It’s obvious that Nigeria needs change, and change urgently. But the funny thing, in the wake of the coup allegations, is that many people want a millitary run leadership to initiate the change.
What makes it funny is that most nigerians nationwide abuse the army of being not only a human rights abuser, but also being infiltated and run by fulani herdsmen, by Boko Haram, by a section of fanatical islamists, and by bandits, and that;s why we have security issues in the country. Some even say that the Army has hundreds of boko members in its ranks, and also persecutes christians and igbos, and is complicit in the ongoing christian genocide
Yet it is the same army that Nigerians somehow think would run a ‘people’s government’…the same way people were saying that Buhari was now a democrat in 2015, or that we should ignore the iffy details of tinubu;s past to vote for him in 2023 (although tinubu won because the majority vote against him was split between Atiku and Obi.)
I don’t understand Nigerians. Is it that we are allergic to good government? I know, there is no one who is perfect, but at the same time it is as if Nigerians can’t work together to get rid of tinubu either by ballot box or by a revolution that has a plan for what comes next.? (I fact we don’t want to try the democratic way because ‘they will rig’ so…let’s go and sell ourselves as slaves to an even more autocrat leader because…)
History is replete with a lot of times where the army was seen as ‘saviours of the nation’ in Africa and elsewhere. We all know how it ended. Autocratic rule. Human rights abuses, bad economy, and people screaming for democracy eventually, and many times not getting it. And sometimes the army ruler retired, became a civillian ruler, and then when needed changed the laws to stay in power for life, while retaining absolute control of the army.
I know some people will think I am defending this government. Hell no. Nigeria’s problem has been a resource dependent economy that imports things we could produce at home…that;s the cause of all our issues. And no leader, including tinubu has done the needful in changing that. Army rule won’t make the economy better…oil revenue can no longer satisfy a nation our size since the 1980’s , if not earlier, and we will still have a poor looking budget, even if we eliminate corruption. And most nigerians oppose job cuts, taxation, subsidy removal, etc. Result…more loans to keep up appearances. And that;s what is going to happen under army rule. They will bring back subsides and palliatives, and so forth, and take loans from anyone to keep things up, and then in a decade we would be in even worse debt than we are now.
Better we vote for a candidate that would promise increase in productivity, and diversification, and be realistic that we can’t keep on subsidising, and can’t keep on paying jumbo money to the National Assembly for ‘projects’..and we have to fight corruption, and hold him or her to account, whatever the consequences, rather than vote for coup, and end up with an autocrat who will do as they like, and we won;t even have scope to say no.
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It’s obvious that Nigeria needs change, and change urgently. But the funny thing, in the wake of the coup allegations, is that many people want a millitary run leadership to initiate the change.
What makes it funny is that most nigerians nationwide abuse the army of being not only a human rights abuser, but also being infiltated and run by fulani herdsmen, by Boko Haram, by a section of fanatical islamists, and by bandits, and that;s why we have security issues in the country. Some even say that the Army has hundreds of boko members in its ranks, and also persecutes christians and igbos, and is complicit in the ongoing christian genocide
Yet it is the same army that Nigerians somehow think would run a ‘people’s government’…the same way people were saying that Buhari was now a democrat in 2015, or that we should ignore the iffy details of tinubu;s past to vote for him in 2023 (although tinubu won because the majority vote against him was split between Atiku and Obi.)
I don’t understand Nigerians. Is it that we are allergic to good government? I know, there is no one who is perfect, but at the same time it is as if Nigerians can’t work together to get rid of tinubu either by ballot box or by a revolution that has a plan for what comes next.? (I fact we don’t want to try the democratic way because ‘they will rig’ so…let’s go and sell ourselves as slaves to an even more autocrat leader because…)
History is replete with a lot of times where the army was seen as ‘saviours of the nation’ in Africa and elsewhere. We all know how it ended. Autocratic rule. Human rights abuses, bad economy, and people screaming for democracy eventually, and many times not getting it. And sometimes the army ruler retired, became a civillian ruler, and then when needed changed the laws to stay in power for life, while retaining absolute control of the army.
I know some people will think I am defending this government. Hell no. Nigeria’s problem has been a resource dependent economy that imports things we could produce at home…that;s the cause of all our issues. And no leader, including tinubu has done the needful in changing that. Army rule won’t make the economy better…oil revenue can no longer satisfy a nation our size since the 1980’s , if not earlier, and we will still have a poor looking budget, even if we eliminate corruption. And most nigerians oppose job cuts, taxation, subsidy removal, etc. Result…more loans to keep up appearances. And that;s what is going to happen under army rule. They will bring back subsides and palliatives, and so forth, and take loans from anyone to keep things up, and then in a decade we would be in even worse debt than we are now.
Better we vote for a candidate that would promise increase in productivity, and diversification, and be realistic that we can’t keep on subsidising, and can’t keep on paying jumbo money to the National Assembly for ‘projects’..and we have to fight corruption, and hold him or her to account, whatever the consequences, rather than vote for coup, and end up with an autocrat who will do as they like, and we won;t even have scope to say no.
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