ELECTION 2015, NOT JUST ABOUT JONATHAN?

Icheoku says regardless of your previous passivity to elections in Nigeria, including being generally apolitical, this Election2015 is totally  different and should get you started and firing on all cylinders. So much are at stake in this election 2015 as it is an election like no other Nigerians have ever witnessed. Forces of darkness that have held Nigeria down for too long are desperately fighting a battle of their life not to be completely and totally dislodged and forever banished into irrelevancy. They are fighting like an animal cornered and would rather see Nigeria dragged back to Hades than give up so easily. But the fight is both the Lord's and millions of Nigerians who have had enough and are determined now more than ever to permanently get rid of these parasites from ever holding Nigeria down again. 

Therefore every Nigerian with still some sanity left in him or her must help in this fight to forever stop this cabal from maintaining their stranglehold on Nigeria; and to ensure   the establishment of a permanent level-playing field for all. The concluded National Conference is a right step in this direction and its recommendations, if fully implemented, will go a long way in redressing the anomalies of the past many decades. It will ensure a Nigeria that is more fairly reorganized and where every Nigerian is equally treated. So while in the voting booth this election 2015, as you contemplate before you vote, ask yourself whether this effort is worthy your championship? Thereafter, vote to have the recommendations of the National Conference implemented as it will ensure the enthronement of equality, equity and fairness in Nigeria. The APC is against the National Conference, they repeatedly made that much known to Nigerians; so expecting them to implement its report is a wishful thinking. Therefore if Nigerians want to see the recommendations of the National Conference implemented, they must vote the party that constituted it and which has promised to implement it to the last letter. President Jonathan and the PDP midwifed the National Conference and the report therefrom is their baby and they will implement it with optimal TLC (tender loving care).

Icheoku says every Nigerian must in this election 2015, fight like they have a skin in the game and to protect their interest in the estate called Nigeria accordingly. Nigerians must fight like they mean it and indeed really fight to ensure that what is right is entrenched and that no one would continually bully or intimidate others around merely because of the part of the Nigeria's estate they come from. As a correlation, this right of every Nigerian not to be intimidated in Nigeria includes the right of the present occupant of Aso Rock not to be intimidated out of Aso Rock; and disregarding what APC's racist foreign sponsors might otherwise wish or desire as a preferred outcome for Nigeria. This election 2015 is a fight to defend every Nigerian's interest, including those yet unborn, those dependents and those whomsoever they care for. Icheoku alerts that a lot of things are dependent on the outcome of this election and therefore implores every Nigerian that they are obligated to ensure a positive outcome for President Jonathan.

Muhammadu Buhari belongs to the past and should not be tolerated in the driver's seat of present day Nigeria moving forward. Muhammadu Buhari participated in a counter-coup in the 60s (1966); Muhammadu Buhari was in government as governor and petroleum minister in the 70s (1970 -1977); Muhammadu Buhari staged another coup and was head of State in the 80s (1983 - 1985); Muhammadu Buhari was in government in the 90s (chairman PTF) and again the same Muhammadu Buhari wants to return to government in this 2000s (2015)? Just one person, in a country of over 170 million people, in a period stretching over four decades, participating in governance, yet he is not tired neither does he want to yield the floor to a much younger generation? Regrettably too, Muhammadu Buhari did not leave much of an imprint on the sand of time during the period he strode the estate of governance in Nigeria that is worth mentioning. Recall that it is this same Muhammadu Buhari that was the then military governor of the Northeast Nigeria region, the same impoverished Boko Haram infested region of Nigeria; which goes to show that he did not do much to improve their lot while he served as their governor.

So in this election 2015, Nigerians should vote not just because they love Jonathan but to vehemently reject the fraudulent anomaly called Muhammadu Buhari, who is now masquerading as a corruption tsar. A man who claimed that he was too poor that he had to borrow the 27 million Naira required to pay for his presidential declaration of intent and nomination fees, yet his wife donated 135 million Naira to a charity event shortly soon after? The problem with some Nigerians is that they are indeed too gullible to be seriously buying into this orchestrated roadshow called Muhammadu Buhari and his vow to fight corruption? Icheoku decries that Muhammadu Buhari cannot fight corruption, not when he is surrounded and keeps company with very corrupt individuals, is currently enjoying the fruits of corruption and corrupt proceeds are heavily deployed in paying for and funding his election campaign. 

Who is Muhammadu Buhari deceiving or rather who is he going to first arrest and prosecute for corruption, when not Bola Tinubu, Rotimi Amaechi and all those APC governors who could not afford to pay salaries of their civil servants but are channeling states resources into the presidential campaign fund of Muhammadu Buhari? Like an Igbo adage which says that "he who eats the scrotum of the lamb is owing hydrocele big time", Muhammadu Buhari is now so heavily indebted to corruption slumlords in Nigeria that he must pony up substantially to them if he ever "wins". Icheoku berates that with Muhammadu Buhari, it is now a case of see no evil, hear no evil and speak no evil  about and concerning corrupt men and women around him, who he now associates with and who are funding his presidential campaign. Yet he says he wants to fight corruption and wants Nigerians to believe him and vote for him because of this, when his current body language and the company he now keeps suggest otherwise? Nigerians, please tell Muhammadu Buhari to give you a break, a very fat, big break for that matter that he is corruption-free and will vigorously fight corruption in Nigeria!

In this election 2015, there is no place for any sitting on the fence or staying aloof undecided or unperturbed. No, every Nigerian that calls Nigeria home, country or even a place of some interest where to visit periodically, has something to say in this election. With their votes, those voting must  loudly and clearly say that moving back to time long past is not an option they can exercise in this election. Those not voting must unequivocally state their position and what voting wisely is all about and encourage those voting to vote right. Otherwise how could any Nigerian stand by and watch the reprehensible quota system once again triumph over merit? How can any decent Nigerian standby and watch a man who  disproportionately benefited from quota system through his army career, now once again, be similarly rewarded with an unmerited presidency of Nigeria? 

If as APC would like Nigerians to believe that Nigeria deserves a change and that APC is the party of change, why did they not begin the charity from home? Why did the APC not show or lead by good example? Why did the APC not start the change by not presenting a very old man Muhammadu Buhari as their presidential candidate, when they have so many much younger and more youthful candidates than 72 year old Muhammadu Buhari they would have presented as their presidential candidate? Or is his a case of the biblical painted sepulcher our Lord warned us about; otherwise why the APC's current attempt to pour an old wine in a new wine-skin believing it will impact its chemistry, aided by their propaganda?

What answer would any Nigerian who is voting for Muhammadu Buhari give to their children when asked, what then is the value of education if an uneducated or semi-illiterate grandpa is allowed to even run, talkless of winning Nigeria's presidency? This election 2015 is about all those who believe in improving themselves educationally and who or whose parents have spent a lot in that direction. This election 2015 is about all the youths of Nigeria who look at United States of America, United Kingdom, Mexico and even Namibia and see their mates providing leadership in those countries; and turning back to look at their own country, couldn't fathom why not them too? This election 2015 is about all those wise Nigerians who have come to the conclusion that a leopard does not change its spots and neither does the cobra de-fang itself and will then vote to reaffirm that. 

This election  is about all those Nigerians who hate to see injustice done to a man, simply because he came from the minority Niger Delta. Injustice to one is injustice to all; so if a Yoruba man Olusegun Obasanjo did his own full eight years time in the presidency, why not an Ijaw man Jonathan? This election 2015 is about all those Nigerians who believe that there is already a noticeable improvement in Nigeria with regards to infrastructures, growing economy, fight against Boko Haram, general freedom, as well as other new things and ideas that are daily being tested and tried; and who believe that there should be no curve ball thrown to disrupt it at this time. This election 2015 is about all those Nigerians who know that their own very grandfather and great grandfather has no much energy left in them to direct affairs of their families, talkless of that of a nation of over 170 million disparate people? 

This election is about all those Nigerians who cannot stand idly-by and watch an aberration of a blind-man Muhammadu Buhari leading sighted people of Nigeria? This election 2015 is about all those Nigerians who detest the reprehensible quota system and its sacrifice of merit in all national affairs? This election 2015 is about all those Nigerians who indeed truly believe in a united Nigeria, where every Nigerian is equal and are treated equally under the constitution and not as AREWA may otherwise determine or sharia-nize? This election 2015 is about Nigerians who desire to see progressive change in a tangible, meaningful way and not such as is propagandized in a 72 year old grandfather, who was recycled from the previous millennium? This election 2015 is about all those patriotic Nigerians who do not like the current meddling by some racist foreign powers in a purely internal affairs of Nigeria. These people do not like black people and dislike the recent successes recorded in Nigeria and are now hell-bent and eager to derail it by scheming to impose on Nigeria a government of mediocrity led by a mediocre. 

This election 2015 is about all those patriotic Nigerians who are horn-mad that America refused to help Nigeria in their fight against Boko Haram terrorists; refused to sell Nigeria weapons and even went to the extent of pressuring other countries not to sell weapons to Nigeria. Icheoku says only an enemy or a friend who is worse than an enemy, the type MKO Abiola admonished that with a friend like IBB no one needs an enemy, would stand by and watch terrorist ravaging a people and fail or refused to do something to help. So Nigerians, ask yourselves, what interest does the same people now have in trying to influence a Muhammadu Buhari's return to the presidency in Nigeria? It cannot be anything but sinister, motivated by ill-will to pull Nigeria back, down and under. 

Ask yourself Nigerians if the way things have been in Nigeria is okay by you; otherwise do something about it by voting to secure and consolidate the current far-reaching grounds being broken everywhere by the government of President Goodluck Jonathan. Entrenched power never yields so easily without a fight and they are now fighting their last battle to remain relevant and in control in Nigeria. But with your votes Nigerians, you can help President Jonathan continue his current revolutionary reforms to make Nigeria a better society. With your votes, just do your part to stop and reject this attempt by these evil forces to roll back the gains of the past few years and their effort to push Nigeria back to the nineteen eighties. You have the power to do something about it and by voting wisely and for someone who at least can process information intelligently, your job would have been three fifths done. Icheoku says had APC given Nigerians an option that they can live with, may be; but not a 72 year old despot, who has the blood of three innocent Nigerians in his hand. 

Nigeria cannot afford to continue to wallow in this perpetual one step forward, two steps backward, all motion and no movement, they have been doing these past decades. Such that each time they are trying to figure things out and begin to make some progress, something always comes from the blues to intervene and checkmate it. This election 2015, Nigerians must say enough of these interruptions to Nigeria's affairs. The ongoing progressive march forward must not be interrupted, not this time and never again. Vote to reject Muhammadu Buhari and his foreign sponsors who want to abort the progress of the past few years. This election 2015, please vote to ensure continuity; please vote to reject foreign meddling in Nigeria's purely internal affairs matter; please vote wisely to end recidivist rule; please vote smartly; please vote for generational shift and the permanent institution of new breed in governance; please vote for a generation that has something to protect and not one that is nearly becoming extinct as a result of age related attrition. On MARCH 28, VOTE GEJ.