OpEd: Merchants of Nation? - Part One By Dr Bolaji O. Akinyemi | Sahara Reporters In our search for a Saviour for our nation, persons must be shown and supported. A group whose activities must be unravelled and resisted must also be... READ MORE:
Fervent in their calling for order and daring to Governments, they will speak from the wilderness against the terror of thrones in palaces. Their massages must be Messianic, fervent and audacious. They will seek nothing for self but all for the nation.
John the Baptist should serve as our model of a good pathfinder. He first used the phrase"O generation of vipers" to reveal the curse the elite class of his day constitute to the mission of finding the Messiah. The elite class are still an hurdle today as they were in John's day. They form political parties and shop for the highest bidder as their candidates. You pay them to reign over the people, their gain our loss.
These groups were at their best before 2015. They pounced upon the desires of the public for change and appointed themselves Agents of that change. Technocrats and professionals alike, hired to merchant the future for their present moment. They speak of a nation sold to them by the political investors, bloggers and social media gurus, all took the public space to sell an expired product.
A strategic group among them came up with"Not Too Young To Run Bill" but when the push came to shove, they were no where ready with their shovels. So lost to the reality of our need for leadership shift that too old to run grandfather whose memory was failing was endorsed as their candidate. The election came and was rigged in a manner unknown to democracy anywhere in the world. Institutions of Government were deployed not to aid rigging but to lead it. The Police, Military and other Para military agencies were saddled with the task to forcefully impose on the people a Government rejected by them at the poll. INEC was culpable, wired to the Villa, from where they were being remote controlled.
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