The 2015 Election which is by the corner is tending to create unnecessary tension and panic such that the Director General of PDP presidential campaign council Dr. Ahmadu Ali, was quoted in the recent past as saying that if APC wins the presidential election he would leave the country. The issue of 2015 election has caused most Nigerians who were deemed not vocal to talk and others who have been talking to talk louder. The situation appears as if the country has not gone through the experience of transiting power to a new administration before.
Though reasons for such
behaviours may not be unconnected with the recent postponement of the February
elections, other pundits have tenaciously referred to the June 12, 1993
elections which Chief Moshood K. O. Abiola was said to have won but was not
declared, as the basis for their worry. However, while Prof. Attahiru Jega had
told the House of Reps members two weeks ago that he could not guarantee the
new election date of March 28 and April
14, 2015, the President and Defence authorities have assured that elections
would be held, in defiance to the continuous threat by the leadership of the
Boko Haram Islamist sect that they would unleash 30,000 fighters to scuttle
elections in the North-Eastern part of the country. The good riddance is that
the Nigerian military is recently bombarding Baga, which has been recaptured by
our gallant soldiers cum the Multinational forces.
The fact that the peoples of
multi-ethnic backgrounds have been brought together, whether willingly or unwillingly,
under a defined territory called Nigeria with a federal government makes
Nigeria a nation, not short of kegs of an atomistic society, which is
perpetually at war with itself.
If as a nation’s politics is
believed to be the process to get authorized access to supervise and also
engage in sharing of the wealth of the nation for the good of all, then how
does violence, killings, disruption of campaigns of the ruling and opposition
Parties, theft, hoarding and buying of Permanent Voter Cards(PVCs), alleged
distribution of PVCs to some traditional rulers in the north-east by INEC
Chairman, insults to the President by every Tom, Dick and Harry, be the only
known and sane way of seeking to transit power in Nigeria? Why should a man who
sat on the throne of Nigeria turn round, in a jiffy, to desecrate the seat and
the occupant of the very seat he sat all in the name of being called the baba of modern Nigeria?
The intrigues of the 2015
elections have tended to threaten the continuity of what is called Nigeria
causing even cross-carpeting in the nation’s lower chamber of the National
Assembly, nay the executive arm of government.
The ruling Party seems not to have lost sight on the push by the key
opposition Party to clinch on the power valve through the ballot during next
election. However, while some political pundits argue in favour of change, the
ruling Party and its numerous supporters acquit the ruling PDP government of
having done well for the north. The
effort of the current administration in building 150 Almajiri Schools in the
north, development and expansion of electricity infrastructure across the
country via Integrated Power Project,
revivification and construction of new railway lines and provision of
trains to ply most of the routes, federal appointments of northerners, up to
the Chief Security Adviser of the President, and many more have been canvassed
by the ruling Party as a tip of the iceberg of President Jonathan’s effort to
keep the country going. Though it has
been alleged that the northerners are angered by how power slipped off their
hands, the statement allegedly credited to the Presidential flag bearer of the
key opposition Party in the country, is believed to have fuelled the Boko Haram
crisis which appears to be an albatross to the smoothness of 2015 elections.
