By Nwamkpa Modestus
No doubt, this is a very tough and challenging period for
many Nigerians. The past one year under this APC led government in Nigeria
However, much as I had expressed skepticism and have continued to be skeptical as to the party’s genuine capacity to lead the country to a safer shore but what actually baffled and keep surprising me is the level at which the party is struggling desperately to use the same lies or peddling of falsehood they used to get to power to also remain in power. Or could this be the reason why there is this maxim that one needs another lie to sustain one lie?
Perhaps, unknown to them that there is this popular saying
that ‘you can deceive some people some of the times but you obviously cannot
deceive all the people all the times’. When in 2014/2015 the APC members and
leaders were aggressively seeking to supplant former President Goodluck
Jonathan and his party- the PDP accusing the former President and PDP members
of being clueless, incompetent, weak and corrupt among other spurious
accusations, very few discerning and informed minds knew then that APC as a
party and its leaders were playing on the intelligence and psych of some
vulnerable Nigerians. They promised to make light to shine across the country,
water to run on dried taps, three millions of jobs to be provided yearly, 25
million unemployed Youths to receive five thousand naira stipends yearly, NYSC
members to have their alowee increased, one dollar to equal to one naira,
Chibok girls to be rescued within six months including the automatic stoppage
of Boko Haram madness within six months.
They also mesmerized us with the sweet promises that pump
price of fuel would be reduced to N40 per litre, that Nigerian school Children
would start enjoying one free meal every school day, that workers and
pensioners would receive their pay on or before 25th of every Month and above all, that the
cankerworm called Corruption would be fought to a standstill among other
promises.
General Muhammadu Buhari who later got ‘baptized’ by
charging to President Buhari was so much repackaged to the point that the dummy
was sold to Nigerians that the Daura born former Army general was the only
clean and incorruptible Nigerian existing. They told us he was the ‘Messiah’ to
come and the only one that has the panacea to our economic cum political
travails in this country. We were told that even as a former military head of
state, he had no other house anywhere in the world except the moderate bungalow
in his village. They said Buhari has the magic wand to exterminate corruption
in Nigeria Nigeria
Now, the Chicken has come home to roast. The breeze has blown
and Nigerians have seen the Buttocks of a foul. One year is gone and yet there
is nothing to show that we are heading to the world of Eldorado. On the
contrary, Nigerians are getting the direct opposite of all that were promised.
Instead of employing 3 million Youths as promised, there has been millions of
job lost. Instead of improving on the five thousand mega watts of electricity
that the previous administration of Jonathan left it, there has been a decline
in electricity generation that it now hovers around I,450 mega watts of
electricity with its attendant blackout across the country even when there is a
hike of about 45% of electricity tariff. Instead of buying fuel at least at
N86.50 that the last administration bequeathed with the availability of the
product, we are now faced with an astronomical increase of N145 per litre and
scarcity of the products. Instead of enjoying a downward slope Change in the
prices of food stuffs and transportation, Nigerians are faced with an upward
arbitrary change in the prices of food Stuffs and transportation. Instead of
finding life easier and reassuring, hardship, hunger and penury are today
common realities in the country under APC led federal government.
