Last night, I posted: “In the morning…we shall have a country or we will not; hope or we will not; justice or we will not; a future or we will not because weeping endures for a night but joy comes in…”
As the tidal wave of military coups sweeps West Africa, some say Nigeria too is an eligible candidate for the “African Spring,” but is it really?
Today Nigeria extinguished itself as a giant in Africa by the sorry judgment of the Presidential Election Petitions Court which deflected the obvious truth that the world watched on that tragic and heartrending day of February 25, 2023.
The presidential election court dodged a date with history and the yearnings and timeless aspirations of Nigerian heroes past and present who sought and fought for the betterment of the nation in vain.
Ironically, it is not that the court did the unexpected or the unthinkable. However in a country where wrong is the norm and right is an aberration, there was some expectation for an exception.
Once again Nigeria did not fail to fail its promise or its potential and its citizens were inflicted with additional heartbreak upon heartache.
The journey to perdition has fully begun. Nigeria had a chance to avert coup in favour of court showing that we’re capable of better things and haven’t totally lost our membership in the comity of civilized nations and aspiring democracies.
Faith in the rule of law, in the justice system, in the Nigerian project has been buried underground while APC’s Renewed Hoax has “won”.
Bola Ahmed (or Adekunle) Tinubu’s decades of venality and impunity have won him an entire nation of 200 million to ransom.
I awoke at 4am in Washington to watch the judgment which I have been watching for hours on end.
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