Fadesola Adedayo: Jonathan Must Go
Fadesola Adedayo: Jonathan Must
For the sake of every Nigerian, Jonathan
must go. The vast majority of the population, which is not part of the
political elite, might think that the decision doesn’t concern
them–“wetin concern me, nah me one do election?”; but in fact it
concerns them more than any one else. When a ship is sinking, it is the
1st class cabin members who get the rowing boats – everyone else is left
to sink.
Due to the globalization,
the Nigerian elite have room to maneouver in ways they previously never
could– the pace by which money can move around the world due to the
proliferation of the internet and jet travel has accelerated the pace by
which capital seeks its centres of the highest returns–in short the
elite can invest/hide money in more places at a faster rate.
Globalization was promised to be the tide that would lift all boats,
when in fact it has mostly lifted only the yatches.
The
poor should be most concerned about this turn of events because they
cannot just leave the country– they have to stay here in this fetid stew
that Jonathan has brewed in Nigeria. The rich can merely migrate to
places where there is justice- convincing themselves that they are
British/American/whatever isn’t Nigerian; when in fact they are mostly
seen as wealthy interlopers by the natives of that country. Regardless
of if their suit are Armani or not, they are still just niggers in a
suits–fat ones at that.
The poor
Nigerians are the ones that have to live in this land of injustice. In a
land where they rich live above the law, the poor don’t simply live
beneath the law, they are crushed under the daily weight of harassment
that comes with the territory of being poor in Nigeria– harassment by
police, by your oga, by the daily traffic and even by PHCN.
Jonathan
hopes that the crude, blunt nature of daily Nigerian life would numb
the populace to the atrocities he has committing/committed. In his
attempts to keep power, he has ignored not only fundamental illness of
the system but the symptoms as well. He has not only ignored widespread
youth unemployment and under–education, but has failed to deal with
their inevitable outcome–domestic terrorism in the form of Boko Haram.
Lest we forget, this is the same man that said that he was unable to
visit some parts of our nation, such is his cowardice. In his final
shocking, albeit in character, act of desperation, he has postponed the
elections putting our democracy in jeopardy.
Jonathan
is a coward and I refuse to bow at his altar regardless of what
position he occupies. He is a disgrace to Nigeria and the idea of
democracy. The Nigerian Nero has laughed enough while Rome has burnt.
Enough is enough. Jonathan must go.
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