blessed with selfish and vain leaders . The gang piloting Nigeria
since creation day swarms with conceited and ultra -corrupt leaders
who serve the masses rotten pottage in a potty while they gobble "isi
ewu" in golden chinaware and down exotic wines in diamond chalice. We'
re worse than slaves . We, the Nigerian proletariats, are a case study
of a rape victim , who feels the pain of an intruding phallus but yet
moan and gyrate to the vicious thrusts racking her innermost at
ravishing intervals. This is our plight , a following condemned to
perpetual cursing amid blessing , deafness amid listening, dumbness
amid talking – all at once in vain .
No sooner had the colonialists waved their goodbyes in 1960 than our
political elite rode on winged chariots of fire , burning the
decencies of our shared existence with the departing overlords . In
1966, the military snatched power from the hollow jaws of a bigoted
political class , setting the country in a writhing spin that twitched
till 1979. A momentary taste of power from 1979 to 1983 shows a
democratically elected political lot that had learnt nothing from its
13 years of wandering in the wilderness , engaging in odious
corruption which the military seized by the barrel as an excuse to
seize power again till 1999. The beautiful damsel , Miss Nigeria ,
complained about the smelly rapist, whose body odour and two clothes –
khaki and ' babanriga' – she knew too well. In all the years of the
raping escapade, the life of the ordinary Nigerian diminished in
quality, purpose and length as bats and cows in some other climes
enjoyed better food , shelter , security , electricity, medical
treatment , health insurance and other necessities of life .
In 2015, tired and sore , the belle decided to get married to the town
's most handsome suitor called Mr Progressive, and jettison the
Conservative rapist forever. How wise! Progressive is suave and
urbane, Miss Nigeria thought, closing her dreamy eyes to see a rosy
future lived in love with her cutie pie . "Begone from my sight !" she
barked at Conservative .
Show me any Nigerian political leader , who can confidently swear that
he only lived on the statutory salaries and allowances approved by the
Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal Commission, and I will show
you a lizard in Texas ! Enough of the esoteric speech , Tunde ; these
leaders will never listen ! But I will call a spade no other name ;
both the Peoples Democratic Party and the All Progressives Congress
are one nightmare Nigerians want to wake up from. While the Goodluck
Jonathan administration lied all through its four- year existence (
said Chibok girls were never kidnapped, you remember ?) , the
President Muhammadu Buhari media machinery has been minting excuses
daily. The great Pope John Paul II has a word for the excusive Buhari
administration. The Pope said , " An excuse is worse and more terrible
than a lie, for an excuse is a lie guarded. " It 's tragic that the
APC combines excuses with lying. But I just don 't know the excuse the
APC would come up with for the Anti - People Commotion the party
caused in the name of welcoming President Buhari to Lagos last
Thursday for the inauguration of a mere bus terminal and the birthday
of the APC National Leader, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu. The whole bat and cow
circus was mean in planning and irritable in execution. I remember
that the Action Congress of Nigeria , as an opposition party in 2012,
described the paralysing visit of Mrs Patience Jonathan to Lagos State
as the worst form of oppression of the common man . That day , Lagos
was locked down even before Madam Jonathan woke up in Abuja , and
people were dehumanised, trekking for several miles. Many slept on the
road that day as they couldn 't get back home just as many missed
their flights , doctors' appointments , lectures , deliveries, work ,
and fancies. Also , I remember the ACN schooling the President in
ethics, patriotism and leadership when the head of the clueless
administration visited Lagos for a centenary at the Eko Hotel and
Suites on the Victoria Island. The spokesperson for the ACN , who is
now the Minister of Information , Alhaji Lai Mohammed , offered an
unsolicited advice to the visiting President. He advised that Jonathan
, upon arrival at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, should
fly to the Lagos Island event in a chopper – in order to save
Lagosians the agony of endless hours in traffic . In a letter
addressed to the Governor of Lagos State at the time, Babatunde
Fashola , Mohammed also advised Jonathan to postpone his visit all
together because the date clashed with the national convention of the
ACN billed for the Onikan Stadium, Lagos Island.
More than any other shenanigans since Buhari was voted as President in
2015, the shameless shredding of the masses' rights in order to please
the gods of Daura and Bourdillon by Ambode confirms the APC as a more
hypocritical and cruel form of the PDP . If Jonathan was advised by
Mohammed to hop on a chopper en route to Lagos, what stops the Daura
herdsman from clambering into a train from Abuja to Ikeja thence to
Lagos Island; that would , at least, afford him the opportunity to see
cows' grazing routes, and also save Lagosians the nuisance, which his
visit turned out to be. Sadly , Tinubu , Ambode , Mohammed , Fashola ,
Vice - President Yemi Osinbajo and the visiting President know that
state visits caused hardship to the citizenry and brought Lagos to its
knees since the days of the jackboot when innocent schoolchildren were
lined up along routes where visiting military tin gods rode. However ,
Buhari, Tinubu , Ambode , Mohammed, Fashola , Osinbajo don' t care
about the effect of the inhuman visit on the public because they know
the soothing words to coo into the ears of the raped nation during the
next round of election .
If Nigeria is a gnashing irony , Lagos is a teary oxymoron. Lagos is
the smallest and largest state in Nigeria . With a surface area of 3
,557 square kilometres, Lagos is the smallest in terms of land mass
but with a population of 21 million and a GDP of $ 136 bn, the state
is the largest in the country . But I cannot see the sense in barring
people from work and closing down the fifth largest economy in Africa
for the visit of a man , who was also on a working visit . In a
familiar fashion reeking of queerness , Lagos State Commissioner of
Police , Edgal Imohimi, announced that Lagosians seen along certain
routes during the visit would be arrested and prosecuted .
As popular as Presidents Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan , George H . W.
Bush, George W Bush, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama were, no US state
ever declared a holiday when they visited . President Donald Trump has
visited a number of the US states after his election, none has
declared a holiday in his honour. So, what has Buhari done especially
to deserve the honour of a holiday being declared in his name ?
Despite being a country that openly professes its trust in God , the
strongest country in the world , America , doesn' t observe a public
holiday during Easter . Some statistics have rubbished our leadership
incompetence and religious hypocrisy . Alaska, a state in the US , is
almost twice the size of Nigeria just as the US is almost 11 times the
size of Nigeria , yet the country is run effectively . If you choose
to live in Nigeria instead of the US, you would make 89. 7 per cent
less money , live 26 .4 years less, consume 99 .06 per cent less
electricity, spend 98 . 94 per cent less money on health care and you'
re 12 times more likely to die in infancy!
The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people , says
Woodrow Wilson, the 28th President of the United States. Hear , o ye
Nigerian leaders !
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