Abolaji Adekeye,
Let us give Kennedy Emetulu a second chance. All you wrote about him may well be true, but he may also like Paul meet Jesus on his way galloping on his steed of vengeance to Daura to cricify Buharists!
His face will be washed and his sight restored to contribute to the development of Nigeria. Let him ambush as much as he wishes, Buhari is the president of ALL Nigerians.
Cheers.
IBK
On 8 June 2015 at 13:09, Abolaji Adekeye <blargeo.dekeye@gmail.com> wrote:
While the jury is still out on the Buhari administration; judgement
has been passed on your principal's.
While dissenting voices of reason are desired and necessary, yours is
not one except you are a changed person. You cannot guess your way
into becoming the vanguard of democracy, your antecedents hamstring
you. You who approved of the recent plunder. You supporter of 6 years
of calamitous ineptitude. You who defended a government of yam eating
goats. (Perchance you retained some yam in your ban?) In that context,
your write up is mere sour grapes. You continue to ambush a week old
administration because you desire to see it fail since your party was
rejected resoundingly by Nigerians that desired change.
Kindly be informed; change is not an event.
On 6/8/15, 'Kennedy Emetulu' via USA Africa Dialogue Series
<usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com> wrote:
> …
>
>
> Change and Lack of Internal Party Democracy
>
> Many Nigerians are not only deliberately or conveniently and even
> inconveniently amnesic about their past, they are also lying to themselves
> about their future. This explains why we cannot seem to correct basic
> governance mistakes, even after we have suffered for decades from such
> mistakes and even after we have been repeatedly presented with opportunities
> to change it and with clear evidence available.
> It's over a week now since a new government was historically sworn in at the
> centre. While there is this high pretence from various interests groups
> about the new government, with some making such harebrained declarations of
> great achievements so far by the new government, the cold, honest truth is
> that the country is at the moment directionless and nothing is happening.
> This is something that the myth of a Muhammadu Buhari bringing in charge
> cannot hide. Okay, I know one week is not the time to judge a government,
> but that is actually under a ceteris paribus assumption. In the real world
> of power and public policy, one week is a long time in politics.
> From the way the APC campaigned and for the fact that Buhari himself has
> been gunning for this top job for over a decade, giving the impression that
> he knows what he wants to achieve once he gets there, most Nigerians expect
> him to hit the ground running. But what have we got? He hit the ground
> alright, but he's just strolling. Any honest APC change voter knows deep in
> his or her heart that this is not what they voted for. I know it's hard to
> admit now, but it's the truth. Buhari is evidently an 'analogue' leader who
> believes too much in the hype of his own wisdom and who consequently thinks
> he can micromanage this whole change thing. In the end, little minds and
> hangers-on will run rings round him, cannibalise his ideas, gorge on his
> goodwill and the goodwill to him from the people and leave the government he
> runs an empty shell. He will come out of it as Baba Go Slow Redux.
> No, I'm not judging Buhari after one week. I'm just using the above comment
> as a signpost of something more fundamental. I'm telling Nigerians that
> Buhari and co have no idea what to do at the moment and for various reasons.
> They most probably did not expect to win. Their campaign was abjectly poor
> on vision, but Nigerians still voted them. Now that they are there, it's
> head-scratching galore! They attempted to buy time immediately after the win
> by repeatedly stating how bad things are and why Nigerians must be patient,
> but when they got the feedback from the people, they knew that kite wouldn't
> fly. Yet, rather than for the thinkers and intellectuals amongst them to
> seize the party and its leadership by the scruff of the neck and boldly
> craft out an agenda at least for the first two months while they work on the
> thereafter, they were busy deifying Buhari and creating all sorts of silly
> myths around him. They totally refused to appreciate that there's a
> difference between campaign and governance. Buhari is not God! All is
> falling around him now, but spin doctors are doing great covering up, but
> for how long are they going to depend on empty gimmickry?
> Here is the unvarnished truth and this truth is the purpose of my post: The
> real character of our democracy is in view now. The reason Buhari has not
> been able to make or propose important appointments is not because the old
> Senate was still in place or any of that kind of excuse. It is simply
> because the party is factionalised dangerously in its attempt to share
> power. That wouldn't have been a huge problem, if there was enough
> democratic content within the party. But where there is a distinct lack of
> internal party democracy, where a party is colonised by power cabals soused
> in the grand tradition of high corruption, what you see now from the APC,
> even after winning power, is what you get. Like the PDP before it, the APC
> is only a special purpose vehicle to win power, not an ideologically ground
> movement, not a party ready to form government or deliver good governance.
> If there was internal party democracy, you will not have a situation where
> party members elected into the National Assembly would be dragging
> themselves publicly in the mud to win leadership of the Assembly. It would
> have been a simple case of the members elected meeting and voting by a
> simple majority on who they want to lead them - nothing more than a thirty
> minutes affair and it's over. But they cannot, because there are tin gods in
> every corner wanting to put up their human drainpipes in every aspect of
> national leadership. How can any result of such a process benefit
> Nigerians?
> Of course, things can be corrected if young party activists begin to rise
> now and make their voice count, rather than timidly sit back doing "Babe
> ke!" and "Rankadede" behind expired leaders whose only claim to leadership
> is the amount of money they've stolen while in public service at some level.
> Such an action will jolt the party leadership into action and will prod them
> to begin to take the job at hand seriously. If this does not happen, the APC
> like the PDP will fail and you will hear such excuses as Buhari himself
> being of good mind, but those around him being evil. We will hear threnodies
> of how he was betrayed by his party or how his spokespersons muted his real
> intentions in pages and pages of silence. The power fight will take the
> usual ugly ethnic turn and nothing will be achieved for the nation as the
> better part of four years will be spent locked in such mortal political
> combats. One can only imagine the effect of this on the ordinary people
> knowing how our people are easily the playthings of politicians and
> inciters.
> For the rest of society, the implications are dire. Anyone who thinks once
> the APC fails, the PDP would walk back needs another think coming. The
> historical fact is that the PDP has failed Nigerians, which is why they were
> voted out. Yeah, we can all provide extensive lists of rationalisations for
> this, but the fact that the PDP did not and could not challenge the APC
> victory is statement of fact enough. So, no, Nigerians won't just be rushing
> back to the PDP after four years simply because APC has failed them. Rather,
> the more dangerous result of the APC failure is that Nigerians will become
> disillusioned with party politics and begin to express themselves in ways
> that are not so nice. Real social anarchy could be the outcome.
> So, really, what Nigerians should be doing now is to clear their eyes and
> begin to look for a means of creating a third force in politics. I'm not
> talking of supporting another party outside the PDP or APC, but a third
> force in terms of a conglomeration of new ideas, no matter how informally we
> start this. We must begin to create conversational spaces nationally where
> we as citizens can begin to look at issues without partisan-tinted glasses
> and provide solutions we can push in public space and force the
> establishment to accept them. Nigeria has wasted too many years under
> rudderless leaderships that the people have to seize the day now and begin
> to force the issue. If we really want democracy to work for us, we the
> people have to actually make it work for ourselves. This consciousness must
> start now.
>
>
> Kennedy Emetulu
> …
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