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| *Ikhide |
Exactly one year ago, Mr Ikhide Ikheloa (Pa Ikhide) wrote this on his facebook page. Read again and see if it is possible to disagree with him, if you have any grain of honesty in you...
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O Beautiful People
Many people have asked me my
opinion on the change of baton between the PDP and the APC, that breakaway
faction of the PDP. It should be obvious that I am
not crying in my beer that Mr. Goodluck Jonathan is out of Aso Rock, he was not
fit to be president of Nigeria
On the other hand I am not dancing in the streets because
our thieving public intellectuals, the Napoleons of Animal Farm are heralding
the coming of the tired face of yesterday on the backs of criminals and thugs
and liars as "change." I do not share in the euphoria; I repeat, we
have merely changed the letters of the alphabet from odious PDP to odious APC,
same difference.
No one fools me, I will continue to push the conversation
about what is appropriate in terms of governance. Democracy without
accountability is killing Nigeria
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| President Buhari |
My people. I would like to be wrong, I pray to be wrong
for one reason. My generation and older, of leaders and intellectuals owe this
generation a huge debt of relief. We owe them what we have afforded our own
families and children from the safety of the West and the faux suburbs of Lekki
and Abuja
My people, since independence what has happened to Nigeria Nigeria
In the name of this generation of hopeful youths, I plead
with the incoming farce, this change borne on the backs of criminals and thugs
and liars, to prove me wrong and show some compassion and competence. Please do
something in the name of millions of young people who truly believe in you and
expect structural changes in the next four years. Prove many of us wrong and do
something productive for once. We have the solutions but sixteen years of
corruption and buffoonery by various versions of the APC and the PDP have taunted
the question: Who will bell the cat?
I salute and congratulate every young Nigerian that has
begun the journey of fighting back. It is your country, they owe you, you do
not owe them. They work for you; hold them accountable, make them leaders, not
rulers. Make them treat you the way they treat their own children. This is a
promise: In your name, I will continue to be a one-man army railing against the
APC and the PDP until they morph from being enemies of the people to champions
of the people. I do not need money from any of them, I just want them to do
what they have promised. It may not happen in my lifetime but it won't be for
lack of trying. A pox on both their houses.
Finally, I must thank those who engaged me on my wall; as
much as I joked about #BLOCKING folks,
I found that I did not really need to use that powerful tool. The vast majority
of folks proved that they were raised right and engaged me with passion and
uncommon respect, even when I was being bad and I am not the easiest person to
have as an adversary. I salute you and I look forward to more skirmishes as I
join like-minded folks to continue to name and shame our ruler-criminals. Nigeria
Good morning!
Ikhide, you write well in your diagnosis of what ails Nigeria. But the problem with Nigeria is not merely diagnostic but diagnosis of the wrong type. Like Achebe and many others, you think that the problem with Nigeria is leadership. But you treat Nigeria like a "normal" state and not as an "abnormal" or "anomalous" country (there is no other country in the world with major ethnic and religious divides like Nigeria exists today) You also think that if power is transferred to "new breed" politicians, all will be well.
ReplyDeleteNo wonder you used the word "My People." But which "People" do you mean-Igbo, Bini, Yoruba, Hausa, Fulani, Ogoni, Tiv, Ijaw, etc? You know that there is nothing like the Nigerian People aka the Nigerian "Nation" and that there will never be one. It is like asking "Arabs, Jews, Germans, Americans, Christians, Sunni, Shia, Hindus, Chinese, English, Scots, Irish etc." to live in "One Nation"-without a common or even dominant ethnic group, religion, culture, language, ideology-variables that promote integration-and expect them to live as "One People"-even after northern Nigerian Muslims have definitively destroyed any dreams of "unity" by establishing sharia, the last nail in the coffin of any multinational or multi-religious political structure.
Historically, the myth of being One People in a diverse society has only occurred in multi-national imperial political structures where one group imposes its will on other peoples through military conquest-Greece, Rome, Ottomans, Britain, Soviet Union etc. But history also shows that such empires are doomed to disintegrate and die; and so will the British-imposed caliphate of Nigeria, which masquerades as a "nation." Like other dead empires, Nigeria cannot last for long as "one nation" under the brutal, repressive, and "modernized" feudal caliphate system run by Buhari and his predecessors.
So Ikhide, new breed politicians are not the solution. Nigerians will not have stability, prosperity and true democracy until their various nations are truly allowed to choose their leaders and to determine their destiny. The deadly use of Hausa-Fulani military and their Kalashnikov-carrying Fulani cattle herders to keep Nigeria "one" will fail; and that is the lesson of history.