Main Agenda for the Conference

As a student of political science, one thing that always guide my thoughts and actions is a statement by Shehu Usman Danfodio which is the motor of the Guardian Newspaper that ‘a society can survive with unbelief but can never survive on injustice’.As a Muslim, I am guide by the Qur’an and Hadith and a […]

As a student of political science, one thing that always guide my thoughts and actions is a statement by Shehu Usman Danfodio which is the motor of the Guardian Newspaper that ‘a society can survive with unbelief but can never survive on injustice’.
As a Muslim, I am guide by the Qur’an and Hadith and a central teaching in the religion is that you should do to others as you would want others to do on to u. if we are as Muslims and Christians as we claim, Nigeria wouldn’t be in the mess that it is today. The fact that we are in problem means that our religiosity is not only artificial but fakae.
Anytime Goodluck Jonathan packs a lot of people and travel to Israel in the name of pilgrimage, anytime Namadi Sambo travels to Saudi Arabia for Hajj or Umrah, what comes to my mind is one thing. These guys are fake! You supervise over a Stella Oduah and try to clean her of her mess despite a resounding national outrage of pilferage and squander and you are going all the way to the deserts of Jigawa to arrest the sons of Sule Lamido simply because he is challenging you. You travel all the way to Kano to threaten bank mangers to show you where Rabiu Kwankwaso is going wrong.
You went to Anambra and helped mis-do the election to the extent of making your party lose just because you don’t want a Chris Ngige who is likely going to be a problem in 2015 to win the polls. At least Bamanga Tukur told us that weeks before the elections that PDP was going to lose.
The level of theft and stealing going on in government at the center is alarming and all that we hear is that EFCC is doing well. The desperation is clear. It’s for 2015. If what happened in Anambra is anything to go by, I see problem in 2015. There are two extreme tendencies. A government that is failing wanting to remain by all means and a people that are battered and are prepared to all cost see it out.
If 2015 will be rigged, we have warned several times and more Nigerians are warning, what we saw in 2011 in some parts of the country may as well be a child’s play. That is why whenever I remember Ambassador John Campbell, I feel sad and sorry for my country.
The prognosis by the American intelligence service long before Goodluck Jonathan that Nigeria may as well come to an end by 2015 is a prophecy that those in authority must take seriously. Those of us under have since saw the danger and are talking and warning those who may likely make such a prophesy come to pass see reason and act against the realization of such a prognosis.
The tragedy is that those in power do not either think or see in the manner that we do. They have eyes but they don’t see. They have ears but they don’t hear. This may be the reason why we may see the unfortunate.
There are two issues that must be attended to immediately. President Jonathan has asked that Nigerian confer. There is only one agenda for that conference. Good governance. That is what is lacking. That is why Nigerians are complaining. That is why despite the numerous national resources that abound in the country there is unimaginable poverty in the land. That is why minor issues like religion and tribe have become the major issues. That is why things are not working in the country.
Anybody telling you that Nigeria’s problems are tribe and religion or region is not only talking from the surface but the real issues are education, health, hunger, jobs among many other things.
The agenda for the national conference is good governance. It is about corruption. It is management of national and local resources. Those in positions of authority and other privileged citizens must stop deceiving the unassuming population with rhetoric and lies. Instead, the truth must be told. And the truth is that our rulers have failed us.
Secondly, those forces working towards rigging the 2015 elections must begin to think otherwise because Nigerians are desirous peace. Personal ambitions must subordinate itself to the will of the majority. The country in my view is assuming a different dimension. Despite the epileptic manner the civil rule project has moved on, one thing you cannot take away from the people is that they are increasingly becoming conscious and those things that happened and were tolerated a few years ago may not have any place in the contemporary reality.
Those who should hear must hear and those who should know must know that Nigeria deserves better from those who either have benefitted or are benefitting from it. Those in glass houses, they say, must not throw stones.
Nigeria and Nigerians are at the mercy of those who call the shots.