In the course of all the in fighting we seem to forget those of us that visit the ‘native doctor’. And before someone starts to muscle me, “is this about native doctors?” No…so let me go quickly to my admonishment for this week. The Nigerian elections are just few weeks away, and the camps are visible, the tension is building, the hate and pre-election violence is on, some believe the elections have been won and lost. It is as tense as it is interesting, one of my friend say’s one of the early losers is ‘truth’ and I cannot but agree, with the kind of lies and illogical reasoning out there, one should be afraid, which necessitated my visit to my local jujuman. While I sat in his consulting room, glancing around, Baba Gloria, my jujuman, my voodoo consultant, call him a magician, a witchdoctor, all rolled into one, had improved over the years—Now he even had the benefit of IT–a laptop, several handsets and other electronic apparatus he used for looking into the future and one he used when he needed to go back into the past. Before I tell you why and what I had gone to ask him, he was showing me the past via a white bowl of water, it was our local “Skype” at its best –A younger Buhari, and Idiagbon in 1983, he showed me Nigeria, and how many celebrated when they were overthrown by IBB. I watched past elections and how Obasanjo would ask Professor Iwu to give him a copy of election results even before the elections were conducted. I saw a young and naive Jonathan as governor of Bayelsa was promising Bayelsans electricity and he never fulfilled it. At some point I was lost, I was thinking, was Buhari really too old to govern Nigeria, was he strong or just political gimmicks, how about the goofs of Mr. Jonathan, whoever told him that Jim Nwobodo (the first bleaching governor) stole “small”…and why was Buhari knowing his GSM phone number an electoral issue. I thought of Jonathan’s TAN, and the Buhari’s CAN…I was troubled because I believed that “CHANGE and TRANSFORMATION’ was really the same thing, just that I felt that conductors in public transport never had “CHANGE”, same way that many a “TRANSFORMER’ in Nigeria had no electricity in them. I was lost in thought about Buhari’s daughter, a beautiful damsel I must confess, and then the loose news of Jonathan’s long lost son that just appeared. I asked would I miss Dame Patience, which was better a general without school certificate, or a PhD without accomplished papers…? I questioned my head, is it true that from his mother’s lineage Buhari had blood ties with Borno, and what was it Jonathan was doing in Maduguri with soldiers, was it simply election #things or compassion? So Buhari wants to Islamize Nigeria, and Jonathan in turn is using Boko Haram to decimate the Northern population. How about most of us that are pagan worshippers, and the atheist amongst us, fact is, we are in a state of conflict, and darkness. In my mind I wondered what was behind the laughter of both men, as they signed the Abuja peace accord that supporters of both camps will not kill us all.
Posted on: Sat, 24 Jan 2015 16:00:50 +0000
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