Olusegun Dada: Why we must divorce the PDP now (Y! Politico)

by Olusegun Dada

Dada Olusegun

The PDP is a deadly virus that has infected every single part of our system. Our legislators are the highest paid in the world they earn so much for doing so little. 

I am pro-life, pro-marriage and also pro-divorce. I believe every/any marriage that doesn’t work should end. I believe when a couple stopsloving each other, it is better for them to part in peace.

Nigeria’s marriage with to the PDP in the last 14 years has been nothing short of an abusive relationship. We have been battered, beaten, raped and plundered. Again and again and everytime we say we “enough is enough” like an abusive husband, the PDP comes to us with soothing words and crumbs from the much they have plundered from us. They tell us “if you divorce me now, your next husband will be worse than me” we tremble at this and we let them continue. Literally.

The PDP is a deadly virus that has infected every single part of our system. Our legislators are the highest paid in the world they earn so much for doing so little. In two years, with N13 billion naira gone in payment of allowances to senators, no single bill has been passed. None! Not one!

Our senate president earns in a year what an american president will earn in ten years. Our president has the highest number of presidential convoy, the highest number of planes in his presidential fleet, spend millions of naira everyday on feeding and billions on “entertainment”

Our democracy is undoubtedly the most expensive in the whole wide world. And our politicians roll in our collective treasury. In the last 12years, over N18,000,000,000,000 (eighteen trillion naira) has been used to service national lifestyles under the PDP administration.

Under President Johnathan, the misappropriation of N 1.24 trillion naira fuel subsidy funds. Perhaps the biggest single scam to be ever perpetuated in the history of the world happened. No body went to jail. The indicted companies according to news reports are back getting more subsidy money. Our lives are literally flashing before our eyes.

Our security situation is messed up. With over 1,000,000,000,000 (one trillion naira) devoted to security every year, thousands of people still lose their lives to the dreaded terrorist sect Boko Haram. Our government names them a terrorist group then proceeds to claim it has come to a sort of “ceasefire agreement” with the group just immediately after they killed dozens of school children in Potiskum, Yobe state. The said “ceasefire agreement” didn’t stop the Boko Haram from going ahead to murder 20 in Borno and just recently in Kano. We are an helpless people. We are a tired people.

Thousands of people die every year from avoidable deaths in our nation. Promising young men and women meet tragic deaths on bad roads. Dreams are dead on arrival at maternity wards, the educational institution are an eyesore. With universities going on the traditional ASUU strike every year consistently since 2009. It is a disheartening situation. It has to end and it has to end now.

Except the divorce of the PDP happens in 2015, there may be nothing left to salvage. A word (or a couple of words) is enough for the wise.

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Dada Olusegun is a registered member of Congress for Political Change (CPC), he is a writer cum social change advocate. He is a political columnist on #EkekeeeDotCom and contributor on numerous online blogs and newspapers. He is a motivational speaker who is also involved in youth empowerment and enlightenment programs nationwide. He tweets from @Dolusegun.

 

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One comment

  1. time for us to make our choice,PDP must become history in nigeria let go out and fight for our right.couse we did not see what this democracy did for our contry

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