By Emokpaire
LAGOS –Tempers
are high in every part of the country, the economy is in a bleeding state, the
war against corruption is distracting the way forward, and the Niger Delta
Avengers(NDA) are largely now a contributing factor to the crisis in the
country. Let’s not forget the Nigerian terrorist group Boko Haram and the crier
of independence –IPOB.
This is
certainly not the change we voted for. We do understand change comes gradually
and not overnight but there have to be a room for that gradual change to come
and that is not visible in this present government.
There are two
factors hindering Nigeria’s democracy and they are the “youths and the clerics
of this Nation.
Until the
youths of this nation stand out honestly in truth and not in controlled policy
of violence by some you-know-who, we are heading nowhere.
Crisis in
Nigeria can never change unless the day the youths stand their ground.
The
Democracy in Nigeria can never stand until that day. Until the day the youths
position their selves “selflessly”.
Where do you
have people like Dele Giwa again in this country? Where do you have people like
Saro Wiwa again in this country? That will say I hold on to this to this, you
are a sinner I cannot move over it. Where are they?
I could
remember the first election between oshiomole and Osubor in Edo State, after
the election I called a boy and asked him, how was the election? He replied: it’s
rigging everywhere oo…they even paid me 15,000 naira so I had to rig it for
PDP. You know what I told him? I told him they just bought your future. By the
time you finish you will not get a job. If you as a copper were given just
15,000 naira, you were bought with just that amount; you did not care about the
future of your state, children, and yours.
Then why are we blaming the leaders of the country?
Until we go
back to the grassroots and tell the purported leaders of this country you
cannot buy me over. And in all, the day Nigeria decides to do its campaign like
America: if you are caught spending money on people because of election they
nullify you. But the politicians we have today are the millionaires who have
the money to throw around. Imagine in Edo state now, for you to be eligible to
contest for governorship election, you have to pay 16 million naira to buy the
ticket. How much is the salary of a governor? If only to buy the ticket cost
that much, how much is he going to spend on his campaign? All this money
bounces back to the perishing of the state. Where are we heading to? Unless
this mentality is removed, unless we enact that law there can never be peace/joy.
You see
people campaigning with money, saying you take fifty, you take twenty, you take
sixty million naira and then you find a child raising cutlass against the
father and mother a knife for the daughter. Do you know some people during
campaign when you ask them; you are campaigning for Mohammed why are you
campaigning for him? They will tell you I know he will fail but he is the one
that paid for my vote. We youth are selling our tomorrow. As much as we are
selling our tomorrow, we should not expect a better tomorrow. We cannot eat our
cake and have it. We cannot keep on selling our tomorrow and be expecting a
better one NO! It is how we lay our bed we will lie on it.
Let us have
that cry today not cry in violence but cry! Bible says cry in the night and joy
cometh in the morning. That cry of perseverance to say let me suffer it today.
Let me say no to this today so that there will be better tomorrow. Nelson
Mandela was there for his country. Stood and fought but not with violence.
Where is the Nelson Mandela of Nigeria? Who are those that can help like Esther
in the bible? That said “if I will die for the sake of Israel let me die. If I
will live let me live”. She did not do it with violence; she did it with
prayers and supplication.
After the
youths, the clerics of Nigeria both in the Muslim and Christian are selling our
tomorrow. Tell me the cleric that has ever stood up against what is not in this
country outside the kick against what has to do with their religious fight?
Which cleric stood and say: Mr. President you are wrong. Where is this supposed
to be? Why is there this? Here the clerics stand up today because the
government is favoring him/her. As long as they continue to support the
government they will never see anything wrong with that government. Clerics are
the most liable of killing the youths, they are not positioning them today, and
they are using the youths to satisfy their interest. In so doing, they preach
what is not and the youths begin to put them into practice. The existence of
these two factors will not let there be democracy.
Democracy in
Nigeria is not in the hands of our leaders…it’s in the hands of the youths!
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