Nigeria has the potential to become a great country and be a leading light if not a hegemon in Africa. This is because she is heavily endowed with resources. Let’s not forget the human resources she has been blessed with some of whom are excelling outside the shores of her land. Do you now wonder why some have said that the caption regarding Nigeria as an African giant reeks of deceit as Nigeria is more or less a sleeping giant or better still, a giant with clay feet?

From 1914 when Nigeria became a by product of Lord Lugard’s amalgamation it seems she was primed to keep underachieving despite the huge outlay of endowment. Colonialism had her significant interplay and interchange and some have even argued they should have stayed longer but by 1960 the country became a field for us to plough to success and greatness but it seems there were those who wanted to plunder negativity thereon.

Sooner than later we were immersed in tribal antagonism, religious backlash and vestiges of primitive accumulation. The khaki boys with their “command and control” psychology at some point thought they could bring redemption but made salvation seem even farther away. We have come a long way after some of the khaki boys retreated to base but others are still hanging around civil space.

In our progress to building a united virile nation we have become a country that is merely reactive rather than been proactive, otherwise how come we still need to pray to fix our electricity, build roads that will connect states and city centres, run high powered rail lines to open up our country, have a working health system, and even transform our agriculture.

What have become of our development plans as a country if there is anything like that again. Do we need to engage magicians to have a clear cut town and city plan across our nations. Why has our educational system nosedived to a level of uncertainty where from the root of primary to tertiary education there are identity crises. Our sporting sector still suffers from existential crisis.

Yes, we will always react to the various electoral issues or problems rather than be proactive in setting a standard akin to global best practices as defined by a litany of intellectual sages. Yes, we will react to ASUP, ASUU and other educational unions going on strike while the glaring issues stare at us daily without any deliberate remedy from us.
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YES

If we stop electing our ancestors as our leaders