BOYCOTT! BOYCOTT! BOYCOTT!
Boycott as unwise as it seems, this call for election boycott might be all we need to set the ball rolling.
It will come with chains of after-events.
Voting is a right exercised by the citizens of a nation through which their leaders and representatives are elected into positions of power.
If we are agitating for Biafra restoration and at the same time exercising franchise as Nigerians, what are we indirectly portraying?
INDECISION!
Rather than choosing to see only the possible negative effect the boycott may have on Ndi Igbo, there by been pessimistic. Why not we also see the possible positive effect same boycott will have on the Nigeria status of the Ndi Igbo.
What if we are the ones was asked to boycott using public provided transportation, but to trek to our respective work places just like the blacks suffering discrimination and marginalization in America then were asked?
Would we adhere to that call that seems so ****ic and senseless?
It wasn't easy, but unlike us, they obeyed and persisted for months doing as demanded, to ensure that their collective struggle for emancipation became a success.
It became a success story, which is why am using it as a referral in the subject.
That act of unison in decision and purpose, gave rise to civil societies and rights today
My people rather than criticising the person of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu on his decision that the elections be boycotted, we all should be thinking of how to make that idea to boycott a huge success story.
One that would go down in the annals of history.
Martin Luther King towed the Ghandi civil disobedience style when he asked for Montgomery bus boycott in protest of racial segregation and many ills against the blacks.
At that time, I can assure you that in the hearts of many blacks, his idea to use trekking as a way of protest was not just senseless but outright self harm.
It was a 13 months journey of persistency in civil disobedience, funny enough that self harm as thought by many compelled the supreme court to declare segregation against blacks as unconstitutional.
The Ghandi style of civil disobedience has proven to be a successful method of revolution.
Today Mahatma Ghandi, Martin Luther King jnr, Malcolm X, Nyerere,Sankara,Mandela,Lumumba and I know of a truth that our own Mazi Nnamdi Kanu has cued in the league of these great men who has positively carried the burdens of their people in different ways but ensured that positive change was delivered at their own detriment of incarceration and death.
Let's rally behind Mazi Nnamdi Kanu in support of his ideas no matter how crazy it may seem to our own understanding.
Our problem as a people is the "over sabi" attitude.
Let us for once damn the fears of what if he is wrong? Let us close our eyes and go with one resolve to boycott this election and see how it turns out.
Besides those we have been electing in the past have they impacted positively to our collective good? No! Instead they are after their selfish aggrandizement to our peril.
When Mahatma Ghandi of india towed the step that seemed stupid when he asked his people to boycott British salt. It seem unachievable,
He insisted that they boycott as an act of civil disobedience. British later gave in to his people, especially the salt monopoly and tax.
Senseless he seemed, in the end he was "sensefull" and successful.
A brother suggested thus and I agree totally.
That those who sit with our ever listening leader Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, relays to him the crucial need to encourage all well meaning Biafrans and her supporters to go out in mass and register to get there PVC's no matter how hard the INEC official make the process to frustrate them.
This is so because as we embark on this voyage of boycott, we need a huge number of registered voters. That way we can effectively boycott the election when a high number of those that are registered and eligible refuse to vote.
A situation where 10 thousand people registered and are eligible to vote, instead a thousand or two thousand voted, it will automatically ensure that the 2/3rd stipulated in the electoral law of required voters is marred.
That way the boycott will have more ripple effect than when 4 thousand registered and 2 thousand gets to vote thereby giving the Zoo polithiefcians the 2/3rd of the registered voters needed.
If there is massive registration as well as massive boycott, then victory of the boycott is sure as day!
I call on us all, to please go and endure the harsh sun, the rain the mosquitoes or ants bite to guarantee your freedom and Biafra restoration!
If we have a massive registration out come, I can tell you of a truth, the message of the boycott will be reverberating
It's ripple effect will question the Nigerian claim of indivisibility!
I pray my point is understood and adhered.
#RevisedByMeAguJoyChidera
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Emeka Ezeh
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