E GO BETA FOR YOU…

As fallout of my last post, I’ve been pressured by a number of people on the way forward and many said the whole thing shouldn’t just end as an online rant. Having considered some of the feedback received, here’s my take on the way forward:

I admit, a lot of us (the youths) have been polluted but I want to appeal to us to give this country one last chance. JUST THIS ONE LAST CHANCE!

The youth population of this country (according to Wikipedia) is about 33.6 million (ages 18-35). Out of this number, I strongly believe we can raise…

5million youths who are genuinely fed-up with the state of the nation and are willing to do something about it.;

5milion youths who (once again), can believe in the Nigerian project;

5million youths who are ready to force a change in this country;

5million youths who can look beyond religion and ethnicity;

5million youths who will painstakingly put aside personal (and selfish) interests for the sake of a common good;

5 million people who are willing to start a revolution which the unborn generation will forever be grateful to us for.

Friends, we can start afresh!

We can birth a new Nigeria!!

We can start by registering our own political party!!!

Definitely, we will need experienced elders WHO WILL ONLY PLAY ADVISORY ROLES but we don’t need any baba-isale to sway our heads with money.

Ask me about funds to register the party. Ordinary N10 (ten naira) each from all of us will surely pay the registration fee of N1m for new party registration …and still leave us with enough money to take care of several other logistics involved.

We can even take a shot at the big one. Presidential ticket for the 2019 elections cost N10m. Ask me again about funds to purchase the ticket. Another N10 each from all of us will do the magic … and purchase forms for at least 5 of our candidates.

Campaign will definitely not be a problem for us…afterall, NA WE GET SOCIAL MEDIA.

For the records, PMB won the last elections by claiming 15,424,921 votes (I personally monitored the elections myself). That suggests that if the 5 million of us can convince just 3 people (each) to do all it takes to vote, we will hit 20 million votes without stress.

Please, don’t just shove off this post as ‘unworkable’ without giving it some thought. Even the ALMIGHTY GOD was concerned when men came together in unity with a sense of purpose (The Tower of Babel Story). There’s a lot we can achieve TOGETHER.

Even if we don’t reach our target on first attempt, if we can manage to pull this whole thing off, we’d have made a very bold statement – after which I (we) can confidently say, “E GO BETA FOR YOU!!!

Mind you, I don’t intend to be your president; neither am I nursing any political ambitions. After all of this, I’ll be completely content with being remembered as one of 5million Nigerian youths who forced through a revolution in Nigeria.

In fact, to show you I have no ulterior motives, my own N20 is ready. I dey my house. Make una come take am and do the rest.

My name is krAzy. I don yarn.

WHEN I BECOME PRESIDENT!

WHEN I BECOME PRESIDENT!

(My true life experience as a youth corper/ adhoc staff of INEC in the 2011 general elections) ...by priNce krAzy

There are sooo many tales to tell about my NYSC INEC experience. I remember the very first day of the elections in 2011 which was cancelled/postponed. We had gotten to our pollen units and had started accreditation. Rumours then filtered in that the elections had been postponed by a week. But we just carried on with our business pending getting official instructions to stop the elections.

Some hoodlums then approached us and asked us to stop and leave the place immediately. We told them calmly that we didn't have any instructions from INEC to stop elections and as such, couldn't leave.

When the boys "change am for me", it was clear that these ones meant business. The entire place was already getting rough and unsettled. Trouble seemed to be inevitable. I Iooked around and the policeman, civil defence, and all other security officials that were attached to us had already disappeared. Then we knew we were on our own...just the three of us (myself and two other female corpers). What made matters worse for me was that I was a Batch A corper. We had barely completed the three weeks camping when we were shipped out for INEC duties. Most of us had not even reported at our Places of Primary Assignment (PPA) when we were sent to no-man's-land. In that village, we knew NO ONE! We knew NO WHERE! Even if we decided to run, we didn't know which direction to go that would have guaranteed safety.

Clutching the ballot box, ballot papers and other election materials beneath our armpits (cos you dare not go back to the collation centre without the items; their items meant more to them than the lives of the corpers they sent on duty) in a completely strange environment, and looking for a safe place to hide, I muttered my final prayers and said to myself, if it ends here, then, I'd have gone down knowing that I was serving my country. I'd have attained legendary status - just like Mandela in South Africa. How we escaped to safety that day is gist for another day.

There's soooooo much to tell, but let's just go back to why we're here.

On the day of the Gubernatorial elections that year (back in 2011), we had arrived early at the INEC collation centre to pick up our election materials after which we were expected to head to our various polling units.

But due to the obvious deficiencies of INEC (that didn't prepare vehicles that will move corpers from the collation centre to the polling units), which is also gist for another day, we were being transported from the collation centre (with election materials in hand) by the chairman of one of the contesting parties (in that local government). The party actually arranged a lot of vehicles for that purpose to make it easier for them to manipulate the elections.

While in Mr. Chairman's car, oga started a conversation with us:

MR. CHAIRMAN: so copper-shun, we will take care of you. Your welfare package is with us. My boys will give it to you when you get to the polling unit. But you see, that village we are going, there are about 400 registered voters there and we must win very well.

krAzy: (interrupting oga chairman and acting like a naive otondo) sir, when we get there, you can just mobilize your boys to go and tell the villagers to come out and vote. We will be there till everybody votes sir.

MR. CHAIRMAN: (speaking sarcastically) c'mon Mr. Corper. Stop talking as if you don't know these things. The people in this village are farmers and fishermen. They have gone to the farm. They won't come out to vote. Look, when we get there, you'll just give us 350 ballot papers out of the 400. Like I said, your welfare package is intact.

krAzy: (looking at my fellow corpers in disbelief and totally short of words) erm...erm...sir...erm...sir...

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Long story short, we didn't give him 350 ballot papers. But how we manouvered Mr. Chairman that day is also gist for another day.

Need I say more??? If Mrs. Farmer and Mr. Fisherman came out to vote that day, there'll be NO ballot papers available for manipulation.

Wait o! After all this plenty story I've said, you're still contemplating NOT VOTING??! Just continue. Wait till I become president in the year "two thousand and xyz".

WHEN I BECOME PRESIDENT, refusal to vote will attract a jail term, ...+ a very heavy fine, ...+ permanent seizure of all your assets, ...+ NEPA wee cut ya light and fold the wire and take it away and remove the pole and take it away too,... + filling station wee nor sell fuel to you,...+ if you put on candle in your house at night, we wee comman off it, ...+...+ ...+ ...+ ... + pls help me add more punishment.

Enough said, PLS VOTE...or, at least, Go there. Collect your ballot paper. Thumbprint on 2 or more parties threreby rendering it invalid...With that, it can't be used for rigging!

My name is krAzy, I DON YARN!!!

Random krAzy Thots (RkT) 3.0 - Complete Season 3 (in text)

                        

Random krAzy Thots RkT3.0

#MyElectionMusings

3.01

The politicians don’t ‘fight’ against themselves for our sake. They do so for their individual, selfish and greedy interests. If we can’t unite to fight against them, AT THE VERY LEAST, let’s stop fighting ourselves because of them. 

3.02

If a politician approaches me with arms to ‘fight for him’ during this election, I’ll collect it …BUT ON ONE CONDITION. His child/children must come and lead the fight.

Don’t be deceived. Their immediate family will be the first beneficiary of them becoming president (or whatever posts they get elected into). If the children can’t come out to fight for their parents, which one be my own for the mata?

3.03

Dear Elite, 1million retweets is NOT EQUAL to 1million votes. Get Your PVC. AND VOTE TOO…signed; krAzy

3.04

Here's why the young and vibrant candidates who participated in the presidential debate still don't have any realistic chance of winning the elections despite their brilliant performances: Majority of those who saw the debates (and were impressed by the candidates) would not vote. Those who will vote didn't watch the debate for various reasons: didn't have light, can’t afford a generator, couldn't fuel the gen,  don't have enough education to understand all the big-big grammar that was spoken at the debates...and more.

3.05

Although, it's ok to have big and lofty ambitions (referring to the young presidential aspirants) but then, I greatly salute people like Banky W who have chosen to start from the grassroots. 

If the change we seek must happen, it has to start from the bottom upwards and not the other way round. 

Quick question: even if any of the new, young and vibrant presidential aspirants win the elections, how do they expect to survive when they have a national assembly full of enemies who will do everything possible to frustrate their government?

3.06

...still on the presidential debate...The two leading presidential aspirants gave reasons why they couldn’t attend the presidential debate.

They wouldn't miss the rallies because all you need to have a successful rally is just a little out of the stolen money to throw at ignorant citizens. A debate is a different ball game entirely. You need to have something upstairs.

An intellectual mind would pick a debate over a rally a million out of a million times. 

I nor mention anybody name oooo!!! 

3.07

I'm not disappointed in the trader / market-woman singing the praises of either APC or PDP. I'm AWFULLY DISAPPOINTED IN THE ELITES WHO AT THE VERY LEAST TRIES TO DIFFERENTIATE ONE FROM THE OTHER. Is it not obvious that they're all the same?

As one of "the other" presidential aspirants put it, they're "two sides of the same coin".

3.08

This charged season will pass. Let’s not destroy several years of friendship because of our differing views in support for (or against) specific candidates who don’t care about us. After these elections, we’ll left alone with ourselves...

This particular thot was inspired by my boss; Ambrose Olutayo Somide. 🏽

3.09

Since independence, we've had more presidents / heads-of-state from the northern part of the country than from all the other tribes combined, yet people in their region are the least educated in the country. Don't you think that's an intentional plot by the few elites amongst them to perpetually USE THEM to win elections? 

Hmmmmm!  ...just thinking aloud! 

3.10

Look around you! Posters EVERYWHERE!...especially in Lagos. Right now, if you stand too long on the roadside, someone will approach you with starch and poster, ready to paste it on you. That’s how bad it is.

Now, if I paste my poster, advertising my hustle, "the agencies" will put a disclaimer on it saying I have committed an offence by doing so. Yet, our “supposed leaders” have their posters defacing EVERY wall and no one is saying anything. 

In my opinion, any leader whose poster is found in a wrong place isn’t leading by example and shouldn’t be voted for.

But then, what does it matter? I’m only krAzy and all I have is one vote. 

3.11

When it’s a political rally, they mobilize ALL and ANY available youth. But if it’s a job opportunity, they remember only their family members…

This is not my original thot. I saw it first on my friend; WAPI BLACK's Facebook wall...but I find it worth sharing in this series.  

3.12

I've heard a lot of people say "why vote? My vote does not count". 

Well, the truth is your vote may not count, but your refusal to vote counts MUCH MORE...but negatively. 

I dare say here and now that, the people who refuse to vote are our biggest problems.

You'll understand my point better when I share my final post in the series (on Friday, 15th)...I've titled it, "WHEN I BECOME PRESIDENT".  

3.13

If you're a registered voter and you INTENTIONALLY refuse to vote, you should be arrested and jailed for aiding and abetting election rigging...but then, what does it matter, I'm only krAzy and I'm not a lawmaker.

By the way, you think my submission is extreme??? Please, wait till you read my true-life experience as a youth corper NYSC staff. I'll share it on Friday, 15th.

3.14

There's no RkT3.14 so as we get set to wrap off tomorrow, let's use today to emphasize two things:

1. Thank you for following the series so far. I'm grateful. 

2. Please take time to read my personal NYSC experience as an INEC adhoc staff in the 2011 elections which I have titled, "WHEN I BECOME PRESIDENT". 

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