[OPINION BY ADEBAYO ABUBAKAR] 2023 general election: Nigerians negotiate from a position of strength | TheCable
are busy with marathon, sometimes, nocturnal meetings, as they negotiate our political destiny, at least, for the next four years. The word, consensus, which is a euphemism for auctioning tickets for elective posts among politicians or between political godfathers and their godchildren, is being bandied around. It is both intra and inter-party elections. We witnessed its application last week at the All Progressives Congress party convention.
After the departure of the colonial masters, the indigenous inheritors of the throne are getting richer, while the state, Nigeria, is getting poorer. The country is not far off from being bankrupted, as she now borrows to pay salaries and to even service debts. Yet, every electioneering season, they come around, feasting on our gullibility, and weaponising poverty to buy votes and even the conscience of the people who are too pauperised to resist the temptation of accepting the Greek gift.
We need that leader who will tell us why, the rising prices of petroleum products in the international market, as a result of the West’s sanction against Russia for invading Ukraine, is inflicting pain on Nigerians, instead of gain that would culminate in making life easier than ever; and how he intends to reverse it. A president who will anticipate that an airport or a rail track and a passenger train could be bombed by a gang of terrorists, and thus act proactively to nip it in the bud.
Anyone among the aspirants who cannot give Nigerians a convincing blueprint on how each and every one of these challenges would be addressed, does not deserve our votes, come 2023. Anyone who tells us he is relying on Dangote to solve our embarrassing over-dependence on importation of refined petroleum products to meet local demands has no business being on the ballot paper, let alone hoping to get our votes.
We’ve lost our pedigree in the CAF club competitions due to an “integrity challenge” in the area of officiating in the domestic league; so have we lost it with the national teams. The only area where we still have a little semblance of dominance in African football is in the women’s category, and that is because other African countries are just emerging.
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