A pregnancy aborted at the initial stage of 3 months and that, aborted at the 5th month, what's the difference?
They all carry thesame pains and is abominable before the law and in the face of the Almighty God as it is regarded as blood shedding..
Those who battle and call the PDP names for rigging primary elections and applauding the APC for selecting a consensus candidate against the wishes of other party members, are simply ignorant about the simple truth that
"THERE IS NO CHANGE YET IN THE SYSTEM, BUT A CASE WHERE KETTLE CALLS POT BLACK".
In Rivers State, the choice of Dakuku Peterside as the consensus candidate of the APC guber aspirant, was not a collective decision.
I say this with evidence of the protest by the Ogoni youths which left many injured and others, feared dead after that decision was made by the governor in the person of Rt. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi who some refer to as a dictator, and others, a political mathematician, etc.
Let me shock you that he, governor Chibuike Amaechi handed power over to Dakuku Peterside during school days as President, National Union of Rivers State Students(NURSS)in the 90's and as such, that has created the bond between them not because Dakuku is the most credible in the polity amongst the Riverines, but the school politics has come to repeat itself.
(Where then is the beauty of democracy where others are allowed to compete, and the people choose who they want?)...
Now PDP...
Nyesom Wike as the choiced candidate of the PDP guber aspirant, many will liken it to his effort towards keeping firm the PDP in Rivers State when the governor defected to APC, carrying all structures along with him, leaving the state PDP in an epileptic situation which if not for Nyesom Wike, would have collapsed..
Wike claimed he fought for the party and restoring the dignity of the President. But if these were to be true, he wouldn't have taken the governorship form when clearly he knows that it is the turn of the Riverines to rule as zoned. Rather, his taking of the form shows that all that he did, were a targeted effort which our Riverine brothers were too parochial to see from the onset (Politics indeed).
Well, I pray Nyesom Wike wins, but if not, his political relevance will just diminish within a twinkle of an eye of which if he had anointed a candidate, would have been seen as the "political godfather" of Rivers State.
I can see no change, given my above stated reasons. And until self interest is eliminated and politicians come up with ideologies of leadership (Socialism or Capitalism) as done in America, our political system will be likened to a stagnant water which stinks...
Let's think towards making a better system possible, by that, Nigeria will be great and better in the nearest future.
I want to beat my chest and tell my children categorically that:
"I AM A PART OF THE BETTER NIGERIA YOU ARE SEEING TODAY".
P
Samuel Nifemi Jumbo
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