This is a Latin term that simply means “ all things being equal “ We use it in economics to simplify the economic mechanism that explains economic behaviours . It helps us to understand casuative effects among different variables. Let me not bore you. I am a teacher.
When Economists want to find a wriggle room out of difficult situations they take flight to this safe haven of ceteris paribus. And if Economists figured it out that they are about to found out , they would take recourse to another absurdity; the concept of “ on the long run” to which John Maynard Keynes countered “ on the long run we are dead”
I cannot now deny that I am a Financial Economist but these two concepts are lazy , illogical and escapist.
One of the things we learn very early on in life is that all fingers are not equal. By that wisdom, we were being prepared to know and accept that all things can never be equal. And yet you go to school and some dudes are telling you there is a possibility or an expectation that all things will be equal? How can things be equal? They never had and never would be.
The danger we face now is that these iniquitous concepts have found their way into the Nigerian political lexicon. Politicking in Nigeria is now based on the probability of all being equal. This way, you cannot hold them accountable and in any case before they are found out we are all dead.
They would want us to believe that Alfa Beta is not equal to an SPV. Therefore judgement on them is not equal.
They are telling us drug pushing is not equal to corruption by their actions.
We know that regions are not equal by their appointments and yet they say we are equal.
The ones who are stealing trillions can not be equal equal to those committing minor infractions. The bigger thieves get away with murder while the petty thieves are marooned to longer custodial sentences.
The children of the powerful political class who study in the best schools oversea cannot be equal to the children of the poor.
The children of the rich who have no need of money are the ones employed in the lucrative organisations while the unfortunate children of nobodies are languishing in misery. They cannot be equal.
The greed in Nigeria is epic and agricultural and cannot not be equal or comparable to any other country.
It is time to call a spade a spade. It is not equal or is it that Kayemo who in an “interview with the Time Magazine in the year 2000, stated that Sen. Bola Tinubu destroyed education in Lagos State, bought media houses over, bribed the State Assembly through weird allowances (“Chigaco” allowance) and rendered thousands of workers useless” is the one selling the same Tinubu to Nigerians today!
It is equal that the one who said some unprintable things about Tinubu and who himself has questionable character and challenged by stomach infrastructure with two fraud cases hanging on neck has joined Festus to confuse us. They think we will be dead before today. Sorry to disappoint you!
These evil politicians are campaigning with the concepts of all things being equal and and in the long run. Let us tell them we know that all things are not and cannot be equal in Nigeria. Let them know we will still be alive when they will be found out.
They make it look like APC is not equal to PDP when in actual sense they are the same coin with different sides. In sixteen years we found out PDP . It took less than six months to discover the wicked intentions of APC.
APC-PDP are equal and therefore are incapable of salvaging us from the mess they created. We need a new order, a new force to dig us out of this quagmire that would lead us into the promise land .
Let there be equalisation and let it be now because on the long run we are all dead.