Opinion
By Prof Chris Mustapha Nwaokobia Jnr.
THE first part of this series was exactly 37 days ago. I truly couldn’t put my head together to weave words around the many troubles and worries that define the Nigerian Socio-political landscape. It has been an immensely troubling kaleidoscope. From problems of wanton Insecurity to unparalleled and unmitigated corruption and larceny. From propaganda and half-truths to outright falsehood as basic governmental policy ditto lying as an Act of State. From Profligacy to Wanderlust. And from a deliberately whimsical predilection to State Capture to Politics monstrously lacking in values and ideology. How so sad!
Within the past 5 weeks, it has been the government telling us how they are winning the war against terror and banditry with the actual figures from the North to the South telling us the exact opposite. It has been the government telling us lies about how foreigners are seeking medical help in Nigeria, whereas the President is the Medical-Tourist-In-Chief, and the Teaching Hospital of the University College Ibadan without Electricity and without a functional Generator. How shameless!
It has been the brazen addition of 5 or 6 extra Trillion naira to the 2025 Appropriation Bill without telling us exactly how it will be funded, don’t forget that the 2024 Budget is still largely unimplemented. And it has been about a government involved and engaged in too much motion without movement. Only the Politrickcal Class of the APC bent and those cross-carpeting to the APC see an economy that is functional, how they do, facts and statistics are yet unable to validate.
I’m too troubled and worried to do a lengthy piece. I have therefore elected to be blunt and brutal. Those who expect the political class to lead the all important salvation of our Dear Country are clearly delusional. The Political Class is concerned about the next election and about self-preservation, that is why they find a largely uneventful and underperforming government and political party the APC, attractive. That is why the PDP and the LP instead of leading credible opposition are unable to fend off the damaging interloping interventions and distractions orchestrated by a Ruling Party that takes Nigeria for a conquered project. The APC, the PDP and the LP are apparently multipurpose vehicles concerned solely about political power for the sake of it, that is why there is a manifest dearth of credible opposition. Do you yet wonder why the soulless and ostensibly individualistic decamping of elected Lawmakers and ‘carreer-politicians’ from the Labour Party LP to The All Progressive Congress APC, and from the Peoples Democratic Party PDP to the All Progressive Congress APC? Has APC governed so well to suddenly emerge an irresistible Bride? Don’t bother about the debate, to the Nigerian Politician all that counts is “ME, MYSELF AND I”.
Comrades, Compatriots, Countrymen and women, we must rise up with a clearheaded resolve to make the job of fixing Nigeria our unalterable commitment. We must unite against the perfidy of a grossly egocentric political class. Yes, we must organize knowing that the trouble with Nigeria is the failure of ‘leaders’ whose philosophy is greed, whose religion is egocentrism, and whose soul is utterly wicked. Don’t let nobody whine you with reasons for cross-carpeting from one uneventful Party to another. Don’t let them sell their selfish albeit unprincipled darting from one party to another as a call to service, na lie. It is completely about them, they are completely lacking in principles, bereft of scruples, and vacant in values and ideology.
We must therefore as a people rededicate our lives to the things that matter. We must make the battle for a country that works for all, what matters. We must organize rather than agonize and pull together, determined to torpedo the weights of ethnicity and religion, and committed to breaking the blindfolds of partisanship. Folks, we must unite against our fault lines and work to get the job done. Nigeria is calling out to you and I, and we must RISE to the SALVAGE.
TO BE CONT’D.
I’M CHUKWUDUMEBI.
***Prof Chris Mustapha Nwaokobia Jnr.
Convener COUNTRYFIRST MOVEMENT. A Good Governance Advocacy Group.
A.I
Feb. 10, 2025
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