IDUS MARTIAE

The deliberate hiatus in this blog has enabled me, more than ever before, to ruminate the dark clouds rapidly descending on Nigeria. We are sleepwalking into the abyss of confusion and a disorder of the greatest order; each passing day brings us closer to a date with catastrophe and ruination. Pessimism isn't in my constitution, but with Jonathan and his mob hand-guiding us into oblivion with none of us taking any notice, I have to, for once, don the cap of, at best, a cautious optimist or at worst, of a pessimist. Throughout the history of 9JAINC, I have always, without fail (either subtly or impatiently), emphasized the very urgent need for us as a people to destroy this political infrastructure that threatens our very existence as Nigerians. I am unrepentant in my intolerance for this army of political opportunists and jobbers that have reduced the overwhelming majority of Nigerians to beggars and no-hopers. My constant vituperation against these harebrained insolents, God-forsaken political thugs and common thieves prancing about the corridors of power is borne out of the almost irreparable damage they have inflicted upon Nigerians. Nigeria is nothing but a shipwreck right now. We have looked on, with arms folded, while they tear our hopes to shreds and stubbornly plant their obnoxious snouts in the trough of our commonwealth.
I am not in the mood to rehash, but it is pertinent to look back (yes, in anger!!) and see where we were, where we've been, where we are, and with the current course, where we're heading. The tailwind of corruption is relentlessly pushing us against the headwind of hopelessness and perdition. Permit me to reiterate what I wrote on my Facebook page on 09 February 2015:

"I absolutely respect the fundamental principle of the freedom of choice, and always will. What I will never respect, nor condone, is choosing to hide behind this noblest of principles to engender and propagate pure evil. What Nigerians go through on a daily basis can best be described as utter hell, yet some people are so misguided and callous as to discountenance the hellish reality of life of Nigerians. That same hell is about to be unleashed on the perpetrators of unbridled evil, their conspirators and apologists. They may delay the inevitable by six weeks, but their hell will surely come. My prayer is that the good Lord may run the lives of Jonathan’s supporters and apologists the way he has been running Nigeria. If they have so much confidence in the way he has been running the country, they will not hesitate to say Amen. For the avoidance of doubt, I do not dilly-dally, and I must advise those that find the truth unpalatable, and those whose minds are numbed by money, should unfriend me as a matter of urgency. I do not keep unconscionable friends either in real life or on Facebook. Quality is more important to me than quantity. More to follow." 

This may be perceived by some folks as being OTT, but the more discerning ones who have the spirit of humanity in them would certainly beg to differ, There is no contradiction in being a lover of all the tenets of freedom and being an implacable antagonist of pure evil. Pure evil is trampling upon the rights of people by denying them the most basic necessities of life. They are being denied by blind corruption by those who think they could just do whatever they want and whenever they like. Pensioners dropping off like flies; University graduates of many years' standing doing odd jobs just to survive; hospitals look more like a mushroom of bus shelters. Don't even talk about schools!! One would be considered inhuman if one used them as a poultry!! This sicko of a man goes about boasting about how many universities he has established, but fails to mention the disreputable state of the existing ones and the corruption that pervades the so-called Ministry Of Education which at one time was headed by the insufferable Wike, one of the lap dogs of Mrs. 'Na Only You Waka Come?' 

Jonathan has even found the time now (out of his very 'busy' schedule) to go to a couple of the Boko Haram-infested areas. Of course, with elections coming he suddenly remembered some human beings actually do reside in that part of Nigeria. What a skunk!! He may empty the Central Bank in pursuit of his doomed ambition to return to Aso Rock, but he will, as he already knows, meet with failure. 

Allow me to educate (which would be in vain, anyway) these bandits and common thieves in power today. John Ponet, in 1556, posited in his 'A Shone Treatise of Politike Power' (in consonance with John Of Salisbury in the 'Policraticus', circa 1159) that if governors, kings or those elected into positions of authority fail in their duties and violate their trust, then they have forfeited their power. As such, it behoves us, the people, as custodians of natural and divine law, to ask them to relinquish their positions voluntarily, or be forcefully removed. When an elected official has turned himself into a tyrant, and is apathetic to the demands, the needs and the cries of the governed, tyrannicide may well be the only tool left to deploy. Abraham Lincoln contended that assassinating a tyrannical leader is morally justified when the governed has exhausted all legal and peaceful means to get rid of him.
Let me, before you dismiss my logic as jejune, emphasize that this is not a switcheroo on my part. I do not condone violence against the person, no matter how justified it might be. My point is that our current situation calls for a tyrannicide, albeit at the ballot box. Jonathan must suffer electoral tyrannicide and if he refuses to bow to the will of the people, he shall deserve whatever comes his way. The Ides Of March may be the 15th of March, but Jonathan's Idus Martiae may well be the 28th of March.
I am cautiously optimistic that he will heed the yearnings of the people, but I also have that infinitesimal pessimism that he may well attempt to shift the polls once again, or resort to a subterfuge of some sort. Whichever way he chooses to play it, he's a goner. I pray he doesn't bring Nigeria down with him.
Long live Nigeria.