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Imagine a family of four children that set out to achieve success in life with a common objective and common goal… And with a single front. Along the line, they allowed ego, pride, over-ambition and greed to run them into blind over-competiveness.
This swallowed them up to the extent that they allowed themselves to lose focus enough to derail this their collective noble goal. Their unity was thus drowned giving way to mindless sacrifice of their more precious family ties they sorely needed to sustain.
Eventually, three certain ones of these family members recalled how they began, retraced and retracted their steps and called a family meeting.
However, certain obstinate super ambition blinded one within their pitiable ranks; the unreasonable one of their lot endowed with a sizable measure of personal success, would not let the call for unity fly.
It ended up that this younger, perhaps the youngest, member of the family was able to grab, however so, a fraction of what all of them had set out to achieve. Still shallow minded, this particular ambition blinded one and team members gloated over the loss of the other three members of the family in a pursuit once held in common.
The laughable part of the story is that this particular family member is able to convince team members in this fragmentation of an otherwise formidable and hopeful once single team, one with a once single minded focus, that it is a *win-win* situation either out the blind ambition or sheer abysmal ignorance. The equally shallow followers bereft of ability to think beyond the acquired shallowness of their principal and being infected with this shallow spirit, jubilates over a hollow victory and deride the other three family members tagging them losers. Whereas, the actual loss is a family one.
Worthy of mention is that this particular seeming win of the one family member stands the risk of being thwarted by certain legal implications, complications and applications as may be employed by certain enemies of the family! But Alas!! This particular family member and team, set against their fellow brothers, would rather roll out the drums and every instrument of fiestal celebration to mock and deride own family members.
Also noteworthy is the underlying details of the clinching of the particular in contention which reeks of crooked overtures; yet the particular, cornered by this ego driven over ambitious one, belongs to all four of this pitiable family equally.
And rather than see the need to call all to the table to strategize on how to avert the looming danger of this imperfect attainment, prefers to celebrate and go it alone.
We are hoping however that the claim to divine ordination by this particular family member will eventually restore wisdom to prevail over shallow inclinations so that the needful is finally done…hoping it is not too late.
Thus was established a hollow victory… One borne of a shallow mind too blind to see beyond personal ambition and gains at the expense of a collective hope to turn other families outside of this incoherent family around. Yet most pitiable is the fact that this particular family member claims divine ordination in holy piety, whereas the manifestations of observables of this particular screams otherwise by the implication of the visible and perceivable actions to the contrary.
Such is the trajectory of Labor Party; a Party that began well enough to have a sizeable number of the embattled Nigerian society to invest their absolute trust and support as the collective singular entity that will finally save Nigeria…even as their Party Anthem boasts! A Party now sadly fragmented over the ambitions of a few greed saturated sellouts… And with a Clergy in the mix! The latter being the very problem of the quartet.
Equally worthy of mention is the fact that the representatives of this Nigerian massive crowd has, upon the personal ambitions of a few of their pitiable band betrayed the huge trust placed upon them to save Nigeria…thus failing their Party Anthem in the process. A thing also now standing as a betrayal of the trusts and hopes of the Electorate and certain ones of the Candidates that represents these people. A people long battered by bad leadership at that.
Let’s hope that it is premature to apply the summary lines opening the book of that noble globally acclaimed literary giant, Chinua Achebe, which says and I quote:
“Things fall apart, the center cannot hold. Mere anarchy is losed upon the world”
Yes! Let us hope regarding Labor Party that this has not turned out their present situation sadly.
Oh Nigeria, the nation not really a nation dashed a name by the mistress of the crooked entity entrusted with the amalgamation exercise, an incongruous man that banded together separate nations in their rights for the selfish business interests of the British government. An unholy act engaged in 1914 that expired in 2014. A concept designed strictly to favor the British. One inherited and sustained by the political class and kept alive. And sustained even after official expiration by continuing to organize elections irrespective… That complicit citizenry also keeps validating by setting out vote to preserve an expired military reviewed constitution that favors a section of the society contributing very little to the the purse of the nation… A constitution designed to lend a pretence to be the collective will of the multidimensional Nigerian people. A nation still existing as “a mere geographical expression” to borrow the words of the late sage, Chief Ọbáfẹ́mi Awólọ́wọ̀.
I join Fẹ́mi Kútì in feeling sorry for Nigeria… And by extension, Africa also.
