POLITRICKS: TELL MR PRESIDENT TO STOP THIS CROCODILE'S TEAR

Like President Barack Obama recently said, “election time is usually a time for reflection". It is a time politician do lie so as to win your confidence, cajole you for your vote, promise you heaven and earth...nice dual carriageway first class hospital, uninterrupted power supply, more employment for the youth , Bla! Bla!! Bla!!! . It all lies, useless wishful thinking, they just want you vote and sympathy to keep themselves in power so as to better their lives and shares our nation wealth among themselves and cronies.

Let me tell you, when politicians want to deceive the people they throw up sentiments. Just imagine, how come that President Goodluck Jonathan suddenly realised that his regret is inability to have a South-West as a Speaker?

 “One of the problems I faced in the National Assembly is that I felt the right thing should be done because our party, the PDP, has a formula.”

“We have six geo-political zones in the country and when the President emerges from one of the geo-political zones, the Vice-President emerges from another geo-political zone, the rest core offices, the Senate President, the Speaker, Secretary to Federal Government, the chairman of the party must come from different geo-political zones.

“The idea is that, whenever we are distributing board positions and some of these appointments, whenever we are appointing ministers, all these people sit to take decisions. In that case we want all the geo-political zones to be in the inner caucus that take critical decisions.

“The last time, it was difficult for me because I insisted that the Southwest must get the Speaker. Of course, I couldn’t go through with it because some of us within the Southwest didn’t want it, based on some personal reasons. I am still suffering from that till today.”

 President Goodluck Jonathan made the above statement while speaking at a Yoruba Unity Summit at the Obafemi Awolowo Uni, Ile-Ife, trust Nigerian they always have someone to blame for their mistake ....he  attributed his failure to the selfishness of some Yoruba leaders!

Now, you selfish Yoruba leaders it is now time to defend yourselves!
 

It would be recalled that in 2011, Aminu Tambuwal, who is from the Northwest, was then in the good book of our dear Mr President, as late Afrobeat King Fela put it, the ‘Rigimor’ government machinery works together to defeat Mulikat Akande, a Yoruba from the South West, to emerge the House Speaker, the rest is now history.

As President Obama put it: “This election is about the past vs. the future. It's about whether we settle for the same divisions and distractions and drama that passes for politics today or whether we reach for a politics of common sense and innovation, a politics of shared sacrifice and shared prosperity. There are those who will continue to tell us that we can't do this, that we can't have what we're looking for, that we can't have what we want, that we're peddling false hopes. But here is what I know.

I know that when people say we can't overcome all the big money and influence in Washington, I think of that elderly woman who sent me a contribution the other day, an envelope that had a money order for $3.01 along with a verse of scripture tucked inside the envelope. So don't tell us change isn't possible. That woman knows change is possible. When I hear the cynical talk that blacks and whites and Latinos can't join together and work together, I'm reminded of the Latino brothers and sisters I organized with and stood with and fought with side by side for jobs and justice on the streets of Chicago. So don't tell us change can't happen. When I hear that we'll never overcome the racial divide in our politics, I think about that Republican woman who used to work for Strom Thurmond, who is now devoted to educating inner city-children and who went out into the streets of South Carolina and knocked on doors for this campaign. Don't tell me we can't change. Yes, we can. Yes, we can change. Yes, we can.’’

So, all of you political jobbers, tell Mr President to stop this fake crocodile’s tear he is shedding, the reason being that ‘ it is too late to cry when the head is off. Of course in any place where political offices are shared not by merit, but by such subjective factors as ethnocentrism, favouritism, chauvinism, cronyism, cult of mediocrity and compromise, the result is always inefficiency, ineffectiveness, incompetence, and utter failure. In Nigeria, we have failed because of those primordial factors we have espoused in our national agenda.. The country has become a dystopian wasteland in spite of her God-given natural resources because we put merit in the back burner.’ 

I rest my case.