As Nigeria decides on 28th March 2015.....
Whichever way the pendulum swings, there will be change: It will be a new dawn; a new tenure/regime; a new National assembly; a new more involved electorate.
If President Jonathan is re-elected, with the ear-full the President has been inundated with during the past few months and the electioneering periods: There must be changes in the tempo of governance and response to issues; Renewed efforts at restructuring and implementing the outcomes of the National Conference; Drastic changes in personnel manning key Ministries and agencies which proved incredulously and deliberately incompetent; Re-energized response to terror; Strengthening and ensuring stability in the attainments in the economic sector; Sustained changes in key national infrastructure, particularly agriculture, power and transportation sectors; Entrenchment of electoral reforms which have served to increase popular participation and interest in governance; and so on.....
If on the converse General Buhari emerges: There will be a near instantaneous quietening down of terror activities in the northeast region; Drastic efforts to upturn policies and programs of the past government with a view to robbing it of whatever glory it might claim to have and thus creating instability in economic and governance policies; Reduced emphasis on formal education in the light of the head of governments lack of such qualifications; Clampdown on fundamental freedoms, particularly the rights to freedom of speech and free press; The Judicial system and the rule of law will be peripheral in a haste to 'fight corruption'; Our defective national structure and composition will be sustained as efforts at National dialogue will be jettisoned; The Shari'a system will be prioritized at the national level; The systemic privatization of national assets as exemplified in the States in Nigeria's southwestern zone; Likelihood of Nigeria attaining the status of a pariah state in the light of pending litigation against the head of State for 'crimes against humanity' emanating from the 2011 Presidential elections; and so on....
There will be change any way the votes turn out - let's make the change a positive one....
If, for this purpose, we can contain the antics of the character that I have dubbed 'the saint', Nigeria will prevail.
Picture: Ballot box for Nigeria's elections
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