A call to arms

My day is about to end. It will end with me collapsing into bed. I have been up for more than 24 hours and a bit irritable. A good part of my irritation earlier in the day was because of the fiasco playing out in Abuja as regards who the real leader of Nigeria is.

From all indications, Yar'Adua's wife, Turai has usurped the office of the president and has effectively sidelined the Acting President. I was, and still am angry about the lack of spine shown by Goodluck Jonathan in this whole event. I mean, as C-in-C, even in an acting capacity, someone filed a flight plan of such magnitude and you did not know about it until the planes (not plane) were about to land? What is even worse is that these people were able to deploy the Guards Brigade into Abuja streets and the man who was on watch had no clue as to what was happening? Shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit!!!

What makes me even angrier is the sudden and clear realignment that is happening amongst the people who are supposed to check the excesses of the Executive arm of government. 'Our' legislators have made it quite clear in the past that they are all about the money, and obviously, the new 'president' has a large war chest to play with.

Another cause of my anger is the Nigerian people. Too many of the comments I saw on NEXT's website today were appealing to God for help. I can guarantee that God has given up on us. It is an accepted maxim that heaven helps those who help themselves, but obviously, my people do not want to help themselves.

Make no mistakes, this fight which has to be fought is not Lucky Jo's fight to fight. It is a fight for the Nigerian people. And if we prove so spineless as to let some twits hold the entire nation to ransom, then what we get, we deserve.