A very ominous sign hangs over the badly battered country called Nigeria presently and all flow from the present deteriorating state of health of President Yar’Adua. Apart from the palpable confusion that presently envelope governance, one would be damned to deny that the power mongers and the speculators that live off government are making their nocturnal shrifts to take advantage of what is obviously a lacuna that is now so obvious in the nation’s seat of power.
Even with the thick patch of pan cake being spruced on what is a delicate situation, most Nigerians know that the country is dangling on the precipice, shorn of a leader and bereft of any sense of mission.For whoever can bet on it, the dangers ahead are so real and much more complicated than they have been made to look. It goes far beyond the self serving permutations of a notorious political party for untrammeled and infinite power. It goes beyond the craving of a hideous cabal for the traps of office. It goes beyond the mad and deadly struggle to take advantage of the huge lacuna that has prevailed in the country’s seat of power since Yar’Adua was forced down on us all by the grand principality himself.
What is very certain to happen is that in the near future, something is going to give and this flows from the risky political cobweb that birthed the Yar’Adua presidency? The looming danger may hasten the doomsday prophecy about Nigeria’s possible implosion into chips of disparate ethnic nations in the near future. The certain fate that hangs over this unfortunate country obtains in the gravy aftermaths of having an infirm president. The early warning signals obtain in the present rancor and deep division over whether Yar’Adua should resign or continue ‘ruling’ Nigeria from the sick beds of foreign hospices. It obtains in the intra-class intercalation that debate has spawned such that huge questions are being raised over some peoples’ consistency in the struggle so early in the day; when the real battle is yet to begin.
