How A Political Analyst Expertly Predicted Nigeria's Present Quagmire Exactly 12 Months Ago

You will be shocked by his 100% 10/10 accuracy!
Many of us ignored this guy. Perhaps he saw the handwriting on the wall. Everything he predicted is now coming to pass. We need to fish out this guy an give him an award for foresight.

Before I delve into the nitty-gritty and crux of this exposition, I must categorically state that I have no overt or covert party affiliation. I have only put this piece together in my capacity as a concerned, patriotic Nigerian who will never stand by with arms crossed over his chest while a bunch of political careerists and crooked opportunists take this beloved country and its loving people for a joyride.

That being said, what manner of change can we, Nigerians, expect from the All Progressives Congress, the APC?

It is becoming clearer even to the “mentally blind” that the so-called “Progressives”, led by the twosome of the retired Major-General Muhammadu Buhari and former Lagos state governor Bola Ahmed Tinubu, are totally and pitiably incapable of effecting the change they are promising to deliver to Nigerians if elected into office.

Rather, the only change that can be realistically expected of them at this point in time is retrogressive change. Before going further, it will be sagacious to consult some of the world’s most reliable and reputable dictionaries and thesauruses to see what they have to say about the word change.

The Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary (OALD) – the most available to, trusted and cited by Nigerians – defines change as “an act or process through which something becomes different”. In the same vein, the Merriam-Webster Dictionary – considered the gold standard by most Americans – gives a similar description, authoritatively opining that change is the “act, process, or result of changing”.

Likewise, an App-based mobile dictionary gives us the definition of change as “the process of becoming different”.

Undoubtedly, Nigeria will change under a Muhammadu Buhari presidency. Yes, the country will definitely become different under the “pure” and “stainless” GMB-led APC government, should their wishes and cravings come to pass. This, however, begs the question of how Nigeria will be different under them. What kind of change will the APC, Buhari, Tinubu and co. bring to the table if elected? Will it be progressive or retrogressive?

Going by the goings-on in the country whilst simultaneously peering into the past, it is really very easy to come at a definite conclusion. Despite the adjective progressive being affixed to their name and adopted as a party slogan, it is crystal clear to all and sundry, Nigerian or not, that the best anyone can expect of the APC is a reversive change.

A change for the worse. What manner of change can a certified military dictator, who usurped and forcibly seized power from a democratically-elected government, possibly offer?

Buhari staged a coup that sacked what was only Nigeria’s second democratic dispensation since independence – the first in 13 years. In an ironical twist of fate deserving of a Greek epic by Homer, it is the same general, albeit now refined, rebooted and baptized as the sinless “peoples general,” who is now at the mercy of the same democratic process he truncated 32 years ago in order to clamber into power once again.

What manner of change can we realistically and dispassionately expect from a thin-skinned ex-dictator who was intolerant of even the slightest of criticisms during his ultimately ill-fated military regime? This is the same Buhari who jailed anyone who was bold enough to speak up against his autocracy that lasted from 31 December 1983 to 27 August 1985.

Journalists, who now enjoy unprecedented and once unimaginable levels of freedom under the present Goodluck Ebele Jonathan administration, were put behind bars in droves.

Opposing politicians and statesmen were also not spared. It is on record that Buhari jailed Alex Ekwueme, the Vice President of the administration he overthrew, for several years; its President, Shehu Shagari, was put under house arrest. Jim Nwobodo, a democratically elected state governor, was unceremoniously jailed for 301 years by a kangaroo court sanctioned by the general.

Others who found themselves on the wrong side of the general and ended up being jailed for their “insubordination” include two other democratically-elected governors, Sam Mbakwe and Bola Ige, as well as Bisi Akande, a fellow stalwart in the present APC, and Obafemi Awolowo, the ideological leader of the South-Westerners.

How can we expect the man to uphold and respect courts of justice and the rule of law when he had demonstrated such flagrant disregard for them?

What manner of change does the APC have to offer with a leader who probably believes that a woman’s rightful place is her husband’s house, her only duties housekeeping and child-rearing? During his dictatorship that lasted nearly 3 years, he hadn’t appointed a single woman in his Supreme Military Council.

Most recently, he has strongly indicated that women would play a minimal role in the government he envisions by asserting that he would abolish the position of the country’s first lady. He went further to declare that there is no official role for the wife of a president.

He seems to be oblivious of the fact that the wives of presidents, heads of state and government all over the world are accorded special status and assigned important roles. That is why the First Lady of the United States (FLOTUS) is such an influential figure both within and outside her country.

His modus operandi reeks of someone who is out of touch with reality, divorced from the trends and aloof with happenings elsewhere in the world.

I could go on and on, but it would take more than a short news-length article to comprehensively thrash out the laundry list of the things that make Buhari and the APC totally incapable to deliver the promised “progressive change”.

I have absolutely nothing against the person of General Muhammadu Buhari. As a matter of fact, he’s a man I have an undiminished respect for. But I still do not believe he’s the leader that 174 million Nigerians need at the moment, especially considering the party he’s coming from, how rigid and resistant to change he has always been, and how detached from Nigerian realia he has become.

It is my wish that Nigerians would wake up from their slumber and disenchant themselves from the hypnotism, fine-sounding words and unattainably lofty promises of the APC. There is still enough time to avoid a big mistake.

Nigerians, vote wisely

https://www.naij.com/377150-chinedu-rylan-can-buhari-apc-deliver-the-change-theyve-promised.html

By Chinedu Rylan George

U mean ds textbook

Young03:
U mean ds textbook

You are one of the problems with Nigeria, Africa and the world at large. There is no future for a country with youths who cannot read a 1000-word exposition.

Lalasticlala, seun, OAM4J, Mynd44

Hahahaha Wow. This is really nice.

datChelseaBoy:
You are one of the problems with Nigeria, Africa and the world at large. There is no future for a country with youths who cannot read a 1000-word exposition.

Lalasticlala, seun, OAM4J, Mynd44

idio.t..swear dat u wey post ds don read it

Too wordy; lacking in substance.

No truer words 've ever been spoken!

Making sense. I think everybody should see this.

datChelseaBoy:
You are one of the problems with Nigeria, Africa and the world at large. There is no future for a country with youths who cannot read a 1000-word exposition.

Lalasticlala, seun, OAM4J, Mynd44

Are you the one paying for his Data subscription? summarize it and repost

The writer of the article is a fortune teller

This article is intellectually blank. A personal opinion shared by a certain folk from the SE part if Nigeria. What i find funny abiut parochial world views is not the narrowness of them but the lack of reality. The writer obviously thinks Nigeria is defined by a few cities , its needs summarised by the needs of the urban midfle class and time will freeze itself for these demographics.

After he wrote the article, i am sure a lot has happehed. Buhari won the elections, the bottom dropped out of the oil market, Jonathans appointees were mostly all found to be corrupt and Naira lost most of its value . All the smug, self deception has vanished. Nigeria before Buhari was fake. A half educated middle class jerking themselves around thinking they were going places with a currency whose value was deternined by the market performance of volatile commodity. Nigeria was deceiving itself big time throughout the PDP regime.

There is no modern economics. There is production, creation of value, supply chain, global sales , earning of foreign exchange and re investment of same. We cannot jerry-rig success without hard work, discipline and lack of corruption.

The writer only succeded in deceiving himself with his opening of non-affiliation and went right on to repeat the campaign lines used by PDP to denigrate and insult Buhari's candidacy.

He further exposed himself when he eulogized Jonathan for freedom enjoyed by the press thereby cheapening the sacrifice made by ordinary Nigerians of all walks who confronted the most vile military dictatorship we ever had under Abacha going as far as what is termed guerrilla journalism. Our reporters were so valiant, and many were simply killed by the the state then, that the Abdulsalami administration was unable to maintain any further crackdown on media freedom. To reduce that heroics to the magnanimity of Jonathan or even Obasanjo is a big fallacy by the writer. Under both leaders and Yar'adua, there were spurts of intimidation of the media though never large scale as seen before.

The truth is unconstitutional governments like military types can only pretend to guarantee citizen's constitutional rights. Whether the direct in your face dictatorship type led by Buhari from 1983, who sets up tribunals to try accused, or make draconian laws to gag whomsoever will be against their agenda and try to live by their own laws. Or the one who came smiling in 1985, ruling by deceit and subterfuge, repeal the gagging laws but operate according to it anyway, sends letter bombs to it's opponents or accused, or asked us all to tighten our belts but wound up with 50 bedroom mansions, private jets and huge private financial investments.

In all a poorly written campaign material to support the then ruling government's desire for another term, without in insight or farsighted statements. All the allegations of suppression of the press, of women and religious conversion (not mentioned by writer) has not happened

Ovamboland:
The writer only succeded in deceiving himself with his opening of non-affiliation and went right on to repeat the campaign lines used by PDP to denigrate and insult Buhari's candidacy.

He further exposed himself when he eulogized Jonathan for freedom enjoyed by the press thereby cheapening the sacrifice made by ordinary Nigerians of all walks who confronted the most vile military dictatorship we ever had under Abacha going as far as what is termed guerrilla journalism. Our reporters were so valiant, and many were simply killed by the the state then, that the Abdulsalami administration was unable to maintain any further crackdown on media freedom. To reduce that heroics to the magnanimity of Jonathan or even Obasanjo is a big fallacy by the writer. Under both leaders and Yar'adua, there were spurts of intimidation of the media though never large scale as seen before.

The truth is unconstitutional governments like military types can only pretend to guarantee citizen's constitutional rights. Whether the direct in your face dictatorship type led by Buhari from 1983, who sets up tribunals to try accused, or make draconian laws to gag whomsoever will be against their agenda and try to live by their own laws. Or the one who came smiling in 1985, ruling by deceit and subterfuge, repeal the gagging laws but operate according to it anyway, sends letter bombs to it's opponents or accused, or asked us all to tighten our belts but wound up with 50 bedroom mansions, private jets and huge private financial investments.

In all a poorly written campaign material to support the then ruling government's desire for another term, without in insight or farsighted statements. All the allegations of suppression of the press, of women and religious conversion (not mentioned by writer) has not happened

This is exactly what i am saying. It might appear to be a good piece to fresh graduates from UNN or FUTO but it is shallow in the extreme.

Another big lie being told is that the problem of Nigeria can be solved by some kind of "financial innovation" the talent for which was only granted by God to PDP as a party and a select few other people including Jonathan as a person and three others NOI.
LOL. I laugh in kenery language. This is as credible as saying only the thief can manufacture and deliver back to the car that he stole in the first place.

The reality of life and the situation of Nigeria is harsher than this. We have to restructure at a deeply personal level , change paradigms about life and go back to agriculture and production. Farming, small scale manufacturing preferably using only raw materials.
We need to work hard and fight corruption. Young people have to force themselves to learn new skills preferably those that are in direct demsnd in industry. A university degree is probably going to be a disadvantage soon.