UNDERSTANDING WHAT THE NIGERIAN MASSES ARE SAYING THROUGH THE EKITI ELECTION RESULTS. I have read a couple of reactions to the unexpected endorsement of the Ekitis of Fayose. Some gave it the ridiculous interpretation of the betrayal of Fayemi, a good man. Others, virtually cursed the Ekitis for; voting for what, they derogatorily coined as stomach infrastructure, as against physical infrastructure, the visionlessness of Fayose vs visionary Fayemi. In summary, most did NOT get the MESSAGE the Nigerian electorate was trying to pass across and sadly, we may never do! The Ekitis masses really did not vote Fayose. Rather they SENT a MESSAGE to the rulers and their collaborating middle class, which Ill try to interpret here. The Feudal and parasitic Nigerian rulers, generationally have lived off the miseries of the masses. The refineries dont work because they deliberately destroyed them and encouraged importation, also for their gains. While nobody pays attention to the 70% poor that have had to queue for years on end, for a kerosene that they are made to pay 4 times the true value of, the rulers and their collaborating middle-class moan and groan, once they have to spend hours looking for petroleum to fuel their cars! Fayemi is reputed a good man, a visionary, but what matters to the Ekiti masses (and by extension the nigerian masses) is not our avowed intentions, but the truth they see. Fayemi like many Nigerian rulers run governments whose avowed policies and their executions/actions are poles apart. While the Ekitis workers claim not to receive salaries for months, Fayemi could afford a new government house? Tell me, how does that positively impact good governance, not to mention the poor? While Fayemi took loans to build roads at ridiculous and exaggerated prices (an Ashiwaju BAT device to milk his APC States treasuries), how much loans were taken to directly empower the people of Ekiti? Personally, I dont read the Fayose victory as an endorsement of his person, but an offer to allow him deliver his promise to empower the Ekitis. How diligently Fayose does that which he promised, would also serve as an example of the breach of trust or otherwise by Nigerian rulers and their collaborators. Currently, the Fayose camp and the Ekiti masses are jubilating, sadly both for different reasons. The masses are expectant of an improvement in their economic situations, whereas the victorious Fayose camp, sees an opportunity to enjoy the benefits of office for at least, a term. The Nigerian masses are weary of the frauds of their rulers and the complicity of the middle class. The middle-class should stop their continued hypocrisy of blaming the poor for accepting Rice and money from politicians. How many of them have rejected the bribes offered (even if it was forced off the givers) while seated in their offices? How many turned down the gifts (crumbs actually) that the rulers gave them for collaborating? If we cannot stomach an hour at the filling stations, why keep quiet when the poor are queuing for days looking for kerosene? I pray we realised what the Ekitis (like all nigerian) masses said with their votes? Enough of these double-speaking! You as the rulers and collaborators cannot be growing pot bellies parasitically and be telling the masses to tolerate hunger because of some bogey promise of a better tomorrow! You cannot be sending their wards out of school in drove by obnoxious increments in school fees, while shipping your children abroad and expect them to envision a better tomorrow! Aregbesola closed down a 50 year old school in Oshogbo, to create premium a location for Ashiwajus Shoprite? How can you destroy/close-down opportunities to generations to build a market and not expect a backlash at decision time? We should stop scaring the poor with increasing destitution from voting as they did in Ekiti. These people are down already, thus fear no fall. The Chibok 300 are the masses wards! The victims of Nyanya bombings are! How many big men were victims of the Wuse2 bomb yesterday? The rulers and the middle-class are fully engaged in the same stomach infrastructure model, and we tell the masses not to do same? Tell me what else is hypocrisy if not that? Oyenuga Lanre Paul
Posted on: Thu, 26 Jun 2014 06:27:04 +0000
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