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Ayomikun Samuel wrote: "A nation bed-wetting on a waterbed needs
revolution. A nation that cannot give its electorate the dividends of
democracy needs revolution, no place for true-federalism. A nation that
is rated the 144th most corrupt country and yet still come out to
criticize and ignore this statistics needs revolution.
A
nation that can no longer provide security, good roads, social
amenities, jobs for its myriad citizens needs revolution. A nation that
keeps celebrating mediocrity, criminals, thieves, political hawkers,
shenanigans, tomfoolery needs revolution.
Nigerians, we need revolution, we cannot
keep doing the same thing the same way and we expect different result.
That is outright insanity. Revolution is the only sure solution to
Nigeria’s problem. It is the only hope of the masses in this complex
country, it is the idea of justice that divides power qualitatively not
quantitatively as our constitutionalists do, it is “atheist” in religion
and “anarchist” in politics. Anarchist in the sense that it considers
power as a passing necessity and atheist in that, it recognizes no
religion because it recognizes them all.
Enough by now should be enough. It’s
time to experiment with revolution. It’s time to start “stealing from
the rich” because it is a sacred and religious act in a revolution
environment. It’s time to rewrite our history because revolution is the
ecstasy of history. Honestly, it is time; it’s time we ask for a
revolutionary change before our children yet unborn calls us fools who
lived but has nothing to show for a living but let me also at this
juncture highlight the effect a revolutionary change will have on our
corrupt nation.
First, there will be wiping away of aristocratic titles and a host of other hangovers that has truncated the nation.
Second, there will no longer be slavery from any quarter no matter how powerful you are and terrorism will be outdated.
Third, social vices will be drastically
reduced if not totally reduced because our virtues will now be operating
on the principle of “the greatest good to the greatest number” which is
the greatest humanitarian service to humanity and the story of eating
“the national cake” alone will be of zero tolerance. So we stand a huge
chance of having a bright future as a nation if only we will embrace a
revolutionary change and curse the enemy of our future which is
definitely “our today” which can be in human, material or
non-materialistic format. Let us spread this message of revolution now;
else, we will be prolonging our misery and storing trouble for
generations to come".
HOWEVER:
Daniel Akusobi aptly punctured the
dreams: "We can hear your weep deep down in your heart over the fate of
our country in the hands of PDP and Joe. ( the president )
We can imagine how gloomy you feel the future of Nigeria would be if we continue the way we currently do, in governance.
You came too close to firing the first bullet in your quest for a here and now change of leadership in Nigeria.
It is probably the same observations you
harbor that made OBJ scream and screamed again on Joe for fear things
he started, the good and the bad , fading away in our hands.
Obasanjo had an opportunity of being a
revolution agent but may have missed the opportunities for obvious
reasons including our system of government- democracy, which naturally
would not allow him to play God.
You came too close too to advocating '
to your tents oh Israel " process in your piece with regards to
amalgamation process of 100 years ago.
The British then did what they did for
administrative convenience with hope that we shall grow as different
people and become one mother, one father, identical triplicates. 100
years later, we have evolved from North / south Nigeria to North, West,
East and Delta region Nigeria to a six political zones with each zone
claiming ability to be a sovereign nation on itself. The expected
identical racial or tribal genome never happened.
Today, we know British miscalculated .
My dear, destruction is always easy. In
the case of dismembering Nigerian components today, the usual will
surely be hectic to achieve. This time around, destruction will prove
as much a huddle as building for the first time.
The North will fight to keep the union.
The West will fight to hold on the marriage called Nigeria. Both need
the East and the Delta states to survive in Nigeria or as sovereign
states.
The East will say, let others try. We tried and failed in the past.
So my brother, we have nowhere to go with disbanding the components of the nation of Nigeria.
On your call for a revolution: I will
wish you a good luck on that too. Remember the mouse and the cat story.
In this case, who will bell the cat? The Igbos, no way. Few understood
the Igbos when they foresaw today's Nigeria in 1967. You know the rest
of the story.
Is it the Yorubas'? Again, recall 1967
to 1970, the story of broken trusts and alignments that were better
imagined than consumated. The Igbos will surely back off from any Yoruba
led revolution.
The Hausas will not lead any such dreams
since it seems the the Hausas, are dominating the leadership and
commerce of the entire nation. I don't see how the Hausas will fight
against a system that puts them in almost total control.
Is it the military? No way about that
in Nigeria today. We passed that phase already. No coup plan in Nigeria
today will go a minute without being published on the Internet. Our
military boys are more comfortable earning money without the hassle of
dealing with our national problems outside their barracks.
Shall we do with Arab spring style
revolutions? That again can only work in Arab nations and not in
Nigeria. Who in Nigeria can you convince to risk their lives for others
in the manner the Arabs would do.
Our Christians do not believe in
martyrdom, as such they won't have any incentives to risk death on the
streets of Owerri or Abuja.
Our Muslims already have their army -Boko Haram doing some of their dirty jokes in harassing us to submission.
What option do we have?
1 there will be no revolution of the nature you are calling for.
2 we will rather seek some ethical or
moral revolution aimed at developing leaders that are much more less
Nigerian than usual. That would mean leaders that will be more human,
non selfish, less dubious, more loving, and progress oriented.
3 ensure we have a strong public
advocacy group that can sue the government for any mal-governance, any
officer that steals from the public should be sued.
4 repeal the part of the constitution that grants immunity from persecution of sitting politicians .
5 a more honest judiciary that is fully independent of the executive.
6 ensure people of suspicious characters, or proven ones never win election again.
Concluding, we have a lot to gain by
exercising some patience while we work on training our populace to learn
to take their government policy problems to the government instead of
their churches.
The most we can loose is our freedom to do this, venting out our anger on our government by means such as publishing them.
Next presidential election can begin this process. Why don't we begin with that?"
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