Henry Okelue: 8 things to ponder as 2015 draws near

by Henry Okelue

nigeria

Fellow Nigerians… You are innately smart. Let politicians tell us how they will improve our lives when we vote them in, not how Okoro is a threat to Adamu & Babatunde. Let us demand that every time.

Compatriots, lets us for a second ponder on these:

1. The single biggest reason why Nigeria might never get to the promised land is the fact that the average Nigerian is a willing tribal tool.

2. This is not activism, this is the stark truth. Our problems started when politicians lied to our forefathers that the other tribe is bad.

3. Our forefathers then indoctrinated their children. This indoctrination led very indirectly to the 1st civil war.

4. But have you asked yourself if that guy who was your classmate in school, and who always had your back, who is from another tribe is, is evil?

5. Mutual tribal suspicion, fuelled by politicians, has led us down this road. Trace Nigeria’s history back to 1960,you will see what I mean.

6. 2015 is close by, and the same politicians have started beating the drums of tribalism, so that we fight ourselves, get distracted and they can freely loot the treasury.

7. We fight ourselves, we kill ourselves…the politicians who stoke our tribal fires will still play golf and polo together, share a drink and
laugh over how stupid we the masses are – Don’t you see?

8. Lets look at this example:

When Lagos State relocated some Nigerians back to Anambra, Governor Peter Obi of Anambra had a very powerful action to take. He knows what the constitution says about every person born of Nigerian parents, or with Nigerian nationality… he knew what to do. He knew he should have taken Lagos to the Supreme court, instead, he did what politicians do – stoke embers of ethnic sentiments… for cheap, self-serving, political points.

You see how politicians do us? Going to the supreme court would have solved the issue for good, and left some legal and real political precedence… but he preferred tribalism! And many of us fell for it.

Fellow Nigerians. God gave you the mind to discern. Don’t be a tribal or religious tool for the PDP, APC, APGA, LP. You are innately smart. Let politicians tell us how they will improve our lives when we vote them in, not how Okoro is a threat to Adamu & Babatunde.

Let us demand that every time.

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