The Chant of Change: The Illation

By Julius Diamond

The continuous jostling and bustling of political parties in Nigeria against the 2015 elections has wheeled to the discovery of issues that had previously lacked critical consideration.

These issues are the issues of political parties and their non-comforming display in relation to the actual meaning of their slogans.

Each political party is forwarded by a political slogan.
A Slogan is a favourite short sentence, phrase or word used to describe motive of a group.

One slogan that keeps many bewildered, disoriented, confounded, and skeptic is the slogan 'CHANGE', chanted by the APC.

It is becoming irritating, mind-boggling, mistifying, annoying, stupefying, and pricking in the ear when the slogan "Change" is chanted in the streets.
The detastefulness of Change does not actualy arise from the word itself, but those who chant the word without realizing its actual meaning.

The APC have chanted the change slogan incessantly, whereas they lack the positive change in their attitude and agenda.

It is no more a secret that all actions, attitudes and exhibitions of the APC tends to the Negative Change.

Historically expositing, from the moment the APC selected their presidential candidate: It is agreable that while the APC are chanting for Change to youth aggrandisement/development; they have reversly or ignorantly left behind youthful candidates only to project a man older than the country itself.

Also, while the Nigerian nation has progressively moved the mandate of rulership from people with no educational qualification to rulers with good educational background; the APC is lackadaisically chanting change only to resolve to bringing back the nation into the rulership of an illiterate. ThankGod for the impossibility.

It will baffle you to know that the APC have concluded plans to boycott the expected Public debate scheduled to hold on the 8th of Feb 2015, with reasons that Goodluck Ebele Jonathan did same in 2011, therefore it is no bad afterall for Gen Buhari to do same. I am poised to ask: Is this a good step to showing the chanted Change? I thought the APC chant for change to correct all past wrongs? How then have they settled to repeat a wrong committed by another?

Although, I am not in doubt of the actual meaning of the chanted change of the APC, as their change can be the making of things becoming different, i. e, from good to bad. It is obvious that the APC do not actually care about the actual direction of the change. But all they need is change.

For public awareness, Change can mean being alive to death, being sane to insane, wellness to sickness or otherwise.

Perhaps this maybe the type of change the APC have been chanting for. However, it is important we also consider the slogan of the PDP.

The slogan of the PDP as clearly seen is "POWER TO THE PEOPLE", a symbolizm of true Democracy, with no intention of deeming the fame of Nigeria or her positive developmental strides. It is a slogan which explians that the wellbeing of the nation lies on the shoulders of the people. It does not draw a dividing line between the Rule and Ruled. It sees all individuals as equal.

My illation to the chanted hypocritical change as forwarded by APC is to change Nigeria to the NEGATIVE or WORSE.

For this reason, it becomes important to urging every good meaning Nigerian to give no VOTE to the APC, preferably to VOTE for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

VOTE "POWER TO THE PEOPLE"

Vote Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan

Long Live Nigeria
Long Live PDP
Long Live GEJ
Short Live apc.