What is the Nigeria of your dream? When you wake up in the morning and you look out through your window, what comes to mind? What do you plan as an average citizen for the child yet unborn? What change do you wish to see in your country that will bring happiness to your home? How do you hold your leaders accountable? All these and many are the thoughts that keeps going through your mind even when driving for those that have cars or the market sellers.
Politics is not a struggle for fight or blood shedding but an avenue to vote in the best candidate suitable for a given position of governance in a given society. But these days, politics has become a do or die affair especially in Nigeria. Corruption has eaten deep into the hearts of the leaders and the citizens find it difficult to trust anybody wanting to assume any political office. Political candidates do all sorts of things all in the name of campaign just to win the hearts of men and later turn their back on their promises.
When assuming any political office, it is an avenue of recalling your promises as an elected leader to the people that voted you that you will deliver your promises and see how the state or country can be developed not coming to castigate or make a jest of your promises. No blame is being apportioned here, but some issues just need to be addressed while hot.
“Already, I am grooming your chicken for Christmas. I am getting your rice ready to do stomach infrastructure. When I defeated them, they said it was as a result of stomach infrastructure. How can an incumbent be saying that when he had the money, he had the power, he had the might but disconnected himself from the people. They are gone.”
“I have forgiven Ekiti for removing me unjustly and I declare peace, prosperity, progress, employment, food and stomach infrastructure. You can put a tar on the road but if I don’t have a car and I’m hungry, then that tar is meaningless. Tarring our road is wonderful but putting food inside this stomach is very important.
The quotation above were the exact words of the newly-inaugurated Governor of Ekiti State, Dr. Peter Ayodele Fayose, during his swearing in on the 16th of October, 2014, in Ekiti state.
Delivering his inaugural address on Thursday after he was sworn in by EKiti State Chief Judge, Ayodeji Daramola, Fayose said he would work hard to put food on the table, regardless of public opinion that such measures are called “stomach infrastructure.”
Do you agree with these saying that the stomach is more important than good infrastructure in the state or is the stomach more important than creating employment opportunities in the state? Take a close look at the faces of these citizens cheering the man who is ready to provide them with rice and chicken standing under the hot sun. Where is the water, the road to transport kerosene for them to buy, where is the employment opportunity that will bring income for a good up keep? Is this the dream Nigeria of your choice?
