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BY ENA ORUGBO

Life’s greatest dilemma is a lost opportunity to bequeath an enduring legacy…Ena E. Orugbo

Yesterday’s men have been humbled, we are sorry while today’s men are intoxicated, you are inconsequential. Tomorrow’s men are waiting for yesterday’s men, PDP to be demonised and today’s men, APC to be balkanised. This implies that the APC and PDP share a similar attribute, vulnerability. How vulnerable are these fraternal twins and how did they shatter windows to bequeath legacies?Political strategists believe the APC and PDP are victims of successive pyrrhic victories. Supporters of both political parties think it is awful to demonise the PDP after an apology and mock the APC as its balkanised. Whither way Nigerians? Nigerians are tired of propaganda thus calling for Real Change.

WE ARE SORRY

PDP is at the receiving end and Nigerians have been responding in cash and kind to the belated apology: return the billions, yells Lai Mohammed. It will be detrimental for Nigerians to believe PDP fumes Junaid Mohammed. Akin Osuntokungoes rhetorical, I don’t see anything wrong with the admission of wrongdoing. There is definitely light at the end of the tunnel for the Prodigal Demonic Party. A popular maxim says, oppositions don’t win elections but incumbents lose them. PDP’s apology is therefore timely but the calculated and venomous onslaught from Anti People’s Cult has left Nigerians with only one option, Good Riddance to Bad Rubbish.

GOODBYE

The undisputable icon of anti-corruption and unofficial mouthpiece of the APC, Sahara Reporters has repented, “Minister, it is great to see you. This is the minister of an outgoing regime; the Buhari regime will be kicked off power by 2019,”. The minister, an unrepentant Buharist replied, you are a dreamer. Bookmakers believe that both the repentant and unrepentant Buharist were intoxicated because, it is reckless to underrate a disrupter like Sahara Reporters and the bloc vote of the Buharists, Sai baba. As the battle within the camp of  Fake Change gets messier,“never reinforce failure” says Obasanjo; it is expedient to state for posterity that PDP first failed, was balkanised and thereafter lost.

REAL CHANGE NOW

Albert Einstein had Nigeria in mind when he said, “you cannot solve a problem with the same thinking that created it”. The youth infested PDP and APC have had opportunities to deliver mere democracy dividends but Nigerians are still groaning. The propaganda’s of continuity and change are no way different from #Nottooyoungtorun. Who is a youth? The dancing senator, Ademola Adeleke, is 58 years but certainly young at heart. Pastor TundeBakare’s recent statement does not help matters, “a tender plant from the north will replace Buhari”. Make no mistake, a tender plant and the north are coded messages. In the same way, fake change and real change now are also coded messages.

CONCLUSION

Nigerians you are the referee, shine your eyes. It is not enough to demonise PDP and balkanise APC. Life abhors a vacuum and Nigeria urgently requires real change, not propaganda. What is real change? Real change is unprecedented feats or good success. In this context: additional 50,000MW of electricity, travel and tourism and other non-oil sectors contributing to 85% of Nigeria’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and GDP per capita of US$50,000. This is possible with fresh thinking that will give birth to a new vision and nation. Lee Kuan Yew and his team did it in Singapore, together yes we can. Lastly, as greenhorns attempt to trump the 2019 presidential race, Nigerians await apologies from those who supported failure and commend those not reinforcing failure.

Ena Orugbo can be reached via [email protected]