It’s not Armageddon but I believe it would be more interesting than the end of the world. One thing is that the fight that would signal the end of this sorrowful world is so predictable. That’s why we have believers preaching for. people to come and enter the bus of salvation or aljannah as the case may be.
Even drunks, in their sober moments, are hoping to get to heaven one way or the other. That’s why a popular song amongst them sings that they will take all the alcohol on this earth because they don’t know whether or not they would be allowed to drink in the next world.
However, our traditional brothers believe there are a lot of similarities between here and yonder. That’s why they make such elaborate preparations for the dead. As a veteran of funeral parties, I’m in a position to testify.
2019!
Have you noticed that nearly every government project is being programmed to mature after the general elections? For instance, in Ogun State, an electrity project to better the haphazard supplies in the state is slated for completion in eighteen months time.
The federal government is planning an airport project for Ogun State. I would rather they had perfected the means of mass transit in the state. I mean the railway. But government is wise. They understand the feelings of the locals.Even those who might never step into a plane for an excursion prefer the airport. So, an airport they’re having. But, wait for it, the completion of the project is also eighteen months.
I should think the government does not need to give itself so much stress. Even though I am personally not satisfied with this type of change, but then, we didn’t ask whether we were going to have a positive or a negative change. And quite characteristically, they never told us anything.
I understand some NGOs have been staging demonstrations in the federal capital territory in favour of Mr Buhari. I guess it’s another testimony to the fact that government is getting jittery. But they are unknowingly showing the world that jobs are hard to come by in Nigeria. I wonder where these ready crowds sprout from. Remember the days of million men marches in the days of the self styled evil genius and the goggled one?
I would tell them for free that even though people are not fascinated with the rate at which government is being run, there should be no fear. The coming election has been won by Mr Buhari.
This is not because he deserves to win but because the opposition is not well organised. There’s no unity of purpose amongst the opposition. So before, they get themselves sorted out, the elections are already gone. The opposition could be divided into three main groups for now. These are the Agbakoba group, the OBJ group and the CD group. Of course, there are some lesser known ones.
I deliberately did not mention the PDP because their inherent problems seem to be their Waterloo for now.
But even the three groups mentioned are yet to see eye to eye with each other. Although the OBJ group’s convener has said it is not a political party, politicians are involved in the activities of the coalition. Next year being an election year, there is every possibility that if it doesn’t become a political party, a political party may spring therefrom.
A great force to reckon with are those people who drink, eat and breathe Buhari. For them, the President is a saint. Indeed, as far as these Buharinatics are concerned, he is. like Caesar’s wife who does not have the ability to do wrong. These people would have no other person apart from Buhari to vote for.
For the opposition, they should have known that it would take more than a rag tag army of supporters to defeat a sitting president in these parts. Getting a president out of power is no mean job. By the way, Buhari is not GEJ. The incumbent enjoys a cult followership. And in the north, a great percentage of people still have a wide support for, ‘our own son’.
In the south too, quite a number of people believe that only a Buhari could rule this country. They are no doubt referring to his first coming in the eighties.
I don’t have to agree with them anyway. The reason I don’t agree with them is simple, I believe in Human Rights to a fault. Many of the things that happened then were not in accordance with the basic freedoms of human beings.
But I think if they pull their stunts well, 2023 could be their year. Meanwhile, the President has thrown a spanner in their works by bringing Asiwaju back into the fold.
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