Nobody Should Celebrate Buhari- Etcetera Writes In New Article

    Why are we dancing? Why do we keep
    rolling out the drums each time we have a new government, only for us to start
    crying few months down the line? Is it that we are too quick to forget or we
    just love to dance? Do you celebrate a child who’s about to write his exams or
    the one who has written and passed? What is this jubilation for? Because I
    really don’t understand. Is it that the election of Buhari in itself has
    suddenly alleviated our sufferings? I am really confused here, hearing how six
    bikers lost their lives in Zaria celebrating Buhari’s victory.
    One would think that a people who
    have been shortchanged for so long by past presidents will know better to be
    calm and take every word of the new president with a pinch of salt until he
    proves to be different. This process is becoming an unending circle, again and
    again we’ve danced and again and again, we’ve cursed and cried at the end.

    It is still shocking to me that a
    lot of Nigerians fell for the story that the president was born without shoes.
    Was anyone born with shoes on? Buhari’s triumphant entry into the presidency
    last Sunday which coincidentally was a palm Sunday doesn’t yet prove he is the
    redeemer. Just like the second coming of our supposed political messiah
    Obasanjo didn’t prove any significant improvement in our lives.
    We all thought he was the one
    anointed by the gods to take us by the hands and lead us right straight into
    the promised land, where we shall have no more gnashing of teeth. But when he
    left office, the roads were still as bad as they were before he took office.
    The hospitals were still without facilities and most importantly, he failed to
    defeat the demon in the power sector even with billions of dollars thrown at
    it. The demons in the same power sector have claimed Jonathan just like they
    did Yar’Adua, Abdulsalami Abubakar, Sanni Abacha, Shonekan, IBB and Shagari.
    Even Buhari himself had already been defeated by this demon before. So what
    says it is not going to be the same this time around. Remember obasanjo was
    defeated twice by this same demon.
    Why won’t our leaders take us for
    granted when they’ve noticed that we are always ready to jump to our feet and
    “judile” with the announcement of every new regime? When Buhari overthrew the
    democratically elected government of Shehu Shagari in 1983, many of you reading
    this took to the streets to boogie down. When Babangida sent Buhari packing a
    couple of months later, a lot more of you got drunk and vomited all over the
    place. Even Abacha’s sudden death brought smiles on the faces of most bar
    owners across the country as they ran out of booze. Is something wrong with us
    as a people? We are forgetting a very important fact that this election proves
    that we are and will still remain a divided people. We are divided by our
    ideologies with no realistic integration in sight. The election has also
    reinforced the thinking that we are divided by regional, tribal and religious
    interests and not national. These are some of the significant issues that will
    define our tomorrow.

    Finally, some of you who are
    reading this may be saying, oh Etcetera, can’t you be optimistic for once? My
    brother, I can’t. Optimism and its younger brother, hope have proven to be very
    dangerous especially in Nigeria. They have sent millions of Nigerians to their
    early graves. What is the point of being optimistic in a system that has always
    left me in tears and heartache? Or is it till I get arrested by Mr. Cardiac?
    Tufiakwa!

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