This Madness Called Election 2003
That charade, that electoral brigandage, that indefensible war declared against the people of Nigeria by the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has come and gone. But the bitterness, the fury, the tension, the frustration, the despair and the bloodshed it generated will live in our traumatized memories to corroborate the age-long dictum that absolute power corrupts absolutely. By the most outrageous and wrongful use of our security and law enforcement agents and other dreadful forms of organized thuggery, not through benign persuasion, President Obasanjo and his supporters declared war against the people of Nigeria in the name of political elections and conquered. The elections were not peaceful. They were not free. They were not fair. They were not transparent. That is why the nation has been sitting on a tinderbox of precipitous resentment. The question is, how long shall our slavery last in a land where we all are born free, are supposed to have equal opportunities and are supposed to be protected by the same law and law enforcement agents that were used in threatening us to submission? It is possible to rule a people by force. But it is impossible to have peace while you keep others in chains. It is possible to unjustly force an unwilling people to submission. But you can do that only at a greater cost to your person, your integrity and your honour. Sani Abacha should have taught every leader in this country a lesson. The Greek proverb says it all: “God’s mill grinds slow but sure.”
IMPORTANT NOTE
Electronic copies of our books are accessible through a Digital Rights Management Software that controls the distribution and usage of them. These software are available in desktop and online/mobile verisons and user's are advised to download the one that best suits their reading condition.
Mobile/Online Reader
Download Desktop E-reader
