the face of the earth was there as an observer. What is wrong with this country? Why is it that we cannot do anything well or get anything right? Why is it that shame has become a rare commodity in our public life?
With all that has happened, I think people will stop trusting President Yar’Adua. He is a criminal like the rest of them in the PDP. If he admitted that his own election was flawed why has he not done anything to the man who superintended this flawed electoral process? I had said before the rerun in Ekiti that they should not allow the tainted hands of Maurice Iwu to touch the rerun. But this was not to be. And now, from the way things are going, Iwu might conduct the 2011 elections granted that we shall still have civilian rule by then. I say this with every sense of responsibility that I don’t see this present dispensation lasting much longer. I personally prefer military rule to the continued rule of the PDP. For one thing, the military can be trusted on some things. They cannot hold flawed elections like we have had in 2003 and 2007 respectively. The PDP has turned Nigeria into a conquered territory. They can plunder and overrun at will and with impunity. They are proud to use their Federal might but the Day of Judgment is coming for them. Why is it that anyone who joins the PDP becomes an instant animal? I think the brains of all PDP members should be tested for psychiatric sickness. Yar’Adua’s may be sick and his sickness may be so telling on his appearance but this should not be taken as a sign that he is a good person. His look is clearly deceptive, a pretender and a criminal at heart. What name do you call a man who thrives on a stolen mandate if not a thief and a criminal? Clearly Yar’Adua is an unmitigated and monumental disaster. As far as I am concerned, he is not better that Obasanjo. He looks more like one person that has been chosen to lead Nigeria into the abyss of utter destruction and he is doing the job with quick dispatch.
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It is clear that what we need today is not rebranding but a bloody revolution. If nothing is done to shake up the status quo as it is today, we are finished as a people. Not until all those who have made life unbearable for the masses of our people since independence are killed, Nigeria will never know peace. In the alternative if a revolution will not work, let us divide this country so that each man can go back to his tent. After all, this contraption called Nigeria did not exist before 1914. If we did not come together to create this stupid entity and it was only imposed upon us by the British, we can as well say that the arrangement is not working and so bid good riddance to the bad rubbish. It is time to put Nigeria in order and the military and the people of this country must do it now otherwise, let us divide Nigeria. The poor masses of this country can perish the thought that there will be one day when they shall have economic justice and their children can live better lives. They should forget the idea that one day, the votes of the people will count so that they can elect leaders who will be their real servants. The emergence of Fashola, Mimiko and Oshiomole are clear accidents, which may not be allowed to repeat itself. The political class is holding the people of Nigeria hostage and they are not willing to let go. The people must now decide what they want: Servitude or liberation. They should know for a fact that their oppressors will give them a run for their money. But one thing I know is that Nigeria cannot be saved without a serious bloodbath. Clearly Nigeria is not working. It is a failed project. I am indeed sorry for Nigeria.
Fr. Emmanuel Ogundele is with the Department of Philosophy, Ss. Peter and Paul Seminary, Bodija, Ibadan.
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