CHOOSING BETWEEN JONATHAN AND BUHARI AS OUR PRESIDENT FOR THE NEXT DISPENSATION: NIGERIANS SHOULD BE WARY OF THE EVE OF MAY! It took me time to write anything on the above subject matter here considering the attacks and counter-attacks that had rocked the social and print media with respect to the candidacy of President (Dr) Goodluck Jonathan as the PDP Flagbearer and General Muhammed Buhari as the APC Flag bearer for the forthcoming presidential election. Yet, one cant but support the position of Wole Soyinka who posited as below that: Even though I have said it time and time again that the president should control his wife but there is something significant about Mr. President. He is the first president without any ties to the military mafia. All his children are in schools here in Nigeria. You cannot come across a skyscraper in any corner of Nigeria and people will tell you it belongs to him; even a seven storey building. I strongly believe that GEJ is a phenomenal change from before and if we cannot find a better, young alternative, then we must remain with him until we can groom someone better. This is no time to go back to the military mafia and go back to our vomit. MY TAKE : Should we leave a form of ineffectiveness in one and embrace worse and horrible incapability in another? I condemn the activities of Boko Haram and the bombings, killings and abductions; yet, I see all these more connected to Buhari or his agents than accept same as a function of inadequacies on the part of Jonathan. Ofcourse, it is agreeable that Jonathan is lacking in some aspects of his administration just as no man is infallible, yet, I will rather speak for Jonathan and admonish him to improve on his anti-corruption campaign and work harder to solving insecurity and economic problems; I will rather challenge him to provide Jobs and draw up an implementable blue prints to salvage this countries than join the chain-ganging approach of the bandwagon in supporting a Buhari, whose people had dominated power for more years than any other in the country; whose people had done more horrible damage to the country than any other. I refuse to support a Buhari whose character has tendencies to breed worse and crazy terroristic elements via his apparent flare for religious sentiment and bigotry...leading to intolerance, flagrant ethno-militarism, vindictiveness, chauvinistic mafianism , high-handedness and crass despotism. It has been rumoured that some of Buharis followers had threatened that there will be blood shed if Buhari did not win. Is to win an election a matter of compulsion? His Buhari not too desperate for this quest of his? Are there no other younger people in the party, this time being the fourth time? If blood-letting, serial killing and bombing of fellow country men are the preconditions to emerging victorious in an election; then he should be the guest of Niger-Delta brothers. Unfortunately, when two elephant fight nko? No be we citizen go suffer? Besides, the Ekiti experience is still fresh in my memory. Ekiti people fell for the bait of Buharis party (The Eve of May) tagged CRUSADE FOR POSITIVE CHANGE, only to discover all were PASPE and KILOBADE-PACKAGING (Fraud). Today, we can tell the whole world about the agony we experienced under them, Inspite of their high-tech propaganda as even holier than Jesus Christ or Anabi Muhammed himself. Their government betrayed their promises; only to establish wicked policies, extra-judicial killings, protracted debt, corruption of the highest order, misplaced priority, political hypocrisy and insensitivity to the plight of the people as the order of the day; it is a universal fact that failure can only beget failure, hence, I reject General Buhari. Finally, in my view, it would have sufficed to suggest that Buhari and Jonathan step aside in the interest of the countrys cohesion and continuity; that a better and younger 21st century-minded person with more energy, more depth, more political will, more understanding of how to effectively handle a nation like ours take over as our next president. But, as it is with the available options before us, Jonathan is better and the best bet for presidency comes 2015. I welcome addendum, opposing views but with modest language; afterall, this is just an opinion. The vote-count remains the ultimate decider of who wins eventually. Merry Xmas in arrears and happy new year in advance. -Deji Oso (Mr.) Writes from Akure, Ondo State.
Posted on: Sun, 28 Dec 2014 18:12:58 +0000
Trending Topics
Recently Viewed Topics
© 2015