2023: What The Silent Minority Who Are In The Majority Must Do, To Conquer The Real Minority That Brags As Majority
The Oasis Reporters
November 30, 2023
The slogan, the minority must have their say, while the majority their way, has been widely used in Nigeria as an intimidating and coercive words by politicians and their supporters, mostly of the rulling party to shut out dissenting voices and divergent views, and as a means of demoralizing the Nigerian people from working hard to change a non and underperforming APC government in 2023.
This intimidation has been raised to a level where this ‘bragging majority’ would at all levels issue words like, “our candidate must win, know this and know peace”.
Though this bragging rights are exhibited without the conviction that their Party has really performed well and should merit re-election, but simply because they believe that within the nation’s political equation, they are the majority and are entitled to re-election by force and by fire; the question that comes to mind is, are these people with this offensive bragging right the actual majority in Nigeria?
Must they be allowed to have their way again this time while the real majority termed minority, their say?
The Candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC in the 2015 Presidential election, General Muhammadu Buhari was elected President of Nigeria with about 16 million votes in a nation of about 180 million people. Can 16 million be said to be majority of about 180 million people?
The answer is a capital no, but how did this tiny minority decide the fate of a silent majority of about 160 million people?
Can we boldly say that President Muhammadu Buhari’s performance in office as president and as APC member is so excellent to guarantee this bragging right of a tiny minority claiming to be a majority that must always have their way?
Even heaven knows that the answer will be ‘no’.
So, how can the silent majority take over the system to silence this bragging majority who are actually the minority in the real sense of it?
For those who may not know, the majority in this country devoid of tribe, religion and party affiliations, are the vulnerable poor who cannot feed, at least three times a day whether from the North, South, East or West; they are those currently buying Premium Motor Spirit( fuel) at #280 to #300 per litre after queueing for about 5 to 10 hours in our petrol stations while Nigeria bears the name of an oil producing country; the majority are Nigerians who can no longer travel from one point to another on our deplorable highways without the fear of being kidnapped, they are the people in the North East, North Central and North West Nigeria currently being killed by Boko Haram and Bandits.
The majority are those currently being slaughtered in South East Nigeria by Unknown Gunmen and in South West Nigeria by ritual killers. The majority are actually people of the South South region being terrorised daily by politically-sponsored cultists, and the real majority in Nigeria are the more than 180 million Nigerians who go to the same market place to buy things at a very exorbitant price and yet can not be too sure of going out and coming back to their homes in peace.
These Nigerians in their numbers who are not comfortable with the State of affairs in Nigeria, those who are not comfortable with the fuel scarcity, the activities of Boko Haram, Bandits, Unknown Gunmen, ritual killers , Cultists and the killings associated with them; Nigerians who are not comfortable with the high cost of living, the daylight looting of our resources by politicians are the real majority who must wake up to decide the fate of Nigeria in 2023.
This silent majority must wake up to take back Nigeria from the hands of the rampaging, bragging, and thievery minority who call themselves majority because of the instrument of power deceitfully gotten by them that empowers them to steal.
By Ekpenyong Isaiah-isababa
isacool4good@yahoo.com