Loyalty is my property. Nigeria is plagued by the mistake of destiny and they have not proved us wrong.
The politicians are not our friends. They divide us along ethnic lines and party lines, in the end its ordinary people who are the victims of unnecessary political storm they create. The result is stagnation, prolonged political and economic uncertainty. The Nigeria stock market is an example so it is in other sectors no matter how hard we pretend. Attack on the legislature is a major threat to representative democracy,-One system of democracy that aims to make democracy work.
The time has come to end the rantings of the APC Chairman for the sake of our democracy. The noise about leadership change or party control is not what the country needs now. We must learn to accept that we are in changing times where individual rights and freedom is supreme so it is with autonomy. As it stands nobody knows when the National Assembly will reconvene which puts a lot at stake. Independence of the legislature is very essential in a rapidly changing world.
Endless ranting by the APC Chairman to unnecessarily heat the polity questions good sense, mocks modernity and questions his awareness and understanding of individual rights, freedom and autonomy in the golden age. Today loyalty to the country is more important than loyalty to the political party, thinking needs to change. Loyalty is very difficult to regain once trust is broken, so let us learn to put the country first.
We must say no to the old way of doing things and reject those who exploit crisis for political gains. If the Senate Presidency is a condition for performance, the government should simply tell Nigerians that they no longer have anything to offer. This crisis further damages their already battered credibility as anti-democratic party whose ideology is terror, extermination of anything that opposes it. This is not the type of democracy and the future we want. Rising economic inequalities and mass unemployment will not be easily reveresed by leadership change in the national assembly.
The ruling APC party promised us restructuring to win the 2015 elections but failed to deliver. Its only in a rural society that such ''inflated promises'' go unchallenged by the electorates because they don't have a choice-'ignorant, misinformed, irrational'. History will definitely remember this plague. Good always triumph over evil. There will be light when the dust finally settles.
Uche Okeke is a Social Entrepreneur, the Founder of The LEAD Project Foundation. He is the Author of 'Nigeria's Democracy And Its Crisis Deliberate, Avoidable. What Can Be Done About It'
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