The TRUTH Conquers all

  At a certain point in life, whatever anyone had done in the past would become a core point of reference. Such a reference could be required for evaluation of his/her present life or comparison of activities with the past records of the person. On December 11, 2014, almost all national dailies in Nigeria reported that Muhammadu Buhari won the presidential primary election of the All Progressives Congress (APC) with 3,430 votes. As reported, he defeated the likes of Rabiu Kwankwanso and Atiku Abubakar who had 974 and 954 respectively. As reported by observers, the party’s primary at the Teslim Balogun Stadium in Lagos was characterised by two significant things; (1) Its commencement was delayed for hours, and (2) Buhari’s near-to-tears and pitiable prayer for votes. According to a family friend, who was once a neighbour, the plea of Buhari, after the conclusion of his prepared speech, was full of passion to change Nigeria for the best. In fact, Buhari pleaded that he needed the...

  In Nigeria, if you are not an occupier of a public office or an inevitable power broker, you are constitutionally irrelevant. If you are directly involved in electoral campaigns but no public officeholder is connected to you as your skin is connected to your muscles, you are a waste in the land of plenty. If you are not partisan in nature and/or deliberately stay away from the stains and lies of politics in the country, then you are on your own (a.k.a. OYO). Based on the trend of insecurity in Nigeria in the past five years, anyone in the aforementioned categories is a less human to a cow. To emphasis the superiority of Fulani cows to people in the South, West and Eastern parts of Nigeria, the president and the legislature have become deaf to the Fulani herdsmen terrorism. This clearly signifies that cows are more equal than humans. If you are, in one way or the other, connected to major occupiers of public offices and the favour of government contracts get to you without stru...