Nwelue called on Nigerian youths to come together and join hands with him to exit President Muhammadu Buhari from office.
He took to his Facebook account to declare his intention and he wrote:
“#ProgressParty
This is not to cajole anyone, but at
the beginning of this year and end of last year, lots of my friends lost
their parents - two of my good friends lost their mothers to renal
failure. It was not because you can't treat any of these - the health
system in Nigeria can't. I had to undergo my own kidney surgery in
India. Far away from the hands of Nigerians who could not even
successfully operate on me when I had appendicitis.
There
is no electricity if you meet surgeons who know what they are doing.
And if they have a blaring generator in Nigeria, there are other
problems - they don't have the things needed. The hospitals in Nigeria
are jokes! A few private hospitals still have to fly in foreign doctors.
Even when the Nigerian public officers get sick, they jet off to India,
Germany and the US. You can hear them proudly say these things. No iota
of shame.
It was so heavy for me today
that I said to my mother, 'I'm tired!' She only went to bed after
midnight as she kept looking at me and thinking. She came to my room and
said: "Nna, I understand!”
Sharing his one of his experience in a Nigerian hospital Nwelue wrote:
“I
took my aged father (oh yes, he was born in 1945), to the
OphthalmologyIist today and I know how much I had to cough out, as I
have no insurance, as this is a country, steeped in bureaucracy. After
paying, I felt sweaty. This is because I am scared of losing my father
right now. Or seeing him go blind. It will be disastrous. No shame in
sharing this with you, but I am heading somewhere with my story.
People
have laughed when I said I want to have an organized control over
Nigeria. I know people who came to Nigeria to contribute and the system
changed them. We can't keep running. I'm never going to acquire any
other citizenship. I will not. I have had the opportunities too, but I
will not. I will stick with Nigeria, but whether Nigerians love it or
not, we have to find a solution to our problems.
Our
parents have failed. My parents suddenly agreed that they failed and
they want us to correct the mistake they made. We can't fail our
children now. We can change Nigeria. We can get a metro system, we can
have a shift in our mentality. We can restore the dignity of the
Nigerian. We can see pride in our passports again. You can laugh all you
want.
Not to sound mischievous, some of
us still have the privilege to run away, but if you're surrounded by
poverty-stricken people, all you will feel is rage and angst.
Let's join the #ProgressParty”
The new politician has since been getting massive supports from people especially from him home-front.
Will Nwelue’s political party fly or it is going to be one of the controversies he is known for?
He
has courted controversy before now when he described late novelist
Chinua Achebe's most read novel Things Fall Apart as the worst book ever
written by an African. And of Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka he claimed
that the renowned writer writes very bad dialogue.
Nwelue is an assistant visiting professor of African Studies and Literature at Manipur University Imphal, India.
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