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By Olayode Inaolaji
The tension of the patriotic Nigerians has risen to nearly uncontrollable degree. The question of who will be the megahit come 2023 presidential election has continued to dominate public discourse. The seers, prophets, soothsayers, among others, all whom Nigerians are also looking up to for revelation of the likely winner also keeps grave mum.
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the All Progressives Congress (APC), if reality be divulged without trepidation, are the two political parties in front line in the race. Some pundits have allegedly tagged Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of Labour Party (LP) as a social media president – who is only supported by the youths who have no Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs). In Oyo state, the banner of the Labour party’s flag was well raised when a political panjandrum, Late Chief Adebayo Alao Akala, the erstwhile governor of Oyo state, decamped to the party during 2015 gubernatorial election. This implies that the party lacks political recognition in some states. I don’t write this piece to antagonise Obi but to unmask a crystal analysis.
Since 1999, the power is accordingly rotated. General Olusegun Obasanjo gained power after a year stint of Gen. Abdulsalam Abubukar on 29th May, 1999. After eight years in office, Umaru Musa Yar’adua in 2007 but was unable to complete his tenure because of his sudden transition. Dr Goodluck Jonathan filled the vacuum and fortuitously, he was re-elected in 2011. After his four-year term, the incumbent President Muhammadu Buhari clinched the power and this is his seventh year in the revered office. It remains less than a summer for him to vacate Aso Rock.
With this analysis, one need not rack one’s brain that ‘emi lokan’ should be given the 2023 golden diadem. As at now, I am not a member of any political party but a conscious Nigerian who is primely concerned about the rapid uplift of the country. When it is the turn of another tribe, I will never desist to call a spade a spade.
Olayode writes from Oyo, Oyo State.
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