Refinement of the mind and aptitude to make informed decisions and ability of objective and rational judgement, like most practical skills, come with the ageing process if one is continuously exposed to logic. This is the reason why I agree with the judgement of a former governor of Cross River State, Donald Duke, that rescheduling the presidential and National Assembly polls of Saturday, February 16, 2019 would surely put a great strain on the lean finances of the opposition, especially knowing that the sitting government could so easily tap into the national reserves to bankroll an extended campaign.
Shall we add also that menacing the opposition and boxing it into a corner in order to manipulate outcomes of polls features of the Third World democracy? Over there, at Kaduna State, Governor Nasir el-Rufai, forever the obstinate one who likes making apologies for his careful talks and gaffes, was glad to tell one of the meanest lies of this election season detailing how tens of Fulani tribesmen were killed at Adara Chiefdom.
For this governor, the twin items of consciousness detailing the tribe of Adara and the idea of mort should bother him really because the suspicion that the late Chief of Adara Chiefdom, Raphael Maiwada, was lured out so he would be ensnared and murdered is still swirling around him plus the matter of him threatening to send foreign election observers back home in body bags.
Basically, el-Rufai, who is generally regarded as the intellectual in the inner circle surrounding President Muhammadu Buhari, is one bogeyman who has just primed the Fulani to attack Adara Chiefdom in order that elections would not hold there and we would not be far off the mark if we add that there was a ploy to garner national sympathetic Fulani votes for his principal.
In Niger State, the one who should sit down with Gen. Abdulsalami Abubakar and sign a peace pact is the governor who incidentally is the son-in-law of Abubakar. This young man, Abubakar Sani Bello, with the feminine nickname of “Abu Lolo,” gets pelted with a myriad of objects wherever he goes on his campaign stump because people consider him a total failure in the art of public administration. How does the governor take this public shaming?
Sunday Adole Jonah,
Department of Physics,
Federal University of Technology,
Minna, Niger State
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