Ordinarily, remote observers could have mistaken the Save Nigeria Group’s rally held at Onikan stadium, Lagos last Wednesday for one of the political rallies designed by ambitious politicians towards 2011 elections.
The Action Congress on Sunday described the Peoples Democratic Party as a perpetual source of “deep embarrassment” to Nigeria and called on Nigerians to vote out the party from office in 2011.
A large chunk of the annual budget ends up as salaries and allowances in the pocket of this small percentage of Nigerians. For example, out of the 2009 annual budget of N3.1 trillion, N1.3 trillion or 42% ended up as remuneration for 17,500 individuals in a country of 150 million people. If this is the case, what is left for social and economic development? What is left for constructing roads, improving education and healthcare, providing water and electricity,...
Mr. El-Rufai’s political image has been in a downward spiral. And I see a man who is highly distresses and fighting for a political re-emergence in the Nigerian political scenery. He has resorted to sporadic use of the internet as a modus operandi for a political come-back. And one wonders if dropping comments here and there on the internet would serve him any good.
If Jonathan sincerely wishes to abolish rotation; it must be started on a level playing field. What this means is that, he should not run in 2011! He must allow candidates who have no power of incumbency from all the zones to contest and win on merit.
