Nigeria: APC And The House of Cards
“The constitutions and party may change from time to time, without the needed change. The needed change comes when the players and the actors change.” -Jakes Ajao
Barely three years and few months of the historic APC conquest of the former ruling party, PDP, on the change ideology, the house is on the brink of falling apart, already. Though, pundits have postulated that the people’s messiah had arrived and that the journey to the Promised land would be hassled free, however, with recent developments one wonders if the people that understand time could be taken for their words.
To start with, how did we arrive here?
No sooner we left Egypt freemen, the mixed multiple amidst us are crying of pangs of hunger, and thirsts. Keeping the hope alive, the messiah’s believers pacify them to keep calm and that all will be well. Sadly, with little to show this reality and next destination of food. Everyone is lost in confusions.
Hopes are getting lost fast!
Various ideas keep popping up from different quarters to save the situation. Sadly, some liberated are contemplating exodus to Egypt all over again. Others are of the opinions that best way is to select new leader and with new vision.
Spearheading the revolutions are two eminent figures: the former President Olusegun Obasanjo and Dr. Olisa Agbakoban, SAN, among other well-meaning stakeholders in the Nigeria movements. The duo are co-conveners belonging to the Coalition of Nigeria Movement, CNM, and Nigeria Intervention Movement, NIM, as the Third Force, respectively.
Few days ago, the CNM metamorphosed into a full blown party, called African Democratic Congress (ADC). Though nothing is yet heard from the NIM camp, but observers believed it would soon emerge as a political party, as well.
As the events unfold in the country, the ‘New PDP’, who earlier joined APC, has issued 7-day quit ultimatum to the presidency if there is no integration of their aggrieved members. What was the fuss about?
The aggrieved members complaint of sidelining their folds from the daily scheme of things, much as the early Church in the Holy Book of Acts. They fumed that in spite of their individual efforts in rescuing their various states from the then ruling party, PDP, they are not considered in commonwealth distributions of the nation.
In protest, Mr. Olagunsoye Oyinlola resigned his position as the Chairman of National identity Management agency in order to concentrate on his new role, as a co-convener of CNM.
The house divided against itself, they say, cannot stand. Now that the pillars of the APC are pulling out, like ‘jiggers’, because of perceived unfair treatment, and new parties are flagging off because of nepotism, youths and women exclusion, injustices, nation’s economic hardship, corruption, impunity, stalling among others, what hope or choice does the common have left?
What assurance do we have in the Third force should they assumed power tomorrow? Won’t we still be put at a crossroads we used to be? These are the questions we must humbly and honestly answer in order to see hope for our dear nation.
Finally, as we warm up and look forward to a better Nigeria ahead, let’s us remember the maxim that says:
“The constitutions and party may change from time to time, without the needed change. The needed change comes when the players and the actors change.”
