Youths Arises

Should the good people of our nation still have confidence on Yakubu Mahmoud the INEC institutional chairman, Before the election of 25^th February 2023 INEC chairman along with other well-meaning Nigerian went to Chatham house where the man Yakubu promised and assuredprominent world leaders those present physicallyand online to conduct credible, fair and transparent election.

Nigerians at home and in diaspora for the first time in many years are feeling hopeful in the electoral process that was deemed faulty and in need of overhauling, Billions of Naira was apportioned and injected for upgrade to latest state of art technology and software deemed to be hack-prove. Best hands and brain in the IT background were employed to manage the systems which makes us confident this time around for a better outcome, also because of the keen observation by several international electoral umpires. 

 Unfortunately, after the just concluded election, it appears as if it is the worst elections in Nigeria so far in the country history. Nigerian are now asking questions that need answers, what happened to all the preparation with the huge tax-payers money that was allocated to the electoral institution to upgrade its equipment and put in place all necessary machineries, technologies, protocols and guideline that will prevent mediocrity or malpractice.

Considering the un scrupulous incidents that transpired all throughout the election processes in various pooling units around the nation, Nigerians are asking valuable questions, should we take any word from INEC Chairman serious again. Do we have any reason to think that he is sly and has been compromised. What can we read in his body language, wasn’t he calm, confident and cooperative with court order to inspect the electoral instruments.

It is proper to say the responsibilities of credible election rest on Yakubu Mahmood, this is the reason why the nation citizens are clamoring to get him to represent honesty as the best way forward for successfully birthing of a new Nigeria.

The people of this great nation deserve a modern system of governance where every basic amenity or apparatus of society functions and are been managed judiciously by trained and qualified professionals. Professor Yakubu Mahmood will remain a role model in this historical election that brought democracy closer to the common person to have a voice in our society. 

How will the professor like to be remembered in history entirely depend on transparency and cooperation without playing a delay tactics that may not work for him at the end.

The people of our dear nation Nigeria are tired of electing people into office that turn around and start playing with their emotions which has resulted in retrogressive development for a country that is known to be the giant of Africa.  Bad leadership has led to brain drain and this is so bad for Nigeria, if this 2023 presidential election scuffles is not adequately handled it will be clearly seen as the cabals responsible for bad government don’t want a change in Nigerian.

Truth shall prevail no matter how long it takes because the entire citizens of our country and Obedient movement worldwide are strongly optimistic that finally the right decision will be made by INEC chairman to avoid the negative connotation that such corrupt electoral practice will have on our leadership image home and abroad.

It is irrelevant who becomes president of Nigeria, we the people want corruption to end in our country. People are frustrated with the lack of jobs even after graduating from higher institutions.

Small business men and women of our country are the ones that constantly employ few hands to run their establishments which are the back bone of this economy, but they lack the basic infrastructure that would have helped them to become more productive and competitive in the global market place, which would have resulted in more job creation that would have reduced unemployment and curb crime among our youths and the general public.

for instance, constant availability of electricity light, good roads, hospital, schools and clean drinkable pipe borne water are nothing hard to achieve but why our leaders refused to make it happened is beyond everyone imagination. 

Going forward as a nation we should collectively ask ourselves what did we learn in all these charades and what can we do differently now to install or elect an independent credible honest INEC chairman that can be trusted to say and do everything according to his or her promises to the good people of this land.

This nation needs an INEC chairman that can speak with confidence to the people because he or she was able to perfect credible voting procedures and configurations to perfect transparent electoral process.

INEC is in the position to stop failing Nigeria or help put in place experienced and empathetic leaders who are visionary to do the right thing in our nation.  INEC should be so transparent to allow all party flag bearers to inspect documents and voting materials.

The moment has arrived for all Nigerian young and old to come together as unit to show bad leaders or politicians that Nigeria is not for sale to the highest bidder, we need competent hands with good characters and competence to manage our nation’s affairs and resources.  

The management of electoral materials or configuration of voting technology should have been done by appointing technical personals from all contesting parties to be part of the process, by so doing any trust issues will be readily avoided.  I think is a grave mistake to put a destiny of over 200 million Nigerian in the hands of one man or woman because of his faith or religion to decide who rule them. 

We the people have trusted the current INEC chairman at our own peril because we failed to do due diligence.  Voting is a game of contest which every competing party or individuals come to the occasion with all kinds of gimmicks and tricks in their sleeves. What we needed done going forward is check-mating every step of the process.

The demand of every citizen is to see a country that is functional for themselves and their children born and unborn. When we put people in position that does not understands our priority then the bulk of the blames should be ours to bear.

 

Nigerian and the whole world and the entire continent of Africa are waiting and watching. Our INEC chairman hopefully will prove himself worthy of a deserving excellency and honest in the discharge of his duties especially now as he hears the cry of Nigerians to do the needful by enabling the right presidential candidate to get his mandate.

Credible election anywhere in the democratic world is not by appointment but by transparent election by the people.

Corruption does not give up easily. That’s why we have to put all our collective energy into correcting this important aspect of our democracy, this is a fight to better all of us so all hands must be on deck. We cannot emphatically say Professor Yakubu the current INEC chairman is compromised without any concrete prove by the court of competent jurisdiction. 

The just concluded election is indeed a window of divine opportunity that has just presented itself to our scrupulous bad politicians to have a change of heart and make a U-turn by joining hands with individuals and group that has proven to have the needed solutions to solve multiple problems that are bedeviling our nation.

At this moment we can collectively decide to put an end to the heartless and impetuous act of kidnaping, rape, robberies, scams, lawless disrespect and disregard of the rule of law. This has become the entrenched conduct of leadership in Nigeria. Nigerians are known to be hardworking people everywhere you find them on planet earth but we are ranked morally and ethically low in the international community.

 

We need to have a system in place that is so transparent that it can be televised nationally on live television for everyone to view the transparency right from the comfort of their homes.

Why are we making this simple problem so complicated in the age of mobile telephone and internet technology.

Almost 70 or more percent of the people that just cast their votes are users of mobile phones, what stop INEC from setting one dedicated secure phone line for each of the contesting parties,

Every qualified voter will then text their data and who they chose to vote for into the live telephone line connected to live tv that can be viewed nationwide and world at large.

 If there is any dispute in the vote at any given moment, it will be a matter of announcing on the radio or television for people to re text back their choices and options.  Believe you me this approach will be very entertaining and innovative in such a way that this idea itself will become a template that Nigeria brain behind such success will become electoral consultant to other nations in Africa and even across the globe. 

So, in this moment I will advise each of us to consciously retrieve within and start looking at the event transpiring in our nation as if watching a movie. The movie is about the good the bad and the ugly, some people are watching the event and screaming, others are watching quietly, some has become overzealous social media umpires drumming support for one candidate or the order, the social media space has gone agog because of the 2023 Nigeria Election.  Among the many noises and reasons from many learned individuals, elders stateman and seasoned politicians. Can we see the opportunity that has presented itself clearly.

 

Something positive and revolutionary can spiral out of this defective and broken project called Nigeria, it’s up to us to call all our political actors to order and give each of them a script that we all collectively vetted do to us good when everyone of the political actor stick to their role in the script.

Let us use this recent 2023 election experience to go back to our drawing board to prescribe retributions that will befall any man or woman we commit our collective trust and it got breached by corruptions of selecting to sell the nation to the highest bidder.  In a situation like this what will a country like India do, what will China do, what will America do in a situation like this.  What will France do, or Egypt or South Africa or Ghana.

We can start to get it right starting from now going forward by laying down a proper foundation and build succession upon every gain recorded.

What is happening in Nigeria right now is nothing short of a miracle, believe me gun manufacturers are disappointed because of the anticipated mayhem that they calculated to take place after the election. 

This alone is an achievement by itself, it shows our maturity as Nigerians, we can campaign about issues that is bothering our society without becoming derogative towards the opponent of the other contesting parties.  We may disagree with differences of opinions but that does not mean we have to be at each other throat just to prove a point.

This great Nollywood reality show going on in Nigeria right now is an opportunity of a low hanging fruit waiting for us to recognize them and start the process of harvesting. 

The respect and inclusiveness that black people world-wide have been desperately seeking is what Obedient movement has brought to us, I wish the intellectuals, imam, prophets, preachers, motivational leaders among us can recognize and harness this global energy into advancement of our collective aspiration. 

Money is a current, live blood and sweat that is why money is also called currency, we the people understood this mystical truth that is why individually we spend so much money in 2023 election as sacrifice to cleans our land from bad leadership omen, after all of such effort has been exhausted, we believe our labor should not be in vain or taken for granted.

 

 

Business require money to make money, if politicians want to rule Nigerians by all means then let the whole Nigerians be treated as deserving a human dignity, make a monetary offer that cannot be refused to each of our citizen. For example, offer to give each citizen a job for life, business, cars, Farms, houses and $10 Million Dollars each. 

for the first time in history of this nation Nigerians of all faith, religion, tribes, color and class sacrificed their widow smite to ensure free, fair and creditable elections only to be rewarded with opportunity to become a beacon of electoral hope to our continent and the entire world.

We are the stones that the builders rejected in the international spaces and global market because our leaders’ inabilities to put our houses in order. We have wakened up to the realization that we will make ourself the head corner stone.  We have decided to turn this sour lime life throws at us to a mouthwatering and taste quenching lemonade drink.

Yakubu Mahmood acted co-operatively, professionally with decorum while he was been questioned by the legal counsel of LP, and he said I Quote ‘I have nothing to hide” What a gentle cool-headed man. such is worthy of the role of leadership in this country if only truly he was not found compromised to tamper with such (AMANA) that the whole of us entrusted into his safe keep. 

Assuming that we found out after proper investigation that bring to the lime light that the election was bought and sold long even after the vote started casting, then we should not throw the baby away with the bath water, this is where the conversation begins, let us accept our own failure by falling for his gimmicks, not doing the due diligence by planting monitoring vices around every inch of the electoral process. 

Election is a competition of ideas peddled by contestant, just as every football player come to the world cup to shine for him or herself and the team they represented. Some players are rough in the football field, same way some politicians are derogative in their campaigns, everyone play the game of life by their moral understanding of how the world function from their own perspectives.

INEC Chairman is in a position to change these historical narratives to betterment of all than continue to dance to the same old drum beats without soul or empathy, for the very first time in the history of mankind have we seen what catch 22 look like in real life.

Now that INEC found itself between the devil and the deep blue sea, between Obidient movement, the people, Nigerian Youths and the world at large, what is needed is the assurance of Nigerians to prayerfully encourage Professor Yakubu Mahmood to find it humane and progressive in his biography and legacy that he will leave behind for his next generation.

The Professor must priorities this time to the liberation of the black race world-wide from the shackles of oppression and condemnation to the bottomless pit of struggles and poverty living globally.

The professor is the one in the seat to hire the right candidate or pilot to fly this Aeroplan nicknamed Nigeria for the next 4 or 8 years, the passengers on board this plane are Nigerian citizens, the air hostess are the governors, the pilot and his or her assistance is the president and the vice president. 

If the professor makes a mistake in hiring a wrong pilot to fly air-Nigeria will never exist again as it is the case now.  There was a time in history when Nigerian Airways was among the best in the world. The pilots and all the crew were amongst the middle class of Nigeria. Giant of Africa that we are know be called was very befitting in those days.

There was a country is a powerful statement by Chinua Achebe, but how do we return back to that New Nigeria is the basis of this conversation.

Written By Phaya Brands Ochelebe.

Journalist: Rocking Theatre Media

Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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