Permit me, my friends, to say that, until then, let us celebrate the demon-cracy anniversary that we have ritualised annually.
“I knew Abiola would not assume the power that eve,” he said with great conviction. This man who is in his mid-eighty confirmed the concept of Nigeria as a very predictable concept.
Watching him as he dug his mouth into the vast experience he had had in Nigeria — He said nothing is dynamic within the Nigerian administration.
He said if at this stage, anybody who is still expecting something special from the hoary system, such a fellow must be suffering from psychological retardation.
Beyond the language and his conviction, sincerity and immeasurable agony, as well as the continuous lash of disappointment wielded by the callous and dubious exchange of power hands.
This aged man if given all days will not get bored unfolding the cryptic hidden to the contemporary political supporters, critics and observers. He built a bridge in his words, ripping off misconceptions and paving the ground for reality to grow great.
“They won’t stop telling you there’s Unity and love. They won’t stop feigning being brothers in their words, especially in the plenary of the house.
Until Then, Let Us Celebrate The Demon-Cracy Anniversary
But if hearts are open cities, those that bear dungeons won’t be far fetched”. His words hurt, yet earnest.
Seeing them sitting in the house of assembly, dazzling in diverse attire, connects them back to their culture.
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On their faces warping the grime of ugliness and perfidy — these elected native sons and daughters detached themselves from their roots and formed an alliance that would bring more evil to the land.
This kitchen circle and cabinet where their patriotic minds were sold out for the aggrandizement of their pockets — this goal is greatly more essential to them than representing their people.
While they’re further hampering the citizens with strange and one-sided laws.
In Nigeria, you can’t exercise the full version of human rights. There is always a quicker readiness to form strange laws and constitutions to curb citizens from displaying their grievances than to create ways and methods of bringing drastic solutions and positive changes to the mountains of predicaments standing edge to edge against the country.
Situations like these would rather be fueled to a raging furnace by the eternal gravy silence of the administration.
These men are rotten eggs packed in decent crates, they’ll but rubbish the crates and choke passersby with the stale odour of their irresponsibility, gullibility, inexperience and cheap integrity.
These lawless and shameless legislators would fold their Knuckles and release dust on one another’s faces, tearing one another’s clothes, and bitterly insulting one another.
Until Then, Let Us Celebrate The Demon-Cracy Anniversary
More than the future of the youths reduced to mud, or like a meteor dissolved into start emptiness, they prefer wrestling for their pocket.
Yet, furrowed their eyes when citizens attempted to proclaim their infringed rights. No wonder Yoruba in their bank of wisdom withdrew saying: “ Omo olomo la man ran ni’se de toru-toru” translated, “No parents would send their children death errand, they’d rather send neighbours’ little ones ‘.
Democracy definition according to Abraham Lincoln has lost its validity in Nigeria.
There have been several contraries to the concept of democracy over the years, and it has been driven to a distant threshold where the citizen’s welfare and stability have been reduced to the lowest level till it finally diminished.
Eventually, like swine dismembered by a whirlwind, democracy is nowhere to be found.
Dictatorships sprout in disguise from the debris of the initial system and lease agony to the four walls of the land.
A system that could be described as a knight in shining armour of democracy”.
How far would it be argued that what we are practising in Nigeria is not a democracy?
How long are we going to deceive ourselves under the guise of hope?
Is this truly a Democratic system of government?
In Nigeria, over 1000 children and students have been kidnapped away from their parents.
Living miserably in the yards where guns are frowned upon, claiming dialects around them.
These students must have lost touch with reality – the reality about the fact that humanity could live peacefully, in love, joy and exercise rights.
The students who daily in their various schools sing the national anthem and proclaim the national pledge to their country, as a due paid to their democratic motherland.
So disheartening, to see this so-called motherland bargaining their freedom and jettisoning the responsibility of citizens‘ welfare.
Is this a democracy?
Until Then, Let Us Celebrate The Demon-Cracy Anniversary
In the same vein, how perfectly can this nation where nobody feels safe to be described as a safe country?
A country where families were butchered brutally under their roof.
Where rightful owners of things can’t beat the chest and claim ownership of their belongings — farmers on their farmland were killed by the intruders whose dominant agenda is to confiscate every land their own.
Or simply put, have deemed themselves excessively into the ocean of power.
These, however, could be noticed in the broken and myopic words of a callous leader who believed that the whole of Nigeria lands their property, and it’s left to them to choose where to seize and walk on.
Yet, despite this callousness and unbridled killing, the federal government took silence as an option. Is this a democracy?
Nigeria today is proud deaf who is swift in response rather than listening.
A country that preaches silence to its citizens, yet feasts on them.
Nigeria would rather summon the courage and fight her vibrant, courageous and outspoken citizens than deal mercilessly with the devil that resides in the Sambisa forest and those that kill citizens across the terrain.
This is a nation where the right to protest is hampered.
The most brutal of men is a man who restricts his fellow man from speaking out his pain. Such a person must be a dictator or demon, or a “Demonic Dictator”. Is this, too, a democratic style?
Above all, what hurts most is that we won’t stop fabricating falsehoods, feed one another and keep the leftovers for the children.
Deceitful art is the major instrument used in Nigeria to convince and confuse citizens.
Celebrating democracy this time is equivalent to tarnishing a well-framed image.
The election was free and fair on the day of Chief Abiola, it’s not free and fair now.
So, the best time to celebrate democracy day is when Nigeria has its full strength, and secure free, fair elections. Settle disputes among tribes, and make peace a constant phenomenon.
Until then, let’s celebrate Demon-Cracy’s Anniversary.