The tornado of news on media everyday keeps increasing, whirling dust of no-nonsensical and nonsensical sands, tantamount of making one to beget catarrh. This is nothing but some besieging civilians who had hide daggers and guns under their cloaks become furious after sighting the ray of election. Should we talk of ASUU strike? Or the Judicial kerfuffles? Or the recent INEC saga? We wonder what could be our next drama…
Rain and thunder of blames have been electrifying INEC for postponing election at the dawn-hours of election, maybe because their mission claimed of being independent and effective election management body is seen to be ironic. Is it of the claims from the disappointed political parties that had mobilised their party agents across the country or the voters, that were disappointed for putting many of their schedules on hold, or of the vigil Corps members, most of whom had never participated in electoral processes before, rushed down to sacrifice their flesh for night cold and their blood for mosquitoes, all in a bit to please our nation, to please our representa-thieves.
Though the postponement was bit too much, but there seems to be media blackout on the cause of logistics problems as claimed; is it by some INEC officials, who are those that were managing the INEC logistics and who are always readily ready and can be used by “those wicked and prodigal representa-thieves under their immoral guise of outrageous, rapacious revelations”. One needn’t to stress too much as election hasn’t been conducted but there have been reports of ballots and result sheets skirmish. Only God knows what could be our next drama.
This is the season – when Nigeria and Nigerians usually witness momentous attack by those representa-thieves, who use not the guns and bombs to fight but using pens and mouths to derail our nation with technicalities and formalities have been their major stock-in-trade! You can’t know them. You can’t. It might even be those of whom found blaming and blabbing INEC are responsible for seducing INEC logistic officials with tokens and promiscuous promises.
One needn’t to dispute this fact, that “Nigeria is a typical example of a confused nation that is being managed by the most confused set of leaders with weak, shallow, and disjointed minds.” Let us come to talk of it, had election not been postponed; then that election would have been a free, fair, and credible one not to us but to our representa-thieves, international observers and international community, maybe then, Nigeria would be an object of ridicule. Shame. “There was a country”.
Hammed J. Sulaiman is a Poet/Essayist/Writer, a member of Pen Press Journalists (UDUS) and a student of Law from the Most Peaceful University in Nigeria, UDUSOK.
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