I am happy that I visited Nigeria at the present time. I have been in Abuja since 9th of December and I am now about the depart back to England. It is a very exciting moment for me. It was hectic as I tour the land of rising sun and the land of my birth. It was a sound information gathering expedition. I met those I should meet and reunited with old friends. Andrew Anya Etim and his lovely wife and Chidebere Nwagboso and Inno Nwizu were awesome and remain examples of what friends should be. I was entertained as if I was a celebrity. My cousin, Ben Nwosu was caring as always. I was unable to see most people I wanted to see - Lilian Ngozi and lovely Jennifer Agbonma Okorafor-ukaobasi. My greatest moment was the opportunity to engage with my old friend and I had not met and who entertained me in his house and sign-posted me to how things are dealt with to obtain results I monitored the PDP convention and the APC selection process for their flag bearer in the next presidential election. It is now clear GMB and JEG have drawn presidential battle line. Each party and candidate promising El dorado to impoverished masses. There is abundance resources to make Nigeria a land where dreams are made. The efficiency with which the aviation minister, Chief Osita Chidoka, handled issues impressed me and shows that if right people like him are put in other areas sanity will return to Nigeria. OBJ as usual has stirred the water again with legal delinquency - disobeying the court on the ground the prohibition order for the launch of his book - probably written as a reaction to El Rufais earlier publication - was for Thursday and that he launched on Tuesday. Gosh! ONLY IN NIGERIA!!! With the flag bearers of ruling party and opposition now known, the electioneering campaign has been flagged off. We expect to hear issues - proper manifestoes for: poverty alleviation, infrastructural development, decency and sanity in social lives of the people, life more abundant through mechanised farming, improvement in health facilities and delivery to reduce child and maternal and infant mortality and morbidity, respect and enthronement of rule of law, and obedience to rule of law. Effective mechanism to deal with sectarian and other forms of violence, extremism and terrorism. Effective ways to curb corruption in government and other social lives of the nation. Education needs to be structured to be of use to the society. Proliferation of mushroom universities which are seen at nooks and crannies of the society with poor quality, ineffectual education is ruining the system and creating half-baked graduates who are deficient in content - breadth and depth of education. Graduates of today cannot validate the useless certificates they are issued. Standard of university degrees are so poor and of poor quality that to me most graduates are just glorified secondary school leavers. I was in high court and the poor quality of the spoken English by some of the lawyers is very embarrassing. Parties must tell the electorates how they intend to deal with these issues. Overall, I enjoyed my stay and enjoyed my tour and I gained from that. Intellectuals and activists need to engage more to distil intellectual arguments posted online and to harness them in helping our people. For Igbos, they are to battle with the facts that JEG did little for them despite the huge support they offered him in 2011 and the facts that GMB provide us with no better prospect. It is a question of the devil you know may be better than the angel you have not met. We are between the rock and the hard place. I swallowed hard after the APC selection process was concluded. Having considered all factors, I declared at 23.00 as the meeting I held with committee of friends drew to an end, that I am supporting GEJ. I would call on Igbos to do same.
Posted on: Thu, 11 Dec 2014 23:51:31 +0000
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