A Muslim-Muslim option that the APC is now rather too lately exploring would have consoled an average northerner at the time Buhari was ailing and flown abroad. No shivers with cold sweats would have downed the spines of any northerner in utter fear of a recurrence of 2010 when the demise of a sitting northern president drifted powers to the south.
I do not know what essentially drives me, but I have a strong aversion for a ‘second-term’ for political office holders. Except in special cases where the sitting president or governor or director of an agency is seen as ‘performing’, to me, a second-term-in-office should never have been conceived let alone being made constitutional. This is one of the pitfalls of democracy, as I see it, and it becomes worse for a nation where most people seeking political appointments are only interested in governance for the purpose of self-aggrandizement. Given the instances of the past, it is most unlikely that an African second-term-elect would be for good. They would degenerate into cankerworms who know wherefrom the treasury to loot. Since they have no expectations from the people of getting re-elected, they become VIPs (or vagabonds in power) who are utterly irresponsible.
But more vociferous should be our concern over many electorates who are rather disposed to the mediocrity than the competence of a political stalwart. We do often take the political class up for irrelevant things than we hold them accountable for the future we share. This is worse in Nigeria where perceived suffrages are uncritically influenced by two denominators: religion and ethnicity. The electorate would forget that in a clime like ours where the dominance of rule is only by few people, one denominator becomes substantive in allocating us to some natural classes: your inordinate wealth or your disdaining level of impoverishment shall in time adjudge your personality. There are places where men of timber and caliber converge that the peasant dare not imagine less alone share in their experience. The Nigerian bourgeoise have raised the pedestal of success so high that the serfs around find the latter almost insurmountable.
Had a Tinubu happened to Nigeria in 2016, for an instance, we might never have degenerated to this level of crassitude. Then, at the primaries of the APC, a Muslim-Muslim ticket was strongly opposed by some ‘big names’ who were at the time throttled by their selfish desires. We can begin to imagine what a Buhari-Tinubu presidency would have been; what record of astonishing times they both would have had as sitting president and vice president. They would have been out to complement each other; what a Tinubu would lack in ‘integrity’, a Buhari would have been there to fulfill it, and what a Buhari would not have been of wittiness, a Tinubu would stand right for it. For too long, we have put Nigeria into shambles, parading her on some vainglorious, dismissive, and retrogressive principles of federalism. This is 2022 for crying out loud, where Elon Musk and his team are on advanced fronts of ‘occupying mars’ yet we see people not even attempting the feats of Apollo 1969 just yet. They would rather stick to the same old gun and theories that have perpetually failed us since 1963.
A Buhari-Tinubu presidency might have, in 2016, ruffled a few feathers and become unsettling (like it now is for some people) but that single decision would have liberated Nigerians in the past seven years. A Muslim-Muslim option that the APC is now rather too lately exploring would have consoled an average northerner at the time Buhari was ailing and flown abroad. No shivers with cold sweats would have downed the spines of any northerner in utter fear of a recurrence of 2010 when the demise of a sitting northern president drifted powers to the south. The worst times we have had in the last seven years came because of our uncivilization and outright indiscretions. Some powers and functions that have automatically been arrogated to the No. 2 citizen today are still being peddled around incompetent hands because of the fears around power drifting. Are we now fulfilled that rather than having a forthrightly booming economy, our egos have remained unflinching and the power structure that has continually spited us in the face has never been upturned?
Like a 2016-Tinubu would have been more agile than the current ‘version’ currently we have, a 2019-Atiku might have placed us some miles ahead. I mean, invariably, if an Atiku or a Tinubu win by 2023 (as it is mostly being forecasted), it would be Nigeria coming later than it should have arrived. Well, Atiku has remained consistent in his intent (mar or) make Nigeria with privatization. So, if he were a success at the 2023 polls, he would be ‘lifting’ the sinking ship of the country from a wreckage, granting it an asylum in a harbour it should have docked many years before. It is no little wonder why the developed countries of the world would keep advancing while the developing ones are constantly degenerating. All these years we put to waste would have been ‘lightyears’ away from our current trajectory of poverty and emerging decadence.
A ‘next-level’ song should never have found sonority in the ears of Nigerians let alone birth a ‘new’ dispensation. The pointers were there; the coast was clear, and every discerning mind saw there was nothing forthcoming from the ‘next-levelers’ to salvage a dwindling economy. Yet people trooped out in masse (for what suited their whims and caprices) to elect what we currently experience. Not to become disgruntled, a friend of this writer was pleased things panned out the way it did for if otherwise, Nigerians would have forever bemoaned over their unwise decision to unseat a messiah and extinguish his ‘glory days’ rather prematurely.
This article is one that has been long due but for the writer’s renewed conviction in the Nigeria Project after the emergence of Senator Ademola Adeleke (a PDP stalwart) as governor in Osun polls, it was birthed today. As I have remained a big fan of restructuring (particularly the advocacy for a 5-or-6-year single tenure), I do not know what better goodies an Oyetola was willing to bring into Osun State if he were to be given that mandate. I am happy he was shown the exit door, well, not because the state now has the magical hands of a ‘dancing senator’ to turn his body, nay, Osun economics, around, but because the people of that state have been long due for a breath of fresh air. I would bewail the power mongering in Africa where the sitting governor would rather clinch to power (as if it were his birthright) than cede it to another – even at the point of death. Now that the Osun people have towed this line of difference, it is my hope that Nigerians now realize that power belongs to God, and to them more than to any ‘Jegudu-jera’. We should explore democracy for its good principle of freedom to show every ‘cannibalized lout’ in government the way to his home.
A Muslim-Muslim option that the APC is now rather too lately exploring would have consoled an average northerner at the time Buhari was ailing and flown abroad. No shivers with cold sweats would have downed the spines of any northerner in utter fear of a recurrence of 2010 when the demise of a sitting northern president drifted powers to the south.
I do not know what essentially drives me, but I have a strong aversion for a ‘second-term’ for political office holders. Except in special cases where the sitting president or governor or director of an agency is seen as ‘performing’, to me, a second-term-in-office should never have been conceived let alone being made constitutional. This is one of the pitfalls of democracy, as I see it, and it becomes worse for a nation where most people seeking political appointments are only interested in governance for the purpose of self-aggrandizement. Given the instances of the past, it is most unlikely that an African second-term-elect would be for good. They would degenerate into cankerworms who know wherefrom the treasury to loot. Since they have no expectations from the people of getting re-elected, they become VIPs (or vagabonds in power) who are utterly irresponsible.
But more vociferous should be our concern over many electorates who are rather disposed to the mediocrity than the competence of a political stalwart. We do often take the political class up for irrelevant things than we hold them accountable for the future we share. This is worse in Nigeria where perceived suffrages are uncritically influenced by two denominators: religion and ethnicity. The electorate would forget that in a clime like ours where the dominance of rule is only by few people, one denominator becomes substantive in allocating us to some natural classes: your inordinate wealth or your disdaining level of impoverishment shall in time adjudge your personality. There are places where men of timber and caliber converge that the peasant dare not imagine less alone share in their experience. The Nigerian bourgeoise have raised the pedestal of success so high that the serfs around find the latter almost insurmountable.
Had a Tinubu happened to Nigeria in 2016, for an instance, we might never have degenerated to this level of crassitude. Then, at the primaries of the APC, a Muslim-Muslim ticket was strongly opposed by some ‘big names’ who were at the time throttled by their selfish desires. We can begin to imagine what a Buhari-Tinubu presidency would have been; what record of astonishing times they both would have had as sitting president and vice president. They would have been out to complement each other; what a Tinubu would lack in ‘integrity’, a Buhari would have been there to fulfill it, and what a Buhari would not have been of wittiness, a Tinubu would stand right for it. For too long, we have put Nigeria into shambles, parading her on some vainglorious, dismissive, and retrogressive principles of federalism. This is 2022 for crying out loud, where Elon Musk and his team are on advanced fronts of ‘occupying mars’ yet we see people not even attempting the feats of Apollo 1969 just yet. They would rather stick to the same old gun and theories that have perpetually failed us since 1963.
A Buhari-Tinubu presidency might have, in 2016, ruffled a few feathers and become unsettling (like it now is for some people) but that single decision would have liberated Nigerians in the past seven years. A Muslim-Muslim option that the APC is now rather too lately exploring would have consoled an average northerner at the time Buhari was ailing and flown abroad. No shivers with cold sweats would have downed the spines of any northerner in utter fear of a recurrence of 2010 when the demise of a sitting northern president drifted powers to the south. The worst times we have had in the last seven years came because of our uncivilization and outright indiscretions. Some powers and functions that have automatically been arrogated to the No. 2 citizen today are still being peddled around incompetent hands because of the fears around power drifting. Are we now fulfilled that rather than having a forthrightly booming economy, our egos have remained unflinching and the power structure that has continually spited us in the face has never been upturned?
Like a 2016-Tinubu would have been more agile than the current ‘version’ currently we have, a 2019-Atiku might have placed us some miles ahead. I mean, invariably, if an Atiku or a Tinubu win by 2023 (as it is mostly being forecasted), it would be Nigeria coming later than it should have arrived. Well, Atiku has remained consistent in his intent (mar or) make Nigeria with privatization. So, if he were a success at the 2023 polls, he would be ‘lifting’ the sinking ship of the country from a wreckage, granting it an asylum in a harbour it should have docked many years before. It is no little wonder why the developed countries of the world would keep advancing while the developing ones are constantly degenerating. All these years we put to waste would have been ‘lightyears’ away from our current trajectory of poverty and emerging decadence.
A ‘next-level’ song should never have found sonority in the ears of Nigerians let alone birth a ‘new’ dispensation. The pointers were there; the coast was clear, and every discerning mind saw there was nothing forthcoming from the ‘next-levelers’ to salvage a dwindling economy. Yet people trooped out in masse (for what suited their whims and caprices) to elect what we currently experience. Not to become disgruntled, a friend of this writer was pleased things panned out the way it did for if otherwise, Nigerians would have forever bemoaned over their unwise decision to unseat a messiah and extinguish his ‘glory days’ rather prematurely.
This article is one that has been long due but for the writer’s renewed conviction in the Nigeria Project after the emergence of Senator Ademola Adeleke (a PDP stalwart) as governor in Osun polls, it was birthed today. As I have remained a big fan of restructuring (particularly the advocacy for a 5-or-6-year single tenure), I do not know what better goodies an Oyetola was willing to bring into Osun State if he were to be given that mandate. I am happy he was shown the exit door, well, not because the state now has the magical hands of a ‘dancing senator’ to turn his body, nay, Osun economics, around, but because the people of that state have been long due for a breath of fresh air. I would bewail the power mongering in Africa where the sitting governor would rather clinch to power (as if it were his birthright) than cede it to another – even at the point of death. Now that the Osun people have towed this line of difference, it is my hope that Nigerians now realize that power belongs to God, and to them more than to any ‘Jegudu-jera’. We should explore democracy for its good principle of freedom to show every ‘cannibalized lout’ in government the way to his home.
A Muslim-Muslim option that the APC is now rather too lately exploring would have consoled an average northerner at the time Buhari was ailing and flown abroad. No shivers with cold sweats would have downed the spines of any northerner in utter fear of a recurrence of 2010 when the demise of a sitting northern president drifted powers to the south.
I do not know what essentially drives me, but I have a strong aversion for a ‘second-term’ for political office holders. Except in special cases where the sitting president or governor or director of an agency is seen as ‘performing’, to me, a second-term-in-office should never have been conceived let alone being made constitutional. This is one of the pitfalls of democracy, as I see it, and it becomes worse for a nation where most people seeking political appointments are only interested in governance for the purpose of self-aggrandizement. Given the instances of the past, it is most unlikely that an African second-term-elect would be for good. They would degenerate into cankerworms who know wherefrom the treasury to loot. Since they have no expectations from the people of getting re-elected, they become VIPs (or vagabonds in power) who are utterly irresponsible.
But more vociferous should be our concern over many electorates who are rather disposed to the mediocrity than the competence of a political stalwart. We do often take the political class up for irrelevant things than we hold them accountable for the future we share. This is worse in Nigeria where perceived suffrages are uncritically influenced by two denominators: religion and ethnicity. The electorate would forget that in a clime like ours where the dominance of rule is only by few people, one denominator becomes substantive in allocating us to some natural classes: your inordinate wealth or your disdaining level of impoverishment shall in time adjudge your personality. There are places where men of timber and caliber converge that the peasant dare not imagine less alone share in their experience. The Nigerian bourgeoise have raised the pedestal of success so high that the serfs around find the latter almost insurmountable.
Had a Tinubu happened to Nigeria in 2016, for an instance, we might never have degenerated to this level of crassitude. Then, at the primaries of the APC, a Muslim-Muslim ticket was strongly opposed by some ‘big names’ who were at the time throttled by their selfish desires. We can begin to imagine what a Buhari-Tinubu presidency would have been; what record of astonishing times they both would have had as sitting president and vice president. They would have been out to complement each other; what a Tinubu would lack in ‘integrity’, a Buhari would have been there to fulfill it, and what a Buhari would not have been of wittiness, a Tinubu would stand right for it. For too long, we have put Nigeria into shambles, parading her on some vainglorious, dismissive, and retrogressive principles of federalism. This is 2022 for crying out loud, where Elon Musk and his team are on advanced fronts of ‘occupying mars’ yet we see people not even attempting the feats of Apollo 1969 just yet. They would rather stick to the same old gun and theories that have perpetually failed us since 1963.
A Buhari-Tinubu presidency might have, in 2016, ruffled a few feathers and become unsettling (like it now is for some people) but that single decision would have liberated Nigerians in the past seven years. A Muslim-Muslim option that the APC is now rather too lately exploring would have consoled an average northerner at the time Buhari was ailing and flown abroad. No shivers with cold sweats would have downed the spines of any northerner in utter fear of a recurrence of 2010 when the demise of a sitting northern president drifted powers to the south. The worst times we have had in the last seven years came because of our uncivilization and outright indiscretions. Some powers and functions that have automatically been arrogated to the No. 2 citizen today are still being peddled around incompetent hands because of the fears around power drifting. Are we now fulfilled that rather than having a forthrightly booming economy, our egos have remained unflinching and the power structure that has continually spited us in the face has never been upturned?
Like a 2016-Tinubu would have been more agile than the current ‘version’ currently we have, a 2019-Atiku might have placed us some miles ahead. I mean, invariably, if an Atiku or a Tinubu win by 2023 (as it is mostly being forecasted), it would be Nigeria coming later than it should have arrived. Well, Atiku has remained consistent in his intent (mar or) make Nigeria with privatization. So, if he were a success at the 2023 polls, he would be ‘lifting’ the sinking ship of the country from a wreckage, granting it an asylum in a harbour it should have docked many years before. It is no little wonder why the developed countries of the world would keep advancing while the developing ones are constantly degenerating. All these years we put to waste would have been ‘lightyears’ away from our current trajectory of poverty and emerging decadence.
A ‘next-level’ song should never have found sonority in the ears of Nigerians let alone birth a ‘new’ dispensation. The pointers were there; the coast was clear, and every discerning mind saw there was nothing forthcoming from the ‘next-levelers’ to salvage a dwindling economy. Yet people trooped out in masse (for what suited their whims and caprices) to elect what we currently experience. Not to become disgruntled, a friend of this writer was pleased things panned out the way it did for if otherwise, Nigerians would have forever bemoaned over their unwise decision to unseat a messiah and extinguish his ‘glory days’ rather prematurely.
This article is one that has been long due but for the writer’s renewed conviction in the Nigeria Project after the emergence of Senator Ademola Adeleke (a PDP stalwart) as governor in Osun polls, it was birthed today. As I have remained a big fan of restructuring (particularly the advocacy for a 5-or-6-year single tenure), I do not know what better goodies an Oyetola was willing to bring into Osun State if he were to be given that mandate. I am happy he was shown the exit door, well, not because the state now has the magical hands of a ‘dancing senator’ to turn his body, nay, Osun economics, around, but because the people of that state have been long due for a breath of fresh air. I would bewail the power mongering in Africa where the sitting governor would rather clinch to power (as if it were his birthright) than cede it to another – even at the point of death. Now that the Osun people have towed this line of difference, it is my hope that Nigerians now realize that power belongs to God, and to them more than to any ‘Jegudu-jera’. We should explore democracy for its good principle of freedom to show every ‘cannibalized lout’ in government the way to his home.
A Muslim-Muslim option that the APC is now rather too lately exploring would have consoled an average northerner at the time Buhari was ailing and flown abroad. No shivers with cold sweats would have downed the spines of any northerner in utter fear of a recurrence of 2010 when the demise of a sitting northern president drifted powers to the south.
I do not know what essentially drives me, but I have a strong aversion for a ‘second-term’ for political office holders. Except in special cases where the sitting president or governor or director of an agency is seen as ‘performing’, to me, a second-term-in-office should never have been conceived let alone being made constitutional. This is one of the pitfalls of democracy, as I see it, and it becomes worse for a nation where most people seeking political appointments are only interested in governance for the purpose of self-aggrandizement. Given the instances of the past, it is most unlikely that an African second-term-elect would be for good. They would degenerate into cankerworms who know wherefrom the treasury to loot. Since they have no expectations from the people of getting re-elected, they become VIPs (or vagabonds in power) who are utterly irresponsible.
But more vociferous should be our concern over many electorates who are rather disposed to the mediocrity than the competence of a political stalwart. We do often take the political class up for irrelevant things than we hold them accountable for the future we share. This is worse in Nigeria where perceived suffrages are uncritically influenced by two denominators: religion and ethnicity. The electorate would forget that in a clime like ours where the dominance of rule is only by few people, one denominator becomes substantive in allocating us to some natural classes: your inordinate wealth or your disdaining level of impoverishment shall in time adjudge your personality. There are places where men of timber and caliber converge that the peasant dare not imagine less alone share in their experience. The Nigerian bourgeoise have raised the pedestal of success so high that the serfs around find the latter almost insurmountable.
Had a Tinubu happened to Nigeria in 2016, for an instance, we might never have degenerated to this level of crassitude. Then, at the primaries of the APC, a Muslim-Muslim ticket was strongly opposed by some ‘big names’ who were at the time throttled by their selfish desires. We can begin to imagine what a Buhari-Tinubu presidency would have been; what record of astonishing times they both would have had as sitting president and vice president. They would have been out to complement each other; what a Tinubu would lack in ‘integrity’, a Buhari would have been there to fulfill it, and what a Buhari would not have been of wittiness, a Tinubu would stand right for it. For too long, we have put Nigeria into shambles, parading her on some vainglorious, dismissive, and retrogressive principles of federalism. This is 2022 for crying out loud, where Elon Musk and his team are on advanced fronts of ‘occupying mars’ yet we see people not even attempting the feats of Apollo 1969 just yet. They would rather stick to the same old gun and theories that have perpetually failed us since 1963.
A Buhari-Tinubu presidency might have, in 2016, ruffled a few feathers and become unsettling (like it now is for some people) but that single decision would have liberated Nigerians in the past seven years. A Muslim-Muslim option that the APC is now rather too lately exploring would have consoled an average northerner at the time Buhari was ailing and flown abroad. No shivers with cold sweats would have downed the spines of any northerner in utter fear of a recurrence of 2010 when the demise of a sitting northern president drifted powers to the south. The worst times we have had in the last seven years came because of our uncivilization and outright indiscretions. Some powers and functions that have automatically been arrogated to the No. 2 citizen today are still being peddled around incompetent hands because of the fears around power drifting. Are we now fulfilled that rather than having a forthrightly booming economy, our egos have remained unflinching and the power structure that has continually spited us in the face has never been upturned?
Like a 2016-Tinubu would have been more agile than the current ‘version’ currently we have, a 2019-Atiku might have placed us some miles ahead. I mean, invariably, if an Atiku or a Tinubu win by 2023 (as it is mostly being forecasted), it would be Nigeria coming later than it should have arrived. Well, Atiku has remained consistent in his intent (mar or) make Nigeria with privatization. So, if he were a success at the 2023 polls, he would be ‘lifting’ the sinking ship of the country from a wreckage, granting it an asylum in a harbour it should have docked many years before. It is no little wonder why the developed countries of the world would keep advancing while the developing ones are constantly degenerating. All these years we put to waste would have been ‘lightyears’ away from our current trajectory of poverty and emerging decadence.
A ‘next-level’ song should never have found sonority in the ears of Nigerians let alone birth a ‘new’ dispensation. The pointers were there; the coast was clear, and every discerning mind saw there was nothing forthcoming from the ‘next-levelers’ to salvage a dwindling economy. Yet people trooped out in masse (for what suited their whims and caprices) to elect what we currently experience. Not to become disgruntled, a friend of this writer was pleased things panned out the way it did for if otherwise, Nigerians would have forever bemoaned over their unwise decision to unseat a messiah and extinguish his ‘glory days’ rather prematurely.
This article is one that has been long due but for the writer’s renewed conviction in the Nigeria Project after the emergence of Senator Ademola Adeleke (a PDP stalwart) as governor in Osun polls, it was birthed today. As I have remained a big fan of restructuring (particularly the advocacy for a 5-or-6-year single tenure), I do not know what better goodies an Oyetola was willing to bring into Osun State if he were to be given that mandate. I am happy he was shown the exit door, well, not because the state now has the magical hands of a ‘dancing senator’ to turn his body, nay, Osun economics, around, but because the people of that state have been long due for a breath of fresh air. I would bewail the power mongering in Africa where the sitting governor would rather clinch to power (as if it were his birthright) than cede it to another – even at the point of death. Now that the Osun people have towed this line of difference, it is my hope that Nigerians now realize that power belongs to God, and to them more than to any ‘Jegudu-jera’. We should explore democracy for its good principle of freedom to show every ‘cannibalized lout’ in government the way to his home.
