With the dawn of a new era and the jubilation of a section of the country welcoming a new helmsman who had always been referred to as an upright and "no-nonsense" administrator known for his strong anti-corruption stance, many Nigerians had hoped that things will start working out fine and effectively as he seemed set to tackle national issues.
While some had their reservations due to the crowd he seemed to be mingling with in his quest to wrestle and assume power as the number one man in the most populous black nation in the world. The sudden change in his body language and his new flexibility left many wondering what could he be up to. In Imo state and some other South Eastern states, he was seen garbing the traditional attire of the land and even in the south south, he adorned the attire of the Niger Deltans which his frame took to beautifully.
Inspite of the many damaging media campaigns against him and his political partners and co-travelers, his supporters were unwavered in their support and loyalty for him and faith in him while some just wanted the incumbent party in power out at all costs.
Now in power, PMB who we all know to be true Nigerian was shocked at the "rot" he saw in the system when he assumed power and he did not fail to alert Nigerians and the world at large to the shocking discoveries. Ever since then, he's been keeping us up to speed with the damages in the system and he has been doing a good job with that but one area he has failed is his ability to even give a single credit to his predecessor.
I guess his predecessor never achieved anything and probably spent all six years in power dozing and sipping his local gin while the country continued to drift to destruction even though we rarely witnessed any fuel scarcity all throughout and the refineries started working immediately PMB took over. PMB should have lent his magic wand to the previous presidents before him as a demonstration of his true love for his fatherland, by now things would not have been as bad as they are now. Another day we will look into who gets the credits and who gets the blames.
I wonder why the PDP is so corrupt and the APC so full of saints. I guess some believe that PDP is an acronym for Politically Demonized People and APC Angels in Politics Congress but what about those who cross-carpeted from the PDP to the APC? Were they purged of their demonic acts and spirits? Again, some years back, Nuhu Ribadu, the most dreaded name in political circles in the days of Baba Iyabo who publicly renounced his association with the PDP had listed some politicians and labelled them as the most corrupt persons in the country but what i find so amusing is that these same persons later turned out to be his political associates and financiers and even at a time sponsored his presidential ambition. I guess our people have short memories or he lost the list somewhere along the line or the list got damaged in the rain when he was left outside by our late ex-president. Ribadu is a voluminous topic for another day.
That same list if I am not mistaken contains names which are prominent among the list of sponsors of our beloved PMB. Many of the names listed at that time were also members of the PDP and some members of opposition parties at that time. There are a lot of pending investigations on the tables in which major suspects still dine with the President and roam the streets freely without any conclusions to the investigations and in some instances, court cases to either exonerate or indict them. Nigerians had full hopes that once PMB swung into action to bring corrupt politicians to book, he would not mind political affiliations or leanings. we all expected the names to cut across all parties but it seems that the moment you belong to the party of the Angels in Politics Congress, your sins and pasts automatically become wiped out and you become a new being just like with the Christian belief when you accept Christ.
Views and comments are highly welcome.
U wrote this piece as a GEJ supporter n not as an open-minded nigerian.
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