The Political Melodrama of the Nigerian State is one that has a lot of comedy, thought-provoking jokes that the human brain finds laughable but current world politics finds unacceptable. Where shall the script be written from? What really is the plot of this story? Is the subject matter worth all this drama? Is the Nigerian state not moving towards berthing at a ‘pestilential’ aqua? Let us go a bit back to the events of the past!



After the death of the late President, Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, the man called Goodluck Ebele Azikiwe Jonathan became Nigeria’s president. The expectations and hopes of Nigerians was brought up. They expected a president who once had no shoes to give them not just shoes but transportation to schools. Alas, they were shocked as not only were their shoes taken away, those in school were abducted- the Chibok girls.



It is quite appaling to state that the Nigerian state witnessed another kind of leader- a leader who started political permutations towards a second term when he had not spent a year in office as president, hence, all activities were geared towards his second term. In a society like ours, is such a political attitude good for us? A sharp ‘No’ is the answer. Any and every form of opposition to the President’s dream was met with a conquering slap, hence, the Nigeria Governor’s Forum crisis that led to the new Nigerian mathematical formula- sixteen is higher than eighteen! What a country!!



Progressing into the spate of impeachments and attempted impeachments that rocked the society a couple of months ago, the desperate attempt to impeach perceived enemies of the president is totally...http://popafrica.com/political-melodrama-nigerian-state/#