Our politics is turning to another thing. Tribal considerations is what directs the way our people vote. Nigerian voters except few are not looking at manifestos or party programs before casting their votes. They are satisfied if a thief from their zone is the man contesting.The will vote for him in preference to saint from another zone.
The way Northern elders are going about this April election is not in the best interest of our togetherness. The fact that they are even choosing Buhari over Jonathan simply on the basis of where they come from means we are divided. Majority of these elders are supposedly PDP card carriers but they would prefer that their own, Buhari clinges victory at the expense of GEJ. They are not worried that Buhari was there before and did nothing. What they are after is for a Northerner to be there whether the person is good or not.
Hope may not be lost. Some Northerners are wise enough, good and peace loving who would wish that the best happens to our country. Such people will play significant role in convincing their people about each candidate. A lot of Northern youths are not in the school, no jobs in the North except what comes out from government offices yet their elders want one of their own to occupy Aso Rock at all costs. This is the office the North held for over 37 years of our independence and did nothing with it. The children of these elders are schooling in the best schools overseas but they keep the children of the poor perpetuallly down and use them as canon folders in time of crisis.
Why I am not disturbed by the position of these elders is that they said the same thing for Atiku but wise counsel prevailed at the end. It is not going to be different this time around.
After the April elections and the plans to sideline GEJ continues then it may become a major problem for the development and unity of our country because it will mean that some people believe they are born to rule while others are here to eat from the crumb that falls from their table. I believe that time is past and anybody thinking that way is also of the past.
My advice is that we should shun politics of enthnicity because it will not help us at all.
Divided we fall but together we shall stand. The North has a lot of work to do for total integration of Nigeria. The way the Ciroma led elders are going about this thing is anarchical. If Jonathan is defeated because of the gang-up I can tell you it will create a lot of bad blood and things may not remain the same.
As for ACN, the party is one man party. ACN is owned by Tinubu. As for me I do not see how that party is an alternative to PDP. PDP is by far ahead of ACN and there is no comparison. ACN's is not a democratic party. It is one man show where what he says is law. He says to one be a Senatorial aspirant and she becomes and to the other be a running mate and she becomes. Even their Governors are not allowed to choose running mates. In a normal situation a governorship candidate should have been allowed to choose someone he thinks he can work with but not so in ACN, they foist running mates on their governorship candidates.
Okonjo-Iweala will not get a single vote if she accepts to work under Ribadu. To me it is a mismatch. There is no need for her to even come out moreso when it is clear that ACN will not go anywhere in the forthcoming presidential election. Please let the sleeping dog lie.
Alor
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