It is no longer news that President Buhari who campaigned on the change mantra is facing arguably the toughest time in his over one year at the saddle.
The lingering economic crisis combined with persistent power outages have triggered angry responses from Nigerians who have questioned the change mantra. The argument put forward by some Nigerians are if this is change, why are people suffering and dying? Why is it difficult to solve the power problem?
Some Nigerians who could not express themselves straightly have relapsed to communicating their views in joking ways using these hash tags: #Bringbackourcorruption, #Isthisthechange?, etc. As Nigerians keep wondering what they have actually put themselves into by voting in APC government to power, a valid answer has emerged to at least put the suspicion of many Nigerians to rest. Going by the revelation from the former governor of Niger State, Dr. Muazu Babangida Aliyu, the expectations of Nigerians based on the promised CHANGE is a ruse.
Speaking in an Islamic conference recently, the former governor of Niger State claimed that he, together with Senate President Abubakar Bukola Saraki, the Kwara State governor Abdulfatar Ahmed, Abubakar Baraje and 3 others were the original proponents of the CHANGE mantra when they met in Mecca in 2014. It was in that meeting that they decided that a Muslim should be the president of Nigeria because Muslims are more than any other religion in the country, as well as in population.
However, upon return from Mecca, they met with President Goodluck Jonathan and
prevailed on him to agree not to seek a second term but later yielded to pressure from his kinsmen and cohorts to contest the election which he lost.
Some of us think it’ll be wrong to tell Nigerians that the CHANGE Agenda was a religious agenda and not a change Nigerians desired and got through the ballot. By this, Aliyu has truly opened the eyes of so many Nigerians as regards the APC CHANGE MANTRA!
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