WE DO NOT SUPPORT DEMORACY, SAYS THE NORTH?

The man who was a sworn thorn in the flesh of Joseph Tarka; and who was quoted as once saying to him, "If you tarka me, I will dabo you" is at it again. He has spoken and told the listening world that Nigeria is not a practising democracy; but a contrived warped system of cabal approved and installed government which takes care of what the north wants, period! And the north wants to continue to milk Nigeria, dry? But is Benue State, technically speaking, even the North? Anyway that politics is for them to try and figure out as Icheoku now pivots back to the meat of this write-up.

Godwin Adzuana Daboh said the North will never allow Vice President Jonathan Goodluck to succeed President Umaru Yar’Adua were the latter to quit office either by reason of death or incapacity. In his own very incendiary words, Daboh stated, “The North cannot allow Jonathan to complete the term of Yar’Adua. The position here is that there will be an interim government within which somebody from the North will be elected to complete Yar’Adua’s term. We are not giving one day of this administration to the South.”

According to this loudmouth, in the event of the sickly President Umaru Yar'Adua kicking the bucket or resigning by reason of incapacity, the north will not allow the vice president Jonathan Goodluck to succeed him? Holly molly! What an arrant assault on democracy? But Nigeria, unfortunately does not practice democracy. Icheoku queries, what is then the use of the office of the vice presidency if not to provide a feeder slot should suddenly the president drops off the scene? If a recalcitrant section of Nigeria will not allow a smooth transition of government from a president to his vice president, what then is the use of having that office of vice president in the first place? Nigeria might as well default to a single occupier presidency to make it easier for all parties in case of a vacancy; wherein the foreign minister or senate president will step in to conduct fresh elections. This way, such a would be humiliated vice president who would not be allowed to succeed his president will have his ego in tact since there won't be any vice presidency, talk-less of being denied the opportunity when it avails itself?

Peradventure the rest of the Nigerian society and other sectional areas have allowed these mallams to always bullshit their way through, without any repercussion or resistance whatsoever. Icheoku asks, what then is the use of a vice president who cannot succeed a president, should the need arise? The North says Jonathan cannot take over from Umaru Yar'Adua and it does not matter what the constitutional provisions on succession is, after-all the north says so and so be it? The North is not a respecter of anything in Nigeria including the constitution; and despite the unequivocal provisions of the 1999 constitution that in the event of the president’s death or he resigns or is removed from office, that the vice president shall succeed him and take over the government, the north says no?

The north remains the stumbling block of Nigeria's growth and their linchpins, such as this Godwin Daboh, are always unguraded with their utterances; that you wonder what would become the fate of NIgeria were other personalities from other regions of the country become as crass and as vituperative as some of these mallams from the sahara desert? The irony of this all is that the north do not contribute much to augment the lot they are taking out from the central coffers and yet asserts themselves, like bandits into the affairs of Nigeria and unapologetically in order to guard the goose that lays their golden eggs?

Nigeria's development has stunted over the years because of the North's rudderless and uninspiring fixation with and in governance, which continues till this day. If anyone is still wondering why Nigeria is so leprous, epileptic and dysfunctional all these years; let the person search no further as in the north, lies the answer. A people who do not know and do not know that they do not know? A people, whose their very indulging lazy almajiri-culture, ill-equipped for governance and/or the running of anything; and yet they will not make way for people with the know-how to deliver Nigeria from its abys? What an obstinate and obtrusive group of people, these mallams are? The north also have continuously and consistently truncated governments in Nigeria through their military coups; fragrantly and without apologies to anyone held Nigeria hostage and shackled down to their peculiar idionsyncrsies; and for so long? It is pitiful as it is regrettable that they are that brazen and that other sections of Nigeria are too cowardly to put up any meaningful challenge to their hegemony? So if the north said 'No' to Jonathan, it remains 'No' to Jonathan; and the rest of the cowering and merely tolerated members of the Nigerian clobbered society, can only salute and fall out; case closed! What a bastard people, these Northerners, indeed are? Did you just mute to yourself, if I am angry? Yes, you betch ya! I am angry at the way things have been ran aground by these species of humanity, the Nigeria Northerners, that is!