rusher14:
He's a thief.

Pekele007:

Is that all? Every Nigerian politician is a thief in one way or the other.


So? Make we no vote

thecolumnist:
Yet again I must write and yes I must write on the polity. One question that bothers me much is whether our practices must be endorsed by the western world to be good enough for us. Hunger as Nigerians are in today does not recognize democracy, neither does the hungry Nigerian on the street reckon with the stands of the western world and that’s where we are at. Nigerians are hungry and angry, and gravely so.
Yes we may not be able to entirely rule out western influence over our nation majorly due to how poor we are at international politics. But should we be at their beck and call? And must their approval be our yardstick for moving forward or not? I have watched with disgust how we have made ascension to public office all about being able to travel to the United States of America. I dare say that should not be our yard stick. For God sake must we continue to ridicule ourselves on the altar of politics?
It has always been in the news that Atiku Abubakar has had a case to answer in the United States, we have always heard that. But what concerns me is that it has become a political yard stick to prove his innocence. Thus you hear ‘if you want to prove you are innocent of the charges travel to the United States and let’s see’. It should be noted that that in itself is an error.
What many proponents of this methodology do not know is that we are approaching an election year, where two gladiators have lined themselves up for battle. In this situation I dare say that even if H.E Atiku Abubakar were granted a visa and were to travel to the United States of America he wouldn’t be touched for whatever reasons. This drives from the fact that the government of that nation understands the import of this particular election, not just to the stability of Nigeria but to the whole of Africa. If anything does not convince us the year 2016 allegations of Chief Ayo Fayose against the First Lady of Nigeria, Hajiya Aisha Buhari should; she did travel and nothing happened – that does not mean she might have been innocent or guilty; it only meant issues of that nature are treated diplomatically.
We must stop this archaic way of thinking; the President of the Nigerian nation is a leader who protects the integrity, rights and privileges of his/her people. The inputs of other nations are secondary and auxiliary in every sense.
I do not want to engage in the discus of whether H.E Atiku Abubakar is guilty or not, time will tell on that. But one thing we must know is that the emergence of his person as president should be a lesson to leaders that trivialities will not pay in governance. The current government’s show of shame and unnecessary junketing across the globe has not helped the polity, neither has it improved the life of the common man. These will be the facts and metrics that will be used in deciding who occupies Aso Rock next.

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