"A people that elect corrupt politicians are not victims....but accomplices." Those were the words of George Orwell, words that went through my head the very day I opened the Internet and saw that seven Northern Governors had visited the President in Aso Rock and had ADVISED him to contest for the 2019 general elections in spite of the severe security challenges in Benue State.
Recently, APC leaders in the South East also pledged their support for Buhari come 2019 with many perceiving that to be a nursing plan for an Igbo presidency in 2023.
It's clear that this set APC leaders will do anything to remain in power( something they, APC was never prepared for) just to achieve their personal ambition even at the detriment of the masses. There is no doubt Nigerians are not happy with Buhari and the APC led Govt . Their inability to deliver after such high level promises and their normal norm of blaming the past administration for its failures and woes has left so many Nigerians dumbfounded.
To say the least, some of Buhari's speeches since 2015 have suggested that it will do Nigeria's unity a lot of good if he decides against contesting in 2019. "97% 5%" remarks, capable of destabilising a country like Nigeria with diverse ethnic groups, "my doctor said I should eat more and sleep more" not good enough for a country like Nigeria with numerous problems going forward. If anything, Buhari and the APC have shown that they lack the required honesty, integrity and the intellectual capability to solve Nigeria's many problems. Covering up of corrupt practises and corrupt politicians that are 'close to the cabal', lopsided appointments ( more that 70% of Buharis's appointments have come from the North), spreading of lies and propaganda has been the order of the day in a govt that promised heaven and earth. The truth is, hate cannot chase away hate, only love can. Darkness cannot chase away darkness, only light can. More then 65% of APC members including some ministers and some members of the legislature where former members of the PDP, where exactly does their loyalty lie except their stomach and bank accounts?
The PDP on the other hand welcomed former vice president and three time Presidential aspirant, Atiku Abubakar who has been running from one party to the other and then back to the same party again just to get the most powerful office in Africa, where exactly does his loyalty lie? Do we need an aspirant that is that desperate for power? It is true that the APC govt has been a total failure by any standard but what about the PDP? From 1999 to 2015, they called the shots in this country uninterrupted and during that time over 65% of Nigerians could not have access to basic amenities like good roads, water, quality schools,and quality health care services. Medical tourism was at its peak in those years. For a country that has vast mineral resources and makes a reasonable amount of revenue from them, surely they could have, and should have done more. Lack of electricity, high poverty rate, high unemployment rate increased yearly yet we read about how billions of dollars were misappropriated and went unaccounted for. The issue of electricity in this country is a disgrace to say that the most influential African nation and the most populated black country cannot boast of at least 15 hours electricity across the 6 Geo political zones in the country.
It is no news that both the PDP and the APC will yet again be frontiers in the next general elections, and if both parties present Atiku and Buhari as their best weapon going into the battle field, seriously? Is that all we Nigerians can offer? Surely we can do better. Something has to change come 2019, and first you have to be a registered voter. Bury that idea that votes doesn't count in Nigerian. When we do not come out to vote in large numbers, we give avenue to the politicians to rig election results to favour them. It is time we start questioning the intellectual capability of our leaders. Their background, what have they done in the past? Do they have bad records against themselves? It is high time we've fixed Presidential debates for the candidates for them to specifically outline their manifestos and say how they intend to achieve them specifically. The era of going to rally at an open group telling the people how they will construct roads and build schools(well, they should be ashamed to say that after so many years.) has to end. We should start organising debates for them, throwing tough questions at them, presenting Nigeria's problems and how they intend to tackle it. For example during the APC's campaign in 2015, they promised to pay N5,000 to 25 million Nigerians. That of course will be running into trillions of naira every year, but nobody could sit them down and ask how exactly they intended to do that given the fall in prices of oil in the international market, Nigeria's major source of revenue. Today nobody is holding them accountable for that.
Personally I would like candidates like Mr Tony Elumelu, Mr Donald Duke, Mr Akinwumi Ambode. Leaders with track records, leaders with foresight, leaders with vision, leaders who can look beyond their noses and set a blueprint so that even when they are gone, Nigeria will still be on the path to greatness.
God bless the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

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