Dear
President Goodluck Jonathan,
For
the second time in less than one week, I am resorting to the use of epistolary
style of writing to comment on the happenings in Nigeria. This is neither
because there is a craze for this style of writing of late in Nigeria nor
because I am a fan of Mariama Ba, the writer of ‘So Long a Letter’. Far from
the two reasons! In fact, this letter will be very brief as it seems Mr.
President is very busy taking the country to the next level. If I am not blind
to the happenings in Nigeria, the country seems to be on top of its game under
your rulership. You were able to bring back our girls from their abductors
within 24 hours of their abduction. Do not mind the mischievous people still
clamouring for their release. They don’t seem to understand your ways of doing
things. The Ebola virus is another antic of discrediting your working
government. In fact, there is no Ebola in the land. And even if there is, I
know you have the cure. It is just that you want the number of the casualties
to increase before releasing the cure.
How
about the siege on the country by the Boko Haramists? I am sure you laugh each
time they strike, as when you are ready to deal with them it will not take you
more than 24 hours to put an end to their actions. How many people have they
killed that you will be bothered? 1000? 2000? 10,000? 30,000? What is 50,000 in
a land of over 170 million people? Mr. President, don’t lose any sleep over
this unnecessary noise from your detractors. All you need do is to encourage us
as a nation to keep replenishing the earth with more babies! You are doing very
well and I have no doubt in my mind that you are poised to win again in the
2015 presidential election, with your good works!
Mr.
President, you have demonstrated that you are not an apostle of ‘do or die’
election. Don’t mind those complaining about your deployment of armed security
men to Anambra, Ekiti, Ondo, Osun, among other states. In fact, your latest
action in Osun and the attendant defeat have confirmed your kind of politics.
It looks like ‘ohun owo mi o to ma fi gogo fa’ kind of politics (translated
literally to mean ‘what my hand cannot reach I use stick to pull it politics),
but it is not. After all, your party lost in Osun state and heaven did not
fall. Am I saying you will lose in 2015? Far from it, the best President
Nigeria has ever produced can never lose! Your recent suspension of residency
programme for medical doctors is another plus for you . You keep warming
yourself into the hearts of Nigerians.
I
admire you so much, as you are surrounded with the best publicists in the land
– Abati, Okupe, Marilyn Ogar, and of late the articulate Femi Fani Kayode. They
will not find it hard to sell you to Nigerians. With all your achievements –
terrorism via Boko Haram, epileptic supply of electricity, terrible economy,
paralysis of almost all sectors of the country’s economy, corruption, epidemic
of diseases, among others - , Aso Rock is all for you! Did I actually write the
preceding sentence? I am sorry, Mr. President. It was a ‘slip of writing’! Who
will not want to associate with a Ph.D. holder as the President of Nigeria?
After all, we have never had such an eminently educated, sorry lettered person
at the helm of affairs in Nigeria. Oga President, I beg remember me in your kingdom, come
2015.
Yours,
Isaac
Oluyi
Note:
Isaac Oluyi is a change agent, entrepreneur and entrepreneurship educator.
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