What
is the Nigeria of your dream? When you wake up in the morning and you look out
through your window, what comes to mind? What do you plan as an average citizen
for the child yet unborn? What change do you wish to see in your country that
will bring happiness to your home? How do you hold your leaders accountable?
All these and many are the thoughts that keeps going through your mind even
when driving for those that have cars or the market sellers.
Politics
is not a struggle for fight or blood shedding but an avenue to vote in the best
candidate suitable for a given position of governance in a given society. But
these days, politics has become a do or die affair especially in Nigeria.
Corruption has eaten deep into the hearts of the leaders and the citizens find
it difficult to trust anybody wanting to assume any political office. Political
candidates do all sorts of things all in the name of campaign just to win the
hearts of men and later turn their back on their promises.
When
assuming any political office, it is an avenue of recalling your promises as an
elected leader to the people that voted you that you will deliver your promises
and see how the state or country can be developed not coming to castigate or
make a jest of your promises. No blame is being apportioned here, but some issues
just need to be addressed while hot.
“Already,
I am grooming your chicken for Christmas. I am getting your rice ready to do
stomach infrastructure. When I defeated them, they said it was as a result of
stomach infrastructure. How can an incumbent be saying that when he had the
money, he had the power, he had the might but disconnected himself from the
people. They are gone."
“I
have forgiven Ekiti for removing me unjustly and I declare peace, prosperity,
progress, employment, food and stomach infrastructure. You can put a tar on the
road but if I don’t have a car and I’m hungry, then that tar is meaningless.
Tarring our road is wonderful but putting food inside this stomach is very
important.
The
quotation above were the exact words of the newly-inaugurated Governor of Ekiti
State, Dr. Peter Ayodele Fayose, during his swearing in on the 16th of October,
2014, in Ekiti state.
Delivering
his inaugural address on Thursday after he was sworn in by EKiti State Chief
Judge, Ayodeji Daramola, Fayose said he would work hard to put food on the
table, regardless of public opinion that such measures are called “stomach
infrastructure."
Do
you agree with these saying that the stomach is more important than good
infrastructure in the state or is the stomach more important than creating
employment opportunities in the state? Take a close look at the faces of these
citizens cheering the man who is ready to provide them with rice and chicken
standing under the hot sun. Where is the water, the road to transport kerosene
for them to buy, where is the employment opportunity that will bring income for
a good up keep? Is this the dream Nigeria of your choice?
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