By Iphie Obiechina
CHANGE!!!
A word we have
heard a lot of in this New Year, it has to be the Nigerian word for 2015, and
we haven't even gone through the first month of the new year.
This word has
become a slogan for the APC, it has been a word rolling on the lips of almost
every Nigerian, whether old or young, but most especially the young Nigerians.
Before I go into what my opinion on what change should really mean and what it
has come to mean to the average voting Nigerian, I would first like to see what
the dictionary defines the word change to mean.
The word change
has a lot of meanings, but I would go with the ones closest to the meaning of
the change we have been chanting about in Nigeria. The Merriam-Webster
Dictionary defines change to mean ‘to make (something) radically
different”, ‘to replace one with
another’, ‘to make a shift from one to another”. Going by these different
meanings stated, change is simply the process of making something different
from the norm, something different from what we are used to. In Nigeria, the word change has come to be associated with the
presidential candidate of the APC, General Muhammadu Buhari, in this light
change can be taken to mean something or rather someone different from our
present leader, His Excellency Dr Goodluck Ebele Jonathan.
