By Adamu Hamza Marree Talum
The naked trending of poor governance is transparently seen
on the rips of individual Nigerians , especially the northerners which trails
with it an unquantifiable squalor that sympathetically engulfs the northern
region of the country. In my view, the northerners should have chased the wild
cat first before they blame the rat. Actually, the President Buhari
administration was the greatest to be blamed for it incipiently brought about the kafkaesque
subsidy removals that stagnantly remains bothersome to all northerners which
today leaves million Nigerians in economic turpsyturvy.
The unnecessary subsidy removals started even then when it
was protected by the overwhelming Northern elites as well as the unenlightened
masses who saw Buhari as the Messiah, including religious clerics that
resolutely preached against Buhari's administrative antagonism. At a point in
time, whoever went against President Buhari, many religious leaders almost
subjected his critic to a heathen for the intrapersonal perception they had for
President Muhammadu Buhari.
It was the administration that came into being which found a
bag of foreign rice sold at #7000 that is now being sold at #100,000 and above.
Think of such deadly capricious inflation! I can not regret to tell my readers
that the grevious havoc made by the previous administration is not even
quoterly exhibiting now. Only that Tinubu has added pepper on the existing
wound that leaves Nigerians into immeasurable social and economic pains.
For President Tinubu, I can objectively describe him as
hard-hearted for his unyielding colossal attitude towards his masses that made
him what he is today.
If we could remember, from 1999 to 2015, Nigerians had not
experienced any hardship as such. Things were very affordable to a common man,
money had value and cost of living was not so exorbitant as it is today, small
amount of money was enough to feed a larger family, there were all subsidies in
the areas of Agriculture, health, fuel, pilgrims, education and so on, besides,
people slept comfortablly with their eyes close in most of the regions of the
country with the exception of Northeast. Those beautiful days were gone as all
that have been mentioned are otherwise substituted. Actually, Nigerians are
startled by such nimble sublimity as end couldn't meet the beginning.
All Nigerans then slept with their eyes closed as religious
and communal clashes were less, in addition, there was zero banditry and kidnapping in the north. The only thing
bizzare which orchestratedly got it way to the north then was the case of
Boko-Haram that remained the most terrible challenge that teased the engendered
peace of the country. The Boko-Haram insurance led to the thoughtless call for
the change of the Government which was unfortunately not known to the masses
that they would be sinking into the warpool of banditry, kidnapping and hunger
that would make them prefer the insurgency to dying by hunger and
administrative brutality.
The most remarkable moment was the sudden change of
everything from 2015 to date which to me, has specifically got its wrong
somewhere. Many resoved it to the will of God, few look at it from the sight of
poor governance while handful attributed the paltry situation to the masses
failure to make a right choice.
Actually, all these are to be considered to some respect but
in my view, wrong choice of leaders is considered to be the first as most
northerners have surrendered their mandates to their leaders who have greater
influence on their choice of a leader
but finally betrayed. We mostly vote for those we love instead of the ones they
love us. It is an undisputable fact that the major problem of Nigeria are its
leaders who have no sympathy for their electorates. For long Nigerans are
crying and clamouring on the return of subsidy but intolerated by the
presidency. Same president will go round and demands for reelection, 2027 and
there will likely be senseless Nigerians that can campaign for him upon the
terrible condition people are in.
Strictly speaking, masses are least to be blamed because
initially, Nigeria's masses have always been used and have nothing to do. The
system from the outset doesn't favor masses any way. Infact, millions of
Nigerans are still not aware of the quoter of what is happening in their
country because they distanced completely from the government. The masses
placed in such economic nothingness, what do you expect him to know about his
Government? It is only during electioneering that they see their leaders and with
or without them, a leader will win the election. Can we say that it is what we
are always voting for that imerge winners? Actually, I can hardly believe so.
Mostly our leaders got their ways through rigging and extorting the northern
leaders.
Looking at the case of the minor that is trending on social
media, it is enough to question the representation of the northern elders
forum. Looking at how the young kids become totally famished that they couldn't
stay on their feet in the court, still they are to be adjudicated in such
gnashing condition.
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