According to Solomon, the wisest king whoever lived on the surface of the planet earth, “to everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under the Heaven”.
Considering the rotation and the revolution of the earth, no philosopher or theologian or soothsayer can disprove what King Solomon had said about time and season thousand of years ago.
When the earth rotates on its own axis, it causes day and night, while the revolution of the earth brings about seasons such as summer, wet, dry, autumn and harmattan. As the earth remains changes will continue to occur.
Of recent the wind of political change is blowing across the length and the breadth of Nigeria. Politicians who were voted to represent the people of their constituencies on the platform of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) have decamped to the opposition All Progressives Congress (APC).
In Rivers State, the Governor, Rt. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi defected to the APC with one hundred percent of his loyalists. The way and the manner in which they were defected to every right thinking person is faulty. Members of wards and constituencies were not consulted before moving over to the opposition party. As a true son of Rivers State from Asari-Toru Local Government and a card carrying member of PDP in Asalga Ward 8, no elected officer sought my opinion before the defection.
Precisely on 2nd December, 2013, ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo wrote a letter entitled, “Before It Is Too Late” and sent to the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, where he expressed some of his displeasure about Jonathan’s administration. There is nothing wrong to criticize the government of the day, provided it will not be destructive. Barely three (3) weeks ago, President Jonathan replied Obasanjo’s letter. I took time to read the President’s letter, I commend him for the careful use of words. And the maturity he exhibited while responding to Obasanjo’s letter. No doubt we have come to a season and a time of defections and exchange of letters.
My plead is that whatever thing our politicians are doing, they should consider issues, programmes and policies that will promote national interest, and not selfish ambition. ###
