Mike Wabali
In the absence of government, the people die. In the absence of the people, the government will not exist. Nigeria’s case is tragically different in the sense that there is a government – at least so we are made to believe. There is also “the people”. However, the government has done horribly well with its attempts to distance itself from the people, a task that it is almost succeeding at. The people: they have become so accustomed to government’s cut-throat ineptitude that one begins to wonder if we’re truly these same people that lined up under the sun, 3 years ago, to vote in an election that we hoped would turn around our fortune.
The killings in Plateau State and the entire middle best region is deplorable. Gory footages taken at the scenes confirmed that there is no government as the people have returned to a state of nature and lawlessness.
While Plateau burned, the President was at the venue of the All Progressives Congress National Convention gyrating to the tunes of discords that characterized the process. If there is anything, the Buhari-led administration has shown that a country can exist without a leader as he has mystified the seat of power with his see-no-evil, say-no-evil stance.
A day after the genocide, the president, with all the intelligence gathering, did not fly to Plateau to access the level of damage caused by the rampaging herdsmen, his own kinsmen he had previously called Libyans. The president was in Cross River State to Commission Rice processing plant. It is only in Nigeria that a president sits comfortably well while foreigners murder his own people.
The complicity of silence from the President as regards these killings has opened the eyes of observers to the damage that the APC as a party has done to Nigeria. The APC has brought an unquantifiable degree of damage to the system that killing of human beings have become a daily occurrence and the concept of humanity to these killings lost.
In the midst of all these, the oppositions are no where to be found, except on the pages of facebook and twitter flinging stones and taking selfies.
The same president that sent soldiers to Igbo land in the heat of the IPOB/Biafra struggle, is blaming the genocide in Plateau on Political differences when MACBAN admitted that herdsmen carried out the killings because the locals stole their cows?
The Buhari-led administration should not be allowed to continue, that is the honest truth. It is the responsibility of Nigerians to decide whether they need a government that will help them stay alive or the one that will help them perish.
