I failed to develop two salient themes that lurked within the confines of yesterday's blog, I really did not have the mental strength to delve any further. All I sought to do was simply comment and enjoy the gift of writing. But can we as writers or bloggers denuded ourselves of the social responsibility to intervene in unsatisfactory affairs around us or do we simply assume a luxury of statuette presence. All my adult life I have sought to speak truth to power, to provoke the comfortable and to raise the dust. I have discovered in my case, however, that material comfort aids such passion and discomfort may sometimes diminish it. My take is that sometimes I shall major in the mundane and at other times master in the unpredictable for life is varied.
Now back to one of the themes of my previous blog. I did not support Major General Buhari at the last Presidential election, I thought he was too strident not media savvy and gave a nod to the violence that resulted after his loss. However, I have had reason to revise my support for Dr Goodluck Jonathan on account of the evidence of his non performance, the absence of security being his greatest failing. I bare no kinship to the General, I am from the South West he is from the North Central. He is a Muslim and I profess Christ. It is to President Jonathan that I am more closely related. Yet I cannot base my support for any candidate, whether my brother or sister on the basis of kinship. Surely I must never be blind to the evidence that confronts me.
Today, I am more convinced than ever before, facing the confounding twin problems of corruption and the low intensity war of the North East, that the General presents the best hope for its resolution. I think Boko Haram knows this too that is why they subcontracted some elements to take him out. Here is my stand.
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