FROM POLITICIANS TO THE PEOPLE (THE TRUMP WAY)

FROM POLITICIANS TO THE PEOPLE (THE TRUMP WAY)

The change of leadership which took a new dimension started right from Africa (specifically Nigeria) and then diffused into the world. With all the political mind games, pretense and blackmail, the set-ups and money thrown around to turn the tide to favor either those in power or the most wealthy or influential.

The situation that ensued from the politics of Nigerian before and during the 2015 general election beginning from the lobbying, interests, doggedness and steadfastness in the face of challenges. Nigeria witnessed an election highly cantered on tribal and religious lines. A situation where the incumbent throw money around just to demean or bring their opponent down with cheap blackmails and intimidation.

Imagine a Retired General been ridiculed on the pages of newspaper and been ordered to premeditated debates whose modul operandi has been determined by the ruling class. People who have contested elections severally and screened to be eligible were been subjected to their boys antics just to bring them to disrepute. Rather than brand their paymasters, they resulted to tantrums and newspaper crucifixion and maneuver.

Such was the case in America.one could see how Obama choked so many cases brought against his party candidate just to ensure he stamped his authority as the president of America and guarantee his party by hook or by crook win the election. They swayed the people both on opinion, personality and even race. They went as far as to conscientizing the blacks that the rival who is Donald Trump is a racist so as to discredit Trump in the eye of the electorates.

One thing I learnt from the whole American scenario is that when the people are ready to get back power from the politicians, they do without war or crisis. Trump played their cards for the ruling class and they were shocked by the victory he got. Little wonder to still ridicule the so highly exalted office of the United States president, they opted to call for recounting and blackmails claiming Russia tempered with their cyberspace and when they discovered they can no longer sway the citizens,they deviced a new strategy by protesting to  present President Trump as a minority candidate who lacks the backing of Americans. The game is on! The heat is on!!

                                                                                                                                                                                            

                                                       Comr. Emekume Vincent
                                    
                                      (c)EVO2016

 

NIGERIA TODAY

NIGERIA TODAY

SOME YEARS BACK NIGERIA WAS TAGGED THE GIANT OF AFRICA NOT BECAUSE OF HER CREATIVITY BUT BECAUSE OF ITS ECONOMIC IMPORTANCE TO THE WORLD WHICH IS SEEN IN HER MAJOR COMMODITY “’CRUDE OIL’’. UNFORTUNATELY, THIS SO BLESSED COUNTRY HAS ABOUT 87% OF HER CITIZENRY WALLOWING IN ABJECT POVERTY. LEADERS WERE NOW KNOW BY THE KIND OF CARS, AFFLUENCE AND ILL-GOTTEN WEALTH WHICH THEY PARADE AND USE IN INTIMIDATING ANYONE WHO QUESTIONS THEIR ACTIVITIES.SOON IT GOT TO A HEIGHT IN A NATION AS OURS THAT FOR YOU TO ASCEND TO POLITICAL POWER YOU MUST BE SOMEONE WHO CAN CHURN OUT HUGE SUMS OF MONEY TO BRIBE THE SO-CALLED HIGH AND MIGHTY.

IT GOT TO A POINT THAT FOR ONE TO HOLD POLITICAL POSITION,HE MUST BE A KILLER OR MAIMER.THE RULING CLASS TOOK EVERYTHING FROM THE PEASANT ONES AT HOME RANGING FROM BASIC AMENITIES WHICH OUGHT TO BE THEIR BASIC RIGHT TO THEIR FREEDOM,EDUCATION BECAME SO EXPENSIVE AND FOOD REMAINED A MIRAGE TO THE COMMON MAN.

ONE MAY ASK .WHERE DID WE GET IT WRONG AS A PEOPLE?IT DID NOT START TODAY.LET ME TAKE YOU ABACK TO SOME LINES IN THE INDEPENDENCE SPEECH BY THE PRIME MINISTER TAFAWA BALEWA WHO RECEIVED  LEADERSHIP SYMBOLS OF OUR COUNTRY WHEN DECLARED.

    ‘’TODAY IS INDEPENDENCE DAY.THE FIRST OF OCTOBER 1960 IS THE DATE TO WHICH FOR TWO YEARS,NIGERIANS HAS BEEN EAGERLY LOOKING FORWARD.AT LAST,OUR GREAT DAY HAS ARRIVED AND NIGERIA IS NOW INDEED AN INDEPENDENT SOVEREIGN NATION……. AND IT GIVES ME STRENGTH AND COURAGE AS I DEDICATE MY LIFE TO THE SERVICE OF OUR COUNTRY…………IT IS ALL THE WONDERFUL BECAUSE WE HAVE BEEN COMPELLED TO WATCH ONE COUNTRY AFTER ANOTHER OVERTAKING US ON THE ROAD WHEN WE HAD SO NEARLY REACHED OUR GOAL………………IT HAS BEEN THOROUGH AND NIGERIA NOW STANDS BUILT UPON FIRM FOUNDATIONS………..WE ,THE ELECTED REPRESENTATIVES OF THE PEOPLE OF NIGERIA,CONCENTRATED ON PROVING THAT WE WERE FULLY CAPABLE OF MANAGING OUR OWN AFFAIRS BOTH INTERNALLY AND AS A NATION.HOWEVER,WE WERE NOT TO BE ALLOWED THE SELFISH LUXURY OF FOCUSING OUR INTERESTS ON OUR OWN HOMES………THIS IS A GREAT COUNTRY WHICH HAS NOW EMERGED WITHOUT BITTERNESS AND BLOODSHED,FINDS THAT SHE MUST AT ONCE BE READY TO DEAL WITH GRAVE INTERNATIONAL ISSUES…………..WE ARE CALLED UPON IMMEDIATELY TO SHOW THAT OUR CLAIMS TO RESPONSIBLE GOVERNMENT ARE WELL-FOUNDED.....’’

NOW LETS TRY TO DISSECT THE WORDS OF THE THEN PRIME MINISTER WHO RECEIVED OUR SYMBOL OF INDEPENDENCE FROM THE QUEEN FIRST HAND.

          ‘’……AT LAST, OUR GREAT DAY HAS ARRIVED AND NIGERIA IS NOW INDEED AN  INDEPENDENT SOVEREIGN NATION’’.

CAN ONE NOT SAY THAT NIGERIA GAINED INDEPENDENCE BUT LACKED SOVEREIGNTY SINCE THE NIGERIAN LEADERS COULD NOT SUSTAIN NOR IMPROVE THE NATION THAT WAS HANDED THEM?IN NOT A LONG TIME AFTER INDEPENDENCE,THEIR GREED,SCHEMING FOR POWER GOT EXPOSED AND IN NOT LES THAN 6(SIX) YEARS,THERE WAS A COUP LED BY MAJ. GEN. AGUIYI IRONSI.

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                                                                                                                EMEKUME VINCENT

RELIGION THE CHALLENGE TO AFRICANS AND NIGERIANS IN PARTICULAR

 RELIGION THE CHALLENGE TO AFRICANS AND       NIGERIANS IN PARTICULAR

GROWING AS A CHILD ONE THING ONE CANNOT FORGET IS THE EMPHASIS TO LIVE UPRIGHT.I CAN REMEMBER HOW OUR PARENTS WOULD TELL US TO DESIST FROM ACTS THAT COULD BE INIMICAL TO OUR LIFE AND THAT OF OUR NEIGHBORS.PARENTS WOULD ADVICE THEIR CHILDREN AGAINST ILL-GOTTEN WEALTH OR MATERIALS IN ALL MANNER. THEY WOULD POINT TO THE NEED TO BE HONEST AND SINCERE IN OUR DEALINGS.WHEN YOU STEAL YOU ARE BROUGHT OUT AND MADE TO SWEAR YOU WILL NEVER DO IT AGAIN.THESE TIME,THE SO MUCH CHRISTIANIZATION AND ISLAMIZATION HAD NOT GOTTEN TO THIS POINT WE ARE

WHY DID I SAY SO?SOMETIME AGO IT IS WITHIN OUR LIVING STYLE TO TAKE A LITTLE WHEN YOU ARE HUNGRY BUT NEVER SUPPORT STEALING FOR PERSONAL GAIN ESPECIALLY IN OUR FARMING LIVES.BUT DUE TO THE RELIGIOUS EXPLOSION OF THE ABANDONED RELIGION OF WHITE MEN BY SAME WHITE MEN,WE SEE CERTAIN NORMS AS UNNECESSARY SINCE THE NEW GOD WILL GRANT US HIS GRACE ACCORDING TO THE ONESIDE TEACHINGS OF THESE WHITEMEN.

IN THE EARLY YEARS OF OUR INDEPENDENCE,HIGHLY RANKS CIVIL SERVANTS WERE PROMOTED AND RESPECTED FOR THEIR LEVEL OF HONESTY DURING THEIR SERVICE YEARS.TODAY DUE TO THE INDOCTRINATION OF OUR PEOPLE BY THE RELIGIOUS HOUSES,PEOPLE ARE CELEBRATED BY THE LEVEL OF THEIR STOLEN WEALTH.IT IS ONLY IN THESE WHITEMEN RELIGION THAT SUCCESS COMES BEFORE WORK AS IT IS IN THE DICTIONARY.THEY EMPHASIZE FAVOUR MOCKING THE BIBLICAL WORDS OF THEIR SCRIPTURE WHICH SAYS THAT FAITH WITHOUT GOOD WORK IS DEAD.

THE WHITE MAN’”S RELIGION CAME ALONG IT WITH IMPERIALISM,COLONIALIZATION AND CONSCIENTIZED EXPLOITATION.THEY MADE US BELIEVED IN THEM RATHER THAN BELIEVING IN US.IT IS IN THEIR TIME ALL OUR PRODUCTS WERE SEEN AND LABELLED ILLICIT AND THESE THEY SENT HOME AND RETURNED TO BE FANTASTIC PRODUCTS.THEY THROUGH THEIR RELIGION,RELEGATED OURS TO GOD KNOWS NOWHERE AND IMPOSED THEIRS AS A WAY OF LIFE.NOW I HAVE PROBLEM!IT IS KNOWN THAT CULTURE IS A WAY OF LIFE OF PEOPLE LIVING IN A GIVEN GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATION ACCORDING TO THEIR IMPACTATION.NOW THEY SAID WE SHOULD ABANDON OUR WAY OF LIFE SO AS TO EMBRACE THEIRS.

WHAT IS OUR CULTURE?

WE BELIEVE IN PRAYING THROUGH OUR ANCESTORS(THOSE BELIEVED TO BE WITH THE DIVINE AFTER THEIR JOURNEY ON EARTH).WE BELIEVE IN POURING LIBATIONS.WE BELIEVE IN CELEBRATION AND THANKSGIVING.WE BELIEVE IN INTERCESSION.AND MOST OF ALL WE BELIEVE IN DIVINITY. WE HAD CHIEF PRIESTS WHO CONSULTED THE GODS AND INVOKED OUR ANCESTORS WHEN NECESSARY. WE BELIEVED SO MUCH IN POWER WHILE PRESERVING OUR HUMAN DIGNITY. WE BELIEVED IN HUMAN SANCTITY AND PURITY.

WHAT IS THEIR CULTURE?

THEY BELIEVE IN PRAYING THROUGH THEIR SAINTS(THOSE CANONIZED AND BELIEVED TO HAVE ASCENDED TO Heaven to be with GOD).THEY BELIEVE IN RADICAL SPEAKING IN TONGUES AND INVOCATION.THEY BELIEVE IN CELEBRATION AND THANKSGIVING.THEY ALSO BELIEVE IN PRAYING FOR ONE ANOTHER(INTERCESSION).THEY HAVE PRIESTS AND PASTORS WHO CONSULTED THE DIVINE AND PRAYED THAT THE ANGELS GUIDE HUMANITY.THEY BELIEVED SO MUCH IN POWER THAT THEIR RELIGIOUS HOUSE DOES NOT TAKE ORDERS FROM GOVERNMENTS BUT THEY ALMOST DICTATES WHO LEADS IN GOVERNMENT NOT MINDING HOW HE GETS THERE.HUMAN SANCTITY AND PURITY

WHAT DO WE SEE TODAY?

WITH OUR WONDERFUL RELIGION REDUCED TO NOTHING,THE SO-CALLED RELIGIONS OF THE WHITEMEN(ISLAMIC AND CHRISTIAN RELIGION ETC) HAS NOT FARED BETTER. THEY NO LONGER PREACH SANCTITY OF HUMAN LIFE, PURITY NOR PROLIFE. ALL YOU HEAR IS PROSPERITY AND DEATH OF HUMANS TERMED ENEMIES AS AGAINST RELIGION.