The Nigerian Revolution- IT IS POSSIBLE!!!

“They insinuate through propaganda that I am corrupt yet I turned down a bribe of $15 million(USD) of tax payers money and used the evidence to probe the perpetrator; the money as evidence is still with the CBN. How many people in Nigeria and indeed the world can do that?”

- MALLAM NUHU RIBADU (September 19^th 2010).

Written by Ajibade Oluwaseun.

The French Revolution, which led to a major transformation of the society and political system of France, lasted from 1789 to 1799. During the ten years of the Revolution, France first transformed and then dismantled the Old Regime, the political and social system that existed in France before 1789, and replaced it with a series of different governments. Although none of these governments lasted more than four years, the many initiatives they enacted permanently altered France’s political system. These initiatives included the drafting of several bills of rights and constitutions, the establishment of legal equality among all citizens, experiments with representative democracy, the incorporation of the church into the state, and the reconstruction of state administration and the law code.
From the beginning of the 20th century until the 1970s, the French Revolution was most commonly described as the result of the growing economic and social importance of the bourgeoisie, or middle class. The bourgeoisie, it was believed, overthrew the Old Regime because that regime had given power and privilege to other classes—the nobility and the clergy—who prevented the bourgeoisie from advancing socially and politically. Recently this interpretation has been replaced by one that relies less on social and economic factors and more on political ones. Economic recession in the 1770s may have frustrated some bourgeois in their rise to power and wealth, and rising bread prices(The French’s Main Staple food) just before the Revolution certainly increased discontent among workers and peasants.
The only difference between the French’s situation and the Nigerian situation lies in the fact that our leaders have succeeded for a long time that Change is impossible; they have stifled our thinking capacity and have made us resign to fate. We have believed the lies that our votes will never count, and we have succumbed to believing that there is no impact that nothing can change the status quo. Religious institutions have resigned to praying alone, as if angels will come down from heaven to cause the transformation!

Change doesn’t just happen. A lot of the time, they are as a result of someone rising up during periods of crises to stir the people up on why the status quo should not remain. The French revolution did not happen until French nobleman Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, Comte de Mirabeau, spoke for the common people during the early stages of the French Revolution (1789-1799).

For so long political criminals have stolen what should be our collective wealth, while they all had the free education advantage, they’ll rather prefer the resources to go into their pockets or use it to order 3 presidential Jets than do anything that will better the lives of Nigerians.

These and more scenarios were the pictures painted for us by Barrister Femi Falana (SAN)  and Honorable Uche Onyabucha two strong members of the Save Nigeria Group as young vibrant volunteers gathered from 36 + 1 State of the federation without being coaxed, threatened or payed(like some did). But because we all have one thing burning in us Change and the desire to see it Happen!!!
Like I said during the session on Saturday the 18^th of September in Abuja; “I am not rooting for Nuhu Ribadu to be president come May 29, 2011 because he is a saint, or an anti corruption Crusader, I am rooting for him because in Him beyond the propaganda of political shenanigans I see a can do spirit. One that cries for a chance: A chance to proof to the world that Nigerians like any other people in the world can be loyal, a chance to show that our mothers need not die of childbirth anymore, a chance to show that no other people can be as creative as the Nigerian and a chance to proof beyond reasonable doubts that the Nigeria Revolution IS POSSIBLE”.
A NEW NIGERIA: IT IS POSSIBLE!!!