President Goodluck is set to give us a gift again just like he did on January 1st 2012. It’s a different gift entirely unlike that of the increment in fuel price; it is the upward review of the electricity tariff. I just wonder how great our shortcomings are for us to deserve this unfeeling and anti-masses government. Or is this supposed to be a kind of joke? I am sure the thoughts going through the minds of many Nigerians now are that we didn’t bargain for this. O nse mi, o tun gba mi (you are inflicting pain on us and yet you are proposing anesthesia for the pain), they pretend as if all they can ever think of is the welfare of Nigerians but all their actions point towards deceit and oppression.
The hardship inflicted on the citizens does not seem enough, they just had to pile it up. Yet, this present government want us to be foolhardy enough to return them to power in 2015 so that we can have cause to praise Goodluck Jonathan in five years. Well, O will say he should not worry about the praise, his people in Otuoke are waiting to give it to him in great proportions. All he needs to do is just go and meet them in 2015 and leave Nigeria in peace.
This has been a very bad year in the history of this country; 219 Chibok girls are still missing, Police officers abducted from Police Training College Gwoza have not been returned, many more have been taken into hostage, need I mention more? To tackle all these daunting challenges, we have a clueless and incompetent President who still wants to continue taking fresh air at the Aso Villa when what we need is someone who will work his fingers to the bone. According to him, he knows who they are and he is on top of the situation, then why does Boko Haram still attack with impunity? At least if you know who is behind your problems, you will work towards a solution either covertly or overtly. I don’t think Dame Patience Jonathan has reminded her husband lately that there is God, who can still uproot people the way he did to Abacha.
On Christmas day, passionate Nigerians came out to ask for the return of the Chibok girls but they were ambushed by Security operatives unleashed by our Ogas at the top. Even our First Lady that was “moved to tears” could not organize a rally to show solidarity. Her tears are dried and forgotten. Our rulers have decided to move on and they want to forcefully drag the #BBOG activists along. But we will not move on, like Japheth Omojuwa said in a tweet “we will march, we will speak, we will tweet, we will blog, we will demand.”
It gets even worse when I remember the ₦21.27 billion or more that was raised for the presidential campaign. It wasn’t the fact that money was raised for the campaign that was upsetting (because the wheels of political campaigns are oiled with money) but that salaries are still being owed at federal and state levels. Civil servants celebrated Christmas without the November salary not to talk of early payment of December salary. That is not to say that some States under the aegis of APC don’t owe too, their hands are not clean as well. Was the fundraising supposed to endear us to them? To show us they are ready to spend so much on the re-election of the President at the workers’ expense?
Now, as Nigerians, we need to get our strategies right. The first and most important step is to get our permanent voters’ card because we can shout from today till kingdom come, if we do not get this visa for change, we will not be able to unseat this regime. INEC too has to be taken to task concerning those who could not get the PVC because of some technical shortcoming. The temporary one should be used since it is accepted in corporate and government organizations.
We have to look this gift horse in the mouth and reject this brand of gift. We have to let them know that we want out.
@ajoke_adesanya
Credit: Omojuwa.com
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