JEGA’S SCORE CARD PART ONE (1).

JEGA’S SCORE CARD, BUHARI’S VENGEFUL HEART, JONATHAN’S EASY SURRENDER AND NIGERIA’S MANIFEST DESTINY. 
(Mr. Marcus Anga)

This piece, in every sense, will not only be an intriguing one but an equally thought-provoking one, particularly considering the mood the nation is. Happily, though, the Hausa/Fulani North has heralded the take-off of the (new) Buhari administration, orchestrated by an election made whole by Attahiru Jega (the immediate past INEC chairman), supported in thinking and philosophy by the Yoruba led by Tinubu, Wole Soyinka, Obasanjo, Fasholo, and home boy Rotime Amaechi, etc. to the consternation, insult and abuse of the Igbo South-East, Ijaw South-South and the so called Hausa/Fulani tool of the Middle-Belt Nigeria. Since Attahiru Jega has a score-card in terms of how he performed his duties with regard to the credibility or otherwise of how the 2015 Presidential Election was handled, that will be left until it will be discussed as a whole, hereunder.

But that having been said, we are no less inundated with series of renewed protests from the South-South and the South-East (though not from the Presidential Candidate- Dr. Goodluck Jonathan), since after the presidential election resulting into calls for referendum from the United Nations to have either the Lower Niger Congress, Biafra, the Niger Delta Congress or the Ijaws, in particular, to have a break from the Nigerian Nation in their quest for self-determination. The South-West Yoruba, the Odua people, who would have joined the Lower Niger Congress, having similar feelings before now, merely stand by smiling at the rest of their Southern brothers saying that they don’t understand what they are doing. It is in that contest, we hear, Wole Soyinka gave his damnatory remark at the Igbo in his recent lecture at the Harvard University, USA where he referred to the Igbo as people who voted in the 2015 presidential election, on the basis of their appetite and hunger for money and not according to their conscience based on how it will truly help national cohesion, which he later denied ever saying. But, unfortunately, there was a mention of Igbo and how they voted in the 2015 presidential election in his lecture. This literary giant, who was so revered before now, has not told us what he actually said in that lecture, and how the Igbo were brought into the picture.

From the diatribe of Wole Soyinka against the entire Igbo race, he tended to have conjectured that his own Yoruba race voted according to their conscience for the sake of national unity and cohesion. But he forgot to ask himself whether this election would have brought more national cohesion and unity than the June 12, 1993 Presidential Election where M.K.O Abiola, a Yoruba, was voted en-mass by the whole nation where his own opponent-Dahiri Tofa was defeated in his native state of Kano. And yet the same Yoruba press, which thinks whatever is said by it must be binding on this nation, is now giving that election a new name: “below average”. Or is Wole Soyinka suffering from the same mental lobotomy he accused Sani Abacha of suffering some years back? That this highly literary colossus could not see how the Yoruba, his very own race, disowned their fellow Southerner-Goodluck Jonathan, and voted the other way just because one of their own was picked as the Vice Presidential Candidate forgetting that it was the entire South, together with a good number of the Northern parts of Nigeria that voted for Chief M.K.O. Abiola in the June 12, 1993 Presidential Election. Is this going to make Nigeria better? He forget what he used to know and said about Muhamadu Buhari, who has now become President of Nigeria by the clandestine intrigues and connivance of Attahiru Jega. We shall all wait and see what becomes of Nigeria in his political mending of the nation.