Re-election hoax

It is now official. PMB will not be running for re-elections in 2019 because of his failing health, the ailing economy of the country, and being a man of extreme integrity. The President will be reneging on his word on one term election if he did otherwise. I’m kidding. Contrarily, the President has declared his intention to waste another four years of our time as part of his own retirement severance package, that we all sadly have to pay for. For effects, the president has picked the four years anniversary of missing Chibok girls to make the announcement.Very timely.

Rather than react to this, the youths are being distracted by the insulting comments purportedly delivered by our frail President  in UK at the meeting of nations beleaguered with common poverty at the commonwealth meetings. According to news report monitored, youths are beefing the president for washing their dirty linen in public and not just because the linen is dirty in the first place. Our leaders are the most insulted, yet they carry on looting us with clarity of purpose refusing to be distracted. When you do not have a sense of purpose, you react to all trivialities with burning energy that should have been channeled into positive challenges like voting the present administration out of power.

It will almost be impossible for anyone that has been part of this Nigerian debacle to also be part of the solution; that will be like putting tooth paste back into the tube. In other words, a reasonable percentage of Nigerians are already disqualified because of their involvement in not just this administration but also past administrations that have cumulatively succeeded in putting this nation in to this present predicament. And anything short of mass revolution will just be another stop gap measure into finding an elusive resolution.

And talking of resolution, I do not mean this Sowore inspired student like demonstrations. As commendable and refreshing as his entrance into the confused foray is, it can only serve a cosmetic purpose that cannot dent our deeply entrenched problem. I wait to see how he is going to mobilize ignorant and brainwashed youths from the North, materialistic youths from the East, online distracted youths from the West and oil bunkering youths of the South.

Here is the thing, it is a general scientific consensus that we all boil, but at different degrees. The truth however Is that among other factors that drive revolution are two ideologues that are currently missing in our polity today; discontent with the level of suffering and deliverance from the authority of the spiritual leaders. Until we have a culmination of both, and have a mass revolution that will produce a radical leader,we will keep embracing every person with a microphone that speaks flawless English language as a potential leader that cannot sift the noise from the message.