2015 Elections, Myth or Reality? Part 3

A frittered presidency

When president jonathan contested and won in 2011, I know people actually voted for him because he gained so many sympathy votes due to the way the northern elites acted in the bid to gain back power.  If they had allowed Nigerians see their candidates on merit then maybe Gej would have had less sympathy votes. It is interesting that fire and war wasn't the incentive then by Alhaji asari dokubo.
Its sad to note that barely a year later, as reward for people who voted him in, president GEJ rewarded us with  fuel price hike just because he was unwilling to call the nigerian customs to order to curb the smuggling of petroleum products and also prosecute and stop the subsidy scam. He instead chose the easy way of getting the masses to pay for his incompetence.

Sadly the same thing happened in the area of security, an unwillingness to act as a strong commander in chief with people majorly in the north east paying for his incompetence with their lives.

Having frittered away the goodwill he rode in with, Mr president has consistently sided with a few elites against What is best for the country,  so many things he has done defy logic, 10bn for flights by one person, 2bn for food? 250m for a car, so many terrible corrupt practices on his watch and all he could do was pardon his former boss, visit another in prison in the Uk, cahoot with the president of Chad who undermines nigerias security and generally behave like he doesn't read the nigerian national daliies.

Now the election is here, after 6 weeks postponement,  during that 6 weeks, a miracle did happen in the NE! (my faith must be failing) what the Nigerian Army couldn't do in 6 years,  they did in less than 6 weeks! they chased Boko haram from the captured towns even the sambisa forest, in one of the victory lap pictures,  I didn't see any new gun with the soldiers, I saw the same old AK47! 
So were the AK47 jamming before or the army didnt know where Sambisa was?

To cap it, news came that Shekau was in Gwoza, contrary to the 2 years wait before NA would admits he is in Gwoza and another 1 year before sending 5 soldiers with 10 bullets each to fight him in Gwoza, I read that the NA had retaken Gwoza in less than 48hours of the people knowing Shekau was in Gwoza!

Oh my gwad! aren't election period a beautiful time in Nigeria?
In lagos state, the state government suddenly had money to promote, increase and pay workers 6 months salaries on the eve of the election and even gave them a day off to be able to spend the money,  if you ask me (its not "na who i go ask") I would say let Nigeria be in  a perpetual state of "is coming election" since it seems to perform governance miracles! 

Back to the matter, online, APC is already celebrating victory, but going by the recent Ekiti election and the more recent IsrealI election in which the eventual losing party was tipped to win going by social media leads, APC is most likely heading for a huge disappointment. 

I don't know if you watch the series "The goodwife", in one of the episodes,  everybody thought a particular candidate was set to win so people didnt really bother to come out to vote that candidate,  I sincerely hope people come out to vote and assume nothing. 

But wait, there is still that ruling on the legality of the use of card reader by INEC and the judge though having refrained from restraining INEC from conduting the elections using the card reader says it reserves the power to annul the election if it determines the card reader for electioneering processes runs afoul of our constitution. 
Already the President himself couldn't be accredited with the card reader and had to be accredited using the incident form! On the speed, out of over 600 voterd at his polling unit, only 14 had been accredited as at 11am and accreditation is supposed to end by 1pm! So failure is sure at that PU.

In a way different scenario, Ret General Buhari got accredited in less than 2 minutes! 


So like an unending nightmare, the threat of war looms even after the election as whoever wins may do so only on paper and a deadlock looms even larger as either of the behemoth can successfully argue irregularities as per the polls in the event of a loss!

So i say again, consider a unity government,  a solution that saves life, time and our nation! God bless Nigeria.

Read Part 2 here1

For governors and LG chairmen and the President, in the face of dwindling oil revenue and the dire need to increase IGR,..., talk to me....

Life as a dream

Life has always been a mystery although we pretend to know what life is and how life works. We have even become experts at taking lives using varieties of methods that appall even the gods whilst in contrast saving lives remains an emerging science.

Both skills we have acquired however had made me observe and ponder what life really means and why we are alive.

Many are quick to point out we are alive for a purpose, that we are “kept" alive to fulfill a particular purpose and thus we fight for life,

Though a new set of people whom we term crazy now do all they can to get themselves killed, before you mention suicide bombers, I would say you group thrill seekers into that same category, or what do you want on mount Everest or bungee jumping? Some even walk tight ropes with no safety net!

Let me not digress as tempting as it is; so are we alive for a purpose as they say?  If we are, are flies and mosquitoes and viruses and bacteria alive for a purpose too?

I ask because just as we do everything possible to stay alive so do they!  

A mosquito will even fly upside down to avoid being killed and from all known science it has no brain with which to be self aware talk less process enough information to discern or understand what life is or purpose is.

Have you tried swatting a fly before?  See how it does all it can to stay alive and even if hit how it fights the mortal battle to keep living?

Same goes for all animals I have heard of with the exception of man who sometimes takes his own life for no reason.

If human life is so special then other animals shouldn't resist dying nor we killing them, a fly should simply wait for me to swat it and a mosquito should respect me enough to kill it without embarrassing me with its aerial acrobatics!

If human life is that special why then do we die easily like we do? Why have we perfected the art of killing? We can kill over 1 million people at once!?

I observed a dog some years back, it was lazing near a kerb idly watching motor bikes and cars pass near him without flinching, a couple of minutes later a truck came along following the same path as the bikes and cars did but to my amusement, the dog on sighting the truck, quickly got up and took major steps away from where it was and when the truck had passed went back to that same spot to continue its lounging! I was amused but also amazed, why didn’t that dog want to die?!

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So what then is the purpose to life (if there is one) that makes all living things want to live?

I have seen animals fight to the death over territory but never seen one fight to the death to save their young. So what will make a sometimes vicious animal want to preserve its life rather than err towards the survival of the species?!

What then is life and what is its purpose? Why are we here? Why have we been told to hold life precious? Even those who preach higher purpose and an afterlife are not ready to start the afterlife until they lose total grip on this life.

What then is life?! What is its purpose having established its not only humans that want to stay alive.

Is life even real? Are we real or are we similar to a program in someone’s computer, a program that doesn’t want to be ended not because it’s self aware but simply following an iterative loop.

I won’t be happy to die and find out that all I have been made to believe about life was wrong! What is the true purpose of life?

Those who know about life, over to you! teach me and teach others....else wake me up from this dream!  

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