THE VERY BEST TICKET OF NIGERIA’S DECADE OF DEMOCRACY; BUHARI-AMECHI 2015…

PRESIDENT & VICE PRESIDENT OF NIGERIA COME 2015

Don’t argue against it because you will lack the reasons to push it down and out of reality. I will help your satirical admiration of the moment; yes he (Buhari) has failed three times. You must be either smiling happily or laughing loudly. If you allow me I can laugh even more at such happenings but it sure will really be when am convinced it is madness. This does not strike me with any seeming tenor.

Permit me to take you a bit round why you should think twice when you wish to see Buhari as a failure even as he comes in surging rave come 2015. My story is an exposure of those who have gone through the wilderness where Buhari finds himself for a decade of our budding democracy. Yes Buhari has failed a third time but can remember these few instances thus;

1. Harland David Sanders: Perhaps better known as Colonel Sanders of Kentucky Fried Chicken fame, Sanders had a hard time selling his chicken at first. In fact, his famous secret chicken recipe was rejected 1,009 times before a restaurant accepted it.
2. Soichiro Honda: The billion-dollar business that is Honda began with a series of failures and fortunate turns of luck. Honda was turned down by Toyota Motor Corporation for a job after interviewing for a job as an engineer, leaving him jobless for quite some time. He started making scooters of his own at home, and spurred on by his neighbors, finally started his own business.
3. Walt Disney: Today Disney rakes in billions from merchandise, movies and theme parks around the world, but Walt Disney himself had a bit of a rough start. He was fired by a newspaper editor because, “he lacked imagination and had no good ideas.” After that, Disney started a number of businesses that didn’t last too long and ended with bankruptcy and failure. He kept plugging along, however, and eventually found a recipe for success that worked.
4. Bill Gates: Gates didn’t seem like a shoe-in for success after dropping out of Harvard and starting a failed first business with Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen called Traf-O-Data. While this early idea didn’t work, Gates’ later work did, creating the global empire that is Microsoft.

Oh yes! These businessmen and the companies they founded are today known around the world, but as these stories show, their beginnings weren’t always smooth. Why do you think this cannot be the story of Muhamadu Buhari?

Let us also go a bit into the scientific world and the firmament of thinkers to as well catch some fun of appreciation of how success can come after very many hassles. Join me on this once again;

1. Socrates: Despite leaving no written records behind, Socrates is regarded as one of the greatest philosophers of the Classical era. Because of his new ideas, in his own time he was called “an immoral corrupter of youth” and was sentenced to death. Socrates didn’t let this stop him and kept right on, teaching up until he was forced to take a poison being a capital punishment.
2. Albert Einstein: Most of us take Einstein’s name as synonymous with genius, but he didn’t always show such promise. Einstein did not speak until he was four and did not read until he was seven, causing his teachers and parents to think he was mentally handicapped, slow and anti-social. Eventually, he was expelled from school and was refused admission into the Zurich Polytechnic School. It might have taken him a bit longer, but most people would agree that he caught on pretty well in the end, winning the Nobel Prize and changing the face of modern physics.
3. Charles Darwin: In his early years, Darwin gave up on having a medical career and was often chastised by his father for being lazy and too dreamy. Darwin himself wrote, “I was considered by all my masters and my father, a very ordinary boy, rather below the common standard of intellect.” Perhaps they judged too soon, as Darwin today is well-known for his scientific studies.

I know you won’t doubt me if I say that these people are often regarded as some of the greatest minds of our century, but they often had to face great obstacles, the ridicule of their peers and the animosity of the society of their times.

What about these inventors who changed the face of the modern world?

1. Orville and Wilbur Wright: These brothers battled depression and family illness before starting the bicycle shop that would lead them to experimenting with flight. After numerous attempts at creating flying machines, several years of hard work, and tons of failed prototypes, the brothers finally created a plane that could get airborne and stay there.
2. Thomas Edison: In his early years, teachers told Edison he was “too stupid to learn anything.” Work was no better, as he was fired from his first two jobs for not being productive enough. Even as an inventor, Edison made 1,000 unsuccessful attempts at inventing the light bulb. Of course, all those unsuccessful attempts finally resulted in the design that worked.

Now am pretty sure you know that they did all that but not without a few failed prototypes along the way. But it is not time to go away with such little as more can be seen.

What about these public figures?

1. Oprah Winfrey: Most people know Oprah as one of the most iconic faces on TV as well as one of the richest and most successful women in the world. Oprah faced a hard road to get to that position, however, enduring a rough and often abusive childhood as well as numerous career setbacks including being fired from her job as a television reporter because, according to them, she was “Unfit for TV.”
2. Winston Churchill: This Nobel Prize-winning, twice-elected Prime Minster of the United Kingdom wasn’t always as well regarded as he is today. Churchill struggled in school and failed the sixth grade. After school he faced many years of political failures, as he was defeated in every election for public office until he finally became the Prime Minister at the ripe old age of 62.
3. Abraham Lincoln: While today he is remembered as one of the greatest leaders of the United States, Lincoln’s life wasn’t so easy. In his youth he went to war a captain and returned a private (if you’re not familiar with military ranks, just know that private is as low as it goes.) Lincoln didn’t stop failing there, however. He started numerous failed business and was defeated in numerous runs he made for public office.

I am aware that you are enjoying these facts as they come your way but one thing you may want to say is that change is not usually in at sight for Buhari. Now you have to think again…

Very many renowned personalities have considered the predicament of Africa and have come to a resolve; Africa is not in need of strong men and women but Africa is in strong lack of strong institutions. Let me add before we proceed that institutions are built on foundations. But if and whenever the foundation of any edifice is on quicksand, the peril of such institution is certainly unarguable. It must come!!!

Nigerian institutions were and are built on the quickest sands of corruption and all manner of doings. This has made it a reality to always behold and live with that no matter how hard we try and how much energy we put into national service for growth and development we gain nothing but failures, troubles, crises, inability, and woes.

This is where we are in Nigeria and unless something drastic is done about it, the disaster has grown so giant. For this reason, Nigeria does not need any man who is family-good neither do we need men/women of the kind we have always had. When the TRANSFORMATION AMBASSADORS OF Nigeria (TAN) clamour for change, it is this kind of change that they have indirectly and by implication asked for. The only mistake they have made is that they turned their clamouring standing on its wretched head. This can as well be corrected when Nigerians get this fact that we need a Buhari/Amechi ticket which has come.

For every other aspect we could pardon and work along with a Goodluck Jonathan but for akrasia and corruption we defiantly will end it here for him in relation to national leadership and federal administration.

By akrasia I sincerely will persistently mean the weakness of the ‘will’ while the ‘will’ is that inner spirit and power to act, to do and to perform. In the person of Dr. Goodluck Ebelemi Jonathan all that is lacking.

Another vital reason why he must step down from the stool of national government driver is the national-death-potency of corruption which has become a paramount portion of this government. From Stella Odua’s aviation management to Maina’s Pension Fund scam, from the NNPC reggae to the CBN slander, from the Governors’ Forum Election 16-19 wonder to the Ekiti state House of Assembly impeachment quorum mishmash, from the Sambisa forest, the South-East customary death news and security fiasco to the Mubi grave yards. Where can we start and where do we eventually will stop? Is it the arrogance and bestial posture of the Nigerian Police force against the law of the land? Or do we talk about the presidential coup against democracy upon the legislature? The land smells with crass failure and stupendous moral abandonment. Nigeria and her federal government administration just won the unimaginable prize never to be recorded in the ‘unworthy’ GUINNESS BOOK OF RECORDS. The term unworthy is used because the Guinness Book of Records does not and will not have the space enough to accommodate such heinous crime in the history of financial doom of theft. A whooping Fifty Billion Dollars just disappeared from the national revenue purse to a wonder bank guided and fully protected by the presidency which feels insulted by the best ever question from the Central Bank of Nigeria since its creation as an institution of Nigerian system.

The economy is collapsing by every passing second and the administrators are busy shouting about how they are applying fertilizers on the GDP. Our government is growing her GDP while scores of lives and property are vanishing from the surfaces of this earth in jiffies. The biggest oil boom of the century has made no news as its blessings are thrown into the pockets of the cabal who turn it to curse upon the Nigerian citizen.

The subsidy regime is another pot of scam to drink with smiles. Gush!

Yes! Subsidy has been greatly killed even after the citizens cried and begged in January 2012 that the government should let her common citizens enjoy a little from the blessing of God upon the land – the crude oil and petroleum. Granted that the ‘Pharaoh’ of a president we have in Nigeria has defiantly removed the subsidy with promises of fabulously fabled and fictitious Eldorado which are sincerely unseen and never to be, why can’t the fuel pump price reduce with the reduction of global crude oil price?

This record can play forever but the question again is; where do we go from here?

We need change! And we therefore need a Buhari!!

Buhari has the history of war against indiscipline. When we mention indiscipline we must know and realize that it encompasses a whole lot. Indiscipline incorporates akrasia and corruption. Indiscipline is a prism from where such rays as theft, mismanagement of common will, embezzlement of public fund, rape of values, election rigging, public service morality debacle and all strands of corruption emanate.

Buhari is the answer to all this and Amechi is a vibrant and courageous lieutenant to pull this dream home. What a wonder of blessing God Almighty has brought to our yearning doors? It is the time and it is here!!!

Rise up fellow compatriots and take up your amour of conscience, take also in arms the strength of ethical beingness and reject all forms of intimidation, all types of blackmail, and all sorts of immoral luring. Refuse the bad today and make your doors wide open for the good which has been brought to us by the choice of Buhari-Amechi presidency come 2015.

Expect new and vibrant/working old refineries, expect functional and proper execution of awarded contracts, expect transparency in all facets of national business, expect the return of values on our campuses, expect accountability, expect punishment for offenders and killers of our collective life, expect safety of life property, expect an end to the Boko Haram madness, expect the return and retrieval of our stolen treasures, expect power/uninterrupted electricity, expect revamping of the economy, expect growth in our national reserve, expect a working judiciary, and expect a better Nigeria.

Vote MUHAMADU BUHARI & ROTIMI AMECHI come 2015 for a new and working Nigeria!!!