The Cheap, Easy Fight by Nigerians: art 2

My reply to comments by Mr. A and others in Vanguard Newspaper

Mr. A, You are about 90 percent correct but do not forget that many governors from the south especially those from the South-East, the likes of Orji Uzokalu did more socio-economic harm to the people of Abia State than any president of northern descent ever did or will ever do a southern. Truth is that president of either northern or southern descent; it does not matter to that hungry Nigerian, to that Jobless Nigerian, to that sick Nigerian without access to adequate medical treatment, to that Nigeria family that lost loved one due to either insecurity in the nation or due to deplorable conditions of the nation’s road ways. It does not matter to the university students whose educations are always in limbo. It does not matter to that poorly trained and poorly equipped police force, nor does it matter to so many Nigerians whose aspirations and life ambitions are been choked either by southern or northern president, governor, minister, senator that criminally export public funds overseas for personal use. What matters most to Nigerians and what Nigerians need today is a true leader regardless of his or her ethnicity? Those who clamor that the south must produce the presidency are no less divisionary than those that clamor for a northern president, and this line of thought is guided only by politics and sectionalism but not reason and will only make worse the ethnic tension and division in the country. Obasonjo is a southern; his eight years of presidency and two years of dictatorship did not move Nigeria a bit forward.

I am from the south and I care less about the president's ethnicity but about his or her honesty, vision, courage, intellect but above his or her love for the people and for the country. I hope no one is suggesting that we give the south thirty eight years of presidency to further destroy Nigerian as some leaders beginning in late seventies to present have only but ruined the country.

But my good friends, and fellow Nigerians remember this; because leaders generally are inherently corrupt, good governance is assured by the governed and not by the governmenors.



Voci Bawomanh