Nsan|11 July 2018
As at yesterday July 10th, drones, tanks, artillery, helicopters, 250 Hilux vehicles and 30,000 police offers are alleged to have arrived Ekiti State ahead of July 14th governorship election in the state, while herdsmen continue to have their way by killing and maiming every creature including innocent women and children in the middle belt region of Nigeria with no help in sight from a government we elected to protect every citizen irrespective of their state of origin or region, or their religious affiliation, but sufficiently ready to deploy huge state resources for election purposes in order to possibly humiliate or defeat an enemy and critic of the federal government, Gov. Ayodele Fayose. Well, Fayose is not in the ballot after all.
While many people are killed daily, it is sad to see many APC party stalwarts and Buhari supporters carry on as though nothing is happening except the 2019 general election on social media. Sincerely, I pray the Lord God who is a just God, to visit their various families with the same measure of evil as those who cry for help in the Plateau and in the middle belt region and get none, while peaceful democratic elections are militarised to intimidate and cower voters in Ekiti State! Our God is a just God!
Ekiti people must for this reason reject Dr Kayode Fayemi and his band and stand strong with Prof. Kolapo Olubunmi Olusola Eleka and Gov. Ayo Fayose irrespective of state oppression and intimidation that has characterised the deployment of arsenals of war for what is meant to be a peaceful democratic process and election!
No amount of intimidation should have them cower at the feet of their oppressors. This must be done to send a clear message to those in authority, that Nigeria is a free democratic state and people must be allowed to express their democratic rights and freedom without fear and intimidation.
That innocent women and children who are murdered daily in the middle belt because of federal government alleged complicity or shirking of responsibility deserve to be protected by institutions of state rather than being oppressed or neglected by them. That government has a primary responsibility to protect citizens and not allow criminal Fulani hegemonic elements to overrun weak and fragile indigenous people and occupy their lands and territory.
If water resources have depleted in the Sahel or Lake Chad region as we are made to understand, which used to be grazing grounds for Fulani herders, government can deploy our petrodollars under their control to re-grass these areas and encourage afforestation, or perhaps build ranches in Kano State where the governor, Abdullahi Umar Ganduje has magnanimously offered to accommodate all cattle herders in the state.
The quest to conquer and subdue other people and their lands by landless migrant hegemonic jihadist masquerading as herdsmen must be stopped by the federal government, and those who have refused and rejected birth control and population growth rate measures meant to check or control over-utilisation of scares resources must be enlightened and made to see and understand the dangers of their irresponsibly outmoded traditional child bearing practices without a corresponding responsibility to cater and provide for the child, thereby complicating the human race and our rights to collective coexistence.
For this reason, Ekiti people must reject Dr Kayode Fayemi's APC in the Saturday's election and vote for Professor Kolapo Eleka's PDP, as this will send a clear message to the federal government and her institution of coercion and oppression, that enough is enough, and perhaps have her begin to act as a responsible government that understands the purpose for which it was elected in the first place.
Nsan is a social commentator
