Nigerians And The Love For Their Oppressors

It is a pity that in this modern age, Nigerians are still very much love with their Oppressors. 

At every opportunity the oppressors will oppress Nigerians and their families all the time and everywhere.  

This is what we see everyday on the internet and off internet, very pathetic. Borrowing one of Fela's popular hits, suffering and smiling, despite that many of these Nigerians are feeling this slogan in their daily life activities they still slug it out on the net and off net to defend their oppressors. It is a very common thing in many places... place of work, place of worship, political sojourn. 

The former president of Ghana, Jerry Rawlings  describes Nigerians as those who are still in love with their oppressors when he hosted Sowore, the presidential aspirant for AAC in Ghana. Rawling's verdict on Nigerians vis-A-vis their oppressors should not come as a surprise to anyone if you really understand  Nigerians and the peculiarities of the country.... ethnic-ism, religion, nepotism, tribalism, materialism and so on. The biggest card they play is materialism when it comes to oppression. Ours is a country where we worship wealth without consideration for the source of the wealth.

Nigerians encourage oppression in all forms when it comes to wealth acquisition. As a result majority of rich people take advantage of this by enslaving and brain washing Nigerians including many educated ones.

I will keep my discussion on oppression to politics and political office holders because the issue here centred on electorates and political office seekers. The point Rawlings painted during his meeting with Sowore was that Nigerian voters still love to vote for those political holders that have denied them all the basic things of life.

And these set of electorates will be on internet defending these political criminals with all their strength and mobile data whereas the children of those they are defending have access to the best education and healthcare money can buy. Though very few of these e-rats and internet thugs are pay very little money for feeding and data at the expense of having basic amenities of life. The off-line electorate thugs too are ready available across the land.

Nigeria is a crazy place where people will do away with their conscience when offer money to vote even the educated ones and some with reasonable financial resources are not left out. But in 2015 the uncommon thing happened during the general presidential election that brought Buhari to power. The few people I spoke to in Lagos made me realized that they did not collect a penny for voting for Buhari  even they reject out-rightly the money offered by Jonathan's team. 

Before the coming of Buhari , all political office holders are oppressors of the electorates at various levels of government from 1999- 2015. They failed to provide the basic things of life for Nigerians rather they all sent their kids abroad for the best education and for any medical issues and sometimes to Dubai for party with tax payers money. Upon all these the e-rats and internet thugs failed to condemn and kick against this abuse of office, instead they go berserk on the net writing all sorts of congratulation messages on their oppressors' time line whenever the press or their oppressors show stuffs like graduation photo of their children in foreign land even when their schools are still closed because of ASUU strike and their parents and families are not getting the needed medical attention in government hospitals. In addition these fools are not having light and portable drinking water at home. 

The Nigerian electorates might be the most docile people in the world I have ever seen.

Now that Mr integrity in person of Buhari has joined the league of Nigerian oppressors because he too has failed to deliver , it is crystal clear that both APC and PDP are parties of highly rated oppressors in the country. 

It is very sickening to believe that APC and PDP oppressors will turn the county around for good when none of their children or immediate families are attending public schools and public hospitals or using public transports. These two parties will continue to provide poor and sub-standard services in areas of basic things of life to the electorates because they and their families are not using these service except for the areas where they live. 

Looting and stealing still remain the order of the day at the expense of quality service.

The alternative sources for the electorates on education and healthcare delivery are private service providers which are mostly below standard and where superb are very expensive for common man and majority of the workers.

This is the time for alternative parties and INEC to invest their time and resources to educate the electorates and Nigerians on the danger of vote buying and important of voting on the election day. 

Besides, other serious parties and mega parties need to engage in aggressive campaign and enlightenment on why Nigerians should vote them instead of PDP AND APC. 

Furthermore, the time has come for the young, serious minded and vibrant candidates in other parties to come together and form alliance and take advantage of huge number of young electorate's population in the country. Somebody like Sowore and his African Action Congress should join hands with other young aspirants and present a formidable person so that Nigerian electorates can have a genuine alternative platform ahead of 2019.

Alas !!! In 2019 if PDP or APC manage to smuggle themselves back to power Nigerians are in for another four years of oppression and that will be political suicide for the OPPRESSED. - Irunmole-nla