The PDP is a bane upon the existence and composition of our motherland, they have vowed to rule us for the next 60years and funny enough, we don’t really seem like there is anything we can do about this. The PDP is everything that is wrong with this country. The constituents of this evil cabal are numerous; they consist of drug lords, criminals of the highest order, murderers, thieves, army generals who have broken all records ever set for embezzling of public funds and worst of all, ex-convicts. Take Ex-convict Olabode George for instance, Bode George, who served a two-year jail term for contract splitting, is a glorification of criminality. Receiving the man back home in a carnival-like atmosphere is antithetical to penitence and contriteness, which we must see from someone who served term for a criminal act, and not for political reasons.
There is a desecration of what all decent human beings should treasure and hold dear, in the effusive celebration of Bode George by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), including the Presidency, which sent a serving minister to represent President Goodluck Jonathan at the thanksgiving service in Lagos. Some columnist (see no evil hear no evils ones actually) said that Justice Oyewole was harsh on Bode George. If truly Justice Oyewole was harsh on George, why didn’t the Court of Appeal reverse the judgment? Onabule seemed to have forgotten that Bode George and his co-convicts appealed the sentence, which they lost. So, under the law, the accused had all the opportunities to prove their innocence, which they could not. Therefore, they remain ex-convicts, who went to jail on criminal charges, except a higher court rules otherwise.
We have seen the beatification of Bode George since he came out of jail. A convict has been portrayed before our very eyes as a hero by the PDP, save for former president, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, who asked the party to distance itself from the prison returnee. The PDP has become a monument for all that is reprehensible, despicable and objectionable in this country. As long as the party is in power, there will never be a new Nigeria. As long as the PDP holds sway over the country, there will be a continued erosion and corrosion of our values. There will not and there cannot be a honest fight against corruption. There will not, and there cannot, be righteousness, probity or integrity in our national life. Criminals will always be portrayed as heroes, while virtues like honesty, forthrightness, fidelity and honour will be treated with scant regard.
Bode George came from prison, and all the bigwigs of the ruling party, including a representative of the president, turned out to celebrate him. How the rest of the world must have laughed us to scorn. And soon, quite soon, Bode George will become a saint, as a presidential pardon will be worked out for him, and the PDP will begin to pray in his name.
What are the steps leading to canonization, the declaration of sainthood? First, the heroic virtues of the person in question must be celebrated. In the week he was to be released, I was quite scandalized, shocked to the marrows, to see posters emblazoned on walls and electric poles in the neighbourhood. ‘The Joseph of our time,’ the posters read, with the giant picture of Bode George. Joseph? Or did they mean to write Barnabas? Joseph went to jail in Egypt for standing on righteousness, not as a felon like Barnabas, whom the Jews asked Pontius Pilate to release for them, instead of Jesus Christ. So, why compare George with Joseph? Wasn’t Barnabas more like it? But the PDP said George was a hero. And celebration of heroic virtues is one of the steps leading to canonization.
The next step is called beatification, in which a person is declared blessed. Usually, the person being beatified must have at least one miracle ascribed to him. Tell me, what else is miraculous than for a person convicted on criminal grounds to suddenly be dubbed a ‘Joseph of our time.’ It was a miracle, if ever there was one. I can wager that very soon, PDP will declare George a saint, and they will begin to pray in his name. However, whether the canonization of George is complete or not lies in our hands. PDP has the likes of Bode George in its threshold, the James Ibori’s, the Alamesieghas, the Peter Odilis, The Alao Akalas, The Oyinlolas, the Micheal Aondoakas and the list is endless. This people have taken it upon themselves to destroy Nigeria at all costs. The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) is the most attractive home to these funny characters. The self-acclaimed largest party in the Black World is the party that is enviously nurturing an implosion with utmost carelessness.
The PDP have invaded our country like the VIRUS that they are, they have managed to affect every aspect of the polity, the judiciary is in its advanced stage of a full blown infection. Men of the bench are now yes boys for this VIRUS ridden party, they have effectively made justice a highest bidder for them and them only. The press has also compromised in its unholy alliance with this men of the underworld, our columnists and journalists are now see-no-evil-hear-no-evil set of humans, every sector of this country is affected.
The time for speeches are gone and its only us that can save ourselves from this evil Disease rampaging our land the only way out is a fight against this terrible fold, and for those that said “I voted for GEJ and not PDP” it’s impossible to get into Bed with a virus-ridden person and not be affected even the condoms have proven not to be 100% effective. It is now come upon us to OCCUPY and OVERCOME. The choice is now ours.
Dada Olusegun writes from Lagos, Nigeria
