SenatorUzodinma misses the point

Uzodinma misses the point (see the interview given by Senator Uzodinma on Sun Newspaper 1/5/14)

 

Senate Uzodinma’s diatribe in this interview is but a wash, substantively. By this I mean Uzodinma neither made any point nor bold political statement. All he did here was 100% cheap partisan propaganda. And there is nothing wrong about political party propagandas except that they are un-excit-full, boring, obvious, none innovative and simply minded. One would have expected the Senator to state how PDP plans to win the election, win the presidency in 2015. Instead Senator Uzodinma spoke vainly on how APC would lose in2015. What Senator Uzodinma said in this interview is like a war-time Army General who spoke only on how his adversary would lose the battle but said nothing about his strategy to win the battle; a sign that the general have neither confidence nor strategy to win the battles.  Uzodinma and PDP need to tell their supporters and members how the Party plans to win in 2015 giving the threat posed by APC; wishing and praying for implosion in APC is neither a political nor a winning strategy.

 

I am neither PDP member nor do I have any sympathy for APC. Both parties are led by the same criminally corrupt senile minded old buffoons. If any of these two parties shows me any official of either party elected or not, in a position power or had held position of power that is not corrupt then I would show Nigerians the end of corruption in Nigeria and the beginning of prosperity for all Nigerians. There can never be change without a change; by this I mean unless decent Nigerians I mean youths, young, women, of all ethnic nationalities understand the bleakness of their future since 1985 and resolve and device a way to rightly sack these crooks raiding the country, either through popular rebellion or voting revolution, change would never come to Nigeria. Perhaps I should say the change in decay in social, economic, infrastructure, education, and security, would continue and accelerate until Nigerians find it proper to sack the senile running the country.     

 

Because leadership in Nigeria has been synonymous to nation led by the blind, Jonathan’s administration in my opinion is like the gift of one-eyed leaders to a nation of people ever blind and ever led by the blind. By any measure since after the Gowon’s administration Jonathan have done better than all the other administrations combined.  For this reason I have sympathy for his administration. Since he would mostly likely contest for 2015 presidency under PDP I intend to support Jonathan in 2015 should he chose to run. And because of current political permutation and danger pose by APC to Jonathan’s victory in 2015 a strong ‘Put Goodluck back to Aso Rock” campaign and strategy must be devised and this strategy is what I expected from Senator Uzodinma in his interview. 

 

The potential threat to Jonathan’s victory in 2015 would not be Buhari but, shekaru, Limado Tambuwal should they choose to contest under APC.  Buhari a former military dictator that overthrow a democratically elected civilian government would be the most flawed and internationally despised, isolated and rejected leader of a democratic nation ever.  How would the world’s first class democracies view, receive one time dictator in the person of Buhari? Today in America it is a crime to participate, support, be an accessary to forceful sack of a legitimate government any where in the world.  By US law, one who in any way facilitates the forceful sack of a legitimate Government is barred forever from entering into U.S. I do not think that Nigeria can afford to avoid co-operation and partnership with the United States of American for 8 years under unthinkable Buhari’s presidency. But Buhari’s biggest flaw is not his past despotism and nepotism or his overthrew of elected legitimate government of Shehu Musa Shagari but his severely Hausa/Fulani tribal jingoism. APC would lose SW if Buhari is the 2015 presidential flag bearer because people in that region would easily remember when Buhari led  red eyed group of Huasa/Fulani  men to confront a SW Governor about  reported mass killing of Fulanis in an area in SW state. But as it turned out it was Fulanis that killed several Yoruba’s. When Buhari was presented with fact on the massacre by the governor of the state it was reported that Buhari and his men left in shame. When the governor narrated this incidence to media he described it as ‘How he [the Governor] prevented a second civil war in Nigeria.’ The point is that Buhari is too flawed both domestically and international to be president of multi ethno- religious nation. I concur Buhari may exercise some degree of integrity on issue of official corruption but he has no respect for the law. There can never be good ruler-ship without the rule of law.  Buhari’s overthrew of Shagari’s government and his incite-full and incendiary remarks after losing elections speak volume. In homogenous ethno-religious Islamic state Buhari would make a good leader.

 

To win in 2015 Jonathan needs surgically targeted state by state strategy that would be hedge on winnable  11 states of SS and SE, plus Plateau, Benue, Taraba, Kogi, Kaduna (Sambo’s turf), Ondo, Lagos. Jonathan, if he does his homework very well would be able to bank these 18 states before the electioneering even starts. He would be very competitive in the states of Oyo, Ogun, Ekiti, Osun, Nassarawa, and Adamawa if he invests capital and incumbency in these states. Then he would implore ‘muddle the water’ strategy and make APC spend considerable amount of resource and manpower in the states of Katsina, Jigawa, Bauchi and Gombe.