South West Politicians, The Brave Scouts of Sick Presidents.

The South of Nigeria has produced perhaps the heaviest weight of politicians in Nigeria since her independence, but is South West Nigeria the harbinger of sick presidents or this is just a myth?

In my opinion, South West politicians are largely responsible for the leadership problems we are facing in Nigeria since 1999 and here is how they did it.

After Olusegun Obasanjo aka OBJ’s tenure, he had the mandate to hand over power to the North through PDP. When PDP presented Yar Adua, he was already sick, and of frail stature. Yar Ardua as the governor of Katsina was absent from his office on health grounds for months.

OBJ was aware of the health condition of Yar Adua and how it will affect Nigeria as a whole, but he was more interested in politicking than the effect of installing an unhealthy ruler on Nigerians. For most of the campaign period, OBJ led the charge throughout the South West where YarAdua was mostly absent on health ground on the campaign trail, and OBJ went ahead to rig the election to fulfill the mandate of the PDP party over the mandate of the people. Yar Adua himself confirmed the rigging and promised to reward Nigerians with a rulership that will lead to a better Nigeria.

Perhaps his intentions was good, but his health wasn’t, ill-health and the burden of a ailing nation as engineered by OBJ finally led to the death of Yar Adua before he could keep any of his promises, leading to the emergence of GEJ, a politician that was only an expert at staying in the shadows both at home and office. He was never in charge.

The abysmal performance of GEJ who was physically healthy but mentally deficient not only created a distrust in his rule, it fueled the need to replace him as soon as possible. The people demanded for a presidential president, while on the clamoring for a viable replacement was going on, the South West agained brewed a replacement poison with the help of Tunde Bakare and Bola Tinubu.

Tunde Bakare who was the VP candidate of the Northern messiah was the first to raise the motion for the merger of the ACN and CPC to form the APC. After Tinubu first rejected the idea because it will not immediately be profitable for him, he later ceded his immediately ambition and the nepotic cankerworm christened “the firm and incorruptible fighter of corruption and insurgency” emerged as the candidate of the new establishment while Tinubu nominated a new SW shadow artiste as his VP to substantiate his shares in the merger since he couldn’t immediately emerge.

Although a formidable contender, the northern influence of Buhari was never enough to solidify his ambition, but with the merger and alignment with the right political presence in the South West, his dream became a possibility and the potent incompetence instituted by OBJ made his emergence even easier and inevitable.

The nation needed to remove the shadow and bring forth light. Options abound, but the merger of the North West with the South West had presented a greater darkness as a semblance of light. We warned but the noise caused by the bad engineering of OBJ was too much for many to hear our sanity.

With the help of the South West again, a new regime of nepotism emerged and the nation was casted into the abyss of managing another sickly president who only mattered to self, and plunged the nation into utter turmoil, leaving even the strongest of us in unimaginable travail.

While we are still dealing with the result of the destruction instituted by the sick cankerworms currently eating through every aspect of our national identity and economy, the same in-patient that orchestrated the emergence of the current out-patient has submitted his intention to continue with the debacle wherever his creation might eventually stop. 

While it is evident that the self-appointed landlord of Lagos is psychologically, physically and medically unfit to lead a pack of cards, he by himself has deemed it fit that Nigeria deserves another ruler that is plagued with inevitable medical tourism abroad and inefficiency for the sake of his own ambition.

Although it is a thing of shame that after 16yrs of nurturing sickly presidents, Nigeria cannot boast of a single government owned medical facility that can cater to her domestic Presidential medical needs, our politicians and their politicking followers know no shame, and this is not out of the lack of medical expertise but rather facilities and the lack of interest and will to change the status quo. “The status quo is profitable enough for the sick and dying” they said, there is no need to build a stronger nation since mediocrity pays the medical bills they believe.

The Presidential candidate of the ruling party in Tinubu has been missing from every activity that required his presence and that of all other major candidates.

A month ago, he was absent, and today again he’s missing at the signing of the “Peace Pact” for the 2023 election, all on health grounds without a single explanation.

Are we going to allow the SW put the sickly shackles on our feet again as a nation or we are ready to break free?

Are we willing to stay in the broken system or ready to face a new reality, take the risk and build a nigeria that is away from the corrupt and dying, ushering her into a new light of prosperity?

The big question is “should we turn Aso Rock, the capital and official seat of Nigeria’s presidents to an elderly hospice or choose from the array of young, agile and healthy Nigerians that can run and win the race”?

Our choice at the poll in 2023 will answer for all.

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