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Oil bunkering+Drug baron+Looters=APC aka 'change' aka 'progressives' ![]() Happiness87: |
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Lolz @ibadan tout ![]() Whynotthetruth: |
dearpreye: |
Whynotthetruth, u need to ignore this son of hate! Whynotthetruth: |
Hehehehehe... francizy: |
SMH... |
Too Bad! |
They are truly under a very strong spell. demon possessed pple!! ECOTERRORS: |
Barcanista, I have never witnessed this kind of assembly of demonic pple in my life! barcanista: |
His brain must have been buried with Ooni in replace of AbobaDie ![]() Whynotthetruth: |
Hunger don reach d drum too ![]() |
The guy is so dope, the guy is the king of the twitter just like the way barcanista is the king of NL ![]() dunsman: |
Are all these thing u mentions not better than that of hunger killing pple in the state of Osun ![]() ba7man: |
Demola Olarenwaju is one of the finest critics in this country. I admire the guy a lot! erunz: |
"I would not be having office of the first lady" " I'm to be addressed as the wife of the president" "Buhari's wife still cook for her husband" bla bla bla... Bloody hypocrites!! |
Saturday morning found me reading a novel by one of my favourite authors until I checked my twitter notifications to see that two APC online supporters had copied me in a tweetpic of Governors Nasir El-Rufai and Ayo Fayose. The pixes depicted El-Rufai studying what looked like a construction map while Fayose was buying food items from a smiling market woman. The tagline screamed that while El-Rufai was engaging in City Infrastructure, Fayose was engaging in Stomach Infrastructure. Apart from the very obvious foolishness of comparing two states in farflung parts of Nigeria with each other while conveniently ignoring the reality that Osun workers are being owed salaries running into over 8 months just as Ekiti workers have received their July salaries, there is also the dimension of the psychological which I shall come to as the central theme of this piece in a moment. Osun and Ekiti share a border between Efon-Alaaye and Esa-Oke but the adulating fans of APC would rather go all the way to the heart of the north from Ekiti, driving through Omuo-Ekiti and Omu-Aran to Lokoja then Okene to Abaji through to Abuja then head further into Kaduna. They would like to ignore the silliness exhibited by Governor Ibikunle Amosun in sacking some teachers because their exam question were considered embarrassing to him. They are perhaps unaware that Ayo Fayose has not only paid teachers’ salaries up to date in Ekiti but is also giving out car loans to teachers in employ of the state. Supporting APC or PDP is sometimes a matter of who you know, who knows you or something else but rarely thought of as a psychological thing. Observing the habits of our APC friends, I think there is no better way to explain their need to praise their leaders to high heavens than a deep-rooted psychological need. From Fayemi who left behind a debt of at least NGN70bn in Ekiti to Fashola who has found himself defending a NGN78m website, APC folks always seem to want someone they can hold up as a poster boy. I remember when on national television I challenged Ikem Isiekwena to mention any state where APC was performing well, he mentioned Osun, yes, the same Osun where grown men (state workers) and their families queue at churches every Sunday to be handed four cups of rice, a satchet of tomato paste and a few cubes of seasoning donated by people from all over Nigeria. The reason these grown men bring their families along is because the more members of your family you have on the queue, the more your chances of getting more stuff to take home. While PDP folks see the problems of nationhood as a systemic problem, the APC folks tend to think it is more of a single leadership problem. The answer to national development lies somewhere between both i.e. systems and leaders. This is why, for example, most of us in PDP were never bothered by allegations that Goodluck Jonathan was weak – to us, what we need are institutions that can help a weak leader to govern rightly and by his semi-detachment from some processes like INEC, free and fair election could evolve and thus deepen democracy. George W.Bush wasn’t the smartest man in any room but America had clear systems that enabled him to wage war against the enemies of America. If he out of weakness wanted to negotiate with a terrorist for instance, the clear policy of US would prevent him from doing this. Another example closer home would be the tenure of Nuhu Ribadu as EFCC chairman – considered personally effective but EFCC was not strong as an institution. Having been told that Ibrahim Lamorde was the brain behind the EFCC successes, Goodluck Jonathan appointed him as the head of EFCC but there was no difference. For the APC crowd, national development will come from one man, a seeming messiah who will in one fell swoop jail all the ‘bad pipu’ holding Nigeria back, dismantle cabals, urinate fuel at an affordable price and decree electricity into existence. For them then, every single leader in Nigeria’s past has failed because the leader was bad, weak or quite simply lacked ‘political will’. This political syndrome is also psychological, an inside out of the Saviour Complex, a situation where able-bodied young men and women rather than study the system and see how to make it work for the people constantly keep their eye out for the next best thing political – constantly looking, hoping and wishing for a messiah to come and end all the problems and as so often happens in the desert, a mirage always appears that makes the weary feet move faster only to shatter the hopes again. Time and time again, every single person that our APC friends have felt was a messiah has proven to be as human as everybody else – none of them can deny that they are not bothered by the slow pace of President Muhammadu Buhari to the business of governance or by the man’s inability to declare his assets publicly as he had promised to do. Indeed, they had told us that by now, the likes of Diezani would be behind bars for corruption – one of the more foolish ones among them even went as far as saying that policemen would no longer collect bribes on Lagos roads because Buhari had become President – it’s a psychological thing really. This tendency to imagine that every flash in the pan is actually a strike of gold is the reason why politicians will continue to deceive them. Again I reiterate that good leaders are needed but surely not at the expense of building systems because a terrible system will frustrate even the best of leaders while the best leader working with a bad system will fail in many areas because no matter how good a leader is, he is simply not a god. APC has won the elections and PDP has lost. As soon as the foolish ones can stop dancing for triumph and stop politicking, it will be time for us to monitor the performance of governors without looking at them with political eyeglasses – it won’t matter if Aregbesola is APC, we will condemn his foolishness in expending state funds. It won’t matter if Idris Wada is PDP, we will ask for his record of performance. The problem here though is that some of them in APC always read political meaning into everything and they will again find fault somewhere with this. We’ve learned to tolerate those ones with the forbearance of a big brother and we won’t forget that their challenge may be that psychological problem that perpetually waits for a messiah. http://allroundnews.ng/2015/08/15/opinion-the-psychological-dimensions-of-supporting-apc-or-pdp-demola-olarewajudemolarewaju/ Cc barcanista, lalasticlala, whynotthetruth, severussnape, mogodi, mizmycoli, phockphockman, firefire,ecoterrors,tomankint, truckpusher, dearpreye |
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Ok ooooo midolian: |
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RIP |
U don enter one chance ![]() |
Unlike them... Proudly PDP!! |
My nieces n nephews in primary n secondary school are still expecting their free meal ![]() EgusiSoup: |
U can't Expect buhari to fulfill this promise, when he hasn't even fulfill those promises he made during his campaigned ![]() |
No be only Nigerians enter one chance,Aljazeera don enter one chance too ![]() |
RIP |
Always proud of my ROLE MODEL ![]() Tonniey: |
Buhari n his bunch of looters ![]() |
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....What has your state to show for the intimidating debt it has?...What have you done since your governor stopped FOI?...You come online to insult Jonathan and PDP while your immediate environment is under fire...