THIEVES OF THE DELTA RE-RUN (GEJ and the 40 thieves)

To hear you say to me, that the experiences of my heart(that very intangible but more-than real habitation of all that is physically potential), will become the crafted-structure of my immediate and later future, is wonderful and beautiful enough to make me engage more in the 'pursuit of purpose'.

I seem to want to believe you, because of the emotional therapy that pursuit would provide me; but i'm tempted to get a little bit practical-to see things the way they are on the ground...but in the process of getting practical, i know it would make a mess of the hope concept. Yet,can i just indulge a little? Hope seems torn out and down. I had so much hope for a change of d status quo. How does a future leader craft a future in leadership when all he has seen has been a failed-rulership? That's all young people my age have seen-i thought i was going to show them a new, maybe different way-i thought a new and true way would prevail...

What shred of strenght am i supposed to cling to when the my will, my part in the election package is reneged on at the finishing line? What kind of father would give his son a stone when the child asks for bread? Only a witch would give her first son up to be murdered for promotion in their hierachy...

I may seem to want a whole lot of too much on offer or too much of the opportunities within my reach/achievement. Please do i ask for too much? Is it a dream? more less a huge dream to want a little bit more from constituted authority? Do you thgink i'm over-stretching the boundaries? When i have never had my due? When i have been so far deprived my due? Even when everyone else in getting, i have never gotten a free lunch in free-town!!

The experiences of my big heart; what i have dreamed; the society i could have been; the possibillities that have rumbled deep within-to craft with the thoughts developed from studying climes far from me, those climes i hope to touch in the soonest future...but will i ever get there?

I hear the sounds of "ghetto child" by JOE as i search for the appropriate verbs and idioms that would birth my thoughts on paper. tears fight hard to stop from trickling down my cheeks as i remember the 6th of january 2011 rape after so many other rape experiences on DELTA STATE in the past. As JOE sings on, i really try as a ghetto child, to 'see the best in me'; i'm afraid i see less than the required specification. Even GEJ said something similar in his declaration speech last year...now he orchestrates the first heist of 2011 just to secure for himself the presidential candidacy of his PDP, what will he do to get the presidency? Any difficulty in predicting future election outcomes?

I suspect that to some people, moving away from all that i was driving at for a few days to concentrate on mobilizing critical mass for the delta re-run would seem like a waste of time, realizing that GEJ had already commissioned result manipulation to be carried out by serving commissioners, members of the state house of assembly and special assistants physically carrying ballot boxes... But i choose to find hope in the hopelessness that i feel, i choose to soar above what i see...

I'm still finding where my thoughts get to align in all of this...I WONDER where this T-junction leads...JOY BECKONS even though the merchants of men's soul are laughing now!!!

ANYONE STILL IN DOUBT ABOUT THE WIND OF CHANGE?

Nothing just happens, we make ‘em!

Coming at a time when irrelevant political jostling are taking front seat, the sack of Uduaghan is a welcome jolt-back to reality!

The big heart for love is a paradox in its highest expression; imagine a state with arguably the best Nigeria has to offer in human capital resource (well educated well traveled, well endued with excellent business acumen) when compared with other front-line states in Nigeria. Yet we are ruled by a band of pirates and Lilliputians who know nothing about leadership.

I think Lagos is saturated hence the job of transforming such a gigantic city is huge, yet accolades bombard the office of Fashola, Port-Harcourt is less saturated but gigantic all the same but the vision, mission and work of Rotimi has not gone unnoticed, delta is no different from these states but she gives those of us that travel so much cause to be ashamed because we have an opportunity to build and sustain an exceptionally vibrant economy and physical infrastructural masterpiece since we are less saturated. In this age, it takes less than 25years to turn a mess into a goldmine (Dubai).

Deltans head the most successful banks in Nigeria, almost half the banks ware founded/headed by deltans, almost half then national dallies are owned by deltans, we have one of the biggest family businesses in Nigeria, we have the father of the internet, we have Nigeria’s greatest footballer, we are rated by JAMB as educationally developed yet we have just 11/2 universities stupidly split for political reasons, I could go on but I wouldn’t blame the charlatans that rule because God gives a people the leader they deserve and demand.

I think our time has come, our appetite has upgraded and god has given us an opportunity to demand for something better! I may not know what Ogboru is capable of but I’ve seen what Uduaghan can produce!

The ball has just bounced unto our court, we have a rare opportunity, this is for the future and the future of our kids…let nothing deceive us, we all know nothing happened in 2007, its not every time we have a second chance to win a race.

CHOOSE CHANGE! WHO NO GO, NO KNOW!