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The battle for the determination of the winner of the February 25 presidential election has since left the polling booth. Not with a president-elect already in place , and awaiting swearing-in on May 29. But even now that the battleground has shifted from soap and ballot boxes to the tribunal bench, it appears as though the battle line has just been drawn.
O yes! After all, hitherto the abundance of natural and human resources in the nascent country had pointed to a better direction. What with our achievement of independence from Britain sans the shedding of a single drop of blood. Indeed, but for a few past heroes having to smell the rod of colonial prison cells intermittently, it was arguably achieved on a platter of gold.
According to some analysts, what came to pass thenceforth amounts to a show of shame – as if masterminded by shameless carpetbaggers from the red planet. Yes, much like a gang operating from hell farther off, they ended up stumbling from one error to another. More than anytime else, the nation’s present state has served to reiterate Achebe’s age-old submission. Louder than ever, it calls the calibre of the leaders who have sat on the exalted throne of our nation’s leadership over the prevailing years into question.
And to think that back then power once again ended up in the hands of a middle-school teacher turned politician. A paucity of credentials conspicuously accentuated by his vice being the holder of an American doctorate. Anyway, it was a big jolt to the nation back then when the Second Republic like its primal alter ego was toppled by our brothers in khaki after a mere electoral cycle. Unlike the abortive first effort, this one was almost as bloodless as our independence effort. As it came to pass, the supposed protectors of our territorial integrity took over and exchanged our leadership at will.
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