The April 2003 election has come and gone but its belated appointment with karmic retribution stands above its shoulder of contraries and contradictions. It was a historical stuff of a tragic and terminal disrepute. For the nation, it is a heart-wrenching episode that serves, as a prelude for cruelty, betrayals and perfidies and for Northern Nigeria it was an acrobatic display of inhibiting imbecilities in its conduct of state affairs. No civilised form of democracy will ever accommodate this penchant for electoral ferocity and blatant display of art of soldering in politics being rehearsed and implemented by an autocratic recluse supported by potentially suffocating collaborators. If this breath-taking contempt for the norms of civilised society as reflected in the conduct of the last general election is eulogized by the low and high in society then there a misperception of the actual realities of what the ingredients of democratic rule entails and represents.
The illicit disgust and frustrations in the land as being experienced as crises in the country is nothing rather than the conceal a grand conspiracy and hypocrisy to separate the reality of segregation and segregation of reality. The most miserable and vulnerable to these acts of mischief is of course the masses of the country whose only strength is their apocalyptic poverty status and acute deprivations. This potent mix can be explained for correctly when the vast necropolis-nature of the country is viewed from the fact that for a long time certain power-forces tend to upheld power and cruelty with passion and style. The invention is not rationality and efficiency but class conspiracy in order to maintain a status quo, whose logical consequence is the continued stagnation and fomenting of the state organs and systems. The local government reforms is just one aspect of this strangulation. While it is quite agreeable that the local governments serve as conduit pipes for some dashing public money looters but same can be said to the state and federal governments.
The issue of petrol-pricing is yet another albatross of this government’s sheer insensitivity to the plight of the ordinary Nigerians...
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Do you think Russert and Fineman have ever heard of Nigeria?
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