By Ogunjimi James
Taiwo
August 28th, 2013 by Larigold
Ever since the All Progressives Congress
(APC) was registered, we have been
subjected to non-stop tales of a mystical
democratic journey beginning in Nigeria.
Admirers of the party chieftains, loyalists,
and gullible Nigerians have bombarded us
over and over again with tales of the
inevitability of change in Nigeria because of
the emergence of APC. On closer inspection of the constituents of
APC and their antecedents, we see clearly
that their words are not in tandem with their
actions of the past and the actions of their
current flag bearers. You see, when people
realize the gullible nature of their audience,
they spin tales knowing for a fact that their
audience will swallow their lies hook, line
and sinker. That is exactly the scenario
between APC and the Nigerian populace. It
is easy for Tinubu to start giving speeches
today on a so-called democratic journey
beginning in Nigeria, it is easy for him to
lash out at past military leaders, but the
question is what was his own ACTIVE
(emphasis on the word ‘active’) role in
enthroning this democracy? After the results
of the June 12 1993 presidential elections
were annulled, although Tinubu became a
founding member of the pro-democracy
National Democratic Coalition (NADECO),
which mobilized support for the restoration
of democracy and recognition of the June
12results, less than a year after, he went
into exile in 1994 and only returned to the
country in 1998 after the death of Sani
Abacha to benefit from the active struggle of
true fighters for democracy. So when we
hear tales of him championing the cause of
democracy, we must ask if some clowns
are trying to re-write history. When he was
elected on AD ticket in 1999, he promised
10,000 housing units for the POOR
(emphasis being on the word ‘poor’), but as
of today in Lagos state, a Mega city for the
rich is what is being delivered. The El-Rufai
vs Buhari saga is another pointer to
deception. An El-Rufai that had spoken so
much about Buhari being unelectable and
levelled so many allegations against him
now sits at the same table with him in the
same party and suddenly, everything seems
to be ok. El-Rufai said Buhari is insensitive
to Nigeria’s diversity and his focus is
parochial. He claimed that in 1984, Buhari
allowed 53 suitcases belonging to his
ADC’s father to enter Nigeria unchecked at
a time the country was exchanging old
currency for new, that against all canons of
legal decency, he used retroactive laws to
execute three young men for drug-peddling
after they were convicted by a military
tribunal and not regular courts of law, that
Buhari was so high handed that he gave
himself and his officials immunity even from
truthful reporting, that the obnoxious Decree
4, against which truth was no defence, was
used to jail journalists and attempt to cow
the media as a whole, etc. The question now
is, have all those allegations suddenly been
solved? Has Buhari stopped being
parochial? Has his attitude to our diversity
changed? Why did El-Rufai say all these?
Was it for the sake of the country? If yes,
what is our fate now when the same
‘whistle-blower’ now flocks with the man
he warned us against? Another saga is the
Tinubu vs Nuhu Ribadu issue. When Mallam
Nuhu Ribadu was EFCC Chairman, he had a
lot to say about Bola Tinubu. In September
27 2006, Ribadu claimed that Tinubu “is a
looter with international dimension.” The
same Ribadu went on to contest the
Presidential election under the same party
as Tinubu. Is that to say that he has
suddenly been absolved of all ‘charges’? If
the courts of law have covered it up, has the
court of conscience in which Ribadu claims
he has absolute belief cleared him? The
mother of all deceits is the 8-point agenda
released by the party. If you’ve seen
deception in the past, this one beats it
hands down. The manifesto is filled with
plans that are in direct opposition to their
antecedents and their current actions. APC
promised to provide free education. I think
that should go down as the joke of the year.
In Lagos state, tuition fee was jerked up by
over 300%, students pay as high as
400,000. A look at the post-utme exam
written sends the message to us clearly. In
some departments, only 3 people applied for
admissions because of the hike in fees. In
Ogun state, the early part of this year was
filled with protests over the same issues of
tuition fees. These lies just cannot be
accepted; it’s an assault on our
sensibilities. They promised accelerated
economic growth. In APC states, is the
economy growing? Are the masses happy?
Are the states not in debt? When they talk
about free health care, we need to ask them
to explain. Is it in Ekiti, where patients carry
standing fan to hospitals? Or the health
care is so wonderful in Lagos that Asiwaju
couldn’t have knee surgery there? See, we
know that with the current political
atmosphere in Nigeria, coupled with the
gullible nature of an average Nigerian, the
possibility is high that APC will win come
2015, but we are just asking them to stop
insulting us by selling these crap to us. We
refuse to believe in self-acclaimed change
agents who have done nothing to change
their immediate environment. We refuse to
believe in change agents who have not
settled the problem of corruption amongst
them. And we definitely refuse to believe in
Change agents who will sacrifice their
gullible followers in a bid to lay their hands
on their share of the national cake.
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Thank u very much. How do we wake the people from their slumber? The APC in Lagos is anti-poor, they dont respect the laws, they are clanish, they elitist, above all, their governor here in Lagos is a sadist who enjoys it when people are suffering. I could nt see his light rails nor his tube station, all I see is lagos filled with area boys on every road and people defecating everywhere. The best APC governor did not know that those defecating in the open in lagos is more dangerous than those doing petty business.

SO YOU PREFER PDP ABI WHAT IS THIS NONSENSE UR SAYING.WE KNOW THEY ARE ALL THIEVES BUT AT LEAST WHEN THEY KNOW THERE IS NO AUTOMATIC SHIRT THEY WILL VIE FOR OUR ATTENTION.COMPETITION WILL KEEP THEM ON THEIR TOES

Very well written

I laughed when I looked at the composition of the party's execo;bisi akande(chairman)-ex governor who did absolutely nothing,el-rufai-who was in PDP and served as a minister of fct,committing so much crime via illegal land acquisition,tom ikimi-a very bad criminal,buhari-a religious fanatic and one of the worst military ruler,etc.
These guys have nothing to offer us.

Someone should tell dis toad of a writer to find new lies the old ones are getting boring and unfashionable

Me, as a smart business man, has started ordering for sales, very active hypertension drugs!!!

It goes with discount for every one who alwys missed a heartbeat at the mention of APC!!!

What are u guys scared of anyways?

But as una don dey clamour say make we move some HQ for east, my HQ dey east.

It is better to site ur company where d market is available!

At the snap of ur fingers, drugs are available.

Oya!!

mikolo80: SO YOU PREFER PDP ABI WHAT IS THIS NONSENSE UR SAYING.WE KNOW THEY ARE ALL THIEVES BUT AT LEAST WHEN THEY KNOW THERE IS NO AUTOMATIC SHIRT THEY WILL VIE FOR OUR ATTENTION.COMPETITION WILL KEEP THEM ON THEIR TOES

Both PDP and ACN are different sides of the same coin. ACN is not a progressive party, their leaders are tribal leaders. Did you know that ACN states will increase school fees of federal universities if they come to power just as they did in most southwest states? Did you know that they will demolish our houses because they do not look like the ones in VGC. Pls, dont campaign for them, we can still manage PDP, at least, the Federal goverment of PDP will not ask Nigerians to henceforth live only in their various states of origin.

mikolo80: SO YOU PREFER PDP ABI WHAT IS THIS NONSENSE UR SAYING.WE KNOW THEY ARE ALL THIEVES BUT AT LEAST WHEN THEY KNOW THERE IS NO AUTOMATIC SHIRT THEY WILL VIE FOR OUR ATTENTION.COMPETITION WILL KEEP THEM ON THEIR TOES

These are fools that are holding the nation behind.
Divorce PDP for just 4 years, and re-elect them again after kicking out APC in case they aren't doing well enough.
With this, PDP will do better trying not to allow nigerians vote them out again.
However, majority of nigerians like doing same thing same way, but always expect different results.only mad men do that.

Itoroetti :
I laughed when I looked at the composition of the party's execo;bisi akande(chairman)-ex governor who did absolutely nothing,el-rufai-who was in PDP and served as a minister of fct,committing so much crime via illegal land acquisition,tom ikimi-a very bad criminal,buhari-a religious fanatic and one of the worst military ruler,etc.
These guys have nothing to offer us.

Most Nigerians like darkness than light.
You represent that constituency.

Mr. OP, you forgot to relate the performance of Gej as Bayelsa state governor in the past to his [b]'best' president ever [/b]status but instead felt comfortatble going as far back as the '80s to gather stats with which you 've made your one sided inference.