Our rulers are at their wildest elements. They are at war with us for the wrong reason. These eerie characters are on the prowl. Raging, rampaging all the way.
Glaringly, they are possessed. No pretence, no make-believe. They’re tenaciously holding us at the jugular. Help! The weird species are pioneering uncommon revolution.
It can only happen in a queer clime like ours. And we feign uncanny ignorance. Too bad, too sad! Absurdities are evolving with the speed of light. Abnormalities, frivolities are our new normal.
Tragically, no sector is spared. That is where the ultimate danger lies. All areas of our existence are under siege. Hawks are on the prey. They are taking over all departments of our life.
This time is quite unfriendly. And it’s patently hostile. They are turning the tide against us. The professional hailers are jumping for exceeding joy.
They hail recklessly as it’s usual with them. The critical minds are genuinely wailing. Nobody listens. They are left in the cold.
The country is basking in the cobwebs of crossroads. And its politicians do not care a hoot. They are in their bizarre mood. Conquering more territories. They fight election as a matter of life and death.
The greed in them would not rest. What they capture on day of election is far not enough. They take the battle to the judiciary for structural adjustment. And things are happening their own way.
They are more comfortable in that terrain. It is given. Victories are being awarded on gold platter. Courts are exchanging roles with polling booths. That’s our unique home-grown democracy.
Election is now a deal. Once it is struck, signed and sealed. You are home and dry. It will be delivered on the day of election. In the worst scenario, the court settles it. You must laugh last. In their deformed thinking, the end justifies the means.
Nigeria, do we hate thee? Yes! No! You would see profound apathy on the day of election. With very low turn-out of voters, if at all they turn out. Some polling booths would record zero accreditation.
When results come. You would be amazed and amused. Dazed and dazzled at the same time. Such polling booths would spring unpleasant surprises. They would record highest votes.
Where do they come from? Of course from the apathy of voters! What a strange magic-wand on display. Yet. The almighty Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), would see nothing obscene in that.
Stubbornly, it would ignore all hues and cries. And go ahead to declare a winner in such a sham without shame. Try to interrogate the chaos. They tell you to go court.
You garner courage, brave the odds and head to court. They change the narrative. They would want to shift the goal post. They wonder aloud; why do you want to hit the polity.
We get more and more ensnarled in our cobwebs of crossroads. Deeply ***entrenched in our self-inflicted mess. We are lost in the wilderness of cobwebs. It is our undoing. And we are paying dearly for it, on all fronts.
It is not today. Nor was it yesterday. The farcicality was solidly rooted on January 14, 2020. That day, the Supreme Court sacked Emeka Ihedioha, as Imo State governor. He is of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
The apex court did not stop at that. It catapulted Hope Uzodinmma from the fourth position to first. He represented All Progressives Congress (APC). And proclaimed him governor in Ihedioha’s instead.
INEC was convinced it did its duty on March 9, 2019. The result: Ihedioha polled 273,404 votes; Uche Nwosu, Action Alliance (AA), 190,364 votes; Ifeanyi Ararume, All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), 114,676 and Uzodinmma scored 96,458 votes.
The Supreme Court vehemently disagreed. And it displayed its annoyance in no small means. The court in its unique wisdom made Uzodinmma governor.
We sank deeper in the recent three off-season governorship polls. We were nailed real good. Our rulers were the worst hit. It brought out the dirtiest in them.
Again, Imo State took the lead. It was in the forefront, the epicentre. Kogi State trailed behind. And Bayelsa State was in distant third. From start to finish, the elections were nothing short of scams, rackets.
The electorate were blatantly swindled. Imo State has 27 local governments. The election was conducted in a record time. Uzodinmma was re-elected before 4pm. All votes counted!
It was a different game all together in Bayelsa. It has only eight local governments. But its election lasted from Saturday till late morning on Monday. In Kogi, some results were even written before the election.
And in all these phoneys, governors were elected! Protests, objections raised were largely swept under INEC’s dirty carpets. Great pity!
Then from the blues, Nuhu Ribadu, National Security Adviser (NSA), sauntered in. On his shoulders rests heavily our security. He does that on behalf of his principal, President Bola Tinubu.
He is clearly our erratic rave of the moment. He added colour to this perilous time! He blow our minds to no end. He talks and sings at the same speed.
He talks like a parrot and sings like a canary. His singsong remains the same. His focus is former president Muhammadu Buhari. The only song he knows is Buhari. He refuses to be persuaded otherwise. His conviction is strong and convincing.
The reason he talks and sings Buhari with deep exasperation. He’s recounting. Denying the man they once proclaimed was doing “good work.”
This time, he willingly opened a can of worms. The sordid records of his party for eight dark years. It was a voluntary action. As if piqued by conscience. We were extremely glad he did.
He didn’t know the good he did us. All his ranting already in our public place. We are no strangers to everything he pretended to be revealing to us. In fact, we knew more than he claimed to “expose.”
We may want to humble, deodorise him. Let’s oblige him the luxury of bravery. Let us pretend he has turned a new leaf.
He knocked Buhari real hard. He cared less if Buhari’s ox was gored or brutally bruised. Twice he pondered to high heavens. His musings:
“Yes, we’re facing budgetary constraints. We inherited a difficult situation, literally a bankrupt country.” He couldn’t hold back his frustration. He exclaimed: “It is serious!”
Ribadu was certainly going somewhere: “It is a tough time. We are not condemning anyone. But that is the truth and the reality.”
What do we make out of this latter-day U-turn? A case of hosanna yesterday, crucify him today? Ribadu’s belated recount is needless. He was once aligned with Buhari from “top to bottom.”
The bootlickers, sycophants, do-gooders, praise singers and their likes were did held sway here. They maximised their opportunity to the maximum. Not a second was carelessly wasted.
Their years were to say the least disgusting. They urged Buhari on unguarded and unguided. To continue his “good work.” They built a thick wall of myth around him. Of course, for their ultimate selfish reasons. He never did any wrong. Whatever he chose to do or did not do was very good. Such was their warped thought process.
The same freakish beings are spitting on Buhari from all sides of their loud mouths. Blaming him for laying landmines for their Tinubu. Pity them and their principal. The mines are truly explosive.
We were not unaware the evils Buhari did to us. They lend credible credence to Ribadu’s singsong. To graphically underscore these evils, we must lay bare. Just a tip of the iceberg!
You will be moved to bitter tears. It is excerpts from a damning report. Yes, of how Buhari ran Nigeria aground. Courtesy BudgIT:
“According to the Budget Office, between 2016 and 2022, the Buhari government raised total revenues of N26.67trillion and expended N60.64 trillion, leaving a deficit of N33.97 trillion.
“The gaping hole was financed with FG domestic debt, which rose from N8.84 trillion as of December 2015 to N44.91trillion as of June 2023, while external debt rose from $7.35billion in December 2015 to $37.2billion in June 2023.
“This excludes support provided by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), amounting to N25 trillion. Buhari moved Nigeria’s debt profile from N42 trillion to N77trillion. This had attendant effects on debt servicing, rising from N1.06trillion in 2015 to N5.24trillion as of 2022. Under Buhari, the debt-service-to-revenue ratio grew from 29 per cent to 96 per cent.
“Food inflation continued to rise despite over N800billion spent by the CBN on the Anchor Borrowers’ Programme, being touted to have repayment challenges.”
“CBN extended beyond its monetary policy remit, having a firm grip on fiscal policy with its outsized role. Its policies increased the money supply from N18 policies increased the money supply from N18trillion in 2015 to N55 trillion in 2023. While it provided unrestrained liquidity to the Federal Government, the apex bank abandoned its primary mandate of price stability.”
Buhari even had a last minute chance. He still opted to mess it up: “While his administration wound up, it had the chance to seize another round of oil windfall with skyrocketing oil prices reaching $114 per barrel (April 2022). But with little incentive to do so, as CBN ‘printing presses’ continued to flood the system with liquidity.”
The reason BudgIT wrote Buhari off: “Nigeria’s spending was untargeted… budget performing below par, with agencies spending public funds without the mandate to do so, foreclosing any chances of fiscal consolidation.”
See recklessness in all sectors, areas and dispensations. Who would not be disturbed? Perhaps, only Buhari and his cohorts.
All the same, we can still reluctantly appreciate Ribadu. Why? He’s merely crying over spilled milk. Nothing else. We know his ilk. So? Get down to real business. Enough of the long talk, enough of the singsong. Walk your talk and do the needful.
That’s one viable way of getting us out of the self-inflicted cobwebs of crossroads. Period!
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