Nigeria has been under a non-democratic government were (transparency, equality, fairness and the rule of law is lacking. The infrastructural development pace is crawling, education has been crippled, sporting activities is down the drain) governed by ‘’people democratic leaders’’. One would want to think that Nigeria is under a spell. Do we call it democracy when the government is for the few by the selected few? Or do we call it democracy when the government cannot affect the lives of it citizens positively? There is nothing democratic about Nigeria, there is nothing democratic about PDP, there is neither the practice of direct or indirect democracy, all we have and practice in Nigeria is OLIGARCHY.
Ahead of 2015, as we prepare for the forthcoming general elections, the APC is working tooth and nail to dethrone PDP, claiming it is the perfect choice for change.
However, after defeating PDP, what next? Are we going to see a Midas touch in the situation of the country? What does the APC have to offer? Are they not the same people from these merger parties that make up APC? Ah! Ah! Who do they want to deceive again?
It is not all about defeating the strongest political party in Nigeria; rather, it is about what APC will offer to Nigerians to improve our economic, social, and political well-being, giving us an alchemist’s touch. Are they going to delude us into voting for their party and then become the worst nightmare we have ever had?
2015 is some stone throw away from us, let us not cast our destinies into the ballot boxes for mere two thousand naira (#2,000).
Let us not be carried away by what these political-talk actives present to us. Many of them are chips off the old block. APC and Nigerians, the party of the moment, are they just going to dethrone PDP and enthrone moneybags? Or dethrone PDP and enthrone noisemakers? Don’t come to us with same old stories: ‘I will give you free education, I will construct good roads, I will pay more attention to the youth, I will curb unemployment,’ ‘‘I will, I will…’’, enough of such ‘I wills’, they are boring us, present to us credible candidates.
Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound? Are we to continue casting our votes for people who have looted our money over the years, enriching themselves and their family members, amass our wealth and come to us with their sugar-coated tongues giving us peanuts to vote them back into office, even the roads within their jurisdictions which they play with their posh cars the ones to their houses, churches, even back to their offices are dilapidated and yet all they do is donate millions of naira to churches, for programmes and ceremonies showing their affluence and sometimes as means of campaigning, doing nothing about the roads? God forbid!
Don’t vote for PDP; don’t vote for APC, ACN, DPP or any other political party in Nigeria, vote for credibility, ‘shine your eyes’ and don’t vote for political gurus, those who have been in power for a while now and nothing to show for it, they have done nothing tangible. Just as the bible says ‘‘taste all spirit to see if it is of God’’ so like-wise, evaluate every political aspirant to see what they can do, what they have achieved/done, what they are ready to offer, they can’t keep on using us as cat’s paws to attain their selfish desires. For God’s sake, when will our political parties present to us credible candidates not rewarding political thugs?
Choose you this day Nigerians whom you want to represent you, whom you know and are sure is capable, faithful and above all credible to lead, choose leaders not moneybags, devourer and talk actives who only make noise ‘‘an empty barrel they say makes the loudest noise’’ vote for who will save us from the claws of bad governance, NIGERIANS DECIDE, DELTANS DECIDE. !!!
OBED-OHEN CHUKUNOYE WRITES FOR DELTA DECIDES
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