When friends return from Japan they complain about the frigid nature of the Japs and their attitude to foreigners, little do they know that culturally the Japs has for ages had concepts that affect their attitude called the SOFO and UCHI. Sofo means outside while Uchi means inside. In other words, it means the bonds of family and friends are stronger than that of the outsider. No matter the amount of years you spend in Japan, it is extremely difficult to make close friends with the Jap . Although when you make one it is for a lifetime, they are more like an impregnable lot. Aristotle must have a link with the Japanese philosophy when he said, “Wishing to be friends is a quick-word but friendship is a slow ripening fruit”.
In the western world, the assumption of trust and friendship is quite easy, it could be bought for as cheap as a cup of coffee and a smiling face in as much as one is not with a racist. There however a sense of trust exists within friends, families and even foreigners. Contrasting is our Nigerian concept of friendship and trust. It is uncommonly called deceit. Deceits that exist amongst friends, family, compeers, government, political parties without excluding the foreigners. And indeed we have swallowed its bitter pill.
For a while, our narrow breathing tunnels have been stuffed by public office gallivants seeking votes. And in their quest, they mislead the populace damaged with the deceits of sentiments that could either be cash or ties. Nigerians in every in every dispensation since its inception commit the same error and hope for responsive government they never elected. You might argue that there are periods within 1966 to 2015 that masses where not given a chance to fully exercise their franchise, but did the deceit leave after they were granted their franchise? Or is the tribal sentiment not the deceit that plunged this country into dictatorships that lasted for years?
Nonetheless, if the deceit ended at just voting in a family or friend blindly, it would have been “you win and I am not affected” situation. But it ends most times with violence and bloodshed over people we don’t see. We fight and spill the blood of our friends, brothers and colleagues fooled by the call to a just cause is there really a just cause to die?
It is a fact that the populace is influenced by whoever owns the mouthpiece; you might be innocent but swayed by the recent sugarcoated call to revolution or be a ‘myopist’ to remain recalcitrant to change. However, your opinions might differ on the issue of the elections, do not resolve to shedding the blood of a fellow Nigerian because the aspirants are politicians who have no permanent friends, and are a clique. Their political parties are just nomenclatures. Should you get swayed in the ardour for change or whim to make the country unpeaceful through bloodshed, you will kill yourselves and rot uncelebrated but Nigeria and its politicians will remain.

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OP please enlighten them. Especially the ones eager to indulge in post election violence.