Some young Pro-APC Nigerians are surprisingly criticising Sen. Philip Aduda's motion for the payment of N5000.00 to unemployed Nigerian youths which the APC boastfully promised during campaigns as a set up against the APC
Now, let's face the truth. APC lied to Nigerians to win elections. They blackmailed GEJ. GEJ was working but the global economy has been suffering a serious epidemic telling gradually on Nigeria so APC used it on gullible Nigerians to sabotage their own nation in their pursuit for power. Today GMB is President: we've lost over N172b at NNPC in less than three months but GEJ and Deziani aren't there again to be called the thieves. FDI is being withdrawn exponentially because of the lack of policy direction of the FG but GEJ isn't here to be called clueless. We've spent billions already on presidential tours but GEJ isn't here to be called the "squanderer". The terrorists are taking a different dimension now and Chibok girls aren't found yet meanwhile latter day Comrade Mama Ekwesili seem to be tired of the #bringbackourgirls campaign especially now that Gov. El-rufai has given one of her coordinators appointment in Kaduna state and the principal of the Chibok school whose daughter wasn't kidnapped along with her classmates who were to write the same physics examination with her is now a commissioner in the same Borno state. The senators who screamed "Nay" to the motion to pay unemployed youths N5000.00 monthly all received not less than 7 million Naira allowances barely two months after inauguration and like my veteran journalist friend Ubong Sampson wrote : these senators : those who won elections achieved that through these youths and those that rigged also rigged through these youths. Oh' lest I forget. The permanent secretary ministry of aviation appearing the other day before the senate revealed how Stella Oduah face lifted the aviation ministry and lamented how the ministry is falling daily since she left and how the minister-less condition makes it even worse but Stella had been blackmailed with a bad name. Luckily the hang team missed her. She's now at the senate. Camera was all over her during that moment of ironic truth! For me, the "change" had nothing to do with the state of Nigeria but the state of those selling it. They just wanted to change their financial status by capturing the nation's treasury which they did. The problem they'll now have is how to share it. It reminds me of the mythical thieves who returned from a successful robbery operation with great wealth but each desiring to have all of the loots to himself furtively plot the death of others. In the end two strangled one to death, another shot the others not knowing that the food and drinks had been poisoned by the strangled one. He ate and joined his colleagues. They all died leaving their spoils. Like Dr. Betta Edu rightly observed the youth have 3 years and six months from now to effect the true change. So to say that Sen. Philip Aduda's motion for payment of N5000 to unemployed Nigerian youth is hypocritical is to say the least more hypocritical. You cannot shift the goal post after the match has started. Only a dog goes back to its vomit. If these people promised this to Nigerian youths and an opposition senator reminds them to make good their promise the least they could have done would have been to accept the motion. Set up a committee to look into the feasibility of it and come back with a report or possibly abandon it at the committee level. It wouldn't be the first. Things are becoming tougher economically and the only way out these goons seem to know is by activating judicial ambush for the oil rich states. Unfortunately, the world is boarding a train away from oil dependency to alternate economies. The earlier we join the journey the better for us. An African proverb says that "whenever a man wakes up is his morning" but the problem with that is that whoever greets another man "good morning" at dusk is either drunk or something next to that. We can't as a nation miss our flight more than once especially now that global booking agents are running out of tickets. I have always been of the opinion that neither GEJ nor GMB was good for Nigeria but that it was safer to manage the former for another four years by which time these old crooks would have lost steam and relevance. There's no way GEJ would have been succeeded by an older generation or less brighter one. But now we have to manage not just the "Baba Go Slow" syndrome but the misfortune of having to help him fight the new crooks that came aboard with him. These crooks will do anything to establish their roots and if they run out of stems they'll graft their offsprings. We are in a perilous precarious predicament. Only the youths can save nigeria and to do these we must shed off party sentiments and be nationalistic for once! Our fathers have failed us. Let's not fail ourselves and those after us. The only alternative to this is the emergency coming of Jesus Christ once and for all!
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