Just when I came out from the OZER ROOM, sweating and in dire need of fresh air, that was when I noticed that UGO EBE NA AJA of NDONI KINGDOM and SARKIN KOWA were sitting at the living room, watching World Cup and drinking Cold bottle of NKWU ENU I brought from UFUMA, even though UFUMA don't know how to tap it very well.
I grab a local IKO NKWU and went straight to the ITE OTU storing the drink and take a full measure, gulp it down in one swoop then refill the cup which I carried to my Seat for a good measure .
Then I ask SARKIN KOWA the deity of Local Politics in Sokoto, how he think that MUSA a Muslim is playing with Christians on same field, dressing in same Room, praying for success at same time and hugging as friends in the public view ? .
How come this Youths had an indivisible boldness, a United purpose to play as a Team and win for a Nation for just a CUP that won't fetch what our Polithiefians share per sitting?
How come this Boy's did not discriminate nor play a divide, such as when a Christian gets the ball, he will pass to Christian and Muslim to Muslim?
"Kai Fen af gwad, dis one is putbolu and Ip de no flay it like a team wahali, dem go commot one time ".
Paraphrasing ( Kai, Pen of God this is Football and if they do not play it as a team, Walahi, they will be knocked out).
Now it gets me thinking, so in this Nation we have something that bars and bury our Tribal differences so we can get a result that we all will celebrate?.
So there is something that will not segregate the Christians and Muslims?
So this Three Mischievous Tribes can agree on something with a purpose of winning?... Moving on....
Fine, now we all celebrated the Superlative skill and Ball sense of Musa (I suspect that guy has something to do with my Kinsman that has lived in the North for Decades, the man's name is DONATUS and he has a striking resemblance with Musa) , we celebrated his TELEVISION GOALS that made Messi to develop BP thinking of how this Football super players from Nigeria, a Nation that is on recession will send Argentina home.
That takes me back home to why we can't use same sense and choose the best Team that will make our life and economy better?
So far we have bunch of men who has been playing our Political Football since 1977 ,the same set of players from OBASANJO, BUHARI, ATIKU, KINGIBE, since then it is either they have no idea how to move the Nation forward or they are too old to try it.
In Football, any player that is aged will simply get out and allow others to carry on, the likes of CHRISTIAN CHUKWU, OKALA, TIJANI BABANGIDA, BAWA LAWAL, JAY JAY the Wizard of Football, KANU Papilo Nwankwo, all are retired and making room for brand new Boys that are making us proud.
Why can't we retire all this great Grand Fathers and have a new squad to play for us with same Spirit obtained in Football?
Do we think that if what we have in Russia are tired legs like we have in Politics back home, that they will have the spirit to spank ICELAND? .
Sorry they would've been so awed ,that they would have asked ICELAND to lend us Football ,same way they are begging Nations to lend us money, the Nations they beg today, were beggars while we boast in 70S that Nigerian problem is not money but how to spend it .
We have our priorities so bad and sad that under same people ,Obasanjo the Head of state, BUHARI the Secretary of Petroleum and all this Actors that still rule our lives, the same people who decides if we live, eat or die, same people who started leading us into COUP and Counter Coup and later into GENOCIDAL WAR that ravaged the nation and set us back 50 Years and counting.
Then in 70s they decided that the evil of 1967-1970 is not enough,the blood letting, the puverization of fellow Black Brothers with armaments supplied by same people who brought us Religion and promised us that what they brought is safeest way to Heaven and they used death spewed from Barrels of Guns to knock our Fathers into total submission, then those that refused even at the threat of annihilation were taking with fetters of Iron and sold as Slaves, especially those that survived the High sea and Sea sickness.
It never occurred to us to say, even if in conflict let's settle it Black people way, which is to wrestle and settle score with shear strength and muscles and that seldom lead to loss of life but loss of prestige.
No we rather accepted the gift called Guns and it laid Us to waste, that's the raiders sorry the leaders that we still trust our future in their hands, despite the glaring testimony that they have nothing good to offer any longer, same way tired Footballers had nothing to offer anymore in competative Football, but moving back on.... they decided and brought all the Blood Sucking gods from all deadly places in AFRICAN forest to Nigeria in a feast and fiesta and call it FESTAC (FESTIVAL OF AFRICAN CULTURE), the demons that came into Nigeria then refused to go back home and as we speak ,we still live under that bondage without hope of coming out of it ,yet the Youths did not see reasons to say..
ENOUGH WITH FOREFATHERS or in a Euphemistic fashion, we should call them ANCESTORS !!!!.
if we can select the best to play for us in Global round leather competition, I see no reason why all AWUSA YOUTHS,YOROBA YOUTHS and IGBO YOUTHS with the other minority Tribes will not come together and with one Voice agree that Enough of this Diabolic choice of OCTOGENARIANS and also Perish the idea of ZONING our life to Zonal leadership.
It's time we select the Best and only the best, if that will make our future lies in the hand of a particular state, so be it because I have never seen where hunger and Poverty demands for Tribe before it will hook or pay you.
We can't always act as people under ancestral curses and because I am going to worship with the ALMIGHTY who gave me the Pen,, I am going to stop right now with a quote from a Man whose head the cap fits, he querried and I provide "NIGERIANS, ARE WE CURSED or WE ARE THE CAUSE? ".
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