Penultimate Monday when the minister of state for petroleum, gave the press conference announcing the deregulation of the downstream petroleum sector nobody was surprised..it was long in coming. But when he announced the new regime of premium motor spirit pricing from 86 naira to 145 naira many were shocked including me. What shocked me most was not the actual increment which was audacious to say the least but the brazen manner with which he not only announced it but said it took effect from the very day of the announcement. It was a punch below the jaw and as expected sent many Nigerians reeling and falling to the ground.

Never in the history of Nigerian government increment of Petroleum pricing had a government so arrogantly and impunitiously taken the population for granted, never has a government so insensitive to the plight of the common man,never has an elected government so ungrateful to the people as to rub it on their faces as Buhari did through his minister of state.. But it was a crafty political calculations on the part of Buhari administration. It was a coup d'etat with resounding success as the attendant reactions would show.. Whomsoever advised the government to do what was done deserves a medal.
Nigerian people wallowing in abject poverty, and bombarded from left with increase in the prices of food commodity, terrorised from right daily on their farm by Fulani herdsmen in the South East, forced to flee their homes by Boko Haram in the NorthEast, kidnnaping of their sons and daughters in the South West and East.
Battling daily with no Power supply to run their business,, finding it difficult to pay school fees of their children and daily increase in the transportation fare. The Nigeria man is faced with too many wars daily. He doesn't know which one to combat first.
In another clime, the average Nigerian man would have been on the street the very day the new pump price was announced. But not again. Not even the drum beat from the Labour congress could caused him to down tools to come to the street in protest of the hike.
The spirit is not just there. The energy of the Nigeria man has been dissipated from the too many battles he has to face daily. So it was not a surprise therefore that the call to arms by the Nigeria Labour Congress was dead on arrival. Ebi ki wonu koro mi o wo..says Baba sikira. Only a well fed man have the energy to fight.
The Buhari administration has finally nail the coffin of the Nigeria man spirit,he has killed the little trust the common man has in government as defenders of their life. The Nigeria man is left on his own, to fend for himself, provide food and shelter for himself, guard his own house, provide water and electricity by himself, construct roads to his house, provide security for his household. Where then is the power to protest, where is the energy to match on the road, . The Spirit is no longer willing, the flesh cannot even sustain the spirit anymore...., The Spirit of the Nigeria man is dead.