For the legion of commentators who felt (and was therefore angered) that Jonathan went overboard in his reference (at Mapo Hall) to the South West as the ancestral home of rascals; what if I told you that your feelings were grossly misplaced. What if I had the temerity of also telling you that your emotional outpourings and other evaporative actions so far were akin to infantile radicalism- an action borne out of impulse rather than by matured, deep and introspective reasoning? This is because rather than get angry with Jonathan; I think we should be thankful to him for not calling us dimwits or irredeemable fools. Because that’s exactly what we have been acting like all along, regardless of being under the oppressive jackboots of the PDP for so long. Otherwise how can Jonathan’s PDP, like a bully, have persistently, repeatedly and continually treated us like bondsmen and women-BIG TIME SLAVES, and just when they merely called us rascals, we wanted to start another civil war.

It’s like someone- let’s call him a vagabond- who is not even half as smart, intelligent or physical as you, suddenly comes along and grabs and despoils your mother right before your presence. Not done with that, he sets upon your sister and virgin under-aged daughter; and goes right ahead to violently attack your wards and aides, maiming and clobbering and clawing and drawing red-hot blood in the process. Thereafter he goes on to plunder your inheritance, and proceeds to sentence you, your family and unborn children to a lifetime (60 years- longer than average life expectancy in Nigeria) of drudgery and servitude. And for all these atrocious acts you are never provoked to defiance or anger enough to as much as grumble openly or in silence, let alone pushed to commit murder or suicide. But you keep taking it in slowly, soaking it all up, suppressing the pain, and turning the other cheek; offering him another human blood sacrifice, another fresh womanliness, another precious ornament- so he can do as he pleases- just so he can leave you alone, but he still won’t let go. And meanwhile within you and your household is locked up all that it will ever take to snuff the living daylight out of this bully- this beast- this vagabond- this ingrate- this despoiler- and redeem yourself and family. But you choose to do NOTHING. And on the day he as much as merely calls you a rascal, you start complaining, blowing hot and cold, waxing philosophical and hysterical about how that you are not a rascal. So what are you- what are we, folks?

Honestly, I just wished all that the PDP has done so far- since 1999 to date was merely call us RASCALS, and our mothers, sisters and daughters were not repeatedly gang violated, our nascent ‘democracy’ not corrupted and corruption democratized, our resources not mindlessly plundered, our country men, women and children not brutally slaughtered in endless and needless ethnic and religious conflicts, our land not left for ruins, and generations upon generations of Nigerians down to the unborn not sentenced to servitude. If all that the PDP has done so far was merely call us RASCALS, then we should of all people feel most fulfilled.

But if they have actually done worse things to us and we are truly, truly angry and pained in our hearts and challenged as a result, then GREAT NIGERIAN RASCALS, I figure we should know what to do as true rascals. This should be no time for insulting and abusing each other’s mother or father – tribe or religion, as we have always done in our discourses; or time for mere, empty talk, which as they say is cheap. This also should be no time for sectional politics, for are we not all-of-us fully represented in the South West of Nigeria- the Yoruba, Igbo, Hausa, Urhobo, Efik, Ijaw- Christians, Muslims, traditional worshippers, and therefore all-of-us RASCALS. This instead should be time for planning and strategizing on how to flush out these VIPs-‘vagabonds-in-power’.

Or how can we keep returning the PDP every election (or selection) year and keep wondering what is happening to us- keep wondering why we should be called RASCALS. Therefore, it’s either they are the problem or we are. It’s either they are the rascals or we are. It’s either together our DNA is inferior compared to them, or we are all born equal. It’s either they alone have a monopoly of good luck and mischief at the same time, or we can match them toe-to-toe. It’s either as the majority we have the power to make change happen, as did in Obama’s America and currently happening in Tunisia, Egypt and across the Arab world, or we are too feeble, too effeminate, too lily-livered, and too spineless to take on the less than 3% of this population- this cabal so-called, that for 12 years now has been oppressing and keeping us in bondage.

However, I can see that the opposition is perhaps even the greatest problem we have- worse than the PDP. Because an opposition that behaves worse than roadside love-peddlers can never expect to be taken seriously. An opposition that pretends to be on the side of the people while merely serving as leprous fingers of the ruling party is worse than charlatans. An opposition that tries once, twice, thrice and don’t succeed they straight defect to the ruling party is bereft of any form of principle or ideological bent. An opposition that believes or is deluded that either Ribadu or Shekarau or Buhari or Okotie or Utomi or Momodu, notwithstanding their noble intentions or perceived level of goodwill and popularity, can singlehandedly take on and defeat the octopus and monster that the PDP has so far become, is an opposition that is either lacking in native intelligence or gut instinct or political wisdom or maybe plain deceitful or power drunk or self-serving, no doubt unserious or dimwitted or all of the above. SIMPLICITA!

Therefore they owe it to us- each one of them- to forthwith shelve their individual differences, pride, ego and ambitions- bend backwards, do whatever it takes, yes- make a little more sacrifice- so they can forge a common bond or alliance for the purpose of upstaging and dislodging the PDP. Clearly, without an alternative, credible, broad-based and all inclusive platform outside the PDP for the teeming population of the oppressed people of Nigeria, what is the use for all the hullabaloo about the recently concluded registration exercise- what is the use for the ever strident clamor for one-man, one-vote, with every  in the street knowing that the PDP will ever be happier, richer, better off for the oppositions’ votes that will be so, so, so STUPIDLY divided in their favor. What is the use of casting that vote knowing that at the end of the day, even if the elections were adjudged ‘free, fair and credible’ (like the charade that happened the other day at the Eagle Square that produced our KING OF ALL RASCALS), opposition votes would have been spread so thin not to cause any ruffles within PDP’s ranks. Thus anything short of that merger or alliance therefore, will be like living in a fool’s paradise- or better still, handing another easy and effortless victory to the PDP. And when that happens because consciously and deliberately permitted by our collective free choice, we should all have ourselves to blame- NO LONGER THE PDP. On our part as the masses- a people in dire need of true, patriotic and selfless leadership, this (merger or alliance) should be our irreducible minimum demand from the opposition. No more, no less! Except perhaps that is asking for too much. God bless you all.

Written by cleanbreak @Sahara reporters

^^^ na wa o!
I fully support this,
ACN AND CPC merger should be expedited asap!