Delaying judgment

Many hypotheses have been built before the ‘mutiny’ as Femi Falana chose to call it. Some of the hypotheses have it that the postponement was a response to the obvious loss that the government of the day and their party was facing if the election had been conducted. Another said the preparations by INEC that […]

Many hypotheses have been built before the ‘mutiny’ as Femi Falana chose to call it. Some of the hypotheses have it that the postponement was a response to the obvious loss that the government of the day and their party was facing if the election had been conducted. Another said the preparations by INEC that are making routine rigging either difficult or impossible have pitched the state against INEC and its Chairman, Attahiru Jega.
Others are throwing positions suggesting that the government desires more time to perfect its rigging machine and it will appear that come what may, the soldiers are to be deployed to force electoral irregularities down the throats of Nigerians and this was shown in the show of force across the major cities in Nigeria last Saturday when armored personnel carriers were deployed in Lagos, Abuja, Kaduna, Kano and several other major cities across the country.
I thought Nigeria didn’t have these war machines, one reason why Boko Haram is ravaging communities in the North-East. Could it be that these APCs were withdrawn to terrorize innocent citizens? I think something is definitely wrong and if the current intimidation of major opposition forces like Bola Tinubu and Rochas Okorocha is anything to go by, this government and its leader are prepared to do what President Obasanjo said, ‘Let’s spoil it so that everybody loses’. I want to think this is one option open to the PDP and its government which millions of Nigerians are ready to resist.
It was Goodluck Jonathan who told us in 2011 that his election or ambition was not worth the blood of any Nigerian. What is happening now that he is prepared to spill as much blood as possible just for him to remain in power?  I think the president and his men need some basic lessons on the ABCs of elections.
I am worried about the posture of the armed forces. What is primary to the armed forces should be national security and not regime security. I wonder how the high command will respond to the actualization of the aspirations of majority of Nigerian citizens after March 28th when the verdict will be a resounding no to the government that they are blindly protecting against the interest of the people.
The day shall come and surely it will and it is difficult to see how things can change in favor of those in authority today who couldn’t keep the peace in the North East in the last 6 years telling us that 6 weeks can do the job. Another option suggesting that the government does not want to do elections and instead an interim government is to instituted in my view as strong as this claim is, the 16 years of civil rule in the country has emboldened the citizens to resist such a dictatorship.
The elections have been put off and there is a loud cry at home and from abroad. I am excited that the citizens have kept the peace and refused to be dragged into unnecessary confrontation which is capable of giving the postponement gang the opportunity to have their way and possibly not to do the elections. Nigerians are ready and will vote in March and early April. Those in power in Abuja must be ready for the results. We are urging those who think they can thwart the wishes of the people to have a rethink and know that Nigeria has gone beyond the stage that they can they are. Nigeria must move forward and elections must hold in the new dates. Truly, the postponement from February to March will never delay their day of judgment.