Ekiti State Election Was A Mockery of Democracy – It Was A Coup By The Nigerian Army The Nigerian Army, having acted as the new Area Boys for Goodluck Jonathan, totally discredited the credibility of Ekiti State election. Notwithstanding the fact that the incumbent Governor, Dr. Kayode Fayemi conceded defeat, the singular action of preventing other colleagues of the governor from campaigning with him at a very crucial time was a coup by the military. It was a mockery of democracy which, I believe would soon become a fiasco for Goodluck Jonathan and the PDP. They may end up in the lion’s mouth sooner than later. Please close your eyes and imagine President Barack Obama using American Army to prevent some governors of the Republican Party from campaigning for the governor of Texas who is also a Republican. If eventually he lost the election, would Americans just take it with the pinch of salt and say, “The people of Texas have spoken?” No, they won’t. No American President has ever done that and President Barack Obama would never do such thing because that may mean the end of his presidency in a truly democratic setting. He would be impeached! However, in Jonathan’s “transformation” democracy, some members of the Nigerian army are the new Area boys. This licensed “Area Boys” can get away with anything just like their boss who often boasts of his “absolute” power. What would have happened, if any of the Governors that were prevented from attending the final campaign of Governor Fayemi refused to go back? Would he have been arrested, detained, assaulted or killed? The use of the Nigerian Army to prevent the exercise of freedom of association by any Nigerian citizen, talk less of the Executive Governors of other states of the Federation by an elected President is the worse form of tyranny. It should be condemned in the strongest term. If this is the miniature outlook of the 2015 presidential election, then, Nigeria is doomed! The Nigerian Army has been brought on the political stage once again to take sides in a political contest; not to bring back our girls that are still in Boko Haram’s camps, not to keep law and order, which by the way should be the duty of the Nigerian Police, but to prevent Nigerian citizens from exercising their fundamental rights. For those who still want to play easy with the satanic government of Goodluck Jonathan, they should be ready for whatever happens to their freedom in the next few months. He has made mockery of Nigerian democracy, removed the last doubt that he would do anything to hold on to power and vindicated me when I said that his administration is deliberately plotting to cause genocide of unprecedented proportion to be used as an excuse to hold on to power. The Army could not stop Boko Haram from many horrendous attacks that have killed tens of thousands of Nigerians, but they were more than ready to prevent normal democratic processes from taking place. Fayose did not win this election fairly and squarely. Even the “expired” and “cursed” rice that he distributed did not do the voting; but it is symbolic that when executive governors were turned back from attending election campaign of an incumbent governor by the “power from above,” that was an act of voters’ intimidation of the highest order. It was to make real the words of the Vice President Sambo that Ekiti election is a “war that must be fought to the end.” It was a clear message to Fayemi’s supporters, “Don’t come out to vote for Fayemi if you love your life or you will have yourself to blame.” Political contest is not the WWE where the thugs of one of the wrestlers can just jump into the ring, hold down an opponent who is winning and force the other on him after incapacitating him. In a democracy, that would be considered rigging and electoral fraud. Unfortunately, there have been many comments on the election that showed that Nigerians have not learned any lesson at all from all the evils that continued to befall them for the past 54 years. To call the Ekiti election “free and fair” is the same as calling Boko Haram abduction of over 300 girls and women the best that can happen to Nigeria. Don’t say this is not a good comparison because members of the Nigerian Army and some in Goodluck Jonathan’s administration are behind Boko Haram’s successful attacks. Nigerians are sick people inhabiting a sick country. It is a country where the blind leads the blind – they will all end up in a deep hellish hole! I repeat again, Fayose did not win the Ekiti State election fairly. No, he did not. The Nigerian Army rigged the election for him and therefore reminded us that they are the partial arbiter of democratic contest in Nigeria. If they succeed in this coup, Nigerians should get ready for another horrible experience. Jonathan must be stopped now!
Posted on: Fri, 27 Jun 2014 03:16:40 +0000
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