Here comes Prof. Pius Alalade Adesanmi. Oya, read!!! Pius Adesanmi I am beginning to get tired of these mimic men in APC. Opportunity met readiness and preparedness for change on the part of the Nigerian people and beckoned to APC to mid-wife an historical moment of delivery from the nightmare that is PDP. Yet, every opportunity to demonstrate a clear difference in philosophy, style, and substance has been bungled thus far by APC. For now, I see conjoined twins sharing one heart but separate digestive tract systems with the bulk of the food and nutrients going to one of the pair, the second making a horrible show of its efforts to be just like his well-fed sibling. At every turn, APC is claiming to be a poor photocopy of PDP. Very frustrating. No bad move on the part of PDP goes unphotocopied by APC. If President Jonathan shoots himself in the neck with a bad move, does a policy reversal, and leaves the mess to career Jonathanians to clean up, APC governors will rush to shoot school fees through the roof mostly in Obafemi Awolowos free education enclave and do a policy reversal a la Jonathan. If President Jonathan shuttles to Germany for headache and tells lies about the real purpose of his trip, APC leaders will go to Britain for toothache and tell lies about the real purpose of their trip. Now, they have asked their presidential aspirants to shell out 27 million naira for nomination forms. That is absolutely irresponsible. Ive been looking at some of the genuine democracies around the world. Where there is a nomination or filing form, things can even be as low as 500 dollars in some cases. APC is asking for more than 150,000 dollars just to pick up its nomination form. What for? Why? Another opportunity to say we are not commercializers of the aspiration to be president like the PDP is lost. Anyway, something positive can be saved from this latest attempt to outdo the PDP in its natural habitat of financial debauchery. 1) When folks begin to pick up the forms, make open declaration of source a compulsory IMF conditionality for filing. I join Nigerians in being extremely curious about where three of your aspirants will find 27 million naira: General Muhammadu Buhari, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, and Mr Sam Nda Isaiah. Atiku and Saraki we know will find theirs extremely easily from years of accumulated grand corruption dating back to Customs for one and Societe Generale Bank for the other and political offices for both. I do not know how Okorocha built his own wealth but I am assuming that his is new money built in the context of Nigerias business and political circuits - hence, rotten. Buhari, Oshiomhole, and Nda Isaiah are your only prospects for showing difference. Once they pay up, the source of the money must be declared. That would be a refreshing change from the style and substance of our environment. 2) Make an open declaration of the tax history of your aspirants a condition for picking up a nomination form. The last five years of taxes would do. Nigerian big men are the most notorious tax criminals on earth. They and their businesses hardly ever pay anything, always lobbying the government of the day for perpetual tax holidays when not criminally ignoring to pay taxes outright. If you could showcase Buhari, Oshiomhole, and Nda Isaiah as credible exceptions to this rot, that would be a refreshing departure. Your aspirants must release a five-year tax history: credible and independently verifiable. I. Am. Dreaming. Of course.
Posted on: Sat, 27 Sep 2014 18:26:33 +0000
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