4th Law of Democracy: Do not sell your vote

Do not sell your vote:

“The act of selling your vote is the betrayal of the aspirations of a people; it is morally treasonable and is punishable with a curse of unfulfilled dreams. A vote sold is a destiny forsaken”.

Lai Labode,

ADIEU UMORU

“The degree of selflessness in a leader determines the extent of the purity of his purpose and sanctity of his influence on his people . I pray that history will judge Yar’dua for his good intentions and belief in a truly great Nigeria rather than the evil machinations of those around him in his last days who laboured to benefit from his prolonged sickness . President Umoru Musa Yar’dua was a man of great intentions and probably one of the few 21st century African leaders never accused of enriching himself at the expense of his people. May his gentle soul rest in peace. Amen” Lai Labode

3rd Law of Democracy: Defend your Vote!

Law 3:

Defend Your Vote:

“In democratic arithmetic, an undefended vote is a malicious minus in the original intent of a voter. A defense of a vote is the defense of your electoral right and human dignity”. Lai Labode

2nd Law of Democracy: Cast Your Vote

Law 2:

Cast a Vote.

“A vote is a speech of political thought and an indisputable lethal tool against all forms of modern slavery; it is never an exercise in futility”. Lai Labode,.

1st Law of Democracy: Register!

Law 1:

Register to vote, you have no electoral say without it. …Lai Labode

Vision for Motherland

For those who doubt the far reaching depth of our vision for Nigeria, they must rejuvenate their minds and water their memories to only less than 20000 days ago when Rev.Martin Luther King had a dream ,and ravel in the manifestation of those words in the grace and audacity of Obama’s victory. We will build a new Nigeria that will reward hard work and create opportunity for all, we will crush the stinging pain of political and economic mediocrity and inspire a new wave of creativity in our people …Lai Labode

A symbol of vision...

As we till the earth’s of our minds and fetch from the abundance of the goodwill sown in us as a nation, as we labour in true and consistent service to our people, and pull down the walls of ignorance and political pettiness to prepare for the challenges of a new age, we must take pride in making the necessary investments in our youths, for they will be embodiments of the desired results of the collective efforts we make today. So I say to you my good people, we stand firmly on the side of history; we share in a New Nigerian dream.
Our vision for the motherland is that of a country where our national heroes are not only responsive leaders but also a body of responsible followers with the right ethical and moral values.

We see renewed and energized nation working together for common good of its people and founded on a complete will and submission to the rule of not only constitutional law but moral law. We see a nation where responsibility for the well being of every fellow countryman is the business of all countrymen in true spirit of nationhood and the fear of God. Today we dream of a country whose economy is built first on its inexhaustible and qualitative human resources in a bid to guarantee at least an enduring minimum living standard for its entire people. Our hearts yearn for a nation where political pettiness gives way to renewed belief in a Nigeria that is much bigger than our individual wishes, status, affinities, and ambitions, ethnic and religious affiliations.
Let us stay steady in our thoughts and actions for a greater motherland .Our show of patriotism should not be intermittent emotional outbursts, we must immerse ourselves in the believe that
enduring prosperity can only be achieved when followership is more responsive and potent enough to shape a lagging or discredited leadership.

For those who doubt the far reaching depth of our vision for Nigeria, they must rejuvenate their minds and water their memories to only less than 20000 days ago when Rev.Martin Luther King had a dream ,and ravel in the manifestation of those words in the grace and audacity of Obama’s victory. We will build a new Nigeria that will reward hard work and create opportunity for all, we will crush the stinging pain of political and economic mediocrity and inspire a new wave of creativity in our people .We will harness the boundless strength in the power of the Nigerian spirit and remove the legacy of hate, want and failure .My belief is complete, Nigeria will shine again. Today we give life to the promise of a new Nigerian dream, I challenge you all to begin the realignment of your vast talents and skill with our national instincts in the common interests and yearnings of our people for it will be told by generations to come that together we stood for truth, justice, equality and opportunity for all citizens. It will be told that we did not only speak, we acted and acted well. God bless you all.

The price that we pay today for the rebirth of Nigeria is worth far more than we can imagine for the inevitable result of our sacrifices is a truly prosperous nation founded on astute values we can publicly propagate and inexplicably bound together in renewed trust, respect and belief in our people. This is the promise of our New Nigerian Dream.

Lai Labode

WHY DID THE CHICKEN CROSS THE ROAD?

Plato:For the greater good.

Karl Marx: It was a historical inevitability.

Machiavelli: So that its subjects will view it with admiration, as a chicken which has the daring and courage to boldly cross the road, but also with fear, for whom among them has the strength to contend with such a paragon of avian virtue? In such a manner is the princely chicken’s dominion maintained.

Hippocrates: Because of an excess of light pink gooey stuff in its pancreas.

Jacques Derrida: Any number of contending discourses may be discovered within the act of the chicken crossing the road, and each interpretation is equally valid as the authorial intent can never be discerned, because structuralism is DEAD, DAMMIT, DEAD!

Thomas de Torquemada: Give me ten minutes with the chicken and I’ll find out.

Timothy Leary: Because that’s the only kind of trip the Establishment would let it take.

Douglas Adams: Forty-two.

Nietzsche: Because if you gaze too long across the Road, the Road gazes also across you.

Oliver North: National Security was at stake.

B.F. Skinner: Because the external influences which had pervaded its sensorium from birth had caused it to develop in such a fashion that it would tend to cross roads, even while believing these actions to be of its own free will.

Carl Jung: The confluence of events in the cultural gestalt necessitated that individual chickens cross roads at this historical juncture, and therefore synchronicitously brought such occurrences into being.

Jean-Paul Sartre: In order to act in good faith and be true to itself, the chicken found it necessary to cross the road.

Ludwig Wittgenstein: The possibility of “crossing” was encoded into the objects “chicken” and “road”, and circumstances came into being which caused the actualization of this potential occurrence.

Albert Einstein: Whether the chicken crossed the road or the road crossed the chicken depends upon your frame of reference.

Aristotle: To actualize its potential.

Buddha: If you ask this question, you deny your own chicken- nature.

Howard Cosell: It may very well have been one of the most astonishing events to grace the annals of history. An historic, unprecedented avian biped with the temerity to attempt such an herculean achievement formerly relegated to homo sapien pedestrians is truly a remarkable occurence.

Salvador Dali: The Fish.

Darwin: It was the logical next step after coming down from the trees.

Emily Dickinson: Because it could not stop for death.

Epicurus: For fun.

Ralph Waldo Emerson: It didn’t cross the road; it transcended it.

Johann von Goethe: The eternal hen-principle made it do it.

Ernest Hemingway: To die.In the rain.

Werner Heisenberg: We are not sure which side of the road the chicken was on, but it was moving very fast.

David Hume: Out of custom and habit.

Jack Nicholson: ‘Cause it (censored) wanted to. That’s the (censored) reason.

Pyrrho the Skeptic: What road?

Ronald Reagan: I forget.

John Sununu: The Air Force was only too happy to provide the transportation, so quite understandably the chicken availed himself of the opportunity.

The Sphinx: You tell me.

Mr. T: If you saw me coming you’d cross the road too!

Henry David Thoreau: To live deliberately … and suck all the marrow out of life.

Mark Twain: The news of its crossing has been greatly exaggerated.

Molly Yard: It was a hen!

Zeno of Elea: To prove it could never reach the other side.

Chaucer: So priketh hem nature in hir corages.

Wordsworth: To wander lonely as a cloud.

The Godfather: I didn’t want its mother to see it like that.

Keats: Philosophy will clip a chicken’s wings.

Blake: To see heaven in a wild fowl.

Othello: Jealousy.

Dr Johnson: Sir, had you known the Chicken for as long as I have, you would not so readily enquire, but feel rather the Need to resist such a public Display of your own lamentable and incorrigible Ignorance.

Mrs Thatcher: This chicken’s not for turning.

Supreme Soviet: There has never been a chicken in this photograph.

Oscar Wilde: Why, indeed? One’s social engagements whilst in town ought never expose one to such barbarous inconvenience – although, perhaps, if one must cross a road, one may do far worse than to cross it as the chicken in question.

Kafka: Hardly the most urgent enquiry to make of a low-grade insurance clerk who woke up that morning as a hen.

Swift: It is, of course, inevitable that such a loathsome, filth-ridden and degraded creature as Man should assume to question the actions of one in all respects his superior.

Macbeth: To have turned back were as tedious as to go o’er.

Whitehead: Clearly, having fallen victim to the fallacy of misplaced concreteness.

Freud: An die andere Seite zu kommen. (Much laughter)

Hamlet: That is not the question.

Donne: It crosseth for thee.

Pope: It was mimicking my Lord Hervey.

Constable: To get a better view