By Ibrahim Tanimu
Nigeria is a country with approximately 2.8 million population and up to 70% of the said population are youth and about 56% of the youth population are unemployed or under employed.
A country with a great potential but still governed by people with not vision, A country with high number of professors whom are well respected both home and abroad with great values and achievement in a academic setting but ruled and managed by ignorant people. What manner of a soup with nice aroma but a sour test.
A country with highest number of mineral resources, Good climate change, arable land, work capital force but still remain the number one capital of poverty in the world.
Come to think of it, how do you expect a country to grow with nepotism, tribal sentiment, corruption and religion bigotry without a unity identity.
How do you expect the country to grow when the future leaders are not given the opportunity to rule or to be mentored in a leadership role.
How do you expect the country to be better when a 75 years old is claiming a youth leader with outdated vision and analog mindset, when you told him about the global shifting, he will say don’t worry wait for your time, you are the leaders of tomorrow.
How will you expect the country to be better while the leaders eat my future, my children’s future and also my great grand children’s future with wrong policy, no ideology, embezzlement, no infrastructure, no economic plan, no education, no health facilities. Oh my God, who curse us in Nigeria how will the country be better?
When the mother earth is crying to the blood of her children shed on the alter of religion bigotry and nepotism. Oh! Mother Nigeria sorry for the cry that your baby cry so much without stopping, pity for you for the milk of your breast that got sour, because the future of your children are not protected or kept. Because the leaders of the country have turned the glory of your children to become lifeless, that makes them growing and coming from the land of unborn.
Oh Mother Nigeria is that still hope for your children to live a life, that will enjoy the flourish of having children that other mothers like US, UK, UAE etc have? while by every day become the flow river of flourish with a purity of water that is coming from a source of fountain that has stand as a cure to any ailment and also flourish the vegetation of the field and nourish the animals and even the whole mother earth will rejoice.
How is it that the only water that come out from your fountain is full of cries and pains, agony, diseases because the water have mixed with a content of the blood of spilled by Boko Haram, Bandits, Herders and farmers clash, Religious/ Tribal Crisis etc.
Oh Mother Nigeria what religion are you, I thought you are a mother of peace, where is the peace among your children, this sound like a aroma of a nice soup but sour test. The system of government have become what we cannot even define, the system is very rigid, no freedom of speech, what kind of monsters we find under the agbadas of today, who claimed they are politician of democracy, without the mind of service but with the mind of slave masters.
Most of the Countries have their very own dreams but sorry to say Nigeria as a country with a titled “Giant of Africa” don’t have a dream, that was proudly sponsored by Nigerian politicians who are actively working tirelessly to enrich themselves.
Nigeria is practicing democracy for decades without impacts, is Democracy not compatible with this country or what’s wrong with this country.
Twice Prime minister of Great Britain and a prolific author Winston Churchill said “Democracy was the worst form of government”
Tell me if the statement made by Winston Churchill defined our form of democracy, Should Nigeria change the system of government or governance.
So perhaps Winston Churchill was right; democracy is the worst form of government, especially in Nigeria.
In the modern media age, democracy risks becoming like a TV population contest; Politicians aim to entertain and amuse, offering only short-term populist policies, sound bites and outright lies – which the gullible public buy.
We bring Tribal/Religion prejudice to the process, sticking rigidly and thoughtlessly to old loyalties based on bright colors. The injection if social media to those tribal and religion loyalties has shown us our very worst in the previous general elections (2011, 2015 and 2019); one in six facebook posts or tweets too candidates has been abusive or insulting. It is a disgrace.
Why not following the ideas of Plato instead, who suggested entrusting government to carefully educated guardians?
If we think about it Nigeria do not run any other system democratically..
Major businesses, the armed forces, hospitals – none of these are run as democracies. Our school is not run as a democracy. In almost every major organization, decisions are made by people with experience, understanding and (normally) proficiency. Just about the only thing that we choose to run as a democracy is our government. It seems absurd.
Should we dropped the expensive democracy? Should we look for possible ways to solve some of our problems, as some are lifetime problems in democracy?
