‘I’m for nobody and I’m for everybody’ mantra

By Dauda Reng Pam

Me thinks that there is no government,no matter how naive, especially in a democracy where the power to elect rests squarely with the electorates, will willingly present it’s citizens to severe hardship and difficulties, including inadequate provision of basic needs of human existence, not to talk of lopesided appointmentsAbsence of security of lives and property has since escalated to an alarming level as  it is now the new normal or so it seems. Harsh economic conditions and realities have equally rendered most Nigerians to mere walking corpses.They can no longer  provide food  in their homes just as they can not access basic medicare, which costs and prices are beyond their reach. Or is it education,that has been jointly emasculated and massacred by both the practitioners and their proprietors.ASUU strikes no longer strikes anybody, not even their proprietors as it has since been elevated to a status of business-as- -usua to the detriment of the poor students from poor economic standpoint.Otherwise,how do you justify,”You Work You Get Paid,You Don’t Work You Get Paid?”The PMB administration,to my mind, has offered what it can offer, as you can not offer what you do not have.Take a  cursory appraisal of the performance of the government since it took over the reigns of leadership,it has been one issue to the other and still counting. It is still fresh in our memories that PMB had promised a better living  condition for Nigerians and we believed him,not only for his pedigree, but more so, that Nigeria is endowed with myriad of natural and human resources if properly harnessed, would have taken it to the land of milk and honey,no more no less,but alas, where are we now?The fact remains,PMB may have done his best in rice production, empowerment of youths and community women, infrastructural development in construction of bridges, establishment of tertiary institutions like  Polytechnics and Universities,which looks like the limit of  what he has in store to offer and citizens should not expect more. He seems to have reached his limit and overstretched his capacity leaving his ardent followers bewildered and mesmerised.