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NIGERIA AND THE MENACE OF “VETERANS IN POLITICAL INEFFICIENCIES"







A veteran political actor, well known, seasoned political giant; the "Jagaban" has he his popularly referred to, made a downing statement while giving a charge on the campaign podium of the APC in Osun state, prior to the Osun state gubernatorial elections in August 2014. “Stand with your votes, baba acclaimed!!! And ensure you battle it out with any law enforcement agency that tries nonsense". I then scanned through the populace he was addressing and discharging orders to and it was one filled with our youths, able men and women plus the old. I asked myself where baba Jagaban's son is; at least he should take the lead if any tussle ensues during the then election. Oh no!!! I forgot, he should be far away in the western world and probably alien to the functions and culture of his indigenous Nation (Nigeria).
The mal functionality that has wholly gripped Nigeria from the dispensation of our veteran political actors such as; Baba Olusegun Obasanjo, Mr. Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Atiku Abubakar, and the company has grown and blown full scale, sprinting to a time bomb stage, to the extent that those who have piloted the affairs of this nation since the last military rule and the enthronement of a fresh democratic era and have had little or no impact on the political cum economic development of this Nation, are still the one's claiming grounds and offering political advice they did not implement in their own tenure, probably they forgot to.
 Nigeria has been recently plunged into an economic recession that has accumulated from defective political handling and myopic policies of political veterans. Recently, from this same group of politicians, yearnings and charges have come forward unto Nigerians to defend the Nation against a perceived Coup d’état. Hmmm, Nigerians have always been summoned when things get to change color and form for political parties driving the Nation's political vehicle. It is then they know that we are all Nigerians; we should not allow the Military to take over. While I am not in any way in support of a return to military rule *pause* in fact; Tufiawkwa!!!! GOD forbid bad things. But then it is we with an empty stomach for most part of the day in this present political dispensation: we who are toiling hard day and night to make ends meet: we that have perpetually become victims of misrule even in the so called democratic dispensation, we who our ''we are the leaders of tomorrow'' chant have been suppressed. We are still the same persons they are summoning to take up the military in case they put a wrong foot forward, of course, they will be watching from the heights of Iroko tree, and mount Kilimanjaro plus mount Everest while we engage the soldiers so that when things scatter and settle again, the political "as usual" can continue. Let these veterans who cannot pin point one colossal developmental stride they wrought in our nation go and play hide and seek or go to exile. Time is coming soon; Nigeria is going to shock them all.

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