Choices we don’t make

AS political gladiators and their sympathisers dispute election results across board, I see a country without a sense of danger perception and this isn’t about the choices being presumably made now, going by the outcomes of the contests. It is more about choices made by not making a choice. To the eternal shame of those driving our electoral processes, more Nigerians are getting disinterested in making leadership choices for the nation and when people grow weary of a process, which should presumably make them the King, the alternative is the process in which they would be ordinary cheerleaders.

Current figures prove more Nigerians are enjoying the siddon-look approach to the madness going on in the land in the name of an electoral process. The 2015 poll, with all its imperfections, now looks saintly, compared to the charade of today. Why won’t over 5 million registered voters stay away in Lagos, with all the Bourdillionaire bullion, when voting has become merely a way of ensuring a pre-determined end! It is inconceivable that despite the paroxysm in public domain ahead of the poll, especially on the social media and at public discourses, turn-out would be comparatively lower to 2015’s, except someone would want to tell us that the registered voters that stayed away in their tens of millions across the country, were potential ballot-box snatchers, scared by the presidential shoot-on-sight order.

Even in the theatre of war in the North where turn-out was presumed higher than the peaceful part of the country, the results generated from the poll over there are fit more for a cook-and-bull tale. Obviously, the Nigerians over there were not truly involved in the process. Maybe, someone may want to argue that the results this time around, especially in the South-West, North-Central, and South-East are a true reflection of the desires of the participants. Fine, but that would mean all the millions of votes in 2015, particularly in the North and the South-South, were either computer-generated or a sleight of hand. If so, it would be the perpetrators against God, just like the authors of the disputable results this time around, especially those from the arena where card readers were completely side-stepped.

Prophet who prophesied Atiku’s Presidential victory rejects result

I celebrate nothing and I pity those celebrating the supposed “fall” of the so-called heavyweights like Bukola Saraki, Godswill Akpabio, Emmanuel Uduaghan, Abiola Ajimobi, Ibrahim Dankwambo, et al. These are system persons, who will always have a look-in whenever it is time for the yummy-tummy of our common patrimony, even as oppositional elements. Their stay in the cold, if any at all, would always be momentary.

So, why don’t we leave those characters and situate the stark realities that should alarm and widen our visage. If votes are counting in a part of the country and reading like jackpot numbers elsewhere, would there be a better recipe for disaster? Even for about 18% registered voters who participated in Lagos is the unbelievable number of voided votes, not enough disincentive to sit-out March 9 governorship election? Has anyone bothered to ask why a cosmopolitan and better-educated South and North-Central had more voided votes than the ones reflected in the results from the educationally-disadvantaged North? Is there something someone knows better than the rest of us?

Here is one presidential election with massive regional interests, particularly the not-too subtle number two contest between Yoruba and Igbo, but strangely, it was the North, with unthreatened interest, (whichever way it goes between Buhari and Atiku, the presidency stays in the North) that supposedly had a bazaar-kind of turn-out, with what the results suggested. Well, strange things do happen in politics, but this is stranger. Even the embattled Middle-Belt ended with a sensible and defensible turn-out. This is where the political class should be careful of class suicide. Though it appears the people are walking and staying away from the madness in the land, the danger in taking it for docility is that when things get erupted and ruptured, it would be very bloody. It is either the people are doing it by themselves or a well-armed clique is helping to do it. Either ways, the outcomes won’t ever be demulcent.

No, Orisaguna, no

True to the prophesies of doom concerning her marriage at the inception of stardom, the home of Agege bread seller-turned super model, Olajumoke Orisaguna, is currently in tatters, according to her own account recently in the media. Expectedly, the fairy queen blamed her husband for being indolent, irascible and ungrateful, despite feeding him consistently for two years. The embattled hussie, Sunday Orisaguna, feels the runways, both home and abroad, has stolen the innocence of the village girl, he encouraged to seek better life in Lagos. This isn’t a magisterial platform where a party is cuddled and the other cudgeled over a failing romance. The estranged couple should press the pause button, and take a look back to where all began; particularly the supergal, when today’s roses, were thorns all over. She should be humbled by the fact that hundreds of her former colleagues are still sleeping in bakeries scattered all over Lagos and being sexually-abused, going by their confession. As for Sunday, t Choices we don’t make he bitter truth, is that there is no honour for a man being fed by his wife, regardless of how she rose; whether photo-bombed or photo-shopped. He should check what 1 Timothy 5:8 says of a man who can’t provide for his household. May the Prince of Peace take charge, Amen.

Good morning Oloye

Bukola Saraki is down but the Oloye family isn’t out. In the real sense of it, there isn’t much changing in Kwara politics, because despite all the grandstanding of the titular leader of APC in the state, Alhaji Lai Moh’d, Gbemi Saraki is still calling the main shot. Ask the minister if he would conscientiously claim to hold, on the emergence of APC’s major candidates. But it is ok for the new amazon, having the minister as the face of the “struggle.” She knows the real power lies with her. If Sai Bukky’s eyes are reddish today, the sister who he made to sulk in 2011, pulled most of the punches. O to ge, was more of revenge mission, for a sister scorned.