The Battle ahead, Buhari and Atiku. As Black people (remember Nigeria is the most populous black nation in the world) we are looked at as different and inferior. We truly appear feeble and inferior both in thinking and in managing our affairs.
We elect known thieves to run our affairs and even kind enough to sympathise with them when they are punished. Former Governor of Plateau State, Senator Joshua Dariye took tax payers money to London, it was Ecological fund for his State. In his luxury hotel suite, he was doling out 50 pound notes to anyone who came. The poor people of Plateau were dying in agony of diseases and poor infrastructure. He was promptly arrested by the British police and huge sums of foreign currencies seized from him. The smart guy managed to escape back home! Home sweet home, the land of the foolish! Dariye was later rewarded by his people by voting him as a Senator.
When some of them are apprehended overseas and chastised, we welcome them with fanfare. After all it is our money they stole, not theirs. Ibori was celebrated on his return from British jail. He was met by the first citizen of Delta State and others. Our heads of states stash monies in foreign countries and we have to beg for the return when they die.
We knowingly elect leaders that are derelict in character and we go to church and mosques to pray for miracles or even hate our friends or relatives who have made it but can’t help us. We seem to be different.
There is something genuinely wrong with our race. Our mindset is warped. In 2014, our former Finance Minister was begging us to save in case oil prices crash but we quickly rushed to the courts to safe us from a woman who didn’t want us to ‘chop’ the future of our children! Aren’t we the cursed race? Our values are warped.
Last time I was discussing with a close friend, he plainly told me that the system God designed for us in Nigeria is corruption, he said we were better off during the corrupt years and he wanted corruption brought back. The crook who can buy votes wins , we prefer to vote for thieves so long he can pay his way through. Decent hardworking people have no intrinsic worth in our society. Everything is upside down.
Today, we have someone who is not a saint and is probably surrounded not by saints, in fact some of his lieutenants are not saints, however, they have been able to arrest the drift into chaos, they are massively building infrastructures all over the country.
Revamping forgotten national assets and building real growth, empowering farmers and helping indigenous businesses. PDP years hastened or couldn’t prevent the death of Nitel,
Nigerian Airways,NRC,NMT,, Oshogbo steel rolling mill, Aladja steel, Ajaokuta steel, National Oil,Dunlop, Nig textile mill, Alscon, Bacita sugar, Tate and Lyle, Ilorin,Iwopin paper mill, Jebba paper mill, Oku Iboku paper mill, Volkswagen, PAN, Kaduna Textile and many more.
Buhari fought members of his own party like Bukola Saraki, Rev Jolly Nyame, Senator Joshua Dariye etc, But we don’t want all of that. Osun State is a good example. Osun people are angry that their government spent all the money on infrastructures, building roads, hospitals, schools, etc they did not accuse Aregbesola of stealing, only that he misplaced his priorities, hence they preferred an unserious person, a dancer! I was actually thinking they would go for an Omisore, but NO, the past 8 years was too serious, they wanted some fun!
We are a different race, the least of all races! The least developed, the enslaved race, the race without the mindset to be great. Though we desire to be great but we are incapable to do what makes other races great. We envy other races who are making progress, but all we can do is look at them with envy.
We are proud to travel there. We pray and fast to live in their countries but we are not able to do what turned their countries around. We love the good life, flashy cars, phones, jets etc but we can’t make any of them. Will the likes of Atiku or Bukola or Ibori be celebrities in America, Europe, China or Asia? NO.
Our courts are too weak to successfully prosecute the supper rich like Atiku, Bukola, Ibori and others. Our Judges can’t refuse million dollar bribes.
Though they bribe their ways through the courts, the international communities cannot be fooled. They are watching us.
Nigerians, if you hand the key to your house over to a rapist and then travel, leaving your beautiful wife and daughters at his mercy, whatever happens, have courage to blame no man but yourself.
Buhari has steered the ship of this country away from disaster, Nigerians are again free to take the key from him and give to Atiku. Remember the Jefferson corruption saga involving Atiku.
The White race in Italy has jailed their own son involved in the Malabu oil fraud in which Atiku and other Nigerians were named, the Black race is just about to crown our own son king! All hail the Black race.
By Rev Bunmi
