The unfortunate thing for the Nigerian democratic experiment is that many of the notable players have refused to educate themselves. See, two lawyers and notable political leaders screamed out their spleen that APC’s call to its Federal Lawmakers to block further Executive bills was tantamount to invitation of a Military coup in the Nigerian polity. How tendentiously ignorant! Indeed, it was the most disingenuous play up of public sentiments by two political leaders who are only driven by self-interests.Perhaps, we should remind this two-some of the recent shut down of the US federal government, between October1st and 16th 2013, by the Republican-dominated House of Representatives’ desire to defund the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (derisively called OBAMACARE). During the shutdown, 800,000 Federal employees were indefinitely furloughed and an approximately 1.3million were required to report for work without known payment dates. The American Political leaders continued to explore plausible solution out of the quagmire, rather than subscribing to the indolent prescriptions and conclusions of the likes of Metuh and Nwanyanwu. Quite expectedly, the solution came in form of democratic compromise, which led to the passage and signing into law of the continuing Appropriations Act 2014. The APC Leadership believes very strongly, like many discerning Nigerians, that President Goodluck Jonathan holds the ace to the restoration of constitutional order in Rivers State. Rather than using proxies to spread false and screaming propaganda about the APC’s patriotic call, the President should just know that continued use of impunity as a weapon of suppressing dissenting views is no longer fashionable. The earlier this hard lesson sinks in, the better for the Nation’s march to true democratic governance. May God bless Nigeria. Engr. Rotimi Fashakin.
Posted on: Sun, 26 Jan 2014 04:26:58 +0000
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