OUR DEFECTION TO PDP; THE HIDDEN TRUTH By: NASIR SUBAIR VANGUARD*

OUR DEFECTION TO PDP; THE HIDDEN TRUTH

By:
NASIR SUBAIR VANGUARD

Democracy is a priceless gift we inherited from our past heroes, they fought tooth and nail to liberate our nation and give us the freedom will all deserve as countrymen. If not for them, there wouldn’t have been any independent and a country like ours today.  It would however be a slap on our face and a stain on our robe, if we fold our arms and let the democracy be destroyed and shortchanged with lewd impunity and unsolicited tyrannical rule. Just as there is always an action orchestrating every reaction, either negative or positive, the backbone of any reaction is always traced to an action which our defection scenario cannot be dissociated from.

In the advent of 2015 election, we all decided to leave the then ruling party; People’s Democratic Party (PDP),  when we noticed that our interest and that of the people who look up to us as leaders can no longer be protected. When the atmosphere was polluted with lots of political infelicities, when the life of the commoners became worthless and the yearning of the people was falling into the deaf ears of our leaders.

We changed our identity and switched to the All Progressive Congress (APC), the party we perceived was coming with a clean slate to liberate our country and offer us a transformational change we all crave for. We marched to the party with our machineries, structure and our entire political think tank. We formed an alliance to wrestle power from the government we perceived to be chock-full of ineptitudes. No doubt, our entry into the APC was well celebrated because it was a mighty exodus from the PDP to APC. We were promised solution to our long-time problems, a resolution to the problem of famine, hunger, unemployment and host of other problems militating against the masses and we were as well promised a lot of juicy things to make life easier for Nigerians citizenry.

It’s over three years now and a peep into the journey so far will leave nothing but a heavy heart with a sour taste in our mouth, because the journey so far cannot be differentiated from where we departed from, a few years ago. It is now even as if the problems we ran away from has not desisted from trailing us. Meanwhile, this cannot be farfetched from the fact that we played into the hand of a fake promise teller and outright human right violators. Lawlessness became the order of the day and our households are being treated with utmost disdain even in the territorial domain we shed our sweat and blood for.

The unified and unity broom we formed now became a sword in the hand of some cabals. At times, they even turned it into a cane to whip our back. Our back was not only full of scars but our backyard also became a dustbin with no other broom to sweep our environment and keep us safe from infection. We eventually became infected with the gory things they keep spitting on us. No doubt, we left our comfort zone to form this alliance with the hope of getting comforted, but the mirage of the comfort is what keeps staring us in the face.

They put our leader; Bukola Saraki in the eye of the storm not even minding his selfless effort in the party build-up and they keep using those that are supposed to be maintaining law, decorum and order in the polity to frustrate him for the sin he never committed. They shut him out of the party eventhough he is he is the 3rd citizen of the country.

The government claimed to have combated Boko Haram only for us to see the emergence of another deadly terrorist group. They keep maiming both old and young individuals, they turned our farmlands to their playing ground and our source of wealth turns to food for their pets to live on. Our agitations and yearning now keep falling into the deaf ears of the leader we unanimously elected.  

For any country to thrive, equity, fairness and rule of law must be obeyed but the shadow of democracy is what we live to see now. With what could be seen as a dictatorial and despotic modern means of governance renting the atmosphere of our nation and we dare not challenge the sequence or else we get battered or even get handed over to their pseudo agencies where we would be tortured for the sin we never committed.

The true aim why a progressive leader accepts any alliance and pledges allegiance to a group or party is to bring forth positive influence and dividends of governance to his people and this could not be left out from the cogent why we supported their movement in the first instance but since then, we have been neglected, sabotage and treated like a strangers in the house we built together.

If not for the tenacity, perseverance and commitment the leadership of the 8th National Assembly, I mean the combine effort of Hon Yakubu Dogara and Dr Bukola Saraki in saving the country from a total collapse and sheer dictatorial rule cannot be overemphasized.
For how long do we have to keep enduring all the manhandling-ness, impunity and exploitive terrain we found ourselves, not even when our former abode has been renovated to shoulder the challenges we thought would be addressed by the APC.  We have been made to see that the change they promise is different from the one they choose to offer and democracy they are proclaiming is not in any way different from the dictatorial own.

As we are looking at the next general election, if the road looks blur and we don’t know where else to place our next step, we can be able to retrace our steps and move back from where we are coming from and that is why we have chosen to team up with the PDP because they have learnt from their previous mistakes and we have now realized the need to liberate our people from the oppressive government and this can only be possible with the progressive-minded people that have come to team up in the PDP.

We need to work hard and express our dissatisfaction not only by associating with PDP but by also voting out this government that see inequity, witch-hunting and insecurity as a normal thing.

We must not but also acknowledge the relentless effort of Dr Bukola Saraki, for he has remained a sage and selfless leader worthy of emulation. Just as eminent personalities in Nigeria have acknowledged that Saraki’s exit is disastrous to the APC, it is also worthy of note, to know that it is not just disastrous but a doom for APC and it signifies the end of the party. We have seen how the entire Kwara people have moved with him to PDP and how he was welcome into the PDP also shows they know his worth and what he stands for.

LONG LIVE KWARA STATE
LONG LIVE BUKOLA SARKI
LONG LIVE THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA
LONG LIVE EVERYONE OF US.