2015 Thinking Nigerians: Would Nigeria Fall or Rise With Your Vote?

“The truth may be bitter, but it overtime stands the taste of time”.

Politics in today Nigeria is becoming more inclusive, educative and less parochial. But, it’s still faced with quick conclusion, unhealthy assessments and wrong expression of facts. In the 2015, General election scheduled to hold on March 28, 2015 in Nigeria resonates the reasons, I write to express my view, and hope that like minds would take a critical and sagacious thought about who should represent them not only in the presidency, but in every political offices especially in the local government which we neglect, but forms the locust and fulcrum of development in developed countries today.

   Again, politics is somehow understood by others in a rush or bad wagon form that they often neglect the objective fact presented by others. I am not going to voter in this coming election but, I must confess to like minds, those who may have taken a glimpse in the Nigerian future, read a lot of political issues, facts, testimonies, propagandas and arguments, talked to many, viewed and discussed about the current election would take a second look at this article.  It is unusual of me to take a side early in a write up, but I don’t want to waste my readers time if they don’t agreed with me in their first few readings of my discuss. This is because, I am of the belief that voting out these new breed of leaders (President Goodluck Jonathan) in the presidential election would be "Nigerians Greatest Mistake" and the question is why? 

I know corruption and lack of political will power to solve the security problem were prevalent in the President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan administration. Naira is becoming valueless, school strikes and hikes in school fees, corrupt individuals and government officials were not jailed, his promise to provide millions of jobs and some other important issued begs a lot of questions in GEJ administration. But, on the other hand, this present government is the only government that has opened and strengthened the capacity for inclusiveness for every individual, and has allowed the day to day running of our dear Nigeria to be known to every Nigerian. I know this government has not lived up to expectation, but the problems were evolved from the lack of vision in so many areas that our past leaders failed to solve and had today resonated into the problems of poor practice of true democracy, regional problems, religious intolerance, today’s security mayhem, massive corruption, high rate of unemployment for both qualified and unqualified job seeker,  poor intelligence, poor and lack of infrastructures, and non-working planned structures and policies that will stimulate, strengthen and help with a view to ensuring the future of Nigerians. This is as a result of our population growth, especially in dependency and working population which were not planned for in other to avoid the situation witnessed today in Nigeria. All these if planned by our past leaders would have helped, if truly our past leader had a lucid clear vision in running the most populous Black nation in the world, thus avoiding the culminating effects that have helped in depleting our economy, infrastructures and security of our dear country.

Again, I want to say that the present government opened up Nigeria leadership to be one of the most “African inclusive government”. If voted out, this government would be appreciated in history for signing the freedom of information bill thus, allowed true individual liberty, freedom of speech, free press, laws to take its due course, and individual development if Nigerians would be sincere. I know you might think is just nothing. That, freedom has allowed every Nigerian to see how much all other government have been able to steal since Nigerians’ self government including the present government and made public by press and individual without fear of assassination or threat.  

The present government has indirectly enshrined the true federal archetypal system of consociational democracy fit for plural societies like Nigeria. GEJ is the only truly democratic leader Nigeria has produced. This federal archetypal system of consociational democracy which is the engine rock for development of plural societies like Netherlands, Belgium is a pillar that could help to harmonize plural societies for development.

In addition, the present government seems to have stopped looking at short term benefit for Nigerian, but generation benefits such as approving and building more primary , secondary and higher level of education (private and public schools of learning), building more necessary and needed infrastructures, opening more new road for transport and businesses, reviving the redundant sections like, agriculture, rain road, airports, manufacturing sectors, increasing finished product exports, opening opportunities, regulation some policies in areas such as electricity, telecommunication, post offices, ghost workers, pension funds and silent internal mismanagement etc that had silently crippled Nigerian economy, and is still working on how it will grow the Nigerian economy.

In summary, it up to the voters to decide who will represent them in the seat of power, but I still want to simply point out that the present government has helped in opening and strengthening some important thrust that will drive Nigeria to the future and not backward. We have experienced a new breed of leaders that we can relate to for few years, but we have not been able to allow them learn from their mistakes. Most are clamoring for change promised by others who have not been able to articulate how they want to bring those changes when elected in office. 

Chijioke Akusoronwa is a social blogger and writes from the United States.

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