by Oge Okonkwo

This further puts to question, the moral integrity (if at all it exists) of the APC leaders from Southwest – Bisi Akande and particularly Bola Tinubu who also prides himself as one of the heroes who fought against the annulment of the 1993 election by Babangida, but now cohabitate with the man whose action they fought both within the nation and while on exile. Is this how people become easily downgraded by their desperation?

From Adamawa state to Sokoto, Kano, Niger, Jigawa, Kwara, Rivers, and back to Niger state, I almost became confused as rhetorical questions begging for answers started flying into my heads from every quarters, what are they looking for? Does that mean anybody is now fit to be like one of them and what they proudly call themselves? Interestingly, I know the 2013 edition of Gulder Ultimate Search ended some weeks ago, so I believe it cannot definitely be another search for a missing treasure.

As I became more baffled, I remembered what desperation can cause to a man, he won’t stop at anything until he gets what he’s desperately salivating for. This is exactly the case of the ‘progressive’ leaders of the newly formed mega opposition party in Nigeria, the All Progressives Congress (APC).

Often times, these progressive proponents in the mega opposition party have proved to us their true unstable moral background, they’ve proved to us that anybody, even the dreaded Benin armed robber, late Lawrence Anini and any other notorious human on earth can be a progressive, as far as they associate with their party.

Any successful business firm, a well-managed one does not go about hunting for employees, but throw the vacancy option open to the public and interested candidates to apply, and through its body of highly-experienced panel, choose the skilled workman best suitable for the job to fill the different openings as doing otherwise will only plunge the firm into a state of catastrophe, which is the path the APC is threading with its desperation to bring everybody (both enemies and friend of the masses) together in one boat, a resultant end which cannot be nothing short from a fiasco.

It was therefore interesting reading reports of these visits to the ‘rebel’ governors and former leaders. On the list of those visited to port to the APC is Governor Sule Lamido of Jigawa state, whose sons are presently in EFCC net over allegation of siphoning billions of naira of Jigawa state money to fund their business ventures overseas; confirming that Lamido is a a role-model and true progressive.

And the most fascinating of all the visits is the one to woo former Military Head of State, Ibrahim Babangida to the APC exactly two decades after he abrogated the adjudged freest and fairest election so far in the history of this nation. On this I’m more concerned about APC leaders from the Southwest who have never stopped denigrating IBB since the June 12 1993 election.

This further puts to question, the moral integrity (if at all it exists) of the APC leaders from Southwest – Bisi Akande and particularly Bola Tinubu who also prides himself as one of the heroes who fought against the annulment of the 1993 election by Babangida, but now cohabitate with the man whose action they fought both within the nation and while on exile. Is this how people become easily downgraded by their desperation?

Like I have always argued, one does not need a depth of vision to see that the self-acclaimed progressivism of the APC leaders is just another bait to cajole the masses, after the failed “Awo descendants” cliche used as a bait in the Southwest in the last political dispensation.

They are the same set of people who castigated Dr Frederick Fasehun, founder of the Oodua Peoples’ Congress (OPC) to the highest heavens with all their media mercenaries for hobnobbing with former CSO to former Head of State, Late Sani Abacha, Major General Hamzat Al-mustapha after the latter was set free recently.

With the recent show of the APC leaders to court everybody to their party, it’s becoming more evident to the people and those who see them as messiahs, that the opposition leaders are only moved by the desperation of what they want – federal power, they care less about how it comes, theirs is about whatever it takes we will give, eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth, they just want it and they are ready to go any length to achieve this lustful desire for power at the federal level.

Nigerians know what they want and they can see clearly the distinction between the self-acclaimed ‘progressives’ and those tagged by their media mercenaries as ‘conservatives,’ the difference is just as thick as the cobweb.

Where morality and integrity is not esteemed before everything else, it is impossible to have a firmly established democrats.

I believe ideology should not only be in theoretical concept, but also in deeds and actions, as in the cult of desperation, men become slaves to trickled-down theory they will never practice once they grab power.

‘The people is well-fitted to choose its own magistrate,’ says Baron de Montesquieu, in this case, the people is not only well-fitted, but also well enlightened to discern the hypocrisy, political mediocrity and myopicrity currently at play by our APC leaders as gradually inch near the 2015 elections.

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Michael Olanrewaju Orodare has worked in the Office of the Chief Press Secretary to the Ondo State Governor as a Media Assistant. He has garnered experience writing in the The Nation Newspaper working with the paper’s Sunday Desk. He leans towards the Labour Party. He blogs at www.michaelorodare.blogspot.com and tweets from @MichaelOrodare

 

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