T. I. N. A.

Although he has not categorically stated where he is headed, a few days ago our one time military head of state and former civilian president, General Olusegun Obasanjo, did a most ungentlemanly thing by ripping apart his People’s Democratic Party membership card in full public glare. Obasanjo is a statesman, yet he was applauded for […]

Although he has not categorically stated where he is headed, a few days ago our one time military head of state and former civilian president, General Olusegun Obasanjo, did a most ungentlemanly thing by ripping apart his People’s Democratic Party membership card in full public glare. Obasanjo is a statesman, yet he was applauded for a less than statesmanlike action.
Both the sane and the insane, the unthinking and politically correct men and women who would want change of direction for this country saw nothing wrong in this rascally, adult behaviour. It is disgusting to me that an entire country is acting on emotions not reason. Did Nigerians not blame Obj for the woes of this country after 2007? How come then that his capitulation to continue with adult delinquency is now a heroic action?
I am speaking my mind to Nigerians this Friday morning: The opposition says we have a government that does not value life, that does not provide electricity and that has not taken the security of lives and property seriously. The opposition says that we have a sitting president that must be replaced because our people have been sidelined, our economy has been badly scandalized and our common patrimony has been raped beyond recognition. But in all these vagaries of change there’s nothing new.  This is no alternative. I therefore stand firmly by the acronym TINA.
We have an opposition leader who is showing his true colours, that you can no longer believe anything that comes out of his mouth: who says he cares and weeps for the people but forgot that there were internally displaced persons in Adamawa State; who says he would wipe out corruption but is being financed by the most corrupt gang of despots who would not cede power even to the most favourably disposed to use it.
The man stood before God and man but he refused to offer an apology for the misdeeds of the government he headed, much to the effect that he made it known he was not the architect of the infamous punishments that he visited on Nigerians. Our opposition leader refuses to admit that Decree No. 4 were draconian. He insists that they were a necessary antithesis of the time.  
One would think that as the leader of the opposition, in trying to get the votes of the people in the next elections, that he would be speaking to the people and letting them know what he would be doing differently to put Nigeria back on track. But we are still talking about the same things that we dealt with in 1960 and Nigerians seem excited about it all.
Weeks ago I asked those who support him what were his plans for the country in terms of health care, crime fighting, the education system, industrial development, a corrupt police force, a weak army, dwindling national pride, dilapidated infrastructure, youth empowerment, gender equality, low workers morale etc. These are the germane matters of immediate concern but all we hear about is stopping corrupt people from having a field day, a question on which I am yet to receive a sensible answer. All I hear is that this government is not solving the liquid problems of some people and therefore it must go.  Are these altruistic parameters that can honestly evoke a sincere change in governance?
In sum, all I see is a demand for the accommodation of certain parochial interests or else this country will go up in flames. I have searched my fellow opinion moulders and found that the moment one holds a contrary opinion from theirs he is toast. One is either a heathen or Kaffir if one does not subscribe to their subsisting political hegemony. As for me, I have chosen the right to hold a contrary opinion. In the interim, I see that there is no alternative, T.I.N.A.
In light of what is happening where the leader of the opposition is more concerned about being right, it shows that our country is truly going, gone, and done. If the people are angling for change for its sake alone, with no guarantees for sustainable development, I can say without fear of contradiction that we are about to turn our country to the dogs.
General Muhammadu Buhari is simply looking for queenship of the Obasanjo dominion which permitted OBJ to rule the country as a military head of state in a dictatorship. By the time Obj was out of power, the entire nation was unanimous that he did nothing good for the country, and today the country is itching to return to the hands of a people to whom only the name Nigeria is left to be sold to foreign investors. I am opposed to this state of anomy, and I remain firmly in the belief that this is no alternative, TINA.