By Ben Efe
Make a straight way for President Bola Tinubu, the naira shall be strong again, Peugeot shall sell for N5000, VW for N2500, the Elephant will fly and Supreme Court judges shall be born again.
They must be high on weeds at the Redeemed Camp to mount the pulpit and prophecy what the king wants to hear, while so many people cannot afford three square meals. The Agbado man must have forked out a jumbo pie for such an outlandish foretell. Times are hard, Nigerian market women believe their country is the headquarters of rapture, the Armageddon awaiting mankind.
Young men are trying hard to please their young lasses who believe an iPhone 16 is the beginning and the end of every relationship. Warped, totally warped times for young people to launch themselves into the dreams they hold onto. A good number of them have turned to darkness to empower them, some of the high and mighty in political, religious and social life patronise mediums, debias and Alfas to give them powers, so why not?
The progenitors born in the 60s and 70s are shaking their heads unbelieving that this is the same country, they once ate rice every Sunday, drank carnation milk, lactogen and scorned at people who ate Iced fish, Titus and Geisha.
This is the same country Brazilians, Indians, Ghanaians, once flocked to looking for the proverbial golden fleece. Times have changed, it is the other way round…Japa is the password to living a good life in another man’s country. Everything is worth risking, death in the Mediterranean, fried up in the Sahara and caged in Benghazi, Europe is the ultimate destination.
Young men who should be building themselves and their nation up, living like scared little mice in another country under another name. Young women who should be building homes and setting the pace for a good nation trafficked into sex slavery. The ones remaining on ground are not even safe in their own homes.
And prophet Enoch Adegboye and his likes, are there urging their citizens to keep believing, keep the faith and say a prayer always for the President, Senators and a Senate president who sends ‘ prayers to members’ accounts to frolic with Abuja and Akwa Ibom runs girls.
Leaders who climbed on the ladder to the roof and lift it up, so that their followers would perish in the flood of economic hardships. The MOGs and the fake Bishops scramble to get recognised by a sect bent on looting their nation to the very last drop of crude oil.
The MOGs ought to be fighting for the people who they collect tithes and offerings from. They, just like the Labour Unions, should be raising hell for the ‘chop make I chop’ political leadership, but the conspiracy of silence is unimaginably baffling.
Labour leaders who make so much noise in the media, but just one hour spent with ‘El Presidente’ in Aso Rock, they dance to the beat playing a different tone. So who is going to take Joe Ajero seriously? Which President is going to lose sleep when his Femi Roger Miller tells him: “Boss, Ajero has got a black eye in Owerri.”
Michael Imodu and Hassan Sumonu must be hissing in heaven about what has become of the labour movement they made a fearsome voice.
Who is going to challenge a President who seem not be mindful of the present day economic realities. He badly wanted to be President, now he’s got it. So what he is doing talking about climate change? A topic he once derided, could this be a sign he hasn’t gotten his priorities right?
It is the reason he wants to sail into the open seas in his presidential yacht and meet Vladimir Putin perhaps, renovate Dodan Barracks, Maradona Ibrahim Babaginda abandoned for years, budgeting billions of naira to renovate a Lagos abode, when he has a fortress in Bourdilon Road, Ikoyi with lots of bullion vans. Or maybe he doesn’t want Seyi Tinubu to brings his girlfriends home for threesomes and be distracted.
Meanwhile his army of rubber stamping lawmakers are excitingly waiting for the delivery of their $200,000 bulletproof SUVs. Senator Ali Ndume says the purchase of the luxury vehicles is justified, because Nigerian roads are bad. What a way to spit in the faces of masses who had been making sacrifices since the very first day General ‘Daura’ was sworn in as President. Tinubu vowed to continue from where he stopped, Oluremi Tinubu also got some tips on how to become first lady from Aisha Buhari. Now the cousin of Tee Mac wants N1.4b to buy a fleet of SUVs to run the office of the first lady.
Clueless ruling class, hopeless and desperate people…Gabriel Suswan says on TV that the people make governance difficult for the politicians in order words, it is the blind leading the blind. So Why wouldn’t pensioners be collecting two cups of rice as palliatives, after public and private entities have squandered their pension savings?
How the people move, what they eat, where they sleep is of no concern to the leadership, so they get killed everyday by rising cost of living, they get battered like Ajero everyday by criminals, on the highways, in their homes and in their banks. A woman was screaming the other day that her life savings has been wiped out by her bank. She isn’t the only one whose account has been emptied.
Criminals everywhere having a field day. And people are looking for the army of salvation to rescue them from the hands of elected, selected, crooked vagabonds and it’s rather pathetic.
The President warns his ministers that they either perform or get fired, well kudos to him, he didn’t wait for six months to have his cabinet like Muhammad Buhari who at end packed his government with deadwoods, incompetent and inept ministers. They got us where we are.
And so with all the imperfections that has accompanied Baba Seyi into power, he has to turn around the fortunes of the nation. Four more years of debilitating conditions such as these, Things will totally fall apart! It would be “to your tents o Nigerians and fend for yourselves.” The centre cannot hold.
