In a few hours, Nigeria will be 50 years old! Fifty years since we attained, independence from our British colonial masters. Fifty years since we stumbled, bleary eyed from whatever, into nationhood. Fifty years since our internal colonizers took over our lives. 50 years since we developed the WASTING SYNDROME.
In a few hours, Nigeria will be 50 years old! Fifty years since we attained, independence from our British colonial masters. Fifty years since we stumbled, bleary eyed from whatever, into nationhood. Fifty years since our internal colonizers took over our lives. 50 years since we developed the WASTING SYNDROME.
I read with deep sorrow the wasting of lives following the scramble for Patience Jonathan’s rice in Abuja yesterday. My first thought was things have broken down completely. Our people have been so impoverished by our jailers that we have become devoid of self-respect and decency. An average Nigerian has been turned into a beggar. An average Nigerian lives on less than one dollar a day. Yet we are the eight largest producer of oil in the world. Something is wrong with this math.
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The history of Nigeria is one of serial disappointment. Occasionally, we show flashes of ingenuity and before the Citizens could adapt to anything good, the jailers of our existence will snatch it from us. When we saw the brilliance of the iconic Obafemi Awolowo in Western Nigeria, as we knew it then, the jailers of our souls struck and aborted the ingenuity of this man. The history of Nigeria is filled with serial disappointment, by war, corruption, nepotism, Poverty and genocide. This is as a result of tragic leadership. So tragic that its DNA is permanently stamped on our history. We are cursed with a leadership that is completely contemptuous of us. Leadership that prefer to plunge us into a rolling crisis, a war if required to maintain their strangle hold on us. A leadership with access to the bacteria causing the WASTING SYNDROME.
Look at the history of all the jailers of Nigeria masquerading as leaders. Short of the immediate post independence leaders, I mean the Tafawa balewa, Obafemi Awolowo, Dr, Nnamdi Azikiwe, group, all others without exception are whips of the devil on our corporate existence. Just as we shake one off and we think we are free, another one takes over to inflict more pain on us than the last one. The worst of them have been the fellow called IBB. An arrogant man with a deep sense of vanity, this man threw us back hundreds of years by the annulment of the 1993 election.. He has still not found the humility of heart, the fear of God in him to mouth that word SORRY. Rather, he has attempted to justify this sacrilege. He has danced around the issue. As if that is not bad enough, this man is attempting to benefit from the same democracy he so crudely and ruthlessly annulled in 1993. He has had an epiphany, he now appreciates, actually pretends to appreciate democracy. He is afraid to continue as pariah, he longs for the keys to the treasury. While in office as a usurper, he was neither productive nor innovative. The only thing he achieved was mass scale looting of Nigeria and infliction of the worst kind of WASTING SYNDROME on us.
We shall spill our blood and lay down our lives to prevent this man from inflicting more of the WASTING SYNDROME ON US. In 1993, we chased him away like a thief in the night. We allowed him to escape with his loot. This time around, we will do the right thing. He will never be president of Nigeria.
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It is the tragedy of June 12, 1993 that laid the foundation of having an Olusegun Obasanjo in our lives. IBB and the so-called power brokers in Nigeria imposed him on us. Need we remind each other of the tragedy of Obasanjo years in the driver’s seat? He represented the PDP, a party of thieves, by thieves. Any one who wanted to make quick money in Nigeria joined the PDP. We have cases of over night millionaires. We see cases of unstable people with admitted history of psychiatric treatment become ministers under Obasanjo. Under this man, there was reported expenditure of US$16 billion naira for power generation, yet we live in darkness, while the money disappeared into the private pockets of Olusegun Agagu and Lyle Imoke In Nigeria, they are still walking free. The credential for their freedom is their party affiliation in the PDP. The PDP government is an unchecked assault on Nigeria and on humanity. These are a people with intellectual disability. They constitute an affront on the dignity and hope of all Nigerians. Their only achievement is their affliction of Nigeria with the WASTING SYNDROME.
One can hardly point to a PDP governor in Nigeria who is decent. Look at what is happening in Aba. My own Aba of Smart, ingenious people. That same place has now become a ghost town. It has become a haven for kidnappers and
Bank robbers, yet no one has been arrested for these heinous crimes. I thought there was a seating governor in Abia State, but in retrospect, I will describe him as the locust in government house looting the good people of Abia State. How on earth will any one be able to explain the noonday kidnap of innocent children and no one has been
Arrested, the children have not been found. Rather, the useless government we have is engaged in negotiating with the kidnappers. Indeed, we live under the fist of our jailers and at age 50, we are wasting away.
The new trend as they celebrate 50 wasted years of Nigeria’s independence is the attempt by former governors to smuggle themselves back into power. Look at Olusegun Agagu, a man who has no decency or shame, a man whose words are not his bond. He has reportedly submitted his form to come back as a senator after he was chased out of the governor’s lodge in Akure. This man has no self-respect. He is incapable of being truthful. He swore in 2003 that he needed only one term in office as governor to restore the glory of Ondo state. Of course, some of us did not believe him then; in retrospect he did not believe himself. He used the likes of Dr Mimiko and Yele Omagunwa to get into office. He despoiled and raped Ondo state economically. He was unproductive and most of the time out of it.
Enough for him to be declared an alcoholic by his own people. Yet he wants to return to our lives. He wants to afflict us with more of the WASTING SYNDROME Same thing for Oyinlola and Mrs. Obada of Osun state; they too want to become senators. That is after they have wasted the lives and resources of the good people of Osun state for 8 years.
The only thing going for these people is their party affiliation and the possession of the plague causing the WASTING
SYNDROME.
Should we even bother about the drama of zoning going on in the PDP? I am amused that these locusts do not fail to equate the PDP with Nigeria. The zoning matter is strictly a PDP affair, but since we exist in a dysfunctional System on life support, then anything goes. It is a shame that Nigeria, and the jailers of our souls are still caught in the throes of zoning. Zoning is for idiots and unproductive people. The people asking for zoning do not wish Nigeria well.
Well. It is not about the man called Jonathan. I do not personally care for him. I think he has no business being in power. Rather, I feel government should represent the diversity of the country; it should be government of ideas and all things that will bring progress to Nigeria. However, in the case of Nigeria, it is meant to be a rotation, a circus of zonal looting of Nigeria.
It is this overwhelming burden that has turned Nigerians into a nation of people who die in the process of Scrambling for the rice thrown in the air by Patience Jonathan. I wonder why rice has to be imported from Brazil for Nigerians to share. Should we not at this stage in our lives be producing rice in Nigeria? I guess that will be unacceptable to the rice merchant, Dangote, and what Dangote wants, he gets because he belongs the Hausa /
Fulani oligarchy. Nigeria could be bankrupt in the process. It will not matter. In 1960, at our independence celebration, we reportedly gave palm seedling to the Indonesia delegation that came to celebrate with us. 50 years later we import palm oil and bleached oil from Indonesia because we have an affliction of the WASTING SYNDROME.
We are that nation that votes 4 million pounds sterling to import waste bins from the UK. Someone in the PDP must have gotten that useless contract. It is part of our WASTING SYNDROME. If Dr Good luck were not to be a completely profligate man, how could he have entertained such reckless suggestion in council? But then, it is Nigeria, a country with the WASTING SYNDROME. How about the 700,000 DVDs to be distributed in celebration of our 50 years of waste. That is another hare brained idea of a mentally challenged individual. DVDs in a country without power? How does the owner put to use. I guess it does not matter. As long as we waste and some people smile all the way to the bank. May God help Nigeria. I wonder if they will consider giving half for the money to those local geniuses in Aba or Onitsha. Am sure they will deliver better products than the trash from China. But in a country with the WASTING SYNDROME, buying from the Chinese and the British is better, And that is if they even bother to deliver the goods already paid for.
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