MY STATE AT 50
Fellow Homo Saphien,
Some seven years after this country's
independence, a party representative was sent to a
newly-created state, two states away from his own
state, to boost his party's followers.
Upon getting there, he noticed that majority of
people in the state's capital were religious; whose
world envolved around it-all-happens-as-God-
wishes attitude, who never betray their words etc
seeing this weaknesses, he made sure he got their
confidence, then he godified himself as their ONLY
option to a paradise always promised by politicians.
Yes, opponents rose along the way, but this political
guru always knew how he deal with them. Other
politicians' efforts were futile as he never made
them gain ground in the state, only God knows how
he went about it. Oh, I remember that he later
dumped his political party for another newly-formed
party in the 'earliest' 2000s, he created one,too; for
his daughter, if my memory serves me right, but
that is another story for another day.
After some 35 years of dictating who becomes
governor the state, he made his own son one. The
first few years of the son's reign was good, I
learned he made a bakery for the state, I learned
that he was made The Best Governor in West Africa
- or is it in Nigeria?
Well, people have been pointing fingers at some
citizens of remote parts of the state as the reason
why this man's recommendations get voted in; I am
less concern about that, all I know is that they keep
get voted in!
The man was praised as the state's father of
Democracy till death, and his son is enjoying the
same grace, if not greater. I wonder if nobody has
ever told them about their bad governance, poor
state of the state, unfulfilled political manifestoes,
amidst others - I have turned political apathetic,
anyway.
Oh, least I forget, the achievements so far, you
want to ask? The state is still 'borrowing' electricity
from a neighbouring state; the roads becoming
graves, consuming innocent lives everyday; state-
owned businesses have been converted to their
own; there has been poor educational system; no
projects ever got done completely; corruption has
become a legal trade; there has been no water (I
never remembered seeing any state-owned tap
pour water forth since I was a kid). What else to
write for the shameful state of this state?
Let me gossip, I learned the present governor was
stoned during the second term campaign by some
agricultural citizen of the state.
Well, the state served the father, they are serving
the son, and the son is promising his own son to
the governor seat in the next election, to make him
the youngest governor in the West Africa. So the
whole thing would be a 'grand-father-son-grandson' affair. God be thanked.
I am only responsible for what I write, not for what
you understand.
Desk Of Insanity,
The MAD Writer,
(Making A Difference).