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| Emeka Oparah |
(A self-fulfilling prophecy first published in September 2018)
Let me state upfront for the avoidance of doubt that I’m NOT a
politician and so I make this proposal (s) with a clear conscience, without
equivocation and mental reservation or fear of contradiction. This is the
result of a long period of introspection and focused interrogation of the
Nigerian political terrain-especially the obviously perilous times we currently
live in.
In my almost 52 years of being Nigerian (indeed being alive), I
have seen and heard all sorts of political postulations meant to take our
country, Nigeria, to the “Promised Land”. At the end of the day, we either got
stuck in the same figurative mud we have been trapped in forever or we were
cheerfully headed backwards while the rest of the world was flying in the
opposite direction. So, I thought of something, and here’s the thing: Civilian
Revolution. My good friend , Ken Tadaferua, wrote about this the other day,
like he infiltrated my mental faculty.
Nigeria is held in a vice-like grip by a “handful” of people
with enlightened self-interest, who literally recycle themselves using the two
dominant political parties, PDP and APC. These fellows change from one party to
the other party and back to the former party and then the other and on and on
and on! Some have done the rounds twice or more and are still moving. In the
end, it is mostly their selfish interests that are duly served. The masses
remain the way they are or worse. Infrastructure remain the way it is or worse.
And the future, bleak or, at best, uncertain.
