#EndSARS Was A Protest Of The Helpless’, Add ASUU Strike, Covid-19 And Get Why History Will Be Harsh To Buhari
The Oasis Reporters
September 1, 2022
By Greg Abolo
@gregabolo
@Theoasisreport1
Peter Obi is currently in the USA on a trip, meeting Nigeria’s diaspora and their sheer numbers that used to be a trickle but now a deluge best describes that conditions at home in Nigeria are dire. The youth and their parents are voting with their feet and many left Nigeria not because they wanted to.
See how he put it in Houston:
Most of you are not here by choice. If things were better at home, you won't be here. But your role remains important in nation building. -PO#POinHouston
— Peter Obi (@PeterObi) August 31, 2022
Breaking: Human Right Activist, Dele Farotimi just openly endorsed Mr. Peter Obi on Arise TV morning show.#Obidatti023 pic.twitter.com/sdIVpze4XC
— Am The STRUCTURE 🇳🇬 (@sirvicbrown) August 29, 2022
In endorsing the Labour Party presidential candidate Peter Obi, human rights activist/lawyer Dele Farotimi says in an Arise TV Interview thus:
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“To be precise, Peter Obi is the person I will be supporting in the coming election.
I will support Peter Obi in the next elections because he is the only one that gives the young people hope to wake up in the morning and if the Nigerian state contrives to dash this hope, they’d understand that Hope denied provokes violence” @DeleFarotimi
Hear Peter Obi on the lingering ASUU strike:
Our position is that ASUU strike has lingered for far too long. It is unconscionable, worrisome and unacceptable that FGN would allow such an industrial action to become almost intractable to the detriment of our students.
— Peter Obi (@PeterObi) August 31, 2022
Most of you are not here by choice. If things were better at home, you won't be here. But your role remains important in nation building. -PO#POinHouston
— Peter Obi (@PeterObi) August 31, 2022
Between Peter Obi’s speech to the Nigerian diaspora and Dele Farotimi’s description of the EndSARS sad outcome, what history would say about the APC regime would have had a few chapters of it written.
Outcomes of the painful devastation Covid-19 wrought on the Western world that compelled their countries to seek technical personnel from across Africa by opening their borders for an endless stream of migrants unwittingly wrote another chapter or two on Nigeria’s regime.
When a country is hopelessly run and people are completely disillusioned, just a little tinder would cause some social upheaval and tell unintended stories.
It happened in the former twin cities of East Berlin and West Berlin. While the Eastern part was communist and badly run, the Western end that was capitalist was an epitome of freedom, democracy and progress.
By the time the East European communist dominoes fell in 1989, culminating in the tearing down of the Berlin Wall in November that year, there was an unprecedented defection of a large chunk of East Berlin’s workforce to the West virtually overnight.
A similar scenario is happening in Nigeria, such that the moment our universities graduate medical doctors and other essential workers, you’d find them at the airport gate getting ready to emigrate.
Why ?
Conditions at home are not okay. As the ASUU/FG Stand-off continues to linger, a steady stream of lecturers continue to migrate to other universities worldwide where they meet world class conditions.
The only way President Muhammadu Buhari can salvage his image is to promptly dismiss Chris Ngige, the Labour minister and Adamu Adamu the Education minister. He should then reach an agreement with the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) by meeting their demands so that students can resume studies.
If the strike lingers till next year, the system could collapse and nobody would ascribe anything good to Buhari’s name. After all, everyone knows that nearly all the political leaders from Bukola Saraki, Dino Melaye, Aminu Tambuwal, Nyesom Wike and even Muhammadu Buhari amongst many others have their children schooling abroad where facilities are top notch. Whereas such are rickety in Nigeria and students are insecure.
Buhari needs to act with speed. His name and legacies are crucial.
Greg Abolo
gregabolo@gmail.com
Additional resource:
Matthew Sussex, Fellow, Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, Australian National University
