The bait

The Septuagenarians presidential candidates saved us some blushes by not turning up for their job interview yesterday. The world was watching, and from their antecedents,  it is becoming mentally and morally sapping for the duo to just keep up their appearances. Without a Pastor to interpret the President's tongue talking into rational speech and with every panel looking like a court room to Atiku, there was no way  either of them was going to incur another national embarrassment by swallowing the bait.

More so, there was no way the President will show up when he is technically not even the presidential candidate for his party. He conceded that responsibility at an APC political campaign last week to Chief Great Ogboru of Delta State. It really has been a tragedy of errors all week long for both candidates.

Enough of blaming our systemic errors on these lacklustre elderly gentlemen. They are our cross, to borrow from Sidney Dean, in "White men can't jump” and we should own up and live with it. How do we that? By giving the new kids on the block that lit up the darkness left in the leading parties podiums some chance. Oby’s experience at the world stage, Moghalu’s clarity of thoughts and eloquence coupled with Durotoye's intellectual calmness is a mix that can act as catalysts for the paradigm shift that Nigeria deserves.

Sadly, black as a colour when mixed with another colour will still produce black, it is like blinking in the dark. No one sees it. So, an alliance of these brilliant hopeful candidates will only not gel, but it will not be allowed enough time to hold by the APC’s  political commercials that Channels Television unprofessionally allowed to air intermittently against fairness.

The odds are heavily against these bright candidates but they should take solace in the fact that their gain is our loss. We must have mortgaged our future in the past to the absentee presidential candidates who by their disdain for the political process will still get the job. NaijaBet rewards people on other considerations above merit. God bless Nigeria! And the people say....