MODERN NIGERIA LIKE OUR COLONIAL ERA.
After the independence of Nigeria in 1960 a lot of
events had occurred that we can still relate to the
days of our Colonial era. Some of Governmental
principles practiced by our present government can
still be related to the days of Herbert Macaulay,
Abubakar Tafawa Balewa and many more other past
leaders of Nigeria.
The then colonial leaders were selling Nigerians and
depriving us of our rights and our present day
government are depriving of our basic needs. No
good health facilities, poor educational system, bad
roads and poor maintenance mentality just like the
days of our colonial era. All we have today is
civilisation, modernization with no proper
education. They gave us mirrors, golds and other
mere valuables in exchange of humans during the
colonial era but today they give us rice, bean ,yam
and many more in exchange of our Vote.
Those days our naira had value, those days the
purchasing power of our currency had impact.
Unlike today where they only beautify a currency
with no a sub-stancial value. Those days of Trade-by-
barter where we exchange good for goods and
services for services and our so called leaders are
still in the era of trade-by-barter whereby the help
those who helped them during their campaigns (i.e
service for service) giving them cars because they
gave cars during their campaigns, giving them
houses because they gave them houses during their
campaigns (goods for goods) and many more. So
fellow Nigerians, what era are we still in?
Right from onset, Nigerians have always being
focusing on one aspect of the economy. That aspect
they feel is the most profitable. During the old days,
we all concentrated on cocoa farming which was the
most profitable business of it time but today where
are the cocoa plantations, even our youths of now a
days don’t want to go near the farms talk less of
involving themselves in any agricultural business
because they feel it is a non-viable business. That
was back then. Today we are still focusing on one
major aspect of the economy which is the oil and
gas sector which is our major source of revenue. My
question is when the era of oil and gas are gone
when we begin to have solar automobiles, solar
machines and we get our main source of energy
from solar energy, what will be the hope of Nigeria
and Nigerians?
In this same Nigeria, ethical differences have been
the era of the day right from the days of our colonial
leaders. Every ethnic are fighting for their own
personal interest and not the interest of Nigeria as a
whole. The Hausa’s want to be the ruling
government, the igbo’s want to be the ruling
government the yoruba’s are not as well left behind.
We are all fighting for our own personal interest and
not the interest of Nigeria as a whole. In 1960,
Nigeria became an independent country. Azikiwe
became the first President of Nigeria. However
ethnic tensions and power struggles soon emerged
and became a crisis in 1966 when Nigerian military
officers of Igbo descent overthrow the
democratically-elected government of Tafewa
Balewa who along with the Northern Premier
Ahmadu Bello and others were subsequently
assassinated. The killing of Northern politicians
enraged Northerners resulting in violence against
the Igbo by northerners. The military government
sought to end the ethnic unrest by dismantling the
federal system of government and replacing it with a
unitary system of government, however this reform
was short-lived as the government was overthrown
in another coup Wars which also occurred based on
ethnical interest and some of those wars are the
Biafra and the Nigeria civil war from 1967 to 1970.
Just seven years after the independence of Nigeria.
Ethnical violence has always been part of us from on
set and now a days we Boko Haram, the suppressed
Niger delta militants and other small ethnical
terrorising associations.
Nigerian nationalism has been negatively affected by
multiple historical episodes of ethnic violence and
repression of certain ethnic groups by the Nigerian
government between the various peoples has
resulted in multiple secessionist movements.
Back to the colonial, leaders were made by selection
and not election based on their popularity, family
background and their wealth same thing occurs in
our present Nigeria which our leaders are not
chosen by election but by selection made by famous
prominent Nigerians who classify themselves as
senior citizens of our dear nation. They choose and
dictate our leaders for us, they deprive us of our
future, kill our own dreams to build theirs, deprive
us of our rights to achieve their aims and they
always wanting to be leaders and making us
followers forever. They practice Nepotism,
Favouritism and other ungodly system of
Government. “They believe Nigeria belongs to them”
“They believe our dear nation belongs to them”
“They believe Leadership is their birth right”.
So my fellow countrymen, what’s are the difference
between the colonial days and our present Nigeria
in terms of Leadership. We still practice the old
ideology of leadership. My fellow countryman 2015
is another opportunity.
#2015 VOTE TRANSFORMATION!!!!!
#VOTE PEACE, VOTE CHANGE !!!!!!!!
#MAKE A NEW NIGERIA. !!!!!!!!!!!
#IT BEGINS WITH NIGERIANS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yours Faithfully,
Ademola Johns.