THE NIGERIAN POLITICIANS: REVOLUTIONARIES OR FEIGNING REBELS BY SHITTUTIJANI KHADIJAH O.

Tell me, are the leaders of our greatest country “NIGERIA” revolutionaries or feigning kings who are waiting to be crowned by the citizens? Their impure intention towards us has affected the majority most especially the commoners in several ways that we can possibly think of in the current situation is presently. We are always roused by them the politicians, countless times every four years making promises they never keep nor intend to ,even those who wish to keep in mind their promises and act on the self lessness of the citizens and” benched” and “shut upped”.

All the do is tell us how bad the government system is and the only way it should go is down the drain. With the sweetness and erotic of their voices making promises it feel as if there’s fire in th eir mouth which has lighted the darkness of our doubts about our drained country and rouse our hopes once again. Even those of our own community rise up for the public positions, we gather to support such person with the mindset and believe that he’s going to be the friend of the peoplethe commoners who knows the price of food in the markets, what it means to wake up every single day without a penny, to live without a roof and still be in a family of disease and misery. People of which we thought they hav e arrived and that God has finally answered our prayers and would know as well as fell our agonies and crying of our sole without shoes. Four years of failed promises, broken trusts, lost hope, including innumerable treacheries, just waiting for our so ca lled “MAISAIAH” to come to our rescue.

Those who once had fire in their mouth just to give light to us in the dark four years ago had at day break quenched the fires by the seductive dew of their already dawn of ambition. Another four years is here again our memories is fresh like a track of throwers of dumb bombs, promise peddlers and prostrating apostates tiptoeing back to murmur good evening where they once shouted good night. They made life a race in which the strong trample on the weak, and still shin e brightly with their stolen trophies.

The citizens feed on the dreams spun on campaign promises just to feed the noisy bellies of their belching parliaments. Parents call their children leaders of tomorrow, trained to be educated and exhibit cultural va lues and norms, to be rulers of this our great nation “ NIGERIA” so the question is who are we to make our role models? Who are we to sight as examples for our children who in the future we believe to be great future leaders of tomorrow?, If our nation is being ruled by those who were once referred to as leaders of tomorrow and are now leaders who now takes their followers for granted and fight only for their own personal interests alone, now… are the revolutionaries to the Nigeria political system or feigning rebels?

SHITTUTIJANI KHADIJAH O.,

LAGOS STATE UNIVERSITY