Nigerians want free and fair elections. They are tired of rigging. You hear of this discredited breed of politicians brag that they have never lost elections. Oshiomole whom everyone knows is in this category. He was a two-time governor of Edo State and by the time he left, there was no more Edo Central Hospital—once the pride of Benin city. That hospital was crushed along with some $60 million that was supposedly ‘borrowed’ to fix the hospital. Perhaps, the monies ended up in his Danube, Maitama, and Aso Drive edifices, who knows?
He said he was building a huge drainage, I guess he called it a ‘stormwater project,’ to keep the ancient city insulated from floods. That promise was not kept. Instead, the 30-billion-naira project was a conduit to siphon public funds into private pockets. Those funds eventually ended up somewhere in Iyamho forest, his village, where it produced a private university, tens of terrace buildings, luxury apartments, a town hall, an auditorium, and other abominable craze.
The ancient city of Benin is still flooded today. Oshiomole, together with his puppet master the baba Adini of Lagos who is on his way to ‘clinching’ the coveted presidential crown once branded Obaseki as a dictator. That video that went viral ought to have put paid to their political career; not so in our pauperized clime. Instead, they have just ‘coasted’ home to ‘victory’ in this round of elections. This time Oshiomole is on his way to the Senate. Today, despite that there is nothing worthy to be proud of by this outrageous APC government—no good roads, no job, no light, nothing to look up to, plus the fact that the economy is in shambles, the likes of Oshiomole and his demented followers want to continue dominance.
They use all sorts to remain in power; they cajole, they bombard with expletives; oshiomole in particular is an expert in dancing ‘Awilo jogomba’, an act through which he has stupendously enriched himself. Do an investigation of his antecedents; he has used his political positions not only to enrich himself but to ‘fix’ his nuclear and extended family in choice positions in Nigeria. This is not bad in itself but the fact that he cannot continue to monopolize such positions because he is privileged to have amassed wealth the wrong way! This is taking advantage of the poor masses and even exploiting their ignorance. Move up to Bola Ahmed Tinubu. This is a man inversed in tyranny—a known predator.
Few can withstand his autocratic and dictatorial leadership. Tinubu preys on the weak and strong alike and his brand of politics is not to build but to amass wealth. Stories have been and continue to be peddled about him dishing out ‘dollars’ to fearful well-wishers and victims of his oriental-style commands. Asiwaju through his overbearing attitude and excessive mongering has isolated Lagos as his own private estate and deprived them of much-needed social political advancement. The world is stunned as he continues to claim to promote Lagos to a 21st-century economy. That’s not true; in fact a blatant lie! Now, look at the ‘election’ that seems to propel him to the presidential position. INEC procured BVERS worth billions in naira; the purpose was to ensure that election results from the polling booths were to be automated and transferred simultaneously.
INEC was not supposed to count manually—only when there is controversy. But criminals stepped in and sabotaged the BVERS and rendered them impotent. Only cyber security experts would do this –at a cost. Now, INEC is counting and reading compromised results to Nigerians—after 23 years of trying to upgrade and perfect the system! Of course the results INEC is reading cannot be accepted because they are open to manipulations, thumb printing, and ballot snatching! The figures that have been fed into the servers are ‘dressed’ and cannot be reliable. This is the way predators work; they prey on the weak to continue their repulsive thirst for dominance. INEC servers were digitalized to produce ‘doctored’ results—the reason why they have the same in Gombe and Bauchi states! When criminals set out to rob or commit a crime, they believe that their tracks have been so well covered.
But in the end, even the dead tell a story—and lead investigators to their killers. Those who committed this crime of defrauding the nation will not go free. Yes, elections are bound to be winners takes, but they should be under a free and fair situation. INEC officials should be made an example for perpetrating this monumental fraud. Tinubu cannot become the president of Nigeria because he did not win in a fair and free election. That time when this was possible has passed. We are in the age of light and transformation and the way forward is forward! There is a future for the new generation of Nigerians—away with the likes of Oshiomole, Jagaban, Gbajabiamila, Akpabio, and Ahmed Lawan! They do not belong to the present dispensation. Whether they end up making it to the Red and Green Chambers, they should know that they are speaking for themselves—not for Nigerians!