Osun: Tragedy and dreadful enactments of a failed state

I can authoritatively say that both INEC and the three leading political parties in the Osun election are not credible. Should I say that they are all incredible?

All epitomize the dreadful traits of a failed nation, not a failing nation! What other signs do we need to conclude that Osun has symbolically enacted the tragedy that will befall Nigeria in 2019? And what other signs do we need to prove that sooner or later Nigerians will be filled with a poignant sense of tragedy?

Tragedy has been theorized by many scholars yet one of the most striking is what Gritzner describes as a ‘dialectical structure of feeling.’ Big grammar here but I will explain: it means something close to withdrawal, indifference or ‘estrangement from life’. Again it could philosophically imply a sense of being a foreigner unto oneself and others. Simply put: aloofness.

What am I trying to say? PDP gave birth to APC and as some people have hinted, APC is beating PDP in the unscrupulous game.  ‘The child is now father of the man’ if I borrow from William Wordsworth’s poem “The Rainbow”. This poem also, subtly, mirrors the profound signification of tragedy itself in which the man is a consequence of his own damnable preoccupation from birth. So APC, the child is now the despicable father of the immoral PDP man.

I do not pity PDP at all. SDP is not even in the question. SDP is not a party. It is a group on a haggling mission to butcher and snatch the weightiest part of the kill which they have just done. So in essence whether you want to believe it or not, tragedy has constituted an existential condition of Nigerians and it is a metaphor with which I make sense of a failed postcolonial state. Simple!