EKITI ELECTION: A CALL TO ORDER With the outcome of Saturdays governorship election in Ekiti State, Ive been reading so many comments/opinions in the Newspapers and on the social media with all manner of press statements,sponsored essays and even paid adverts about the APC as a party and the personalities of the contending actors involved. Now I found this to be a good time to play with my pen once again... Following the circumstances that surrounded his first tenure as the state governor, many openly declared Fayose as a traitor, a rogue and an arrogant fellow, but it craved my bewilderment why such a person should be voted for once again in the state where he was rejected and condemned. Is it that the outgoing governor isnt performing or what?. Well, my resolve is the people of Ekiti has seen it all....the defects and abnormalities within the APC; who knows maybe that was why they called for Change. I guess someone hasnt gotten my message yet... Going by the foundation of APC, a party where many of its leaders were in different parties before now and has exchanged the harshest words with one another in the past only for them to now come together to form the APC and become one. People like Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu and General Muhammadu Buhari were once at loggerheads with one another when they were in different parties. Now they are best of friends. They came for the purpose of Change; which sweetens the hearts of many Nigerians both old and young,male and female including myself. Looking at the successes made so far in the South West, many of us were rused into believing that unifying ACN as it was then with other parties in the country would help take away power from the PDP and bring about mega development in the country. But going by whats going on within the party so far, I think APC isnt on the right track. Forgive me if my observations are unpleasant to you, but theres no way this APC of a party would claim to be innocent of the turbulent problems facing the country today. Tell me which of them has clean hands while they were in power. For 38 years they enjoyed power and now they are destabilising the government, making the country ungovernable, slaughtering innocent civilians at will and abducting children just to get it back. They have also infiltrated the military and our security agencies with their moles and they have divided our army. Yet these are the people that are talking and pointing fingers at others. If I may ask, why do you think Atiku Abubakar has been dumping the party since the past 5years for PDP? The truth is that deep down the APC are biting their finger nails and sweating profusely simply because they are losing their leaders and members one by one and the whole party is about to explode. Sometimes ago, it was Buba Marwa, Attahiru Baffawara, Boni Haruna, Ibrahim Shekarau and Markus Gundiri, the next day it was Femi Fani-Kayode, the day after that it was one Senator Femi Lanlehin and only God knows who would leave tomorrow. Though, the PDP and the Federal Government do not have the best of records and they have got a lot of things wrong over the years especially with the term zoning and selection of Party Representatives...but theyre still far, I repeat far better than a thousand APC...in dealing in national issues. Simply put, the Haramites in the APC cannot be trusted with power. It is as simple as that. They are the greater evil and they are the greatest of all evils. They are the darkness that seeks the darkness. Whether we like to accept it or not PDP is the only party that can stop them from winning power at the centre in Nigeria. Youll wonder who really started the Party, what its real agenda is, whose interests it is designed to further and protect, what foreign links it has, what its historical antecedents are, from where its get its real fundings from and so on and so forth will soon come out. Sadly the overwhelming majority of its members have no idea what is really going on behind the scenes and what the agenda really is. Those are the ones that I really feel sorry for. They will cry at the end of the day if the APC are ever able to seize power at the Federal level because if that happens we will all become second class citizens in a new colony. More so, most of the more reasonable and rational leaders in the party are complaining bitterly behind the scenes but they are too scared to speak out or to leave the party. I think this is the time to ask questions. How can a patriotic Nigerian be in a party in which the official spokesman, one Lai Mohammed, only last year said that it was wrong and unconstitutional for the Federal Government to proscribe Boko Haram. This is the same Boko Haram that has killed no less than 15,000 Nigerians in the last three years. How can a patriotic Nigerian be in a party where the leading Presidential candidate, only last year said that the members of Boko Haram ought not to be killed but instead ought to be treated like the Niger Delta militants and granted amnesty. How can you and why would you join a party where that same leading Presidential candidate said, in 2001, that Muslims should only vote for people who will protect their faith and that it was hisintention to spread Sharia throughout the nation. I ask again, what are you looking for in a party where a number of leading people question the secularity of the State? Never, I say never, will I be in a party which appears to have politicised the Chibok affair and who are not sincere in trying to get the abducted girls back. Why would you remain in a party where a few of its leaders are more interested in hurling bricks at our military than in helping to encourage them to do a better job? What else do you need to know in a party where the role of one of its governors in the Chibok issue is still not clear? A governor that has not been able to explain to the world why he insisted that the girls should go ahead and do their exams in that school and remain there for the night even though WAEC and the Federal Government, through the Federal Ministry of Education, had warned them about the dangers of doing so and told them not to do it. Is there any good reason to be in a party where one of the leading members was the individual that originally founded Boko Haram? Like I said, I cannot be in a party in which another of its leading members has openly insulted a revered traditional ruler the Ooni of Ife and called him, together with many of our other traditional rulers in the South-west,useless. Havent you seen enough in this party in which one of its most prominent and powerful elders, a leading Northern politician confidently stated that a good muslim like Buhari must be our next President because that is the choice of the North, that the Christians in the North are nothing and that a Christian cannot possibly be our flagbearer because our support base is the Muslim north and the Muslim South-west. A party of religious bigots, Tufiakwa! Believe me or not, the emergence of PDP into power in Ekiti would mark the beginning of the end of the APC in the South-west and indeed in the whole of Nigeria. Meanwhile, let me say a very big congratulations to Ayodele Fayose and the entire members of PDP in Ekiti state and Nigeria as a whole. This is the time to clean up your mess(es) too and prove a point. Also, my heart goes out to Dr. Kayode Fayemi, who fought gallantly but lost the election and who remains not only a man of honour and impeccable integrity but also one of the finest minds in the country. He is certainly one of the most disciplined, compassionate, accomodating and civilised leaders that the APC has within its ranks and one of those that gave it a semblence of integrity and credibility. His state broadcast where he conceded defeat to Fayose has proved it all and speaks volumes. He is a first class gentleman and of good sportmanship. Unlike most of those in his party who would instead prefer to go to the tribunal. He knows when to call it quits and he respects the choice of the people. Also, I wont but say a big thank you to Opeyemi Bamidele of our own Labour Party [writing from Ondo State, you know?] for the maturity and understanding shown during and after the election. That is really worth commending and it is worthy of emulation by all Nigerian politicians. As a matter of fact, Fayemi has guaranteed a place for himself in the future of Yoruba and Nigerian politics and if he can change party and leave the APC he will still go very far indeed. I salute his courage and commend his past efforts for Nigeria and for his state. Yet the truth must be told. And that truth is that whether they want to accept it or not the people of Ekiti state has sent a very strong signal to the National leadership and stakeholders of the APC during the election. The rejection of Fayemi at the polls had as much to do with the disgusting and opprobium that most people in the South west and indeed the country harbour and hold for the tiny cabal of dictators and demi-gods that constitute the APC leadership as much as it does for anything else. Given the history of our country and the suffering of the people of the South west over the last 53 years since we gained Independence from the British, no true Yoruba nationalist should have anything to do with the APC...not even for the issue of resource control on ground in the CONFAB. Yes, Ekiti deal is already done now, lets wait again and see how God would surprise the APC in Osun State. Let all the Yorubas come together and stand as one against the raging storm ahead of us. NB: Im only making assessment of the contending political parties in Nigeria and highlighting their flaws. Pardon me if being subjective this time. PEACE
Posted on: Tue, 24 Jun 2014 12:51:15 +0000
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