Anywhere, whether on the main streets or on the cyber streets you turn to in Nigeria today there is one loud but shameless noise of celebration in the air!. People are rejoicing! Celebrating; naked and they are not ashamed. Virtues have died. Values are already in the grave. Come on, let’s celebrate! It’s their funeral! That is the reason for the celebration. A thorough definition of Dark Age is catching up. It is a time when people rejoice in falsehood, iniquity, heresy and evil and go ahead to honour those who package, promote and market them! For the reason of what to eat, some women, men, young and old have become lovers of lie, apostles of falsehood and retarders’ of virtues.
This type of happenstance was what provoked Prophet Jeremiah in the Bible to write about once upon a time beautiful city of Jerusalem in The Book of Lamentation. A city that then laid barren and reduced to rubble by Babylonian hordes that invaded it. Nigeria is fast becoming the ‘old testament version’ of that Jerusalem. A city whose rulers are products of whoredom and whose large number of her people are given to reprobate mind. A nation where falsehood has become the foundation for policy details; and profanity, the guidance of practise, has slender chance of recovery from mire into which it has sunk.
That slender chance is what the February 2015 election is about. Slender chance of rescuing the country from those that are irredeemably corrupt. They have turned to disgusting abusers of compatriots with divergent views, cursers of the righteous and molesters of anyone with odour of integrity. Ambassadors of corruption are parading themselves as transformation ambassadors.
What manner of a President would be this consumed by personal ambition to the extent of no longer recognising what bitter division is all about? How can a President be persistently holding his political party’s (PDP) meeting in the State House and did not see that as an initiation of division? How can a President of a country, who claims to be a Christian be gallivanting from one church to the other like those that Jesus called Pharisees, making political statements without giving a damn to the sensibility of others, and yet thinks he is not dividing the country along religious line?
They go from church to church, from Jerusalem to Galilee, yet they do not stop stealing government money! They love God with their mouths but their heart is far from God. How can a President of a country yearning for national integration allow under his watch, a group of rag tag supporters like TAN to go to the extent of dividing Nigeria Football Supporters Club.
Indeed, I agree that such a President needs a parent. Thank God he has found one among his type. His newly adopted father is Babangida. Babangida has endorsed him. However, Babangida made it known to the world recently that giving the ‘corruption that is currently going on, our government was run by angels.’ I do not know why people are frowning at Babangida’s endorsement of Jonathan. The exchange between the two men, united by expertise in science and art of corruption is mutually beneficial.
After all, by the words of Babangida and by the acts of Jonathan; what Babangida, could do, Jonathan can do, even, better. Nevertheless,the people’s blind eyes are opening, the Dark Age is almost gone out of our land. The market will soon be over; but before then, as TAN would say ‘Keep on doing it Mr President.’ The dealers with you are more than the minders who tell you the truth!