Ours was a song of victory but it was the victory that IBB and his cohorts, no longer retained the power to determine the destruction of our national hope. If only these men would consider President Abraham Lincoln s words in his annual message of 1st December 1862 to the American Congress, he said, Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history . No personal significance or insignificance can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial we pass will light us down in honour or dishonour to the last generation. Governance is about caring for the weak against vagaries of the State and the strong and protecting the strong from the State.
Governance is about a broad church that welcomes all opinions and accommodates all dissents.
IBB without the realms of power will remain the former dictator of Nigeria as he is often referred in the West and his legacy for which he cares so much would remain a ruinous one. The past is whatever the records and the memories agree upon. And since the party is in full control of all records, and in equally full control of the minds of its members, it follows that the past is whatever the party chooses to make it. IBB s account of his records and our minds save for the minds of his acolytes are at a divergence. And it ought to be noted that in the present day Nigeria, IBB cannot determine who or what we believe of the records for which we are living witnesses.