AMAECHI AND WIKE: An excursion into perfidy

By Joseph Edgar…

These two have nothing to say to each other. Unfortunately they both represent our political class. A Class that violates allegiance with impunity and without any regards to ideology, institutions and processes. These two will continue to remind us of the joke that our leaders have become in their rabid attempt to continue to cling to power and the rent system that feeds it.

Before I continue with my position, I would like to remind myself of the late night discussion I had with an observer who should know these things. He had warned me not to take this particular imbroglio at face value since there was that possibility that by night these two were chummiest and that this could possibly have been stage managed to deprive serious minded people the platform with which good governance could be given to the people.

If this assertion was true, then there lies the tragedy of present day Nigeria. A rich and populous country led by clowns and court jesters who have found their way into power and much more importantly found a way to hold on to power with chicanery and native intelligence. Who suffers in all these but the people who have nothing but a waning faith in a superior being above in finding succour?

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A political class made up of charlatans and statue builders can only bring ruin and desolation to the people they govern. A political class made up of selfish goons can only bring woe to its people. A blinded political class can only continue to show the people the smooth road to hell while wining and dining within the ambience of their corrupt existence.

Can they at least spare us this public odium? Can they allow us to continue to wallow in our dreary existence? We are really not interested in who gets the right of way and we are also really not interested in who was wrong or right, hence the meaninglessness of the individual statements issued to explain the occurrence. They should leave that to their separate godfathers for we are busy trying to eke out a living from what is left after their clandestine rampage.

And you begin to wonder the massive voter apathy we witness in every election cycle. Who would you be voting for from these two camps if you were a serious minded Rivers Voter. People who were not ashamed to fight on a road that was desolate and muddy. Did you notice the irony of it all, two people who have held the state to ransom for over ten years, embarrassing themselves on a patch of muddy road, with clear potholes and muddy water. A road they both could not construct despite the huge resources available to them, a road they had the guts to carry their expensive cars and bikes to go and squabble over rite of passage in the very before of a citizenry that remained impaled with poverty.

What else is left to be said than to lean back on those immortal words said by the great mini sage himself, Bola Ige – ‘we dey siddon look’’.

 

 

 

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