Let
me use this medium to remember the innocent job seeking Nigerians that lost
their lives about a year ago during the Nigerian Immigration Exercise that took
place on 15th March, 2014 across the country. May their gentle souls rest in
Perfect Peace. Their country failed them when it untimely cut their lives short.
An incident that could have been averted if we had developed the attitude of
doing the right thing at all times. Most painfully, it took the President a
year before he fulfilled his promises to their families.
In
the same country, governed by the same government, within the same period of
time, people see different things differently. Some sing praises while others
condemn, some appreciate while others criticize and some want change while
others prefer to maintain status quo. The various actions and attitudes
displayed by individuals to the President Goodluck Jonathan`s led
administration cannot be farfetched from the way they see his administration.
I
have wondered endlessly why some see the whole gospel of transformation
carefully playing out like a master plan working perfectly for the good of the
nation and while others do not see same that way. But rather see it as a
kangaroo project and a share shame of mediocrity, complacency and gross
cluelessness.
However,
after careful thoughts and logical reasons, I finally find out the answer.
You
see, as it stands now, the politics that is carefully being played by both the
ruling party and the opposition parties and the camp that individuals belong
to, determine what they see, the way they reason and their sense of judgments.
What individuals see is a function of the type of eyes they have. It is natural
for the oppositions to see things in the opposition way. But even at that, with common sense one would
know when the oppositions are just being antagonistic and when they are right.
Hence,
based on the present political situations of the country, I have been tempted
to conclude that, there are two types of eyes; The Jonathan Eyes and The Normal
Eyes. The political eyes you have will determine what you see, what you see
will determine what you say and whom you support in the upcoming elections.
Little wonders why there are opinions and counter opinions everywhere. Do not
blame anyone for whatsoever he or she says or believes, It is a function of
what they see and what they see depends on the eyes they have.
Someone
with the Jonathan eyes will see things in the Jonathan’s way while someone with
the Normal eyes will see things the normal way- Clean, Clear and Bright.
Someone
with the Jonathan eyes will not see stealing as corruption or corruption as
stealing, but someone with the Normal eyes will know that stealing is
corruption and corruption is stealing.
When
you see someone screaming the praises of this administration and yelling the
good works of transformation, do not blame him or her, what he or she has is
the Jonathan eye and that is the way it is expected from him or her to see
things. However, someone with the Normal eyes will see the whole gospel of
transformation as an illusion of the highest magnitude.
Someone
with the Jonathan’s eye will tell you that Nigeria has the best economy in
Africa thanks to the rebasing of our economy but someone with the Normal eyes
will ask you that what impact has the rebasing had on the lives of the ordinary
Nigerians.
Someone
with the Jonathan eyes will see and say that President Jonathan has constructed
25,000km of roads within Nigeria but someone with the Normal eyes will ask
where the roads are constructed? Perhaps not Nigeria. Even the popular Lagos -
Ibadan express road is just 404km and it is yet to be completed.
It
is only with the Jonathan eyes that you could see a well rehabilitated airports
across the country but if you have the Normal eyes, that is clean, clear and
not blurred you would see that there are a whole lot of things wrong with our
airports.
Trust
me, with the Jonathan eyes on, you can`t see anything wrong in making someone
that is being indicted in an election rigging scandal a minister in the
country.
With
the Jonathan eyes, all is well and right with the timing of the comprehensive
Military action against the Boko Haram sect, but with the Normal eyes, it is
logical to ask why the military waited this long before carrying out this
onslaught on the violent sect. The list goes on like that.
The
fact is, the truth is not hidden even to those with the Jonathan eyes. They may
have chosen to see things in the Jonathan`s way but somewhere in them they know
the truth. They know too well that their claims are not the true reflections of
the current states of things in the country. However, due to the selfish
benefits that they derive from this administration, they have decided to ignore
the truth and carry on the Jonathan eyes. Hence, they act and think in such a
way that makes it so obvious that with the Jonathan eyes on, nothing can be
seen clearly and transparently!
Ogundana
Michael Rotimi
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