Peter Claver Oparah
Those who either sentenced themselves or were sentenced to inconsolable heedless wailing by the outcome of last year’s general elections can never stop being funny. Often when you hear or read their loud, frenzied and syndicated cacophony of complaint and twisting of everything from President Muhammadu Buhari and his government lately to suit their wailing enterprise, you walk away with the impression that these wailers cannot simply be serious. A common refrain that dog their conversations lately is: ‘is this the change we voted for?’ You are often to hear them complain noisily and bitterly of what Buhari, his government and APC did to them or did not do to them that you are often left to wonder if they are not working themselves to a state of permanent psychotic frenzy by the defeat they suffered last year. They believe that by their repetitive efforts, they can choral Nigerians into stoning Buhari and asking them to come back to continue what they know best: free plundering of the Nigerian commonwealth. But you wonder; are the wailing wailers not wasting the tears they should reserve for more patchy days ahead just at the starting point of what promises to be a long night in the cold? To the extent that these crooning wailers are getting real giddy pruriently awarding marks to a man faced with the gargantuan debris they left here, with a parched revenue base at the eight of a first 48 months is downright silly if not an overplay of dented emotions that will surely percolate in the days to come.
But let us not be detained by the wailers and their cheeky antics. Rather let us excurse into the wailers’ latest claptrap of ‘is this the change we voted for?’ This is at best a profanity …Read More
Source:: PM Newspaper
