The mess is ideal. We have no fuel to move around, no money to exchange value for the necessities of life, no network to even use technology to deal with cashless and little ability to go from here to there without the threat of being consumed by violence in a country that has just had a new phraseology of ‘ungoverned spaces’ enter its Lexicon, even as the people struggle with concepts such as state capture, supreme court installed Governors and candidates.
Those in charge argue that they should be trusted to repeat the class and avoid failing exams. They even go so far as to say that the PTA is calling for the expulsion of perpetual failure students because it is our way of punishing them for failing repeatedly.
Nigeria’s youth have suffered enough to be left with such a future. But my friend SO should know that there is hunger in the land, and the APC/PDP tradition has weaponized poverty and is heavily invested in the misery of the Nigerian people because they rely on that misery index to buy their votes, use thugs for voter suppression and rigging, especially when shame is lost and politicians can have swag in posh SUVs from commonwealth looting even as the people groan in agony.
This week, enough people are willing to defy the moment’s vote price for a taste of freedom. It is liberation time, as the Peter Obi/Datti Baba-Ahmed ticket brings a breath of fresh air to the quest to reclaim Nigeria and remake it for its young people.
Thank God, grand patriarchs such as former President Olusegun Obasanjo, Chief Ayo Adebanjo, Chief Edwin Clark, and others show examples of dignity in leadership that can be shoulders to stand on for many. The disarray, indiscipline, and humiliation in today’s APC dealings define what their examples constitute an antidote to it.
God certainly works in mysterious ways. And if you don’t see God’s hand in this perfect mess as a signal to Nigerians that ‘our mumu don do,’ you may be deaf to the divine. That person who is unable to see God’s hand could stand in front of a T-junction with God standing there like a giant gorilla and not see Him.
What is clear is that on February 25th, God presents us with light and darkness, more of yesterday or a fresh start, life or death. May we choose life so that we can live as SO desired in his column? Of course, he was correct in assuming that no one whose hand it is to save his life will do so.
Conclusion
It is with great surprise that both the PDP and APC candidates failed to recognize that all could have been forgiven and forgotten, with a path to immortality opened, if they had simply said: as statemen, we step aside to give voice to the powerful call of our nation’s youth for renewal and a new beginning. Perhaps I overestimated the availability of wisdom. It is now up to the people to turn out in large numbers to vote and defend their right to vote. A new Nigeria is possible, and we hope it begins come this Saturday. Vote wisely!!!
Source: Punch
