Capitalism, free market economy and
democracy are triplet children. They are just
like a triple stand of a stool, so when one is
missing, there will be no balance. If one can
take a look at them passionately, one will
correctly say that democracy is the mother of
capitalism and free market economy. Others
may argue about the proper relationship of the
three but the bottom line is that the three
cannot function effectively and efficiently when
one of them is in lacuna. America is the
quintessence of democracy and in USA,
capitalism and free market economy are in
constant motion; and again, one can probe
further that free market economy is the driver
of capitalism. Leave everything to the invisible
hand of Adam Smith’ son, demand and supply,
no regulation because regulation is an
aberration in free market economy. Free
enterprise, and the engine of economy is run
by entrepreneurs and government is there only
to whip people that fall out of line to behave
orderly and fall into line; and also to provide
the necessary ambient environments. Whither
Nigeria? A country that lacks unpredictable
polity cannot witness any economic growth.
I do not want to bother readers of this article
by reaching out to academic theories and
postulations about operations of government in
civilized nations, or the theories of
entrepreneurship, capitalism and democracy
and culture. If I want to do that, I could have
scooped up the spirit of Joseph Schumpeter,
the Austrian whiz kid regarding his treatise on
capitalism, socialism and democracy, and reach
out to Ed Schein, the Professor of Management
Emeritus of Sloan School of Management at
MIT respectively. This is a common town
meeting talk and I have to carry folks along.
Having stayed long in USA, I will attract a lot
of blame and criticism if I opine that
democracy is not good for Nigeria; we are
desecrating that institution. If I write that
military rule may be good for us, folks will
attack me that I do not belong to this new
planet; and indeed it is a new planet for
Nigeria because the center cannot any more
hold and things are steadily falling apart, credit
to my uncle, Chinue Achebe.
If I quip that the British should come back to
recolonize us again as Papa Sam Mbakwe said
earlier, many would suggest that I should
never step my foot in Nigeria again. When I
was growing up, the vestiges of colonial master
were slightly in sight then: at east I saw pipe
born water working in my nearest township
Okigwe town, I saw electricity weeks without
black out, I saw good tarred roads and I used
free public hospital when I was in high school.
I had a sound education at Aquinas Secondary
School, Umunachi, Mbano and during
vacations; I was tutored by University of
Nigeria, Nsukka students who were on
vacation too, at state government expense. It
was fun growing up and while we were in
those classrooms, absorbing academic
instructions from those fanciful Nsukka
students, we were not afraid of hoodlums
coming to point guns at us and to rap the
young girls among us. Those Nsukka students
inspired us that going to a university was a
must. The meeting was called Extra Moral
Instruction, and we looked foreward to it every
long vacation. The question is that what is the
place of Nigerian youths in the present mix?
Democracy is good and it is one of the reasons
why USA is fledging today and tomorrow, but
I do not think Nigeria has a good context for
democracy. Anybody that has studied
organizational culture will understand that in
part, culture is everything; it is how we do
things here. I can flat footedly write here that
Nigeria has no culture anymore, if we have
any, it is fleeting. We copy whatever we see on
televisions, fads in magazines and those
cesspools imported from overseas when our
“beentos” come home or when our new
millionaires on the block go to summer
vacations. I was even told that our foreign
thirsty Nigerians have substituted our annual
season for that of European and American
season; it is all winter, spring, summer and
fall, no more rainy and dry season. The new
Nigerians hate anything that is Nigeria and we
are paying dearly for it. Every summer, the
wealthy Nigerians (stolen money) take their
children to summer vacations in Europe and
America, depleting our scarce foreign reserve.
This is a shocker, for instance; my brother in-
law and his wife paid my wife and I a visit
from Nigeria and when they arrived in our
house, they were greeted by my twin boys who
hear Ibo language and speak slightly; and these
boys behave like Nigerians, but they were born
and live in Los Angeles. They only paid visit to
Nigeria when they were only a year and half
and they have not come to Nigeria since then
but they will surely come home to settle in
Nigeria. The impression I got from my august
visitors was that it was a classy thing for
everybody to speak English Language, not our
local languages and behave like Americans and
Europeans; and some of these people have not
crossed River Niger Bridge. I can vouch for the
Yorubas and the Hausas because they behave
slightly different from some of the
dysfunctional Igbos who are as confused as
drunkards, who also think that speaking Igbo
language is anathema.
I am still thinking what type of government is
good for Nigeria. In leadership studies, there is
what is called situational leadership; context
has a lot to do with it. A successful CEO at
General Electric can be a failure at Monsanto
Chemical Company. In Nigeria, we do not
know what is good for us and because we
don’t have a culture, it will be difficult to
cultivate any kind of government system.
Culture is like a soil and manure and without
them, plants cannot grow luxuriantly. America
has at least a good political culture as a
reference datum. In America, democracy is the
government of the people by the people and for
the people; we the people reigns supreme. In
Nigeria, democracy is the government of the
politicians by the politicians and for the
politicians. The politicians vote themselves into
office, they loot the commonwealth and the
people bear the brunt. And the greatest threats
to democracy in Nigeria are tribalism and
corruption. Nigeria will never and I write will
never progress unless tribalism and corruption
are tackled headlong. Nobody cares about
Nigeria and I was told that the greatest
undoing for anybody is to think about Nigeria
instead of tribal origin. A Yoruba man thinks
about the Yoruba Kingdom instead of the entity
called Nigeria, so also is the Igbo man, Hausa
man, Kalabari man, Fulani man, Edo man,
Ibibio man and Gboko man.
An elected (by himself) Nigerian politician is a
rogue, an arm robber; he or she is not better
than those who blow up banks, kill and rob.
They are not different from the kidnappers, in
fact, they are worse than armed robbers and
kidnappers. From Local government to federal
levels, they are there not for the good of the
people, but for themselves and their immediate
families. My governor has all his family
members running the government and only in
Nigeria will that happen; and he built personal
estate that is worth one billion naira while in
office, yet the heaven did not fall. Nigerian
governors, national and state assembly
politicians are the cogs in the wheel of the
progress of the nation, and again, they are all
rogues and self-centered. Money!! Money!!
I was just out of high school when Buhari
overthrew the government of Shagari and
things really turned around for the nation, at
least in terms of discipline and decorum.
Decency and orderliness for once came to the
shore of the nation, but the evil genius,
Babangida and his co-travelers over threw him
and the seed of corruption never seen in our
land was cultivated and watered by subsequent
administrations. Obasanjo brought about
political corruption and he was a master
rigger. Buhari still has the spirit and desire to
once again strengthen Nigeria to the path of
decency and orderliness, but the rogues in the
national assembly will frustrate him. Tinubu is
corrupt and Saraki is also corrupt, so the
nation is again back to square one. APC is a
changed name for PDP. The masses rejected
PDP and they are back again through Saraki,
but Tinubu should not have his way. I hope
Nigeria will defend the change mantra and this
is a big challenge to the core north, if they will
think Nigeria first and not AREWA.
Our President Buhari can go far depending on
the type of person he appoints as the head of
EFCC and he has to be stubborn on his
convictions. Nigeria can never recover from
this opportunity of change if we bungle this
rare chance of Buhari being on the saddle of
leadership. If he can tame corruption and shun
nepotism, it will be easy for him to curtail the
insecurity situation in Nigeria, the spate of
armed robbery and kidnapping. If EFCC can
throw all the Nigerian politicians in jail, so be
it. The sore point is that we always jump up to
defend our own and that is that tribalism that
is killing Nigeria. My thinking is that the
Senate and House of Representatives will cage
President Buhari, so I cannot stop saying that
President Buhari is in trouble. If Nigeria is to
make any kind of continuous progress, the
successor to Buhari should be El Rufai, the
Kaduna State Governor come 2019 if our
President decides not to run for the second
time. I do not care who rules Nigeria so far the
person has our nation at heart and not regional
inclinations.


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How person wey dey inside the land of milk and honey called aso villa, chilling hard with him family and with plenty friends doing his dirty work 4 him be in trouble? Abeg op na U dey in trouble oh? Look that your bank statement! Buhari dey maintain, solve ya own issues!

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