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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