Political Wonders in Nigeria.

The wife of Senator Bola Tinubu, the grand patriach of APC is in the 7th, 8th and 9th senate. Senator Abba Bukar Ibrahim's wife was in the  8th Assembly and now in the 9th, while the senator had earlier spent 8 years as governor of Yobe State. Former Gov. Theodore Orji was in the 8th Senate and also belongs to the the 9th, and his son is the newly-elected speaker of Abia State House of Assembly. The list is endless. 

A major responsibility of these few "special" Nigerian citizens is to ensure that privileges continue to be granted to selected families to entrench themselves in the nation's body politics.

As it is today, go to any critical sector of the economy, be it Central Bank, NNPC, LNG, Banks and other institutions that drive the economy, it is the children of the same parasitic political elites that are in the engine rooms of these "cash cow" institutions. In the meantime, children of the poor are employed as graduate drivers, marketers of bornvita & milo and sometimes made to dance like "captured monkeys" on major highways to promote those products. There is virtually no level-playing field for young people in the country. 

It's however baffling that many of these same oppressed educated masses are yet to understand that they have been  programmed to "live on crumbs" and die as second class citizens in their country.

That the hordes of political loyalists continue to insult themselves as mere tools or pawns in the chessboard of this game called Nigerian politics is mind-boggling.

That the poor and the oppressed Nigerians regularly come on Facebook and other social media to idolize, eulogise and practically worship the same people that have trampled on their humanity for so long, is the 9th wonder of the World.

United We Stand, Divided We Fall.

"United We Stand, Divided We Fall." - Samuel Dickinson a.k.a. the Penman of the Revolution. He penned this phrase to incite fellow Americans against the tyrany of the British colonial "masters". He was also one of the delegates from Delaware during the writing of the American constitution.  

His old phrase "United We Stand, Divided We Fall" has since been used as a rallying call for centuries by all victims of tyrany and oppression across the world. 

The Price of Cowardice.

“…Do you know why it was easy for your people to be so murdered in millions? They were too scared and too weak…they were cowards! That was why, in all cases, it took only about four soldiers to escort thousands of them to the gas chambers. Why didn’t your people fight back? Just a dozen, from among the thousands, could have easily overpowered the few German soldiers guarding them. But no one wanted to die…not even for their wives and children. Everyone was concerned for their individual survival…what a weak, cowardly people!” – Dr. Dieter Vogel, the Nazi medical doctor notoriously known as The Butcher of Birkenau. During the 2nd World War, the man performed medical experiments on Jews, including pregnant women and children without using anesthetics. The above statement was one of his bold outbursts to the Israeli Mossad agents that abducted him in 1965.