Dear Friends, I have been busy doing some online courses that I have not had time to post you aything on this site yet. I also desire you to sit back and read through all the posts i have mede to you so far and see what you can do with them before i return in February with new sets of posts. Now as our National elections are here, I have also been following developments there and doing my little to influence the votes. Please read this article i posted on my other facebook page for your necessary response and actions. Thank you- OSE REJECT THE DEVIL YOU KNOW, GET THE ANGEL UNKNOWN Today is Monday, January 25, 2015, few days before the D-Day in Nigeria, and it is amazing how time flies when you have a date with destiny. A date with destiny, me? No, not just me, but the whole of the collective known as Nigerians. As the joke would play it out,this date was fixed for FEBRUARY 14...I do not want to believe that whoever fixed that date for the Presidential Election in Nigeria is joking with us. Or maybe the team believes strongly that it is now time to impress upon Nigerians the need to show LOVE for the Fatherland...at least for once. It is time to ignore ethnicity, religion, selfish interests and partisan politics and keep our eyes fixed on the reality which is: WILL MY VOTE BE FOR THE GOOD OF THE UNBORN NIGERIAN CHILD, WILL IT ADVANCE THE COURSE OF HUMAN DIGNITY IN THE COLOUR GREEN_WHITE_GREEN? What can your vote do for Nigeria in the name of Love? That is the sole purpose for this write up, I am posting. Last week, two friends sent me an audio recording made by a fellow who claimed to have been asked to leave his base in Germany to come to Nigeria and help. In that recording, he made some passionate statements which at the end seems to be a very clever ploy to discredit the candidacy of any muslim person vying for the seat of President, the fact that that recording started making the rounds a week after it was reported in social media that a group Christian Ministers went to the President to fashion out ways of making Buhari lose the election, made the broadcast very queer. I do not intend to disrespect anyone here, but whoever is out to support the continuation of the Jonathanian style of governance should please do himself a favour and read Professor Charles Soludos article released also on social media. After reading that article let the person look up and tell me if the problem with this country is religion of ethnicity. All I can tell you is the criminal politicians that have made it a point of duty to mismanage this country do not remember their ethnicity and religion once they seat at their infamous dining tables to destroy the economy of this country. Make your vote of February 14th a vote against mismanagement, cluelesness, avarice and criminal disgregard for the dignity of the average Nigerians and the Nigerian state. I have heard everyone say that Buhari is a strong leader, but not an economic wizard and so cannot save us from the economic mess this country is in. People listen to me: Nigerias problem is not one of economy, because this country has had opportunities for boom, but yet it has experienced gloom. Under President Jonathan we have had a World Bank material as Minister for Finance and the Co-ordinating Minister for the Economy, but what have we had economically? We are suddenly broke because oil prices slipped from over $100 per barrel in less than 6 months when the economy under Obasanjo ran on an average of $38 per barrel and yet he left us with a huge foreign reserve that Jonathan has reduced to nothing? Please read Professor Charles Soludos article. The Nigerian Military was by far the most famous and active in Africa under ECOMOG and the UN Peace Kepping Missions across the world, but suddenly under Jonathan, it is being run ragged by a pocket of crazed insurgency within its own boundaries, now we hear stories of ignominy about our Military? Do we now need a military General to be our President? Good People of Nigeria, a leader does not have to be versed in the economy to lead a people out of economic slump, a leader does not have to be a military tactician to save a country from insurgency, what a country needs from its leadership is STRENGTH OF CHARACTER. Jonathans government has clearly shown to us all that they lack this key ingredient of power. Buhari has proven to us from his past records that he has it and there is no one out there disputing Buharis resoluteness and commitment to go even bare-knuckles against any force trying to undermine the Nigerian state. Let me tell you what a strong leader will do for us all. The Nigerian state gropes in the dark, literally. Jonathans government had a will to solve the power problem, but they failed woefully. Before him OBJ tried to salvage that sector, but he failed, woefully. On oil, they both failed woefully, too. I will explain this too. The oil sector had two refineries working with the other two not so much in good shape when the civilians took over this country almost 16 years ago, but today we have none, or do we? We now export crude and import finished products, a form of barter arrangement. Question is, why cant we build our refineries? No answer. Nigerians in their usual docility refuse to ask questions and now we have to bear the cost of the increase in the price of oil in the names of SUBSIDY and PUMP PRICE HIKES. We bear it, because we are weak as a people without governors, senators and House reps people strong enough to question the centre. Is this not even a matter for us all to recall all our National Assembly people, or even refuse to vote and cooperate with the government in any way? This government is clearly not run for us the people. Yet their posters are smiling at us all begging us to relect them to their stools of shame. Why has the oil and power sector failed so far? Because they are one. Oil and electricity are locked in one. If electricity succeeds, oil loses. If power works the purchase of fuel will drop as the cost you and I expend daily to service our generators at home and at work would cease to be and they would lose money. The generator sellers would have no business anymore. You still wonder why the power sector reform has failed? There is a cartel controlling that sector and they are more powerful than the Presidency since 1999. The Presidents have never been able to combat them because they are compromised and they have not the courage to dare them. The only people they can dare and undermine is you and me. Unfortunately this simple power problem has messed up the Nigerian economy as it has hiked the cost of production and affected a local policy of commitment to excellent quality, because if you tried to produce high quality with the prohibitive cost of power, no one would be able to buy the products. This also means that foreign products have been coming into this country at both higher quality and at lower costs than even our low quality products. This means Nigerians will continue to buy foreign products, because they desire quality and this would continue to weaken the Naira as the demand for it would be low compared to local demands for the dollars, our money would be going out to service foreign production lines thereby boosting foreign economies while our factories will continue to fold or perform at extremely low levels. this is the reason we have problems of unemployment. The Nigerian economy cannot sustain itself because the leadership cannot stand up to the cartel that controls the nerve of the economy. POWER. What would a strong leader like Buhari do? Your guess is as good as mine. Some say Buhari was only as effective as he was against corruption the last time because he was a military dictator, that now he will be in a democratic sector where all will have to pass through the National assembly. NO! The power of the cartel needs no law to have it crushed. Corruption does not need new laws to be eradicated, what it needs is a commitment to uphold the Presidential Pledge or Oath of Office. All the laws to keep Nigeria sane have been passed, but the will to keep the country safe and sane has been lacking. For once, Nigerians, vote Buhari for a sane Nigeria. This madness must stop. Let me tell you what would be nearly impossible to do in Nigeria under a democratic system. Nigeria by constitution is a SECULAR state. The Nigerian constitution clearly states that this country SHALL HAVE NO STATE RELIGION. Before anyone can make Nigeria a Christian or an Islamic or a Juju state, he has to first change this in the constitution. Students of Government know that the Nigerian Constitution is a Federal Constitution which implies that there must be a 2/3 majority of votes in every State Assembly in 2/3 of the 36 states of Nigeria in addition to a 2/3 majority in the National Assembly. So that Christian politician shouting in the name of his shameless god (his myopic interest and belly), who does not imagine that Nigerians know their constitution and what it takes to change anything in it, should shut up and let people make up their minds and not be bullied by fears created in the name of God. Buhari is not an Islamiser, though he is a committed muslim. Buhari will crush insurgency in this country, and for those of you who see insurgency only as that accursed group everyone is calling its name in this country today(I refuse to dignify them by calling their accursed name here). I tell you that the real insurgency against the Nigerian state is POLITICAL THIEVERY perpetrated and perpetuated by the leadership of this country from the Local Government Offices through the states to the Federal level. There is no accountability, no respect for the Nigerian people or the Constitution. I would advise Buhari when he eventually assumes power (GOD MAKE IT SO) to forget about the past and all those who have stolen from this country, because the number is mind bogging, but to concentrate on ensuring that in his time order is restored and that due process is restored to the polity. The corruption that has marred this country was made possible by the leave and licenses of the Nigerian people. They have always hailed the thieves and have vilified the honest people( like you General Buhari) who have no money or outrageous wealth to flaunt. They have come to see that the only way to life and pleasure is through stealing and acts of injustice and inhumanity. This explains why our fathers and mothers and uncles and sisters and brothers are proud to protect their sons and daughters who sell their consciences through fraud, prostitution, internet fraud called yahoo yahoo here. The best form of revenge against the ruiners of this country is to reform the minds of our people so that they can channel their enormous energy towards building from within themselves the glory that this country deserves. You can do it if you keep your belief in the Nigerian minds, as you did then, intact. Nigerians are hardworking people, they are creative and full of vision, if a good government comes into place and puts structure and infrastructure in place, make proper use of the SSS, the EFCC, the Police and all agencies and institutions of government, in three years, the transformation this country will record would be unbelievable. The entertainment and movie sector alone can deliver Nigeria from economic woes. Transportation, fashion, sports, manufacturing and services combining under strong leadership will make Nigeria a haven. What weak leadership has done to Nigeria is a situation where the brightest minds have been unable to function properly whenther in government or out of government. I have never experienced a situation where virtually in all spheres of leadership in Nigerian whether in the private ot public sectors, mediocrity have taken over. people occupy positions without due regard for quality of mind. Nigerians now prefer to employ people with foreign certificates even when they are aware that it does not guarantee inherent on-the-job value. Reading any quality management book just shows to you that Nigeria has lost it completely when you consider the sort of people you meet in offices these days. It also shows itself in the people who have access to funding for projects in Nollywood. Here we celebrate medoicrity all because of the quality of leadership we have been having since 1999. In the public sector, do not even ask, because there, nothing happens due to corruption. men and women of character either leave, or stay back and moan and sigh in agony at what they see and brilliance is dulled by power inept due to corruption. Ask the likes of Miss Ngozi Okonjo Iweala and she should be able to explain how a brilliant World Bank economist has been made ordinary in office under Jonathan. Under weak leadership, Nigerians are systematically impoverished. It seems that every month since the people dared to revolt against the cartel-led Nigerian government in January 2012, a certain number of Nigerians are blindly targeted for impoverishment. Never had the Nigerian people known hardship the way they have come to know it since that operation called OCCUPY NIGERIA. Then there was a common assumption by those in power that Nigerians could not stay at home for up to three days without going to work. But during that period, that myth was destroyed as Nigerians stayed for more than three weeks and were rearing to stay more until the leadership of the strike broke. But the people (though silly at the rallies) never broke. What that meant to them was, THESE PEOPLE ARE REALLY NOT AS POOR AS WE THOUGHT! Since, they have consistently tightened the noose around the neck of the economy to up the poverty level in the land, because that way the backbone of resistance would be broken. And since then, poverty has grown in the land. With this growth in poverty level, nobody ever sat to ask, WHAT IS HAPPENING? I see the Jonathan government as a weak father who sits on a fully loaded AK 47 and watches with a painful wince as his wife and daughters are being raped by a mean hoodlum that has taken over his home all because he is afraid of what might happen if he tried to use the gun. The Presidency is the highest power in the land, but selfish interest have denied the citizens the weight and efficacy of that power. Therefore I say unto you, Nigerians, give the seat to the man who can occupy it regally in your best interest, and that man is General Muhammadu Buhari. On the 14th of February 2015, march to the polling stations east, west, north and south with only one thought in your mind, to say a gentle and loving farewell to President Jonathan and usher in President Muhammadu Buhari then would you have demonstrated true and selfless love for your country for once in your life, because he who has done the same thing over and over again and wonders why there is no change in his fortune needs to stop and do something else. Stop voting th devil you know Nigerians, because you already know what he can do, but i dare you to try an angel you claim you dont know, because right now, your fortune does cry for improvement. Try something new. This fight and its benefits would outweigh and outlast that of the Nigerian Civil War as it would be a fight for peace, unity, national pride and dignity for all Nigerians. Let us do it right this time, I beg you. Having said all these, there are those who would ask if I have been paid to write this. Believe me, I have not been paid. I am not a card-carrying member of any political party, I dont even believe in APC because they have shown me no love through their manifestoes, they are at best fighters of the incumbency, which is a good thing considering the circumstances, though. It is the man Buhari I believe in. I think the smartest thing and the most patriotic step General Buhari has taken so far in his quest for leadership was being able to look beyond the insincerity in the APCs ranks and chose to use it to ascend to power. Besides the PDP which would rather die than give Buhari space, the only platform of note for any figure to challenge effectively for power is the APC. Many say bigwig behind APC, Ahmed Tinubu is corrupt, but comparing apples with apples, being politically realistic in modern Nigeria, Is Tinubu not light years better than his opponents? Somehow, I still believe that there is some method and a patriotic slant to all the alleged corruption of Ahmed Tinubu especially if you realised that all the man has done with the so-called ( I have no evidence of his stealing, though)stolen wealth of his are invested locally and thereby generating jobs unlike the Nigerian politicians we know who steal and move the money out creating jobs and enriching other countries who can survive without our money. I can never justify stealing, but in this clime where those of us who are not thieves are disdained, a bit of rationalisation often comes to play when we choose to compare apples with apples. It really does not matter the path the hero took to glory even if it were through a pigsty, all that counts is his ability and wisdom to clean up himself and stand tall before the masses to lead right. I hope I have spoken to the smart people together with whom I was given this country by the Benevolent God of all the Universe! People do it right this time, dare to be different, try the angel unknown(after all you have dwelt too much with devils to know any angel, anyway) if that is how you want to put it, because you have known and seen that the devil you know will do as he has always done, ruin your country and chance at growth even further than he has done since. Try Buhari , the angel unknown, and see if he fails you, and if he does (and I KNOW he wont), I am available for your attacks. I say this because I know within my spirit that the real CHANGE, not the APC change, but the real transformational change lies with Buhari if we give him the chance. We have been used to bad things , and there is no wisdom in trying a bad you already know has taken you nowehere, when it is certain that it is a bad. But not trying an unsure good which may be a dream good, is a weakness the gods will curse a nation for and may that nation not be Nigeria this time round!. Ose.
Posted on: Mon, 26 Jan 2015 15:16:50 +0000
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