Nigeria is like a man who has a keg of gun powder and a container filled with fuel under his bed and still goes about pretending that he has no problem at all.The recent verbal assault launched against the Edo State governor Oshiomhole by a member of the Presidential Committee on National Dialogue Col. Tony Nyiam rtd in Benincity has proved to all Nigerians that all is not well with our dear country.I know that many Nigerians have blamed Nyiam for the way he attempted to stop the governor from speaking his mind as a fellow Nigerian during the meeting with the people of Oshimholes zone,but what many Nigerians have not done is to subject Gov.Oshimholes comments to dispassionate scrutiny to see whether the governor really spoke his mind or whether he was simply playing his peculiar APC brand of politics by trying to re-echo what his party leader(TINUBU)has said before.To who and who was Oshiomholes sermon directed or targeted at?If Oshiomhole really meant what he said at that meeting,is he trying to tell Nigerians that if APC produces the next president of Nigeria,all our problem would automatically become things of the past?If he really believes that we do not need the proposed conference,how does he want the much needed reforms to be carried out?While I recognize the fact that Oshiomhole has the right to reject the proposed conference,I will not as well hesitate to remind him that democracy is a game of number,if those of us who believe in the conference truly enjoy numerical superiority,the best the likes of Oshiomhole can do is to simply have their say and allow us to have our way.Tinubu and his fellow APC members are clearly playing a dangerous power game.One thing I know is that there are numerous problems in this land and the only way to start solving them is to gather as brothers and jaw jaw.Whether APC leaders like it or not,we Nigerians must talk about our problems Pastor Oshiomhole can go to the moon and continue with his empty fake sermon.
Posted on: Thu, 31 Oct 2013 14:10:39 +0000