ANOTHER NYANYA BOMB BLAST: AND THEY ARE STILL SITTING TIGHT?

The success or otherwise of a nation is predicated on the value it

places on the lives of its citizens. It then follows that a leader's

acceptability is dependent on how the death of just one citizen

affects his or her decision. Regrettably, in my country, our lives are

worth nothing above are meddlesome horde of cockroaches whose lives

need be snuffed out by a spray of insecticide.

Scores of innocent, law-abiding citizens died in the first Nyanya

bombing. Their leader visited the scene promptly and shed tears for the

camera. Moments later, he was in Kano dancing to re-election songs.

Those potential voters who died that morning have suddenly ceased to

matter. But a week later, his deputy's brother died and a whole

Federal Exco Council meeting was shelved in his honour. And you are

telling me these people care about me? Isn't it obvious that the only

thing they care about is their purses and themselves?

Now, coupled to the Chibok kidnappings, the unreported mayhem in

Wukari and environs, the disappearance of "calm" in the lexicon of

Borno, Yobe and Adamawa, another coordinated bomb attack has just been

successfully carried out in the nation's capital. Before dawn, series

of sirens will blare to the site to mock the dead with their deadened

consciences!

Shame on leaders who are so selfish that they've sworn to rule over a

land of carcasses and vultures other than hand over power! Shame on a

lethargic populace that watches in complacency as they are being

preyed upon by the whims and caprices of a heinous few!

I have grown beyond being deceived by the immature political

abracadabra of my country's numbskull elites. The problem of this

country is not PDP neither will APC bring any reasonable change

anywhere (seeing its present constitution is enough indication). I am

not also swayed by ethnic or religious grandstanding that has

consistently dragged the nation downhill. This is because I am

convinced that those who ride to power on the wings of being Muslim or

northerner or Hausa/Fulani, will not bring any meaningful change to

this country. We have seen it in the over 30 years of northern rule in

the country. Neither will a Christian, southerner, minority or

majority ruler make any meaningful impact anywhere. This is what

Obasanjo and GEJ's rules have shown. A transition from PDP to APC

based on any of these structures will also spell further doom on this

British conjecture called Nigeria!

What we need is a Nigerian president; one that recognises the

ethno-religious diversity of this country and would love Nigerians

more than Nigeria. One that will replace incompetent aides and

wouldn't be compelled to embark on re-election campaigns by "his

people" (instead of Nigerians) while the nation boils, burns and

disintegrates under his watch.

I tell you a secret: sometimes, I honestly do wish that we make a

foreigner the president. Of course, he or (preferably) she will not

have ethnic and tribal leanings. And in spite of my religious

leanings, I also wish this person will be an atheist or at least not a

religious person, so that dirty politics can be separated from

religion and the true preachers of religion can be separated. And we

the much-traumatised citizens can go to church or mosque and not be

further morally raped by the presence of a thieving politician in the

front pew/row!

A people who want their own government do not sit still and watch

events unfold. They take hold of their destinies and shape it!