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| 500,000 People Benefit Directly From Our Democratic Experience by KnowAll(m): 10:12am On Jan 14, 2011 |
Whether we like it or not the dividends of democracy has come to stay and it is been rooted in Nigeria albeit not the type we all dream, fraternize and fascinate our minds with but then it is a first step to better things to come, certainly 10,000 times better than those gun-totting bastaaaards in uniform who for 40 years share the booty known as “Bonny Light” with friends and limited family members thereby making and denying millions of Nigerians any iota of civility, development and progress. Thank God today 469 members in the house of Assembly and 109 Senators are been remunerated to the tune of a $1 million dollars a year (minimum salary only God knows how much they take home). Did I hear someone say Democracy has not taking root in Africa’s biggest country but Kleptocracy, that person must be living in cuckoo land, with an average number of 80 delegates from the 36 states in the federation, who would be going home a lot happier than if we were in a military regime, one must not lose sight of the largesse shared amongst what would have been the down and trodden our society, a lot would be going home with bags of rices, beans and a fistful of dollars. We have to remind ourselves that this is just PDP’s delegates 80x36= 2,880 PDP families smiling all the way to their Banks this weekend, only a mad man would want to truncate this democratic experience. I have to remind our many democratic detractors that we have not even taken the delagates of the ACN, APGA,CPC, Labour and ANPP into the equation so whether we like it or not more booty’s would be shared when all these parties have their convention. What of the political beneficiaries of our democratic experience, the almighty Governors, our State House of Assembly men, our LG Chairmen and Coucillors, let us do the maths again just to remind those little ones who seem to be fascinated by a well dress young military man in uniform. At the last count I think we have 36 powerful Governors(one was jocularly said to be prepared to bankroll the UN if they run into any hardship when the said Governor met the last UN Sec Koffi Annan in New York), Assuming we have 30 House members in each State that would give us a mouth watering figure of 1,080 State House of Assembly members not taking the 774 LG Chairmen into account, the figure even gets more ridiculous when we take the number of councillors into the equation, assuming there are 6 Councillors in each LG that would give us an un-imaginable and unfathomably figure of 4,644 people directly benefiting from our democratic experience and dividends. In Igbo they say “ me shunu” keep quite Democracy has come to stay whether you like it or not, there are just too many families who would be on the bread-line if we allow this albeit weird, African and unbalance experience to fail. All we can do is just tweak it here and there until such a time we get it right. Three Gbosa for Democracy !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
| Re: 500,000 People Benefit Directly From Our Democratic Experience by blacksta(m): 10:39am On Jan 14, 2011 |
You also forgot to mention that GEJ'S win yesterday halted any ideology on zoning ever again in Nigeria. |
| Re: 500,000 People Benefit Directly From Our Democratic Experience by KnowAll(m): 11:00am On Jan 14, 2011 |
You also forgot to mention that GEJ'S win yesterday halted any ideology on zoning ever again in Nigeria In a way Jonathan’s is a breathe of fresh air, a clean-break from the old ways of doing things, so would be Ribadu. I think Jonathan would be a change man if he eventually wins the Presidency because then he would know this is my own mandate. So either way it would be a Win-Win for Nigeria. Not too sure about Buhari thus.   |
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