THE DAY OBASANJO DIES!!!

The Day Obasanjo Dies, Will Nigeria and Nigerians be Free?

In homes, on the Streets, in beer parlours, curses are rained on Obasanjo; all blames of Nigeria’s problems are placed on him. The Media, [but for NTA] vehemently echoes the people’s ‘curses’, oh sorry ‘voices’. In many Offices, at Restaurants, Filling Stations, the curses on Obasanjo mount to the high heavens. At the gathering of fools, when drunks congregate, even when the intellectuals ensemble, it is not any different. In most Newspapers and Magazines columns, Obasanjo is the Nigerian Villain vilified.

In Nigeria, everyone knows the answers to all the problems of Nigeria’s except the non advice- heeding and arrogant President. Everyone know exactly what should be or shouldn’t be done by the President yet in their daily responsibilities they fail and the beauty of life is that they would gleefully fault it on Obasanjo. If it is not Obasanjo, poverty becomes Nigerians perfect excuse. He is the modern day Pharaoh and Nigerians are the Israelites. His leadership is insensitive to the plight of the masses (Often described as the poor masses).

Fuel pump price increases? As the sixth largest producer of Oil it shouldn’t be heard of. No jobs, Obasanjo has pocketed them for his families, or because he is wicked he won’t release the jobs. Un-maintained Refineries of over twenty years are ill-functioning, Obasanjo should get them repaired magically, eight years is a long enough time to repair damaged goods of twenty years? There is no money to pick on the street or money for no job done; Obasanjo has stolen all our money. No food, almighty Obasanjo should provide three square meals by way of manna from heaven; otherwise we would starve to death. Obasanjo, Obasanjo, Obasanjo, everybody’s excuse for failing, so I ask,

“The Day Obasanjo dies, will Nigeria and Nigerians be free?”

O! President Obasanjo, [NDDC] Niger delta Development Commission became a reality: it wasn’t you. GSM became a reality; it wasn’t your idea besides the high tariff is killing us. Economic and Financial Crimes Commission is formed to check fraud, that’s Obasanjo’s business to victimize those who oppose him. A Stadium was built Obasanjo wasted our money on Sports when there is no food on our table. Money was raised for the biggest Library; it is called “executive extortion”. Rural- Urban migration continues unabated, Obasanjo is not motivating the youth to stay in the village and farm. Money is given to PHCN, old transformers get repainted and acquired, after a week they collapse Obasanjo should know what to do, he is all-seeing. Teachers would not teach students are splattered on the street getting schooled by foreign films and musicals; Obasanjo is irresponsible for that to be happening. Children are untrained at home on how to conduct themselves in life; Obasanjo is responsible for that failure. Offices’ Executives hoards money in fixed deposit to profit self and thus starve workers of their pay. Obasanjo should be their conscience to do the right thing. Due Process is a welcome development but how such and where is the money they are saving? He secured debt forgiveness and settlement, are they not the ones that incurred the debt? Nigerians cry back. Cynicism characterizes our existence. Oh what a people, what a nation?

“The Day Obasanjo dies, will Nigeria and Nigerians be free”?

Money is approved for repair of roads, middlemen eat half the money, Obasanjo should catch them, afterall he is the God watching the Conscience of Nigerians. Our Self-seeking Legislators who have become the ‘high and mighty’ cannot stand up for the country or intelligently debate laws to find solutions to our problems, Obasanjo has pocketed them. O! Nigerians, what a nose-dive attitude and perception to life we have imbibed? Who undid us with this “enshrined failure attitude”?

Obasanjo! Obasanjo!! Obasanjo!!!

What good fate has made him the President of ‘Great Nigeria’? : A Nation of people who excuse themselves of all sins and finds a Scapegoat in their President. A Nation of people where everyone is too right in their own eyes to be corrected, where we love God but not our neighbours? When he came, they said a Saviour has come. His reforms call for hard work and sacrifice, why? Why? That is not in our character so he is no longer the Saviour; he is the sacrifice, ‘the sacrificial lamb’. Upon him (Obasanjo) is laid the iniquities of us all. Like Jesus, the day he dies, it will be finished, the sacrifice would have been made but will Nigeria and Nigerians be free?

The Day Obasanjo dies, Nigeria and Nigerians shall be free. Yes! Yes!! Yes!!! It shall be free. We shall have free money and jobs shall litter the streets and rooftops. The dishonest saboteurs called middlemen shall be BORN AGAIN and become noble Patriots. The self-centred, power drunken Politicians who gamble our future for their jollity and egotistic sustenance shall become noble statesmen and render selfless service to the nation. When Obasanjo dies, Civil Servants shall turn a new leaf and stop Pen-Robbing Nigeria. Police shall stop to embarrass us with N20 Toll Point no-service collections; the Police brutality innocent people suffer everyday will be a thing of the past, [especially the commuters drivers] the killing of innocent people calling them criminals shall be history, and policemen shall no longer rob us on the high way with guns bought from tax payers money. Bankers would reduce high interest rates, loan money freely and think more of Nigerians than profit for their investors. Oh Obasanjo, your death shall turn the irresponsible father and husband to a good father and husband respectively. The ungodly men shall turn noble and work hard sacrificially for the good of Nigeria.

Obasanjo’s death shall mark a new dawn for a Nation in utter disarray and self delusion, when he dies, our Artisan workers shall become honest and hardworking. His death would stop our young beautiful female children from prostituting or get trafficked to Italy. His death shall revolutionize our young men from the “get-rich-quick mentality and make them work hard with patience for their effort to yield honest fruit.

The Day Obasanjo dies will Nigeria and Nigerians be free? He tells Nigerians to see “hope”, but they call him a hypocritical preacher. It is not untrue that Nigerians are the happiest people, they booed their President before the world during COJA and were overjoyed they did, our ignorance is our bliss. Yes, tis’ true that Nigerians are the happiest people. For all our past and present failures Obasanjo is the perfect excuse. Glaringly, failing in our civil responsibilities, we clamour for our civil rights. The Day Obasanjo dies, Nigeria shall be free. Yes! Free of materialistic preachers. Our preachers shall rethink and teach the beatitudes of Jesus. Nigeria shall be free of ‘Sheiks’ who foment and instigate religious chaos that lives many innocent people dead, they shall teach that ‘Islam is the religion of peace’ and in peace we must live, ‘live together as brothers or perish as fools’ to borrow they words of Martin Luther King Jnr. The Death of Obasanjo shall free Nigeria of its much ethnic conflicts that cause civil unrest, for example in the Delta region of Nigeria. Universities Lecturers shall then give marks meritoriously, and not to those who succumb to their amorous loins or the rich student who ‘sort’ them out. The Day Obasanjo, “Saviour turned dictator” dies; Nigeria and Nigerians will be free of all sins for then the sacrifice would have been made.

So then shall we await his death, the death of Mr. President. He shall die, surely but when his days be fulfilled. For I bear him witness, that he is not responsible for Nigeria’s ills. What distress he faces daily, of efforts unappreciated, even for the best of intents. Mr. President, such is the life of a reforming leader; lonely and hard, but the omniscient justice is your judge; you are not the “ill” of Nigeria. “Time, Bob Marley said, would tell”. Of recent, volitional loyalists are springing up and singing your accolades, even the antagonistic Labour President, why now? They couldn’t see your foresight when foresight is the hallmark of a leader. They have called me a fool, a sycophant and a blind man who cannot see the plight of the masses? Yes, I am a fool, blind and a sycophant, thank you. I know that I have always been one but the truth be told, we collectively undid Nigeria: our neglects, our oversights, our omissions, our greed, our self-centredness and our unpatriotic attitude. Our condoning of many wrongs, our ignorance, our determined ‘will’ to achieve selfish aims at all cost and our lack of sense to train our children.

Our greed and fear of what to eat has kept us from aspiring higher goals in life. Like CHICKENS we live for food, food, food, yes we need food But the Government house is a bureaucratic place, not a farm, if we need food so badly, let’s be wise enough to plant a seed, the Bible warned that, “ the talk of the lips tendeth to penury”. A wise man digs a well before he becomes thirsty, nature is irreversible; we can’t have food if we do not farm, we can’t grow big if we do not start small. We are down. Yes! The standing up is up to us, not Mr. President whom we have nicknamed our problem. In Development Studies, there’s what they call, ‘development from below’. If the change we direly need cannot come from the top, we can start from below, that’s a good option if change really matters to us as a nation, let’s start from where we are, from you and I. they say, “Be the change you want to see”