I have been around for a reasonable number of years and in my sojourn so far as a citizen of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, one of the commonest phrases that has become a ritual among Nigerians especially the privileged politicians is ‘Nigeria go better’.
As a strong religious nation, it’s a norm for us to always confess positivity but when this is not accompanied by the complementing action, nothing changes. Little wonder scriptures say faith without work is dead. I remember Evangelist Amos Ighaka’s iconic statement: ‘talking about doing good is useless until you do it’.
I do not have a problem with the unscrupulous confession of Naija go better, but it has gradually become an irritating, excrescence, dumb and a perfidy statement – and for some reasons, I now think that we (both the uncircumcised politicians and the citizens) are all being mendacious.
Year-in-year-out, Nigerian Mephistophelean rulers, with lies-infested mouths have continued to drub the nation like an arsehole and swerve under the canopy of Naija go better – and for some inexplicable reasons, they still have the citizens under their unflinching misrule without an uproar to shake the polity except for the iconic EndSARS protest that was also maneuvered by the politicians.
One thing I have noticed since my inception as a citizen of this blessed nation is that Nigeria is witnessing a steady retrogression. It’s audible to the deaf and visible to the blind that the nation plummets with successive administrations; yet, the blatant lie of Naija go better remains a succor for the Nigerian people. An oxymoronic x-ray of the immediate past and the present governments clearly epitomizes this sad reality.
Happenings in Nigeria have shown that we do not have leaders but rulers – people who do not understand the concept of leadership but are rather swayed by the magnanimity of the nation’s wealth. Nigeria is infested with politicians who have sold their souls to the devil so they careless about the growth and development of the nation, let alone the wellbeing of the citizenry. You wonder how a nation can be so much endowed with rich natural and artificial resources yet, it is dangling in the affliction of poverty, bottled in the coven of insecurity, enveloped in stark darkness, and witnessing a steady retrogression.
If for 61 years the testimony is still ‘Naija go better,’ it only unearths one thing, we are doing everything wrong. I find it disdainfully sardonic and malodorous for any politician with lies-infested mouth to still be singing the phrase of Naija go better! I cannot decipher how, in their jiggery-pokery, these rulers have continued to hold the nation bound in chains despite their repugnant, insalubrious actions and in-actions that have cascaded the African giant into an Almajiri state!
With the way the Nigerian narrative is swerving, it has become expedient to put a time frame to things that we need to do to make the nation better – and that is why I am joining those who are of the view that ‘we need to fix a date on when Nigeria will be better’ so that every leader, both current and incoming can work towards that day and when the date expires without achieving the goal, we can remind them.
It’s befuddling how Nigerian politicians are making leadership seem like a Rosicrucian body of thieves and evil doers. Hackneyed as this may sound, it is obfuscating how a nation can be deeply into this current quagmire and the rulers are only skilled at issuing press releases of ‘condolence, it is well, e go better’ without a blueprint on how to get things right. For pellucid reasons, I strongly think that Nigerian politicians are the ‘wickedest’ set of people in the world. Citizens are gnashing in poverty, killings and kidnappings have become normal, unemployment is skyrocketing, electricity is a nightmare, prices of food items are soaring like Cedars of Lebanon, economy is ailing, the common man is hopeless, yet, these WICKED AND EVIL LEADERS CARELESS!
Again, I am calling on the Nigerian people to halt the suffering and smiling – it’s time for a revolt. Abeg, na wen Naija go better? Make we fix date!
