IS THE CHANGE FINALLY HERE?

And before you sleep, lemme quickly give you this to ponder on overnight...

As was the case in the Primary election of Oyinlola vs Isiaka Adeleke in 2002, the Primary election that produced Iyiola Omisore as the candidate of the PDP in the 2014 gubernatorial election was an aberration...it was everything short of internal democracy.

In 2002, the Governorship Primary elections of the PDP between Olagunsoye Oyinlola and Isiaka Adeleke was decided in Abuja because everything on home soil pointed to the fact that Adeleke was going to emerge as the winner of that election.

In Abuja however, many authentic delegates discovered to their chagrin that the PDP had manufactured another person to bear their names. So, the moment you get to the door, attempt to get accredited, they just tell you the person bearing the name is already inside. Plain simple democratic coup... The reason given was, every spiritual consultation had it that Adeleke could not defeat Akande. Let's leave that...

In 2014 as well, Iyiola Omisore was produced on the platform of PDP through almost the same kind of democratic coup that took place at GMT events centre in Osogbo.

The difference between 2003 and 2014 as I see it is, if the PDP had allowed a free and fair primary, Omisore would still have won because he had adequate control of the party structure and he had the money for good effect.

Unfortunately, it was not a matter of winning or not winning. It was a matter of a fundamental defect in the very foundation of our democracy. We seem to believe in forceful acquisition of power without allowing the freewill of the people to prevail.

This is evident in the APC too, one party that is notably notorious for never conducting primaries. While the PDP does forceful acquisition through stage-managed primaries, the APC does forceful acquisition through anointing of desired candidates by privileged godfathers. They as well utilized the stage management method in some cases.

Today, the APC is the other side of the PDP coin, so I do not see our democracy progressing. All I see is a continued celebration of democratic unrighteousness.

Between the PDP and the APC as they are presently constituted, Nigeria is in between the devil and the deep blue sea.

Until a fundamental redefinition of our political values is undertaken, our #change has not come...we are only marching on the same spot!