Right from primary school to the university, all my Mathematics teachers emphasized the importance of correct, right steps or processes to be duly followed methodically, meticulously, and judiciously before arriving at the final answer. It’s not about the answer but the process. You can’t be a good Mathematician or Arithmetician if you are a dishonest person because it takes integrity and honesty to follow due process. Go and check the O’level Mathematics results of most of the people who celebrated the recent electoral fraud by INEC, it ranges from F9 to P7. Any distinction grade is a complete outlier.
Again, conduct a survey, and you’ll find out that most of the people who celebrated and validated this victory are used to falsifying figures right from their primary or secondary school days. They rewrite their exam scores and append a forged signature of the subject teacher/, and that of the school principal, thereby giving their guardians the impression that they did well academically. How many of them turned out to be good, effective, efficient, and reliable academically? Many of them can never conduct any independent research work today because of a false foundation. Some make a backward review of the scores of brilliant classmates while increasing theirs so that that person may not be ahead of them in class. They are used to corruption right from their youth, so why won’t they endorse it?
Unfortunately, they will always meet their Waterloo when they stand before the almighty WAEC. Also, they are the type of people, who when they become parents, take their wards to special centers and obtain special results that cannot be defended. They forget that one day, the chickens will always come home to roost.
You may get the right answer or result like Tinubu and still be scored a zero when the processes are incongruent with the results. In the sight of God and man, Tinubu scored zero because he did not meet the constitutional requirement to be installed as the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. Without any iota of doubt, INEC has not been able to sufficiently prove that BAT won the election.
We saw a judiciary that is afraid of televising court proceedings despite the precedence that was set by the Oputa panel which was constituted by OBJ. I wonder what they are trying to hide. Oh, I remember now. They don’t want to dance naked in the marketplace. INEC was almost as swift as the first and second respondents (APC and Tinubu), in opposing the idea of televising the proceedings; yet, they claim to have done a clean job, but they are afraid to allow the whole world to see how they arrived at their final answer. Hmmm.
The inauguration of BAT was like a funeral ceremony. His smiles were fake, the cheers were untrue and unreal but the jeers were too real to be ignored. Those who cheered him knew deep down in their hearts that they were celebrating thievery, ballot box snatching, violence, killings, and maiming of harmless voters to mention a few.
We have become a laughingstock among the nations. We have made a joke of everything including our democracy. One of the biggest jokes is how a judge who is to give judgment on the 25% constitutional requirement went awol. The world waited in bated annoyance to see how the Nigerian judiciary will reinvent and redefine the meaning of the word ‘and’ which my little two-year-old adopted son seems to understand.
We all saw how INEC which claimed to have conducted a free and fair election demonstrated great reluctance in bringing out the BVAS machines, and all the election results. INEC has failed to show us how they arrived at one plus one is equal to two, which thereby made them pronounce BAT as the winner like a thief in the night. So far, they have only been able to provide the plaintiff 30% of what they used in coming to a horrendous conclusion that Tinubu won. Those who celebrate this kind of victory will surely experience the same fate as the plaintiff. Please say Amen!
Jesus wept when He beheld the city of Jerusalem on His way to the cross of Calvary for He foresaw the consequences of rejecting the truth, and embracing falsehood just as we have done in the 2023 election. From our righteously-earned comfort zones, some of us weep for this country. We weep because of the far-reaching consequences of accepting the reign of Mythomaniacs and evil legacies that are being foisted on us, such as kleptocracy, bestiocracy, and falsehood for future generations to inherit.
We weep because we now lack the moral rectitude to advise the younger generation in matters of right and wrong. How do you convince a fraudster or Yahoo Yahoo boy of the need to pursue honest living when we demonstrate a lifestyle of dishonesty not only in our personal lives but in our nationhood as well? We celebrate stolen waters, and stolen food.
“Stolen water is sweet; food eaten in secret is delicious! But little do they know that the dead are there, that her guests are deep in the realm of the dead”. Pro. 9:17-18 (NIV).
“Food gained by deceit is sweet to a man, But afterward, his mouth will be filled with gravel [just as sin may be sweet at first, but later its consequences bring despair]”. Pro. 20:17 (Amp).
How can our quest “To build a nation where truth and justice shall reign” become a reality when our lady of justice is gagged, shackled, and hamstrung? How can we realize this noble objective when we do not only celebrate injustice and untruthfulness but put ourselves at the vanguard of its perpetuation?
The installation of BAT is based on the end justifies the means. In other words, Nigerians should settle to enjoy the dividends of democracy which BAT portends to deliver regardless of how he assumed custodianship of the delivery. Sadly, it is the same two-faced set of individuals who celebrated BAT’s victory that will frown at a Pastor, church, or ministry that collects tithes and offerings from fraudsters, thieves, and people who earn their living from unjust means.
The inauguration of BAT as the president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria is a constitutional misnomer, a disorder with humongous grave futuristic, and present consequences. It’s a usurpation and a criminally validated hijack. Those who rejoice in wrongdoing will suffer the consequences along with their future generations. You have to be a fraudster or a potential one to celebrate and validate BAT’s presidency.
The 2023 election is not about Peter Obi, Atiku, or any of the other contestants but about social justice, fairness, equity, the pursuit of due process, and righteousness in Nigeria. If we had behaved like the Jews who preferred Barabbas to Jesus when Pontius Pilate allowed them to choose between the two of them, it would have been a different ball game. We would have held our peace and concluded that the vast majority of Nigerians have settled for lawlessness and injustice. Happily, this is not the case. Unequivocally, let me say here that BAT is sitting on a wicker throne. “It is an abomination for kings to commit wicked acts Because a throne is established on righteousness”. Pro.16:12 (American Standard Bible).
