Singer, Etcetera in his new article points
out reasons why President-Elect,
Muhammadu Buhari should not be
celebrated.
Read highlights below:
1. Six bikers died while celebrating
Buhari’s victory: Why are we dancing?
Why do we keep rolling out the drums
each time we have a new government,
only for us to start crying few months
down the line? Is it that we are too quick
to forget or we just love to dance? Do you
celebrate a child who’s about to write his
exams or the one who has written and
passed? What is this jubilation for?
Because I really don’t understand. Is it that
the election of Buhari in itself has
suddenly alleviated our sufferings? I am
really confused here, hearing how six
bikers lost their lives in Zaria celebrating
Buhari’s victory.
2. Buhari is not our messiah, the demons
will always be there: One would think that
a people who have been shortchanged for
so long by past presidents will know
better to be calm and take every word of
the new president with a pinch of salt
until he proves to be different. This
process is becoming an unending circle,
again and again we’ve danced and again
and again, we’ve cursed and cried at the
end. It is still shocking to me that a lot of
Nigerians fell for the story that the
president was born without shoes. Was
anyone born with shoes on? Buhari’s
triumphant entry into the presidency last
Sunday which coincidentally was a palm
Sunday doesn’t yet prove he is the
redeemer. Just like the second coming of
our supposed political messiah Obasanjo
didn’t prove any significant improvement
in our lives.
We all thought he was the one anointed
by the gods to take us by the hands and
lead us right straight into the promised
land, where we shall have no more
gnashing of teeth. But when he left office,
the roads were still as bad as they were
before he took office. The hospitals were
still without facilities and most
importantly, he failed to defeat the demon
in the power sector even with billions of
dollars thrown at it. The demons in the
same power sector have claimed Jonathan
just like they did Yar’Adua, Abdulsalami
Abubakar, Sanni Abacha, Shonekan, IBB
and Shagari. Even Buhari himself had
already been defeated by this demon
before. So what says it is not going to be
the same this time around. Remember
obasanjo was defeated twice by this same
demon.
3. Buhari just like our past leaders will
take us for granted: Why won’t our
leaders take us for granted when they’ve
noticed that we are always ready to jump
to our feet and “jubilate” with the
announcement of every new regime?
When Buhari overthrew the democratically
elected government of Shehu Shagari in
1983, many of you reading this took to
the streets to boogie down. When
Babangida sent Buhari packing a couple
of months later, a lot more of you got
drunk and vomited all over the place. Even
Abacha’s sudden death brought smiles on
the faces of most bar owners across the
country as they ran out of booze.
4. Something is wrong with Nigerians?: Is
something wrong with us as a people?
We are forgetting a very important fact
that this election proves that we are and
will still remain a divided people. We are
divided by our ideologies with no realistic
integration in sight. The election has also
reinforced the thinking that we are
divided by regional, tribal and religious
interests and not national. These are some
of the significant issues that will define
our tomorrow.
5. To hell with Optimism: Finally, some of
you who are reading this may be saying,
oh Etcetera, can’t you be optimistic for
once? My brother, I can’t. Optimism and its
younger brother, hope have proven to be
very dangerous especially in Nigeria. They
have sent millions of Nigerians to their
early graves. What is the point of being
optimistic in a system that has always left
me in tears and heartache? Or is it till I get
arrested by Mr. Cardiac? Tufiakwa! Source yNaija.com

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