MY COUNTRY AT CROSSROADS: GOODLUCK EBEWELE JONATHAN VS ORDINARY NIGERIANS

At a time when I should be wishing my Nigerian friends, families and folks Happy New Year, I’m here cracking my brain on writing an article voicing my apparent support for their unfortunate plight of my people in our country, after all that was where I was born and most likely would be buried.

Last year I wrote an article and pasted it on facebook, my personal blog and other online websites, for whom I’m a regular contributor, it was titled,

OPEN LETTER TO PRESIDENT GOODLUCK EBEWELE JONATHAN

 CONGRATS ON YOUR RE-ELECTION BUT AFTER THAT WHAT NEXT?

In that article I focused on the reasons why GEJ won and why General Buhari lost, which I credited to 2 major factors, Illiteracy and Sympathy, for more insight I’ll paste the link down anyone interested can have a look. Everything written there was and still is my entire idea, no copyrights although I borrowed some statements.

I also listed things GEJ should focus upon like electricity, education, security, good roads, and basic infrastructure, amongst others. The bedrock of the American or Chinese or Japanese society is energy(electricity) without it all the top economies are useless, energy drives the economy, it changes the focus of an economy from consumption to production. The main reason why our economy is bad, is because certain cabal are milking us fat, enjoying the money gotten from oil sales, meanwhile ordinary Nigerians are getting poorer by the day. Fuel is the major source of revenue in Nigeria but we(MASSES), seem not to be gaining from it, the reason why I can’t explain, the only way by which we enjoy from it is through subsidy, now it has been removed.

In a democratic setting, the government should be for the PEOPLE and NOT for certain privileged-INDIVIDUALS, anything lesser or more than this is entirely Not acceptable by real democrats, Nigeria claims to be practicing democracy but in reality autocracy, in a democratic setting the voice of the ordinary man should count, the reverse is the case in my contemporary Nigeria, politicians are demi-gods, god-fathers are semi-gods, while the president is a god, who decide how and when an event or situation should be tackled, HHOR members immediately desert the people who allegedly voted for them, senators and governors try to please their imbecilic god-fathers who in turn use hapless, almost hopeless youths as tools and thugs to terrorize ordinary civilians who want to  exercise their right to vote(Franchise), others use the boys to cause mayhem, so a state of emergency can be called and election delayed thereby keeping their boys in power much longer or changing of guards.

My people in turn pray for their leaders citing the Holy Bible which say we should pray for those in power, not remembering that the same Bible said “The kingdom of heaven suffers violence and the violent takes it by force” and another portion says “Faith without works is death”. We pray without ceasing forgetting that we need to act on our faith, if one reads the Holy Bible clearly one would see a constant theme was TAKING A STEP OF FAITH in anticipation of a Miracle. Miracles don’t just occur, the Nigerian Government cannot change suddenly, something drastic must be done to force a change, MI Nigerian musician superstar called the politician and their cabal allies “too many pomo men, and pronounced Jehova go corner them”, I think it’s high time WE corner them, because Jehova WILL NOT come down to corner them.

How do we explain importing electricity from Ghana? A Ghana Cedi exchanges for 98.959 Nigerian Naria, na wa ohh, Ghanaians’ who once saw Nigeria as African US now laughs at us, aren’t our politicians worried?,  the only bragging rights we once had over them is now reduced to rubbles after all they’ve discovered black gold too and ours has been predicted to soon run out of stock.

The fuel subsidy removal is a step in the right direction but not one we really need now. However I always ask this question, was there any subsidy in the first instance? If there was, I actually didn’t feel anything, because as the 5th largest producer of oil in the world we ought to buy fuel at a much lesser price than the currrent #65, and mind you our oil is almost sulfur free, meaning we require less energy and time to crack, distill and purify, a major reason why our oil is sourced globally, but funny enough there are claims we export the crude for refinement, and then import refined-crude how silly are our leaders, this is a classical case of planting+harvesting yams then selling it and in return we buy the tubers to plant from the people we sold our yams to, if foolishness can  be graded using university degree then I say the farmer is a 1st Class Foolish man, in the same vein Nigeria is a 1st class Foolish Nation. I believe that a foolish man would only thrive in a pool of foolish people, please don’t get me wrong; nobody is foolish I’m just assuming.

If fuel subsidy is to be removed our refineries should be put in their proper place, the freebies to ALL politicians removed, salaries reducedby 50% of their current wage structure. I glanced through a newspaper online where a top official claimed that crude wasn’t refined outside that it was done inside then shipped outside and reshipped inside, meanwhile the subsidy enters you know where already. How come he began to speak up now, was his mouth sealed? I have a problem with Nigerian elites,  they apparently are the one keeping this country backwards, this is because they don’t talk when they see things going wrong, and they only talk when things appear almost irreparable, big-ups to people like Tam David West, Wole Soyinka and other well meaning Nigerians, no politician in Nigeria deserves a mention because they are all part of the big cover-up plot.

Nigerians are just recovering from December 25th 2011 bomb blast, the next thing we hear is fuel subsidy, GEJ even made the most senseless statement one could imagine of, a statement that would get you the sack in any other country apart from African countries and certain Latin American countries, how one earth would a president tell his subjects “Boko Haram is  a situation we have to LIVE with”, the other time while dwelling on the subsidy issue he technically called Nigerians illiterates asking us to go read Macro-economics in other to understand the gains of the removal of fuel subsidy. A president who has no idea of what public speaking is like, a people deserve the leader she gets(I once read it from a friends’ fb post), please GEJ should enroll for public speaking course, you don’t just say anything that comes out of your head in a public place, not the least when you are the president of the greatest black nation on earth. His person spokesman Dr. Rueben Abati is a man I respect so much but for him opting to focus on his belly(by lying or trying to hoodwink us), than the collective good of the people, I’m forced to retract my respect, a man who has no honor is one who work in a government as corrupt as Nigeria’s, to resign from public office in Nigeria is tantamount to committing political suicide, we breed people who prefer to get their clothes soiled than wear white robes.

GEJ was often quoted to be the biblical Moses by so many Nigerians, alas he was an upgrade to the biblical Pharaoh, well I wasn’t part of them, and so was and is my role-model(on ink), Femi Adesina of The Sun Newspaper, I always knew he(GEJ) wasn’t prepared for the role, a person whom the gods cracked his palm kernel should not attempt to crack more himself(my role model would say). GEJ rode high on luck for that single reason I didn’t want him to be the president of Nigeria, he appeared hopeless, a man without a concrete plan of the way a country should go, we need men who spend time thinking of how to move the country forward, not men who are planning on increasing the suffering of the already suffering masses.

GEJ is an impostor, a cheat, a liar and a deceiver, WHY? When he was campaigning he promised to transform Nigeria to Heaven on earth, immediately he won, the first statement he made was, “things are going to be HARD”, why didn’t Nigerians realize earlier that this was the same statement made by Pharaoh, why didn’t say so when he was campaigning, simply put he lied, for that he fits all the description I gave him. Also the removal of fuel subsidy was scheduled to be removed by April 2012, but suddenly we got a rude New Year gift, fuel subsidy removed and skyrocketing of fuel price, and the Nigeria I know prices only GO UP, they don’t Come DOWN. A president or leader who really cares for this people should try to reason the way his numerous subjects do, which is actually the opposite of what the combination of BADLUCK EBEWELE JONATHAN, OKONJO IWEALA and MALLAM SANUSI are trying to achieve, if they claim to really care for us, then the best way to show that is by deliberately asking the Fg to reduce their salaries by 25%(at least), then I can accept TOTAL or 75%Subsidy removal.

After all the jargons I’ve written above, the question somebody would ask me is what next? Well the answers are already on fb, OCCUPY EAGLES SQUARE, both in Abuja and Lagos and every other place, we need to REVOLT, as once said Freedom is not given freely to the Oppressed, it has to be ASKED for and if need be FOUGHT for. People claim Nigerians are not ready for REVOLUTION, I’m among them, Nigerians are too self-centered, the major reason why we hardly make an impact on the government, the student leader mobilizing for a revolt today, if offered job by the same government would accept it and stop every form of agitation, with such kind of people(fake men) around how do we hope to achieve our aim?

WE NEED TO CHANGE OUR MINDSET AND THINK FOR OUR COLLECTIVE GOOD.

In conclusion it is better to try and fail, than to make no effort at all and still fail, Fmr US President Ronald Regan once said “Let’s focus on a certain attainable peace based not on a certain revolution but a gradual evolution of human institution”, why wasn’t this idea used by Presidents’ Bush and Obama in Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya respectively, the answer isn’t far-fetched, different situations require different APPROACHES.

Arise O Compatriots, Nigerians call obey, to redeem our Fathers’ land.

God bless the coming REVOLUTION, Ordinary Nigerians and everybody who voices disdain over the fuel subsidy removal and every corrupt practices going on in Nigeria.

The link to my article on President Jonathan,

https://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=206477456041497

Tip for the day: GEJ is a PhD holder and his wife cannot speak common English, how do you expect him to govern a country as diverse as Nigeria? My people shine your eyes...

Ahaiwe  Ikenna Joshua aka. Ik Josh

Joshdimples007@yahoo.co.uk

 January 2nd 2012