By Political Animal.
The House of Representatives Dep. Speaker, Hon Ahmed Wase said that Nigerians living abroad have no right to submit petitions to parliament.
These are people whose remittances from those countrymen and women is at $20 billion a year keeping alive families impoverished by our politicians!
We actually need patriotic citizens in 2023.Those that have the heart of statesmen.Those who would redress our grieviances because I am outraged .
Those who will administer true justice and also provide public safety.
Actually we are in a bad posture ,we need men with graceful stateliness to understand the depths we are into.
We must be very careful whom we elect into high office in 2023 , whether at the state level or federal level.
Why should Nigerians in the diaspora not have the ability to vote abroad as the case is in neighboring Ghana and many other countries?We are presently wooing their remittances but we don’t need their votes?
Every country has those in diaspora.Many are forced by economic circumstances which led to economic migration.Who actually wants to live in foreign lands forever if home is good?
Their Nigerian citizenship should not be denigrated because of where they are living when the Government has not provided opportunities for them to be home.
Why should those living in the diaspora not contribute to whatever is happening in the country when and where their families are residing.
This statement from Mr.Wase is nonsense and offensive.I am outraged.A show of shame .It is terribly comical when people think that they can still twist facts in the time the world has become a global village,where information is available at finger tips.
How can he insist that those in diaspora don’t know what is happening in Nigeria?
Nigerian politicians always want something for nothing.They want their remittances but not their contributions by voting.
They are aware that they cannot give Nigerians in the diaspora 2k per vote during elections.They are just scared of people that know how things work in countries with good leaders .
They don’t want citizens who understand the systems that work in contrast to what we have here.We just have to stop this nonsense in 2023.I am outraged.
We really need to urgently amend the constitutional provision that forbids Diaspora Registration and voting.
Nigerians who are out there , very educated and qualified should not be shut out of political and public opportunities in every sector.You cannot want their money, but you don’t want them to have a say in the way they are governed or the families they left at home.
Dear Diasporans,my advice is that if you want to make the required impact on the present political and economic situation in Nigeria, please “stay close and watch closely”.
Well ,it is said that democracy is the system of Government,by the people,of the people and for the people,If we have had almost 60 years of extremely woeful leadership, including military regimes, and not moved,
then there is something wrong with us, because these politicians come from among us,even though they impose themselves on us during elections.But enough should be enough.I am outraged!!
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