The Hero

Nigeria should not be dwelling on trivial issue to celebrate things that are too much not uncommon in the twenty-first century. Jonathan is a sore loser, so it is not any heroic act to give possession to its legitimate owner. The thought of the nature of the world has at last kept Jonathan to act to his conscience. They say one cannot enjoy his loot in the ICC. 

If anybody will be hero it is Buhari who contested tirelessly for twelve years and the masses who stood by him. Nigerians fought for our rights and protected our votes. While multi-billionaire people friends of PDP were donating billion dollars to fight against card reader, people like me were struggling to donate such little  amount as one-thousand , five-thousand and ten-thousand naira according to different sizes of our pockets. Our passionate support had turned the PDP, as my friend put it somewhere, the largest opposition party in Africa.

At the poll, some people had waited to see a final rehearsal in which the result had used to be written months in advance before the election. PDP had been making her way this way that contestants at primaries had fiercely fought a fellow party man, maimed, and gone to magicians to sacrifice blood to get nomination. Grabbing a ticket to contest on its platform was believed to be a one-way to the office.

It is the nature of the world that individual shall be responsible for their own actions. Perhaps the tweetering pomposity and dumpy-humpy  facebook  updates were more at stake to stop rigging. The belief that Nigerians had taken the election to social media and made it global issue, reporting any development instantly, surely has had to be terrible blow against the PDP’s crude rigging. 

Immediately the hunter became the hunted and began kicking and throwing rigging allegation. Free and fair election is not their wish. It is ours. After all, it was until secretary John Kerry had issued a statement that there would be visa restrictions on anybody who interfered with the election result and economic sanctions on military personnel then they allowed the votes to count.

Like the little Harriet Beecher Stowe’s subservient novel Uncle Tom Cabin, Jega was invited in 2011 to serve as INEC boss. This man has progressive mind who, unlike them, did not fight technology as if they were fighting for their life. He is not one of those Luddites of the twenty-first century.

The Fate of PDP

Meanwhile, while people like Sule Lamido of Jigawa and Ibrahim Shema of Katsina who, by virtue of the power of the then ruling party that until recently remained scourge and thorn in the flesh of Nigeria, often had proudly made reckless statement publicly bragging to win election at cost, were now put shame by an election that embraced technology.  This has exposed their rigging tactic where MPs who had been to the chambers for sixteen years, such as Faruk Lawan, Bello Hayatu Gwarzo and David Mark etc, had woefully failed to maintain their seat.  

Many officials who benefited from the several of its corrupt regimes could not stand as formidable opposition against the APC. That is another sin of the party. The party’s members had been accustomed to using public treasury to finance their candidacy and other personal expenditure where ministers are accused of spending public funds in buying family fleet, children school bus and domesticating public funds as personal allowances to take care of their family while their real income went as capital into their business. And since they could not do without government, for now, ex-governors and former ministers are not likely to regroup and pool resources to challenge the APC. Their body language has shown that they are most prepared and ready to withdraw back to the loot they converted to the personal wealth. 

The best that could happen to PDP after being rendered severely frail is facing extinction. We have seen a season of migration to the APC. Plus we can now roughly believe that the party has a single region as its stronghold. At this moment without the state treasury, in addition to the fact that money bag politics is becoming irrelevant where in the next few years the survival of a politician would solely defend on his character, and the terrible suffering the party has inflicted on the masse where the mere mention of its name creates horror and dismay in the mind of Nigerians, the party will certainly suffer if not die at all.

PDP can’t function in a just and proper arrangement.  But we pray they should make some changes to stay in business to replace horrendous faces with the trustworthy individuals and technocrats who could right the credibility damage the old crooks had done on the party. The fate of the country is the end of vulturisitc rule. We will never have another PDP’s cruelty again from whatever acronyms or persona. Never!