Bleating Of The Gathering Goats
By UbongAbasi Ise
The Nigerian President, Muhammadu
Buhari, has visited Uyo and left with reverberations still shaking the Twitter,
Whatsapp groups, Instagram, YouTube, Facebook news websites and blogs. He has left trails of inks on pages of newspapers.
The electronic media are not ready to
give up: they have scalded our eyes and ears with unending repetitions. The images
and competitive narratives stemmed from the presidential campaign flag-off have
overtaken and saturated all the available media spaces within the Nigerian
domain and beyond. While waiting for the
dust to settle, and for sanity to return, let’s look at the root of the truths
in the fairytales of empty seats.
It was Ntufam
Hilliard Etta, the APC National Vice Chairman for South-South, who transformed
his speech into a comic prayer, that referred to those on the other side of the
political divide as goats that ate up Nigeria’s yams altogether with the barn
that were trusted to their care for 16
years. Etta beseeched the Heavens to give
the lion President the strength to eat up all the goats gathering to once again
seize the country’s common patrimony in 2019.
The goats are
not harmful animals anyway, but they can devour food items and cause hunger to men,
women and children. What Hilliard did not emphasize about goats in his
hilarious prayer was that these kinds of bovidae family animals are commonly known
to be senseless. Inasmuch yours truly would not condescend to the level of calling
anybody goat, but there are those that surprisingly turned themselves into daft
goats in the wake of Buhari’s visit to Uyo.
There are some
nonsensical ignoramuses that bleat falsehood out of sheer frustration of seeing
massive turnout at Godswill Akpabio International Stadium. The sport facility was
filled to the capacity. Those who blenched at the sight of the intimidating crowd
were lucky to find empty spaces vacated by thousands of APC supporters who
rushed into the football pitch defying security measures as the President of
the Federal Republic was delivering his speech. They surrounded their President
in their thousands with banners. The owners of the empty seats were passionate
Buharists who couldn’t bear watching their leader at far range. They came
closer to really feel the presence of the Nigerian leader. All the chagrined naysayers
did was to use the vacated, empty seats to mislead the public to believe that
Buhari spoke to an empty stadium, really sad.
It is time for
the other camp and Buhari’s antagonists to wake up from feverish nightmare and
face the reality on ground. The people of South-south had turned out en masse
to declare unbridled support for Buhari, and no fake pictures can change that
fact, not even the bleating of the goats.
Deluding oneself
and building tactics on falsehood could be extremely suicidal in any
contestation. In an event of election, it is better to accept the realities as
they appear and work to improve bad image. It absolutely doesn’t make any sense for
Buhari opponents to dissipate their energies and waste their resources on
frivolities. It could have been better for them to base their campaign strategies
on issues that could remedy the country they say have failed on all fronts. If anti-Buharists can’t be articulating on sound
economic policies, security, concerns of corrosive corruption, food security,
industrialization, then let them surrender before February 2019 as Senator
Godswill Akpabio would say, or keep on bleating if they are goats.
Yes! I am UbongAbasi Ise. For comment,
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