Rivers Crisis: A Good Example Of How We Nigerians Lazily Let Things Go Wrong Before We Complain Endlessly

Nigeria's democracy is on the verge of getting drowned. Image credit: Google Discovery.

If you elect someone on the platform of a party and the person defects to another party without consulting you, what should you do? Is it not to recall the person immediately? Is it not to use the same power with which you enthroned the person to dethrone him or her without wasting a second?

If we cannot do this, then, what we call democracy (government of the people) is a lie. It becomes an ‘eliteocracy’ (ie. government of the elites) instead. And if we keep letting it be so, why do we complain when the elites we created treat us like pieces of trash?

These recurrent cases of elected officials representing themselves instead of the people who elected them, is not their fault. It's our fault. It keeps happening because we are too politically lazy. Or, is it that we don't know our rights?

When the 27 lawmakers in Rivers State defected to APC, why did the people who elected them let them be? If the respective constituents of those 27 lawmakers had resisted the insult by exercising their constitutional power, all these negative developments would have been avoided.

Now, they didn't do that. But everyone is blaming Tinubu and Wike only. Why are you blaming Tinubu without blaming yourself also when you haven't done what you should do?

That's how General Buhari kept threatening the Nation and he was left alone. Instead, we let him have the Presidency. He used the Presidency to unleash his killer kins on us for 8 years, and everyone was only complaining. We called for Buhari to be impeached, but Nigerians ridiculed the calls.

So, why are you complaining about so many abuses of the masses by Tinubu now? As we are currently calling for the National Assembly to #impeachTinubu, how many Nigerians would even support it? Yet, everyone is complaining. What's wrong with us? We are suffering mainly because we don't value ourselves enough to fight for our honor and a glorious future.

Get angry if you like. I'm angry too.

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