There is so much drama in the political realm here in our dear Nigeria. IBB has again declared that he wants to run for president come 2011. I strongly believe that what he is doing presently is testing the waters. All IBB seeks is relevance; anytime there is a presidential race (2003, 2007 and now 2011), he always makes sure he is the topic of discussion.
IBB will never run in opposition, and it most unlikely that he will ever get the PDP presidential ticket. Why would anyone endorse IBB? To whose advantage would it be? IBB will not and cannot afford to gamble with this; he will only run if he is the candidate of the ruling party.
IBB has never been able to defend the annulment of the June 12 election; he has always come out to say the election was the fairest in the country, yet he refused to hand over to Abiola. While I am no fan of MKO (rest his soul), this was an abuse of a process that he will forever have to live with. The reason is simple, he was cajoled by a certain cabal not to hand over to a MKO.
This was also the beginning of the ethnic and religious divide in Nigeria. Remember Kingibe ran alongside MKO. Both candidates were muslims and no one in Nigeria cared about this. What we wanted was to have a democratic government in place and send the khaki boys out. Now you can't have a presidential election without having president and vice president coming from different religions.
We must accept the truth that this ethnic and religious divide is getting wider and the Yar'adua situation has only made it worse.
This is the simple truth and the only reason why IBB did not hand over to MKO. We are always afraid to speak about issues especially when they cut across the ethnic and religious divide. If we continue to do this, we will never find a solution.
IBB is making so much noise because so far we do not have a credible opposition. Yes we all don't want IBB, but then who do we want?
It is important that there is someone Nigerians can vote for and who will be accepted by us all. This is important to stop people like IBB from dancing in the sun.
IBB has still not been forgiven by Nigerians, he stole our money, destroyed the civil service, crippled the police, and stripped the military of all professionalism.
He did all these to protect his ass, but he still had to run away (step aside as he called it) in 1993.
No one can fight the power of the people.
We should find a way to send all thieves and looters to jail instead of allowing them to walk freely polluting our society with their evil and corrupt practices.
IBB ruled for such a long time and failed. Failure is inexcusable in leadership. He has no business coming back.
One major drawback we have is that we do not believe in the electoral process and as such we never register or vote at elections. We spend out time making so much noise on blog sites and leave voting to the area boys and bus drivers. Voting is is duty we must all perform.
Come 2011, all Nigerians of voting age must be involved in choosing our next president. Even if we fail, let us fail trying.
