The mood is just so tense. This is surely not how
I found it in 1999. It
was not this way in 2003. In 2007, the mood was
better. Even in 2011, it
was much better. Maybe I am wrong; I could
have been too young then,
afterall. However, we still cannot but notice how
different this election
period has been.
It just feels like it’s a last chance for us. Heck, it
feels like we would
never get it right again, if we failed this time.
President Goodluck Ebele
Jonathan; a gentleman, soft spoken and quiet
man, the devil we know, is on
the one hand. General Muhammadu Okechukwu
Buhari (Igbo names have become so
lovely all of a sudden); a no-nonsense, outspoken
and strict man, also a
devil we know, is on the other hand. For the first
time, an election
contest looks too close to call. From 1999, every
presidential election has
come up and ended the way I predicted it. This
time, there is not a
slightest chance of prediction.
I have never told any friend where I stood on this,
and that is because I
stand nowhere! I love president Jonathan. This
man-with-no-shoes from
Otuoke has always shown himself a gentlemen.
Never talks too much, never
fights; he just seems too gentleman to be a
president of a rough country
like Nigeria! But make no mistakes. I must
confess Jonathan has done okay.
He has not done well. He has done just okay.
From what he has also put in
towards stopping the deadly book haram sect, I
believe he would deal with
this scourge finally, if he returns. General Buhari,
from what they say and
which I cannot confirm, did well when he held
forth many years ago. But
then, I naturally love this man. I do not know
what else he has done.
Come Saturday 28 (that is in a few hours), I will
surely get to the polls.
I wish I knew who to vote for! But whatever
happens, I wish us well. I also
urge us not to cause any form of violence.
Nothing here is worth dying for.
Let us shun violence, and vote in THE MAN!