At the unveiling of the running mate of the APC presidential candidate, they keep happing on one national project that their team represents. And I ask, what is the content of that national project?
If ever there is such thing as a national project, when and who put the project together. When was it debated and agreed upon for it to be a national project?
A document that should be taken as a national project, shouldn’t the various interest groups and parties that forms the federation be taken into consideration and have a say in it’s formulation?
Questions upon questions begging for answers. In any case, how can that be able to solve the fragile peace of the nation with the shenanigans, deliberate falsehood perpetuated and exhibited so far by the persons who are promoting it?
Again, I heard them saying they are reinventing the 1993 episode which again is a fallacy because, that ticket was not tested to know whether it was a workable ticket or not. As such, we cannot say or see it as a referendum wherefore, once you refer to it, we should be certain of your good intentions.
Concerning the 1993 ticket, we’re only presuming that it may have worked judging from the antecedent of the man that was the head of that ticket.
There is no way we can say for sure that, that ticket would have become an el-dorado for the nation, Nigeria. To glibly cite and reference it to justify the insensitive decision particularly in the current hyper- distrust existing between the various interest groups in the nation is only belittling the challenge we have to overcome to attain national integration and cohesion
Many of the supporters of APC ticket keeps referring to Lagos as the reason they believe the candidate can fix Nigeria and his wife, a Christian as reason we should not be afraid of the same faith ticket. May be, we should take a look at representation in governance religion wise
We can do that by taking a look at the civil service composition in Lagos state. Lets look at the representation in the ministries, MDAs, Agencies, LCDAs, etc.
Please, can someone do an audit of the workforce in order to find out how fair and balance appointments are in this regard from 1999 to date, which was when “Lagos suddenly came into existence” as the state is seen by some these days? Oh sorry, may be “there are no competent Christians” in Lagos state as well.
What about the overbearing disposition of the head of the ticket where you cannot get any position without his permission and approval? Is it that attitude that he wants to take to the centre?
What about his running mate? There was a leaked audio said to be a conversation between him and Amosun immediately it made known that he will be the running mate. It has been nearly 2 weeks since then. Until now, there is no rebuttal to it. So, we can take it that he actually had that conversation.
In that discussion, he was heard expressing and counselling that his region should join forces with the South West in order to sideline as well as enact discriminatory policies against the East. Is that the can of person that can be trusted to pursue a national project?
As an aside. The language being used even by the head of the ticket connotes desperation. Seeing the election as a must-win means, all methods, both legal and illegal, moral and immoral can be used to ensure that the must-win come to pass. This statement is akin to the “do or die” used for 2003 elections; and we saw how rigged that it election was
And talking about morality, in one of the interviews the other day, he was asked what he has to say concerning allegations leveled against him as a fraudster. His response was whether those making the allegations can prove it. I don’t think that is good enough answer to that question
There seems to be so many areas of his life that seemed to be shrouded in mystery or a lie. One of them is his origin. More than ever, he needs to come straight with the public now: especially as the genealogy of the family to which he lay claim has come with a publication that excluded him as one of members of that family.
For as long as he can’t come clean with the public, there is no assurance that he can be trusted to implement a national project, if ever there is one.
By Okweh Ogah
