It is quite certain that in that blissful land across the bridge where there is neither sorrow nor pain, you continue to make your exemplary contributions and work in tandem with the angelic hosts for the benefit of mankind. If, however, you are now in another clime of this great terrestrial divide, please always cast your mind back and fashion a way to save this country for which you labored so much while here from en everlasting perdition and prove America wrong that it will go into extinction in 2015 but wax stronger in the comity of nations as you wanted it to be.
Awo-the greatest Nigerian that ever lived
It may not be a wonder to you, papa that the country is now what George Orwell portrayed in his masterpiece, the animal farm where all animals are equal but some are more equal than others. I am quite sure that while on this side of the great divide, you must have read “The Wrong Man in the Dock” by the erudite engineer-novelist, Moses Folorunso Aluko who also went to be with the Lord a couple of years ago. It was as if he had in mind the sorry state of our national polity particularly the lower and the upper houses of the legislature, the members of which are only there for themselves, families and cohorts.
Since their being given the opportunity to be at the helm since 1999, the greatest majority of Nigerian populace still wallows in abject poverty, ignorance, disease and wants just like what someone in the ruling party of the second republic envisioned that the country was yet to be feeding from dustbins. The situation is so bad today that not only many younger ones derived their means of livelihood from scavenging from dumpsites all over the country but also are dregs of the society the reason for which the crime rate amongst them now shoots beyond the roof. It is quite certain that were you to be around in our nation at this very trying time the story would have been different since you still remain the bona fide issue in Nigerian politics.
Papa, when shall Nigeria get another you?
It was as clear as water even to a breast sucking baby that when you were shamelessly rigged out of election by the powers-that-be particularly during the last democratic experience, the virtues we threw to the dogs include: honesty, integrity, consistency, creativity and the best statesmanship that can be the jealously guarded pride of any nation under the sun. Today we are battling with dimness, dishonesty, directionlessness, greed, corruption, parochialism, naivety, mediocrity and political immobility. These are the vices that now wholesomely plunge our nation deep into the abyss of poverty, squalor, disease and economic quagmire as late Tai Solarin would say.
