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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,
I am contemptuous of his reign and that of the PDP. And I have a hard time
being grateful to Mr. Jonathan for being gracious in defeat; it is high time we
stopped thanking the servants of the people for merely doing their job
sometimes.
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
and Nigerians. We have spent dozens of billions of Naira to race past broken
schools, broken hospitals and broken roads to execute a shoddy election and
install the illusion of change. We have just traded ravenous locusts for
starving termites. We will be miserable for the next four years as we continue
to endure an unsustainable democracy. This democracy is an unsustainable farce
and we all know it. If we are not careful it will be the end of our nation as
we know it.The PDP needs to go, the APC needs to go, they are collectively
responsible for our mess and I am not excusing one bunch of thieves and
incompetents from blame.
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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. They
deserve good schools, homes, hospitals and robust safety and security that our
children and family enjoy. We have ripped them off, looted their present and
future and fed them lies from birth. We owe them relief.
My people, since independence what has happened to Nigeria and
Nigerians, I call black-on-black crime. Nigeria was quite honestly better
off under white rule; that is exactly what our black rulers have proven to
their eternal shame.
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 is
ours, not theirs.
Good morning!
