The political class is arrogantly building a huge wave of massive masses discontent and hate; through the wave of huge illogical and inexplicable defections in the face of hunger, insecurity, and massive masses discontent they are arming the masses against themselves; and very unfortunately partisan obscurantists and jesters like the APC National Chairman Alhaji Ganduje think that all is well, and that the descent to a One-Party State is ok.
The pervasive wave of arrogant defections shall fuel the people against the political class and by Jove give fillip to the emergent masses motivated ballot based revolution just ahead of us. Quote me, nothing in history is truer than the fact that the power of the people is mightier than the power of those in power.
The gale of defections will count for nothing and amount to the proverbial Wait for Godot in the face of the realities that confront the masses daily. The sponsors of the defections and those who contrive these defections; the defecting Governors and the defecting Lawmakers should learn from the 2023 general election where 21 State Governors could not deliver their States to their preferred Presidential Candidates; and they must understand that only Partisans who benefit from the blood-stained and the blood-soaked mandate of the present watch are standing with PBAT President Bola Ahmed Tinubu). Anyway power intoxicates to befuddling stupidity that they may never learn.
In the now popular build up to the 2027 General Elections (since the APC before mid-term, not up to the second year of PBAT’s term have dumped leadership and governance for politics and politricks), the APC if it likes, can go ahead blackmailing opposition Governors and Lawmakers with charges of corruption; they can threaten them all they like and make them defect to the APC with alacrity afterall if they have clean hands they wouldn’t be scared; and the APC as it were is a Beatification Centre where the corrupt is transformed to Sainthood. Don’t be deceived, the gale of defections to the ALL PROGRESSIVE CONGRESS APC are contrived, procured and compelled, there are no dot or jot of altruism in the defections and none in the defectors either, everything to them is politics, it is simply egocentric, self-serving and self-seeking, no one cares about you and I.
On the converse side however, the shameless shenanigans of the defectors wreaks Olympic arrogance, huge shamelessness and wanton soullessness when juxtaposed with the fact that the Ruling Party which has become their new Mecca or Jerusalem has failed to make real the promises of democracy. In fact the APC is big on propaganda and very little on governance. But the shenanigans of the protagonists of State Capture and a One-Party State who predominate the APC doesn’t bother genuine patriots and keen followers of Nigerian Politics because we are aware that in our nation’s history no group or Party has ever conquered Nigeria, none can, and none will.
The PDP is today the victim of their *’we shall rule Nigeria for 60 years’* arrogance, and so shall the predilection of the APC to a One-Party State meet its sordid comeuppance. Nigeria is not for hire, and the arrogance of Politricktians and Partisans will not mortally destroy our intellectual and ideological margins, yes politicians have shamelessly admitted that they are lacking in ideology, and that the Parties are bereft of ideological margins, that noted, come 2027 the masses shall massively show to them that we know good governance when we see one.
Countrymen, Countrywomen and Compatriots, it feels good to see a new divide on our political space, it is a clearly drawn out line, a battle between the People and the Political Class. It is about working together as a People, uniting as the Class of the Oppressed, and organizing rather than agonizing; it is about slicing the arrogance of the political class and teaching them that Power truly belongs to the People; it is about redeeming our country from the ravaging claws of rampaging thieves and buccaneers; it is about birthing and berthing a New Day, a New Dawn and a New Republic that works for all; and it is about Making Nigeria Great Again.
God Bless Nigeria.
Prof Chris Mustapha Nwaokobia Jnr
Convener COUNTRYFIRST MOVT. A Good Governance Advocacy Group.