MUSINGS OF A NIGERIAN VOTER

Your Vote Counts.

For the apolitical, fence sitters, prayer warriors and silent supporters of bad governance,

Its 4 years for the politician VS 4 years of your life.

Four years of life ebbing out slowly,

From building a thriving career well into yours 30’s in the good years,

Only to wake up at 40 and realize you’re mostly alone as all your friends have relocated.

Then realize at Night, family events may never have all siblings in attendance however hard they try.

It’s realizing bad governance is eating its people at home, as organizations exit the country, friends lose jobs and their long-time businesses gasping for life.

Then your once stable friend has to beg for their needs, and you can’t pray school fees, bad roads or inflation away.

Then you are lying in bed at year 50, and it slowly dawns on you, you’ve been hustling on a hamster wheel.

You believed your votes don’t count, yet they intimidate, buy, and give palliatives for them.

Look, the apathy towards the ballot has consequences we all have to bear; perhaps even our children’s children. 

Do not be deceived, your participation or lack of it in the process is a VOTE.