LET THEM KNOW THAT WE KNOW (A MESSAGE FROM THE OFFICE OF CITIZENS OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA) Written by Saint-Olawale Jimoh

Dear new Nigerian leaders,

   Let it be known, that we know the recent fight in the floor of the national assembly is not the first one since the beginning of democracy. It has happened before and it's clearly not in the interest of the masses but for your selfish interest. Your ultimate concern is robbing and fleeching our treasury to enrich yourselves. You negotiate away the future of our unsuspecting youths; share our collective heritage among yourselves while you distract us with unnecessary drama.

   Our being silent doesn't mean we are unmindful of how things are being done. In a gradual process, we will say things the way they are. We know how four times a year, each of the 360 members of House of Representatives receive about #55million as Constituency Allowance and how more than #65million is being given to each member of the 109 senators and how nothing can be shown for it in constituencies being represented by these legislators.

   The politics behind assigning our oil blocks among the cabals alone will shock a typical Nigerian commoner if he hears how much millions of Naira these selfish few Nigerians make per day from the deal. The worst tragedy is to suffer amidst plenty. We have oil, yet we over-pay for it. Even when we are ready to buy, another group will connive to hoard it in order to make us pay more, yet you call yourselves our leaders and legislators.

   We know how they live in palaces and move around in exotic cars with security guards. Their children are provided with everything they can think of including access to best education in best schools home and abroad.  Governors now make their children and family members their Special Advisers just like Kabiru Aregbesola receives 'allocations' for being 'first son' of Osun State. Their children simply never experienced hunger all their lives. This in same nation where two siblings died of hunger same day in Ibadan, Southwestern Nigeria, which is one of several other cases.

    Let them know that we are aware they know  there are people who can't afford three square meals in a day; they see destitute everyday and people who died because of their inability to settle their medical bills. With all these situations, how then can you publicly deny  there is no endemic poverty in the land? Either you acknowledge it or not, your actions and inactions have succeded in turning the masses into slaves by continuing to plunge them into the bottomless pit of poverty and mental malnutrition.

     Be assured this intimidation will end one day, the voices of the people will sound soo loud that the decibels will break ear drums. The blood of the innocent people who died as a result of your negligence will rise up with fury for vengeance. The empire of the oppressors will crumble before their own very eyes and power will truly return to the people. The time is near.

Perhaps you think, it's impossible? Alright listen to this, about 800 years ago, in Britain, the famous King John of England was forced to sign the Magna Carta bill in 1215 and by signing the document, it means he has agreed to do his duty as King of England, upholding the law and running a fair government. There at The Runnymede, on the banks of the River Thames by a little group of men who could sacrifice anything for freedon, he was offerred two options: to sign the bills or lose his heads and he went for the best option; he chose to live. Today, the Magna Carta is considered one of the most important documents in the history of democracy and that single act by the barons paved way to our rights, our human rights, rule of law, due process, Habeas Corpus, freedom and liberties, fair hearing and all of what we take for granted today.

To all our selfish leaders, the day of reckoning is here. On that day, your excesses, abuse of office and reckless financial profligacy will trigger actions from the masses that will eventually make governors' salaries equate with that of any state civil servant and legislative jobs becoming part-time with no salaries but only seating allowances for our senators and House of Representatives' members.

   Nigerian masses will demonstrate to you they can no longer be slaves to your rubbish by marching on to Abuja to occupy the entire power house

BEYOND POLITICS: A MESSAGE FOR THE YOUTHS. Written by Saint-Olawale Jimoh

     The activities of the youths in the present day democracy is a sad picture of the terrible situation we are, in this country; a clear symptoms of the sickness of this society and I am gravely worried about the future of a nation that care less and provides little guidance to her youths.
     This brings to mind a Yoruba proverb that borders on back sores. The proverb warns that a motherless child, should not be into the business of having sores on his back. The back is not exactly a part of your anatomy you could see or reach easily. It therefore takes the dedication of your mother to take care of sores on your back. If the nation is not playing the motherly role on her youths, it implies that the youths should put more than ordinary efforts in order to stand tall rather than surrendering themselves for all manner of tides that come their ways. Regrettably, politics absorbs a sizeable number of these indecisive young folks.
      In recent times, the youths have been hired to do all manners of untold damages especially in the last general elections. The involvement of hired youths in the circumstances as a tool for continuous confrontation either for or against political entities is worrisome. They use these young ones for political intimidation, harassment and even assassination of political opponents. Bad as it may appear, there are still many youths that see it as a means to an end.
      On the social media, there are those who are specialists in character assassination. Most times, they get sponsored to author malicious attack on certain individuals or a candidate that their sponsors perceived as a threat in order to discredit them before the general public and the unsuspecting masses soon take them serious.
      These youths are easily manipulated due to the factor of hunger and starvation that has claimed the lives of many Nigerians in recent times. It's a general belief that those who sent them are not different from them. Majority of the politicians we hear and read about today don't have other job than politics. Those who were celebrated professionals abandoned their jobs after tasting politics money. The late Ibadan political godfather, Chief Lamidi Ariyibi Adedibu was once quoted to have said he never worked all his life. He lived strictly on politics and there are thousands like him all over all the geo-political zones in Nigeria.
While it's possible to classify all politicians as one, yet there are surely pockets of excellence here and there. Men who are shiny examples of truthful leadership and enviable track records outside of politics.

      Two weeks ago, the Nigerian Tribune reported a story about the immediate former Governor of Ogun State, Otunba Gbenga Daniel, who was nominated in faraway land as the Chairman of Nigeria-Finland Business Council. This top Nigerian politician, who is fondly called Engr. J.O. Daniel by his business partners, professional associates, colleagues and clients both in Nigeria and overseas is equally the Chairman of Kresta Laurel Limited. The company received the ISO 9000 certification earlier this year for international best practices, thus becoming the only Nigerian company to be so certified in the crane and vertical transportation industry. In a similar development, Kresta Laurel Limited has also been named the best KONE distributor all over the world while KONE has been rated the best manufacturer of elevators in the world. Meanwhile, Otunba Gbenga Daniel as I learnt, originally founded Kresta Laurel business in 1990 when he was barely 34. Following year, he became Fesojoye of Ile-Ife at 35 in 1991, a traditional title conferred on him by Oba Okunade Sijuwade, the Oni of ife and the traditional spiritual head of Yoruba kingdom and people. At that age, he became the youngest Yoruba person to take a chieftaincy title from the Source. Few years after, National Concord listed him among 100 most successful businessmen in Nigeria.  As at this morning, I gathered this politician has received over 500 awards!

     Maybe this story will inspire young men of my generation who sees politics as passport to become moneybags in Nigeria. Hardworking pays and if failure is real then success is more real. There are practical instances all around us showing that we can make it if only we learn to stick to what we know how to do best. Few months ago, a Nigerian youth like us, Chinedu Echeruo sold his application to Apple for $1billion; the founder of facebook, Mark Zuckerberg is not older than some of the political mercenaries who are on the social media to insult our collective intelligence only for peanuts that can't last them a week.
I think it is high time the timid and indecisive youths go about their normal duties and stop acting as a tools to some heartless politicians who continually and selfishly explore the political terrain while taking undue advantage of these helpless youths to attain to power at all cost.
    And to the general public, there's a lesson to be learnt here, never never entrust power into the hand of a man that has POLITICS as his first address. A little they say is enough for the wise.

NIGERIAN GOVERNORS AND THE ERA OF UNPAID SALARIES.Written by Saint-Olawale Jimoh

  The likes of of Chief Obafemi Awolowo and Nnamdi Azikwe who were founding fathers and the national heroes of this nation will all be weeping in their graves when they hear how things are being done in the land they sacrificed everything to set free. How Nigeria leaders just do things as they want not minding the effect on ordinary Nigerians. We have endured several harsh policies and conditions imposed on us by the government, yet they feel it's not enough. Today, the civil servants are their targets.
    In Yagba East Local Government Area of Kogi State, we heard they have been paying their workers 40% of their salary for so long now (when it is paid at all) that the unpaid 60% for each worker now brings the total unpaid months to 13. One year and one month of unpaid salaries!
     In Benue State, the civil servants are being owed almost 12 months' salaries and the primary school teachers had to go on strike in order to make government pay their unpaid 14 months salaries.
     If this trend continues, we will start seeing deadbodies of government workers who died of hunger. It might get to that and there are those who will not even wait for such to happen before they end the shame.
   Last month, right there at house number 13, Cele Close in Agbowo area of Ibadan, Oyo State two siblings died of hunger and another senior civil servant in the Obokun LG Area of Osun State, Mr Ojo Owolabi attempted to end his life by drinking large quantity of insecticide because of the failure of the State government to pay his salaryies for the past six months.
Just last Sunday, the State pastor of The Living Faith Church in Osogbo, Olumuyiwa Emmanuel, had to make passionate appeal to members of the church to start bringing foodstuffs and money to assist members who are civil servants that have not been paid for seven months.
    Osun State case is more worrisome. Aregbesola, the Governor of the State has severally been accused of wasteful spending on areas that has got nothing to do with the State. He is paying millions for the parking space of his helicopter but Osun workers are going to bed hungry everyday. His son, Kabiru Aregbesola is still collecting his office running cost as "First Son" of Osun State.
Sometimes I wonder what kind of milk did these adults drink from their mothers' breasts that they behave and act like satan? They are gradually pushing the masses to the wall and I can bet that before long, this uprising, as Fela says, will bring out nothing but the beast in all of us!

THE FALSIFICATION OF OTUNBA GBENGA DANIEL'S RECORDS AND HISTORY BY ODUNOWO AND HIS CO-TRAVELLERS Written by Saint-Olawale Jimoh

   The attention of The Truth Advocates, a group of selected Ogun youths where I belong has been drawn to the recent and continous attack on the person of Otunba Gbenga Daniel by some sponsored elements. The most recent one being posted on one Azeez Ebora's facebook wall where his co-travellers were tagged is a sad commentary on the state of our tertiary education. Reading through some of their recent grammatically-challenged posts, it's shocking how these guys brimmed with such ignorance and stupidity that left me utterly bewildered. Much as I have sympathy for them, I'm gravely worried about the future of a nation that consciously mis-educated his generation. Whilst I empathise with them, I enjoin them to be mindful of the implication of what they're doing for today's action is tommorrow's history.
      In several of their recent unintelligent posts, they made many outrageous claims against the person of Otunba Gbenga Daniel (OGD) that shocked and annoyed even those who had nothing to do with OGD.  Naturally, I would have ignored their baseless claims and moved on to address important issues of our polity but I equally found it historically important to scrutinize their claims and to expose them for what they are: falsehoods.

Falsehood 1:
In one article authored by one MacLawrence Odunowo and published on his facebook page on the 12th of May, 2015 and titled: THE GENESIS OF THE LION OF THE WEST PHAROAHISM REIGN.
The writer claimed that,"Otunba Gbenga Daniel, according to investigations from reliable sources is believed to originate from Delta State. He came to Sagamu and was helped by a man named Agenjo, with the support of Chief Bayo Oluwole who is an estate agent.

Fact 1:
For records, Otunba Gbenga Daniel's father, The Most Rev. Adebola Daniel is the son of Daniel Banjo whose father was Abamba Daniel Otesile, hailed from Agbele, whose previous location was where the Sagamu International Market, along Sagamu-Benin Expressway, is located. Around 1860, as history has it, there was Oresile/Agbele war, forcing eight daughters of Oje Compound to be dispersed in different directions. Some of them were later found at different locations in Ijebuland.
   In the course of searching for the whereabouts of his children, Chief Abamba Otesile got to Ososa where he met and married another lady called Adetiloye. The couple, we were told, later moved to Omu for economic reason and it was in Omu that Daniel Banjo was born.  Chief Abamba Otesile was said to have returned to Makun where he re-united with some of his family-members who had settled in Makun, on leaving Agbele, from where he had gone to Ososa in search of his daughters. Makun is part of the communities, constrained to come together and form Orisagamu. While Chief Abamba Otesile returned to Makun, his ancestral homestead, his son from Adetiloye, remained behind with his mother in Omu. It was in Omu that he flourished, married and gave birth to Adebola Daniel, OGD's father, who lived for considerable length of time, in Omu where he had married Esther Olaitan Daniel from the family of Mabadejo of Ago Quarters, Omu-Ijebu in 1945. Though his father had met and married his mother who passed on in 2008 at age 83, in Omu, the family, in search of greener pastures moved to Ibadan where OGD was born on Friday, April 6, 1956 in the house of late Pa Ogunsote in Ososami area of Ibadan..

It's important to add here that a certified history records in Omu-Ijebu and Sagamu supported this claim. So, all the hogwash about OGD coming from Niger Delta are baseless.


Falsehood 2:
Few weeks ago, one Austin who claimed to be calling the attention of the new IG to investigate the crimes in OGD tenure wrote that,"several criminal activities were perpetrated by the former governor and his acolytes when he was in power through the use of a killer squad that he set up and nurtured.."
He claimed many uncountable students of Olabisi Onabanjo University were killed through the killer squad. He based his arguement on Hon. Waliu Taiwo's claim that OGD maintained killer squad.


Facts 2:
Many persons voluntered to be used as macenaries in a bid to break the OGD Team that appeared too strong to be divided while OGD was in office. Hon. Waliu Taiwo resigned from OGD cabinet and went about heralding OGD kept and maintained killer squad.
When the dust settled, same Hon. Waliu Taiwo who was the former Commissioner for Agriculture in Ogun State, after dumping the political group being led by the former Minister of Commerce and Industry, Senator Jubril Martins-Kuye and Prince Buruji Kashamu, retracted his earlier claim that a killer squad existed in the State in a letter dated 10th June, 2010 where he tendered an apology to OGD, saying he deeply regretted whatever the defamatory statement he made earlier may have caused him. He openly admitted he lied against Otunba Gbenga Daniel.
     Asides this, how on earth would anyone embark on a mission of killing countless number of students for no reason? In this same Ogun State? The other time, the students of University of Ibadan disrupted activities within the campus while also blocking some public roads near the institution as they protested the death of ONE of their students named Mayowa. Is it possible for HUNDREDS of students to be missing in a school without students protesting and the management announcing it to the whole world? Or does it imply that the concerned students don't have parents and guardians? Sometimes, we need to check our facts and information source so we don't insult the collective intelligence of the general public while trying to pull someone down.

Falsehood 3:
In another article written by Oluwaseunfunmi MacLawrence and posted on his facebook page on the 12th of May, 2015, OGD was accused of many offences. The writer claimed OGD's "governance and presiding role as the former number one citizen of Ogun State brought nothing but carnage and casualities.
He concluded that "the life of an average youth means nothing to OGD as a person.."

Fact 3:
Throughout the history of the entire nation, OGD remains the only person who paid unemployment allowance to unemployed youths through Ogun State Unemployed Graduates Assistance Scheme (OGUGRADS) which he ran for about three years. It was through OGD-led government that some Ogun youths were sponsored abroad for various Masters programme through OGD's Human Capital Development Programme (HUCAP). How does anyone say the administration that built the first university of education in Nigeria brought nothing but carnage and casualities? Same administration built about 20 housing estates across the State. OGD-led government built one of the best NYSC orientation camps in Nigeria; built four ICT polytechnics across Ogun State and three new international stadia for the remaining ethnic division after MKO Abiola's stadium for Egba people.

Falsehood 4:
One of the major accusations levelled against OGD and his administration is the issue of forced oath taking, where it was alleged that OGD forced some of his aides and commissioners to take oath in some secret shrines in Ogun State.

Fact 4:
On this, I think OGD's response on "AGSOBA session with OGD" would clear all doubt as regards forced oath taking believed to be orchestrated by OGD.

"If you say you swear oath to someone, it is to either secure their maximum loyalty or keep some secrets, failure of which certain things were supposed or expected to happen. Many of these people who claim the oath or ritualist stories have since moved on, fought OGD, violently attacked his personality, but what has happened to them?

So, it is either the stories were false and fabricated or that the oath is not potent and effective..
Such is the conspiracy our administration had to contend with".

Falsehood 5:
Another recruit, one Femi Emmanuel Adebayo on his facebook page on the 20th of May 2015 foolishly wrote that, "Mr. Daniel will need to elucidate us how he acquired such wealth before assumption into office as governor.."

Fact 5:
When IBB said "the Nigerian youth is useless and cannot lead.." He was refering to the likes of Femi Emmanuel Adebayo. Poverty is a terrible plague and can limit reasoning thereby making an individual see fiancially successful people as those from other planets. It's shocking to hear someone in this age questioning how it was possible for someone like OGD to possess such wealth even before getting into office. But he was alive when OGD became the Deputy Managing Director of a german company (which made him the first African to rise to such position in the history of the company) at age 31. Same man they're querying became Fesojoye of Ile-Ife at same age. The edifice, Kresta Laurel that made the front page of one of the editions of Ovation magazine in 1997 was built by Otunba Gbenga Daniel when OGD was barely 41. Meanwhile, it's on records that he originally founded Kresta Laurel in 1990 when he was 34.
    At 35, OGD was already an employer of labour. Few years after, National Concord listed him among 100 most successful businessmen in Nigeria. As a matter of fact, as far back as 1989, when he was only 33, Sam Omatseye of the then Newswatch, who now works with The Nation authored a story about OGD in its November 9th edition (page 33), where he called him a man 'to be watched!'
So, to our friend asking how OGD became so rich before he became governor, I think you need to start thinking big to achieve big.
Practical examples are all around us. Today, Chinedu Echeruo who sold his application to Apple for $1billion is much younger than you; the founder of facebook, Mark Zuckerberg should be same age with one of your children.
That you cannot achieve it doesn't mean it's impossible. It's all about determination.

SAINT-OLAWALE JIMOH
(The Truth Advocates, Ogun State)
08058257541

FASHOLA DESCENDING INTO THE ABYSS OF INFAMY. Written by Saint-Olawale Jimoh

        Of all the present and past governors in the Southwestern Nigeria, the present Governor of Lagos State, Babatunde Raji Fashola remains one of my favourites. I fell in love with this man when he was listed among the best global thinkers. I took time to research about this dude and what actually it is about him that distinguishes him from the rest of our leaders.
     At a time, Colin Freeman, of The Telegraph, United Kingdom, touched a pleasant chord with me when he wrote that though Fashola 'famously claims to be "just doing his job" but has somehow won near-celebrity status for transforming west Africa's biggest city, cleaning up its crime-ridden slums and declaring war on corrupt police and civil servants!
     BRF as he's fondly called is simply one of a kind. Apart from being brainy, he's equally goal-driven and resulted-oriented.
    Over the years, hardwork and unwavering determination leads to success; continual success brings fame but fact is, not many people can manage fame. Some people having attained limelight suddenly become the opposite of what they have been known for.
    Fashola may have allowed his giant strides in Lagos State and past records get into his head because there cannot be any sensible justification for his actions in the last few months.
    For instance, early this year,  our own BRF publicly called his political opponent and PDP governoship candidate in Lagos State, Jimi Agbaje, a tax defaulter and claimed the pharmaceutical company owned by the fellow was owing Lagos State huge amount and it was only few days back that Jimi paid part of the debt.  Just few days after, Lagosians were shocked when in January, the Honourable Commissioner for Finance in Lagos State, Mr Ayo Gbeleyi sent and signed a personal letter to Mr. Agbaje, commending him for his faithfulness in payment of taxes. This clearly showed BRF acutally lied considering the fact he's a lawyer and knows the consequences of such action.
    Just few days ago, same Fashola was quoted to have said, 'training Almajiri children has no gains!' This coming from a public office holder and till today, I have never seen anyone either on the social media or in the newspapers condemning this speech credited to Fashola.
     The real shock came again when he claimed the Presidency was responsible for the recent robbery attack in Lekki. This is one of the most irresponsible comments I have ever heard from a public office holder. He claimed the security operatives who were supposed to secure the area all went to secure the venue President Jonathan visited in same Lagos. If all the security operatives were engaged with GEJ's visit as Fashola claimed, how come 3 policemen where among the casualties?

     Meanwhile, if I'm not mistaking, Fashola made this statement at the APC Youth Rally held at Intercontinental Hotel which had in attendance Buhari, APC governors and other top party's officials. Is he fooling us that no policeman was deployed to the hotel in their hundreds? Or his hundreds of police attachment in his convoy couldn't have faced the robbers some close distance to the scene of the incidence. I think it's high time we quit politicising issues that concern lives.

   It's disheartening to see how money and politics could change a man we all admire and respect. Just imagined what a political party reduced a once respectable SAN to?
 An African proverb says when a leaf stayed longer in the soap, it becomes a soap as well. Fashola has stayed long enough in the system and has suddenly become one the regular Nigeria politicians.

IJEBU NORTH-EAST LOCAL GOVERNMENT OF OGUN STATE: BETWEEN OTUNBA REMI ODUBOTE AND MR FEMI ODUFOWOKAN

           Late last year, 8th of November, 2014, one Wale Ifemi wrote an erroneous piece on one of the Ijebu North-East Local Government (LG) facebook pages. His piece is so much unintelligible and I tried very hard to actually understand his drift. He claimed the current Ijebu North-East LG boss, Femi Odufowokan is the most performing chairman while Otunba Remi Odubote's regime was the most corrupt regime ever.
     One of the things I have learnt about facebook is how to ignore low and uninformed minds. Some people are just too narrow-minded and irredeemably moronic and it's needless raising one's BP trying to whip a deadhorse. It's based on this fact that I resolved not to react to his piece yet we cannot leave people like him to form an opinion for the general public on issues they evidently are not equipped enough to handle.
      To say Odufowokan's regime is most performing is blatantly unfounded and saying Odubote's regime is most corrupt is wickedly ungodly! Femi Odufowokan is a very good gentleman and I honestly don't have anything against him and his office. It's just that in terms of performance, Otunba Remi Odubote and Mr Femi Odufowokan differ. In fact, based on unparallel achievements achieved by Odubote-led administration, one can boldly say she's the best chairperson the LG ever had.
      It's easy to criticize my analysis here afterall comments are free only the truth is sacred. Whoever therefore has an opposing view can clearly show who in the history of the Local Government has actually done better than this woman.
       Before analyzing her achievements, it's important to mention here that in my self-funded organization, affiliated with National Anti-Corruption Volunteer Corps, we have already compiled how much the current administration of Ijebu North-East LG got from Abuja since June 2011. Our people will ask this administration in the nearest future what work/project has been done with the billions allocated to our local government. Even if they escape scrutiny, history will not forget those who conspired to squander our collective wealth and the sycophants who shun the truth because of peanuts from these execuTHIEVES.
    For records, here are the giant strides of Otunba Remi Odubote while in office as the executive Chairperson of the LG:
  In her first term in office, succeded in constructing ten (10) blocks of two (2) classrooms each in 10 Wards of the Local Government. Those schools are still there till today and are being put into proper and effective use.
      The free surgical operations sponsored by Otunba Remi Odubote-led administration to which over 150 hernia patients benefitted from is still the first of its kind in the history of the Ijebu North East Local Government.
     Her administration constructed and equipped three (3) community health centres in Isonyin, Odedeyo and Ilese in addition to the ultra modern ones at Igbeba and Odosendora. Only God knows how many lives have been saved through using these institutions.
      It would be recalled that it was during this woman's second term in office that 8 befitting vehicles were distributed to some Obas in the Local Government. It was in the heat of these giant strides by Otunba Remi-Odubote's administration that Ijebu North-East LG was voted the best in the entire Ogun State.
   At this juncture, I want to humbly beseech Mr Wale Ifemi to hold me in the hand like a kindergarten and show me how many projects the current administration executed successfully since they started.

TOLERANCE: JUST WHAT WE NEED BESIDES RIGHT LEADERSHIP.Written by Saint-Olawale Jimoh

 In my previous articles, I have been accused of showing preference for one presidential candidate than the other. Fact is, I am neither for GEJ nor GMB. In the last few months, the social media has been bombarded with 'change' messages that unless you are completely aware of the purpose behind the wild agitations, you will quickly become part of the "mainstream."
      Let's even assume the change of government happened, so what next? Jimmy Cliff wrote that there are 'many rivers to cross
but I can't seem to find my way over.' The essential ingredients to accompany genuine change is tolerance and attitudinal change. The message of tolerance is more paramount right now than before especially in the North.
      Few days ago, Nigeria was spared the Rwandan moment in Gombe when some disgruntled elements almost bombed Mr President and can you imagine level of silence on the matter ever since on social media? Same thing happened immediately he rounded up campaign in Maiduguri? Till today, no single person in the north has condemned the act. I pray and hope the minds behind these attacks won't take it further than this. It is on records that the killing of President Juvenal Habyarimana sparked the Rwanda genocide!
      In Bauchi, the other day, all sorts of missiles were fired at the president's convoy with some of his followers brutally attacked. Some other grown ups were quick to cite that PDP supporters carried out the attacks. What kind of milk did these adults drink from their mothers' breasts that they talk and lie like children?
     Free and fair polls begin right at the stumps, the campaign grounds. Aspirants irrespective of his tribe must be allowed to campaign in the strongholds of their opponents without being attacked or harassed.
     Question is where are we heading with all these? What makes a typical Nigerian see the suffering of fellow citizens as being okay for them? What makes a parent feel that the abduction of young female children and women is okay as long as they're from a different tribe? This certainly will not leading us anywhere and the much-agitated change wouldn't stand the test of time if this issue goes unaddressed.
    Political godfathers and key players in the opposition are childishly playing around while Nigeria is burning. They should be very careful about what they wish for. They might just get it! In a state of war no one is an untouchable. And if Nigeria actually won the war, why is everyone still crying forty years after? We must learn, even from our own history else, this uprising, as Fela says, will bring out the beast in all of us.