I am always willing to say the truth, no matter how difficult it will end up to be, or how painful it is. I read from the day's news about the endorsement of Musiliu Obanikoro as a MINISTER of the federal republic of Nigeria. It's sad that someone whom people call a thief is dancing with a kid (Omo eran) of a goat in the public. I believe that when people see you as a gluttonous character, the best thing to do is to learn to say no to some meals. Jonathan, people say you don't know anything and you are showing that you really know next to nothing.
The situation that led to the screening and endorsement of Musiliu Obanikoro as minister of the federal republic of Nigeria remains one of the most tragic and embarrassing events in the history of the current administration. The personality of Obanikoro has been tainted with some yet to be proven and determined rumor of electoral malpractices in Ekiti State, yet president Goodluck Jonathan pressured the Senate to make him scale through. I have lost the little respect I had for the Senate president. I ask would he have screened Obanikoro by telling him to take a bow if Koro was from APC or what would have happened if Mark was from APC and Obanikoro from PDP? This is another height of disregard for the criminal justice system of Nigeria. How do we think as a people? I think we as citizens of Nigeria should start requesting the CERTIFICATE OF MENTAL HEALTH from everyone contesting any election. I get scared about some decisions made by these political office holders.
I have always posited that Nigeria has no single man of honor as politician. And if there ever existed one or some they are no more. This reminds me of a saying that the beautiful ones are not yet born while the ugly ones refused to die. If Obanikoro ever heard what honor is, it must have been through his teachers in the secondary school or maybe he read in the dictionary. One would have expected a right thinking man of honor and dignity to say I am standing down and quitting the political scene until the findings of the panel of enquiry into the allegations is made public. That's what men and women who have self-esteem and dignity to protect will say. But because of the corruption-riddled and lawless society that we belong in, honesty and dignity are things you come across only in the dictionary. But really, I am most suprised at the silly step of protest taken by the opposition senators. I feel they should have stampeded the process of the screening through any means possible. It's nothing new to the world that our paliamentarians do throw punches and jump over the fence to gain access to the national assembly complex, but now that it's necessary for them to stay, they walked out.
The picture the political class keeps painting about the country is outrageous and inimical. I have had the opportunity of talking to some of these senators and political leaders in Nigeria, I have seen that some of them don't really mind if the country collapses or survives. The issue of attention is why must Goodluck Jonathan be much bent on presenting an indicted person under investigation of electoral fraud, even if it comes out to be a false allegation. I think this guy doesn't think. I'm not one of the young Nigerians clamouring for a Buhari or a Goodluck presidency. I am most concerned with the prevalence of sanity at every level.
Goodluck is really confused. Just pray for a sound mind for him so that he doesn't put the country into future shame. Make sure he doesn't promise to make Fryo that was accused of killing Bola Ige because he will fulfill his promise to him.
Are our leaders really or actually created by the same God who created the likes of Ghandi,Bill Clinton, Theodore Roosevelt, Wiston Churchill, even Thabo Mbeki of the Republic of South Africa?
God help Nigeria and the leadership of the country.
Itunu Akorede
Dallas Texas
11/03/2015
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