Those who either sentenced themselves or were sentenced to inconsolable<\/p>\n
heedless wailing by the outcome of last year’s general election can never
\nstop being funny. Often when you hear or read their loud, frenzied and
\nsyndicated cacophony of complaint and twisting of everything from
\nPresident Buhari and his government lately to suit their wailing
\nenterprise, you walk away with the impression that these wailers cannot
\nsimply be serious. A common refrain that dog their conversations lately is
\n‘ is this\u00a0 the change we voted\u00a0 for?’ You are often to hear them complain
\nnoisily and bitterly of what Buhari, his government and APC did to them or
\ndid not do to them that you are often left to wonder if they are not
\nworking themselves to a state of permanent psychotic frenzy by the defeat
\nthey suffered last year. They believe that by their repetitive efforts,
\nthey can choral Nigerians into stoning Buhari and asking them to come back
\nto continue what they know best: free plundering of the Nigerian
\ncommonwealth. But you wonder; are the wailing wailers not wasting the
\ntears they should reserve for more patchy days ahead\u00a0 just at the starting
\npoint of what promises to be a long night in the cold? To the extent that
\nthese crooning wailers are getting real giddy pruriently awarding marks to
\na man faced with the gargantuan debris they left here, with a parched
\nrevenue base at the eight of a first 48 months is downright silly if not
\nan overplay of dented emotions that will surely percolate in the days to
\ncome.<\/p>\n
But let us not\u00a0 be detained by the wailers and their cheeky antics. Rather
\nlet us excurse\u00a0 into the wailers’ latest claptrap of ‘is this the change
\nwe voted for?’. This is at best a profanity and blasphemy uttered by those
\nwho staged a rather stupid war with change when they felt the unstoppable
\nwind was about to sweep them into the ocean where they are now, wailing
\nlike a recorder firmly set on auto reverse or a broken and cracked
\ngramophone. I ask, which “change” did the wailers vote for? Certainly not
\nthe pan-Nigerian change that swept them off a terribly abused power and
\nbrought President Buhari in with a loud, cadent and unmistakable task of
\ncleaning the putrid Augean stable the Wailers left here. So which “change”
\nare the wailers struggling to claim to have voted for? Some days ago, I
\nwas unfortunate to stumble on a Channels Television broadcast of a meeting
\nof the remnant of PDP in Lagos. In the said meeting, one Tunji Shelle the
\nfactional chairman of Lagos PDP (of course, the state PDP Secretary was
\nequally shown on the programme describing Shelle as an impostor since he
\nalleged his term had ended), Shelle was to entertain his fellow dispirited
\nPDP compatriots with a comedy that has become common with PDP members
\nsince March last year, he reeled out a litany of what Buhari and APC did
\nto them and did not do to them and yelled before his co-wailers; “Is this
\nthe change we voted for?” And his members responded; Nooo!<\/p>\n
From where I was seated watching this comic display, I shouted taaa! Shut
\nyour mouth? Which “change” did you vote for? But then, I knew this fits
\ninto PDP’s present wailing mantra. Oh yea, the “change” we voted for
\nindeed! As they manage their tortured state since they were rooted out of
\npower, the wailing wailers have demonstrated troubling state of mind
\ndisorder and one of the symptoms of this malaise is the present claim to
\nhave voted for change. No lie, no blasphemy could be more ludicrous! In
\ncontrast, those that have now assumed a permanent state of wailing fought
\nbloodily to stultify change. They spared no armoury; fair and foul to
\nensure that change never happened here last year. They spent our money
\nlike it was going out of circulation the next minute, in raw hard
\ncurrency, they plunged into the foreign reserve, excess crude account and
\nturned the parastatals into ATMs to halt change last year. They recruited
\nall kinds of bloody fiends, vermin and hoodlums to engage in bloody fight
\nwith change. They turned all state institutions against change and I know
\nthey were hit by an irrecoverable force that change survived all their
\nmachinations to finally sweep them out of power and start the recovery of
\nthe country from the labyrinth of decay and atrophy they callously plunged
\nit into. It was so bad that Nigeria was made to indulge in its worst and
\nmost dangerous period of electioneering campaign when people were set
\nagainst each other, race and tribe were instigated to go for each other’s
\njugular; all because the present wailers were desperate to stop change. It
\nwas so bad that their chief priestess openly incited her supporters and
\nthose of her husband to stone whosoever called for change wherever they
\nwere.<\/p>\n
So how can these same people claim to have voted for change? Which change
\ndid they vote for? Which change could those who have sentenced themselves
\nto permanent wailing by our getting the “change” we badly needed last
\nyear, now claim to have voted for? Oh yea, it is possible that the wailing
\nwailers indeed voted for “change” but not change. The change they voted
\nfor was that Jonathan and his government will remain till eternity. The
\n“change” they voted for was for the continuation of the uncensored larceny
\nand brigandage with which they crushed a well endowed country. The
\n“change” the wailing wailers said they voted for was for the continued
\npillaging of the resources of the country by mindless criminals, ramparts,
\ncronies and fronts of the outgone regime. The “change” they voted was for
\nthe confutation of the buffoonery, the mediocrity and outright
\ncluelessness that bankrupted an oil rich country and emptied the treasury
\ndespite homongous\u00a0 oil earnings. The “change” the wailers voted for was
\nthe continued defenestration of state infrastructures and the reckless
\nunbundling of every stare institution through conscienceless plundering.
\nThe “change” the wailing wailers voted for was for the continued erosion
\nof the country’s moral sinew through atrocious conducts by officialdom
\nwhich promoted the main mission of their “change”, which is stealing and
\ncorruption.<\/p>\n
But our change is different. It is real. It doesn’t come in quotation
\nmarks. It is clear. It is laconic and straight and that is what we are
\ngetting now. The main corpus of our change was for President Buhari to
\nreplace the ineffectual buffoon (apologies to The Economist magazine) who
\nwas sleep-walking in power and he did just that on March 28, 2015. The
\nchange Nigerians voted for was premised on cleansing the badly desecrated
\nstable which the PDP levied here and Buhari is exactly doing that. The
\nchange we voted for was for President Buhari’s government to plug the rat
\nholes through which Nigerian wealth was pilfered and he has done that- to
\nthe sorrow and heightened wailing of the wailers. The change we voted for
\nwas for President Buhari to disperse the yam eaters who purloined Nigerian
\nresources to their personal barns and he is doing that marvellously. The
\nchange we voted for was for President Buhari to release the whip and
\nscourge the troublers of Nigeria without mercy and he is doing just that.
\nThe change we voted for was for President Buhari to impress it on
\nNigerians that stealing is corruption, that those who stole the heirlooms
\nof Nigerians must vomit and he is doing exactly that. The change we voted
\nfor was for President Buhari to arrest the drift the economy was taking by
\ndiversifying it from oil, plugging every loophole and ensuring that
\nNigerians’ resources work for Nigerians and not for few selfish thieves
\nfor whom the wailers are up in arms and he doing just that. The change we
\nvoted for is for prudent, accountable, honest, transparent governance and
\nwe are getting exactly that. The change we voted for is for prudent
\nmanagement of our wealth for the betterment of all Nigerians and we are
\ngetting just that. The change we voted for was for our ailing
\ninfrastructures to be fixed, our critical sectors be revived and Nigeria
\nrescued from gluttonous sharks and given back to Nigerians and we are
\ngetting that.<\/p>\n
So one can see the difference between the phantom change the wailers are
\nclaiming to have voted for and the real change we all voted for and with
\nwhich we chased away the kleptocratic cabal for which the wailing wailers
\nhave declared a permanent state of wailing. There are no meeting points.
\nThey are like oil and water. So when next you see a wailing wailer indulge
\nin the sheer blasphemy of talking about the “change” they voted, tell him
\nto go look for his loincloths where he took his bath in March 2015 for
\nNigerians got the change they wanted on that day and are savouring its rip
\noffs.<\/p>\n
PostScript: What could better give fillip for those who support the
\npresent effort to cleanse the country from the debris the wailers left
\nbehind than the fact that an old woman was reported to have donated her
\nmonthly pension to the fight against the blood suckers that are
\nsyndicating the present wailing so as to stymie their being called to
\naccount for what they stole? If anything, this points to the wailing
\nwailers that they have to strive harder to recruit us to join their
\nobnoxious mission.
\nPeter Claver Oparah<\/p>\n
Ikeja, Lagos.<\/p>\n
E-mail: peterclaver2000@yahoo.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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