Young Democrats of Nigeria

06/03/2023

ATIKU/OBI: How Nigeria dodged a bullet

By
Yakubu Ahmed-BK

Either of them would have been a disaster of monumental proportion. One of them will have sold the country to his friends and the other will have planted the seed of politics of religious bigotry - a pathway to very quick dissolution of the country.

Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) had, between 1999 and 2007 when he served as Vice President, started a very self serving, economically dangerous and unpatriotic sell out of the nation’s best assets. He was unapologetic till today, that he turned those assets to his business partners and associates. Electing him President was sure going to give him a golden opportunity to finish what he started in 1999.

Peter Obi, the meek candidate of religious groups and a cacophony of tribal irredentists who used their influential platforms to seek to divide the country along faultlines in pursuit of forlorn crass objectives that are known to only them was as dangerous too.

The election of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu as president in the just concluded presidential election was, to me, akin to dodging a bullet by the county because by their antecedents, body language and the friends they keep around them, it was an open secret that if any of them had become president, the country will just fall into a trap set up to ruin it and leave it at the mercy of speculators, shylocks and undertakers who have minced no words in their desire to see to the disintegration of the country.

Conversely speaking, if Atiku and Obi had earlier on united and merged, they would have won the election on the first day. But because God has forsaken them, it is after both had lost that they are now united to break the country to bring war, hunger and suffering to the Nigerian people. The people who failed to come together by eschewing selfish personal desires in order to easily win, are the very ones that are now coming together to pursue objectives that are at variance with national goals of peace and development.

If, by mere happenstance, the two men are to succeed in upturning the election, who, between them will be number one and thus become President? Will Atiku concede to Obi or will Obi just retire and allow Atiku to take over? The glaring possibility is that as soon as they succeed in sabotaging the choice of the people which the election of Tinubu signifies, the two will ignite another bloody rivalry between them, setting the stage for war and ruin.

Both Atiku and Obi are individually and collectively bad news to Nigeria. As president, each of them has a peculiar anti-people danger he poses to the country and now that they have united, they still do so not out of any patriotic desire to develop the country, but to put it on the path of retrogression.

The same way God the almighty has knocked their heads together and sent them apart in order to save the country from their inordinate and very dangerous ambition, is the same way He will scatter their brains, pitch them against each other and render them incompatible in order to continue to save Nigeria from the machinations of its enemies both within and without.

05/03/2023

A patriotic citizen performing her civic duty

08/01/2023

29/09/2021

A Comment by Malam Baba on late. Dr. Yusufu Bala Usman of blessed memory.

Bala’s name is synonymous, with Genius. The Man who challenged and demolished the theory of “Scarcity”, seventy years after being theorised by an immortal giant of Economics. The Man who rewrote our history, with precision and accuracy. The Man whose perspective is Reference literature, throughout the world of academia. The Original, whose opinion demolished hegemony and dominant views. His questions are answers, his answers are questions, that lives and stands the tests of times, for centuries to come. The Greatest Historian that ever roamed our space, who mankind may never see his equal again. From Havard to Yale, from Oxford to Cambridge, from MIT to CIT, from UCL to Stanford, from Lund to Unitoronto, from LSE to Imperial College, from UniChicago to Columbia University, from John Hopkins to Cornell Universities, if it’s scholarship and pedagogy, bring it on Bala was an authority in his field of History and Political Economy! The Man whose presence, sent shivers into the bone marrows of Ali Mazrui and Wole the Professor of fiction. Great Ali Mazrui died dodging Bala, in any parlance of academia for any debate or dialogue. That was Bala, a walking Encyclopedia who changed History and Political Economy, as we knew them. That was Bala, who read anything and everything, until there was nothing more to read. That was why at the end of his times, he doesn’t read but poured for mankind to sip from his fountain of erudition. The Man who read Walter Rodeny’s “How Europe underdeveloped Africa, in a train from Lancaster to Heathrow airport, and challenged Wole Soyinka for a review. The Natural Professor Emeritus, conferred not by academic politics but by Heavens for his natural cognitive ability. That’s why he is immortal in the world of academia, till the end of times. May Jannatul Firdaus, be the abode of this Encyclopedia who lived and died “For the Liberation of Nigeria”. 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽

28/07/2018

EVIL PREVAILS ONLY WHEN GOOD MENH DO NOTHING

01/11/2015

On behalf of all members of YOUNG DEMOCRATS WE WLD LYK TO CONGRATULATE ON WELL DESERVED APPOINTMENT AS COMMISIONER FOR HEALTH KATSINA STATE.
Mariatu Bala Usman, Hussaini Bala Usman, Zainab Bala Usman.

13/12/2013

All dat has a begging has an end, madiba has left us. I wish the spirit peace,forgiveness,caring for his people and d world at large will be followed by our African leaders.

18/07/2012

I would like to draw d attention of Young Nigerians to come join dis group which's major objectives are to for all young Nigerians to actively participate in the rebuilding of our great Nation.......considering the predicament which d past nd present generation of our so called rulers not leaders of this great Nation p