INTRODUCTION

To know the way forward, certain cognitive measures must be enacted on the chronological happenings of events. The indiscretion of the Nigerian Insanity began in 1966, not quite long after the independence, the emergence of men who have sworn to circumvent the truth for their aggrandizement and self-advancement has led the Nigerian state to its Insanity. Insanity is the absence of normalcy, a relative permanent disorder of the mind, and can also be termed as mental incompetency, in light of this, the Nigerian state over the last two decades has offered nothing but a complete abysmal ordeal executed by the state itself.

The word normalcy has never been a subject matter to the Nigerian state, the aberration began when the Nigerian State Hegemony began a complicit action to subjugate the will of the people by depriving its subjects right to citizenship, certainly, the Nigerian state has no citizen if we are to go by who a Citizen is. A citizen is a person who has the potent ability to Express his or her sovereign will to the state and has the freedom to exercise his or her fundamental rights irrespective of his or her defining status, a man’s sovereign will and fundamental right has been put in subjection by the state which renders such a person less a citizen. An officer of the state will not see unarmed protesters as a threat if truly they are citizens as promulgated by the state while the evil thereof is that the state has successfully intricately spelled out who are citizens to its officer and the officer in his impoverished mind, who has lost his capacity to think critically and has embraced the elitist delusion, thinks he becomes the citizen of the state by obeying such a dictate.

The Nigerian state hegemony has fully devoted itself to a scheme of
poverty weaponization against its subject. The predicated insecurity of today is a precipitate action of the failed state, the detrimental implosion of insurgencies we have today are excesses the state refused to curb, a very abnormal reality in a sane society.

The reality of an average Nigerian man is a Werey in Disguise as used by Dele Farotimi, it takes an insane person to live in an insane society. The abnormalities of a sane society have become the norms we celebrate. Shall we talk about the insanity of our state? Only an insane society permits a man who has been found guilty of a fraudulent act or a grand perpetrator of theft to be made the EFCC chairman, such irregularities exist within the arms of the Nigerian state. The abnormalities we see have become our favorite; the Werey is in Disguise waiting to be Unveiled.

*The concept of the state*

A lot of school of thoughts running through my mind as I can’t articulate my point on what the question should be, whether as to talk about what is a state or who is a state?. The Nigerian State Hegemony has made a twist of the phenomenon, the ideal question should be what is a state not who is a state but in a jurisdiction whereby we have the jurisprudence of the state taken aback illegitimately, by individuals parading themselves as the state, abnormalities are bound to occur.
The State is essentially a sovereign entity with the inclusion of a people, geographical jurisdiction, and a ruling Hegemony. The state has the sovereign will to protect and promote the interest of its citizens but when the state has been relinquished of its duty from being a sovereign entity by individuals parading themselves as the state, abnormalities become the order of the day. The Nigerian state lost its sovereignty in 1966 and completely went into perpetual oblivion in 1999, after the promulgation of the 1999 constitution. The will to protect the interest of the people was lost and the state began to feed on its delegates, the Nigerian budget for the last two decades made no provision for the poor people but its existence was only for the interest of the rich and the promotion of the will of the powerful.

The complicit act of the state began when the law was made futile, people in power then became the determining factor of the law guiding the state and they decide who the defaulters of the state are. The political brigands of the Nigerian State ushered the state into a realm guarded by outlawry where the people’s will became of no importance and the people of the Nigerian state were robbed of their fundamental human rights. The impunity undergirding the Nigerian state has relinquished the people of their state will, and made them complacent about the foul happenings of the Nigerian state.

The incursion of this effect was so bad that the Nigerian people were comfortable selling their vote for as little as five thousand Naira to make a decision that will last them 4years. The state has withheld the people’s ability to critically think by impoverishing their minds with poverty and illiteracy, an illiterate man is at the mercy of nobody has long as the state provides him with the resources he needs to survive. Nothing is worse than when an illiterate fellow is poverty-stricken, at that point he becomes vulnerable and he is placed at the mercy of the state, even when he has the ability to choose for the betterment of his household,  he considers his poverty first, then he succumbs to the five thousand Naira given to him by the state to sell his vote. He has been robbed of his right to decision-making by the same state he pays allegiance to, misdemeanor is taken to be better when the evil becomes modernized while the generation becomes compromised.

*The Insanity we see*

The craziness is all around us, we have normalized the idiosyncrasies of the Werey in Disguise. The insanity of the Nigerian state moved from the ruling hegemony of the state to the people. A Yoruba proverb says “Ti ewe ba pe Lara ose, o ma di ose”, the longer a leaf stays in soap, the easier it transformation into soap. In the advent of the flowing Insanity, the delegates of the state see an anomaly as a norm, so they begin a process of conformity to that which is irrational to a sane mind. Corruption and state brigandage are accepted into the society, and the people behave as though nothing has happened. The degradation of the justice system by people in power and the abuse of social justice becomes normalcy. Broad day kidnapping and banditry are likened as to a business enterprise, how on earth in a sane society will the Hegemony of a functional state negotiate with terrorists, such insanity exist within the borders of our state. The interdiction of IPOB members as terrorist groups while we have the Fulani-herdsmen parading themselves across the horizon of the state committing genocide, yet the state hegemony has not come to realize the fact that, the Werey has crossed the Rubicon.

The lunacy we nurture has so much grown wings that its excess has grown past the edge of reformation. A student of the state who attends a conventional university with the aim of acquiring formal education has come to accept the normalcy of the ASUU/ASUP strike. The sanity of the state has been robbed; we all roam the market stark naked.
It becomes a reality that a resident of the state cannot travel within the borders of two neighboring towns without the fear of being attacked by assailants, the consciousness of the insecurity predicated by the state has created a repugnant image in the heart of the people. The involvement of Alaafin of Bourdillon, and the Lagos state government in the lekki genocide in Oct 2020, remains a mystery to date, such obscene incidents can not occur in a sane society.

The litany of the Nigerian State Insanity is an endless list, talking about Nepotism, Ethnic Bigotry, pantamification, the fascist dictatorship of the ruling hegemony, and the thwarted representation of the media.
 
 
*Conclusion*

In all of these abnormalities, only a few have the potent ability to retain sanity. To be a victim of these insanities is not a question of if, but a question of when. Day after day the proximity of the incursions around us keeps drawing nigh, but I await a time when the subjects of the state will forcefully chase out this ruling hegemony and demand a change. But until then, the Werey still remains in Disguise; waiting for the time to be unveiled.
 
Oluwaseun Tobiloba
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