Videography Of 2015 Elections

THE 2015 general elections have come and gone. On March 28, 2015 the presidential and National Assembly elections were held, while on April 11, 2015 those for the governorship and House of Assembly took place. While the razmattazz of the event held the nation hostage, I bid my time to capture its rare sights and sounds – pay its videography. Here are some of them.
Language abuse
Our first lady, Mrs. Patience Jonathan don’t seem to uphold the doctrine that abuse is not argument, yes, as lawyers would say Abusus non tallit usum. This was why throughout her campaign build-up to the 2015 election she never failed to insult the opposition APC party chieftains. On most occasions, she even invoked holy ghost fire on them requesting that they should be consumed by its conflagration before the election.
Unknown to our Mrs Perfect, however, there was no day she came to a campaign ground without a full baggage of language abuse. Two of them would be cited here for lack of editorial space. At a Lagos women rally on March 19, 2015 she told the PDP crowd while denouncing APC guber candidate Atinwummi Ambode: “Jimi Agbaye is a man of honest” (not honesty). Again, later at a rally in Abia State, from where her mother comes, she declared. “I would like to thank the whole wumen (not women) of Nigerians (instead of Nigeria)…….”
Certainly, nobody doesn’t goof nevertheless, her profane language abuse is being diligently explored to inform our first lady that no mortal on earth knows it all as she always claims with profound arrogance. Also, this expose is to demonstrate that those who abuse other people have abuses waiting for them at their door post of abuses you hurl at other also returns to you retributively.
Who is a statesman?
Once more, most Nigerians are at their old game of recklessly dispensing honorifics just as hononary doctorate degrees are sold to undeserving shenanigans in our society. Imagine, as soon as President Goodluck Jonathan accepted defeat in the March 28, 2015 presidential election before its full results was declared by INEC, he was being celebrated as a statement.
Yet facts and the chronology of events leading to his action does not empirically suggest that he is a statesman rather, he is a crafty consummate politician who jumped because he was forced to do so by the APC, the 15 million voters of Buhari, the no-nonsence Buhari, Gen. Abdulsalami Abubakar’s national peace committee, Gen. Theophilus Danjuma (rtd) transparent INEC, AU, ECOWAS, ICC, France, Britain, the EU and the UN.
Yes, the die was cast for President Goodluck Jonathan. There was no comfort zone left for him and his PDP party from where to denounce the outcome of the election and go on to upturn it through judicial reconfiguration. Therefore, although we must appreciate his action of accepting  defeat with humility, the fact needs to be pointed out that be behaved like a statesman specifically on March 28, 2015 by conceding victory to Buhari. In figurative speech to behave like a statesman is a simile while to be a statesman is a metaphor.
A simile and metaphor are two different things. Indeed, the hood does not make the monk. You can behave like a monk but that does not make you a monk.
Celebrating Buhari
On April 11, 2015 my friends and I were at a polling unit to perform our civic responsibility of voting for our preferred candidate in the House of Assembly election of course, while on set we were monitoring NIGERIA DECIDES, a live programme of Independent Radio, Benin and passionately following the discussions of its two panelists Comrade Austin Osakwe and Dr. Wilfred Oyegun.
At a point in the discussion, Comrade Austin Osakwe said in reaction to Buhari’s victory. “You don’t send a boy to do a man’s job except you want failure”. Good talk. All he was saying parabolically was that the office of the presidency is for the physically, emotionally, morally, ethically, intellectually and spiritually matured. Not for adegborayahs. This multidimensional fusion of maturity was seen by voters in Buhari. Hence, he got the people’s mandate to step in as their president on May 29, 2015, trust, the voters expect him to govern Nigeria from the forward line, not from the reargaund of indecision bureaucratic ineptitude and spiritual malaise.
Another issue. All those who were shouting shame Buhari are now silent. Like humiliated dogs, they have retreated to their kennels with their sterile tails in between their stinking hind quarters. Oh how have the little gants fallen!!.
In the Buhari’s camp, there was an innocent miscarriage of the oriks term Sai Buhari.
His non-Hausa admires always chanted say Buhari. In case you don’t know, Sai Buhari in Hausa orthography is different from Say Buhari in both spelling and meaning. For instance, Sai Buhari simply means. “We are for you, Buhari. We support him whole-heartedly”. On the contrary, Say Buhari is a verbal order to a person to pronounce the name of Buhari.
Well, not many of us have time for this linquistic sonic difference between the two terms. Who even cares for it during the emotional heat of campaigns? None. Then, of course, wardsmith William Safire once of Time Magazine explains. “Words come to mean what most people think they mean and what we say they ought to mean”.
Probably, it is in allusion to William Safire that a friend told me not to bother about explaining the dichotomy between Sai Buhari and Say Buhari to him. He interjected during my impromptu Hausa language class. “Abeg leave matter for Mathias. Wettin concern me now be say Buhari don win. God don win-o our name now be Godwin say Buhari”.
Potpourri matters
In Nigeria, we often love to disobey the law. So, it was not surprising that on the election days untouchable party big wigs appeared to some polling units sharing money to prospective voters to entice them to vote for their candidates. Already, these shameless goons at home had also shared out bags of rice and salt to women voters, while mega bites were doled to young voters who preferred them for their smart phones to bear money.
Furthermore, during the April 11, 2015 election, CP Emmanuel Ojukwu, the Force Headquarters PRO was on the NTA programme code-named NIGERIA DECIDES early in the day. He used the occasion to warn that no person was allowed to bring dangerous weapons to voting centres – including a stones. What have stones to do with listed dangerous weapons? CP Emmanuel Ojukwu  explained. “A stone can kill. Or have you forgotten that it was with a stone David killed Goliath in the bible?” Everyone on set nodded in agreement with him, with dollar smiles as soon he offered his explanation.
Epilogue
Comedore Bode George (rtd) who is over 70 in protest against Buhari’s victory is in tears. He has vowed that he would soon leave the country for exile, because of it. Behold, this is a classic reverse emigration. Imagine, at old age, people scramble home to die and be buried at home. But here is our Bode George at ripe old age planning to go on exile abroad. Well, I wish him Goodluck, not Buhari for contributing meaningful to the sights and sounds of 2015 general elections. I hail-oooo.