CONGRESSIONAL
INTRIGUES: A CALL FOR PATIENCE AND KNOWLEDGE- 2
PATIENCE
Some folks seem to be developing a surge in systolic blood pressure
because they feel that they have not seen any palpable change in the country
since the president was inaugurated on May 29th. They appear to have
lost touch with reality and have failed to grasp the length, breadth and depth
of the economic and social destruction which have been meted out to this country. A few
have recently become aware of the treasonable utterances of an Ojukwu-esque
orator and spokesman of a certain Radio Biafra whose sympathizers are still
deeply pained and depressed from the fact that a “Northerner” is now the
president of Nigeria again. They blame the president solely for the troubles in
the National assembly as if he elected every one of them. They suddenly want
ministers to appear from the blues despite the fact that the Ahmed Joda led
transition committee report was recently received. They want Buhari to dash out
of the starting blocks devoid of caution so that they can cry out….false start!!!
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I agree the president should have fired certain criminal
elements of the past administration or at least have his chief of staff appointed
by now but I am not all that bothered because it will end up being a
brilliant choice whenever he or she is announced. It is not as if President
Buhari has been visiting West Germany and the African Union with area boys and
suicide bombers. I guess people simply censor what they view on the news
concentrating of whether the president stood up against protocol while
addressing pressmen or not. The nonsense constantly spewed by supposedly young
Nigerians against the president and his party is extremely disturbing. The
abuse leading up to the polls has not ceased; someone claimed that the APC
utilized propaganda and abuse to win the last election when we all know that
the constant insults from the president’s wife and his aides against General
Buhari played a massive role in Jonathan’s fall from grass to shame. Another
fellow while trying hard to make sense of the Jonathan’s woes in the elections
said that it was the former president’s naivety which allowed Tinubu to install
Tambuwal as the speaker in 2011. These Nigerians are simply amazing.
I published a piece on the 31st of December 2014
titled “SAI BUHARI: THE EISENHOWER EFFECT” http://jideakej.blogspot.com/2014/12/sai-buhari-eisenhower-effect.html. I went back to read a little bit
more about the 34th American President who was a five-star General
in the US army. His cabinet was said to have been devoid of “personal friends,
office seekers or experienced government administrators”; those who were so
used to a certain system and bureaucracy simply did not get a look in. it is on
record that the members of this cabinet were recommended by two individuals;
his eventual attorney general and his former deputy in the US army during WWII
who was a 4-star General. He is still rated as one of the really good
American presidents despite his relative inexperience. This may be attributable
to the caliber of individuals he surrounded himself with and the way he
interacted with them.
We have a completely warped system of governance in Nigeria
that will require radical measures to correct. I am certain the president is
interested in appointing those best suited for this action but many Nigerians
are still locked up in their narrowed mindsets and blinded by nepotism and
other such vices. Some misguided ones are hell-bent on returning Nigeria to the
captivity of the PDP cabal and waiting patiently for Nigeria to implode so that
Biafra or Lower Niger can emerge from the ashes. Eisenhower in his farewell
address to Americans at the end of his second term warned them against the
policy and monetary relationship which existed between legislators, the
national armed forces and the arms industry. This was termed the
Military-Industrial-Congressional complex and he said “we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence,
whether sought or unsought by the military industrial complex”. He
emphasized that only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry could ensure the much
needed balance. We may not have this specific complex in Nigeria but what we have is
a National assembly committed to ruining the fabric of this nation and directly
and/ or indirectly aiding the plunder of the resources of Africa’s largest
asset. Why should these over pampered 469 individuals be provided mansions,
cooks, newspapers, combat clothes and even hardship allowance when students
have no hostels and young girls are taken from their parents? Why should they
go on recess with their bank accounts bursting as a result of astronomical
allowances when young helpless mothers bleed to death after childbirth and
their young ones die because of the lack of basic facilities and utilities
inclusive of clean water, and electricity?
Perhaps we should reschedule our elections into the Senate
and the House like the mid-term elections in America so that they can be some
stability at the outset of any new executive. The president and his crew will
come good in time and they will work to curb the excesses of this assembly but
will be resisted. The office of the Citizen is the only antidote to neutralize
opportunists and gluttons. We have to support the president to do the job he
has been elected to do, I believed very early that he was suitable for the job
and there is yet no reason to alter my stance. By September 2 1945, WWII was
finally over and the Allied forces had defeated the Axis powers despite
suffering casualties numbering about five times of what the Germans incurred.
The cold war soon ensued and the super powers retreated to their trenches.
I think it is good that the campaign by the Saraki camp has happened early on in this republic.
Whatever has happened is still open to remedy; it would have been terrible if
this ship had set sail only for such a rebellion to occur midway. The real
enemies are those who are fighting personal battles to fill their pockets and
maintain the status quo and they must be resisted. I have not seen or read the
bye-laws of the National Assembly and I wonder if the pump and pageantry about
the 20 principal offices have any actual constitutional backing in that
document or if the lawmakers since 1999 simply formulated their own protocols
to pulverize Nigeria and become billionaires. They got away with 3 million
naira furniture allowances then; one wonders the value of the other heists they
have gotten away with ever since. A few people have posted on several social
media platforms that the PDP rarely or never had issues with the appointment of
their principal officers. That assertion is not entirely true considering the
fact that they had a far more apparent majority in both houses since 2003. However
the PDP were notorious for circulating currency to ensure things went their way
most of the time; the incumbent president does not seems to be a fan of such
measures yet some people have described that as the peak of naivety and
inexperience.
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We have very serious issues to deal with like governors and
government appointees being unable to account for months to years of unpaid
workers’ wages. A certain governor recently reversed a Supreme Court ruling to
confer privileges and benefits accrued to former governors of his state upon an
individual whose election was annulled in 2007. Nigerians must be alert and properly
knowledgeable; a postgraduate degree and ability to “blow” grammar does not
equate common sense. Nigeria was saved from destruction and we have another
chance at redemption; let us not waste it because of hate and other primitive
sentiments.
j'olee
27/06/2015
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