₦airaland Forum

Creamz:
We have lots of visionary leaders in every zone of the country, but the major political parties wouldn't give them the platform because they despise those who wants to make the country better. The people of Nigeria are themselves not ready to let go of enthicity and religious sentiments to back someone who is visionary irrespective of his/her religion and enthicity. We cannot move this country forward without letting go of things.

Am not against d emergence of a visionary leader as u are hoping for. I also agree with u that religious & ethnic myopism is a grave issue in d country. But all in all, u will see that religion & ethnicity and d greed of d "big political parties" are just a distraction & d symptoms of a much larger & complex problem. D problem is that d average Nigerian is politically ignorant (but thinks that he knows), docile& selfish. Let me give u an instance.

Edo state governorship elections are upon us. We can see people trooping to campaign grounds and cramping themselves like sardines. If these same people are called out for protest against d govt, would they come out? Can Nigerians demand for better governance? Can Nigerians demand for their rights? How then will they be able to identify a visionary leader?

lexy2014:
Am not against d emergence of a visionary leader as u are hoping for. I also agree with u that religious & ethnic myopism is a grave issue in d country. But all in all, u will see that religion & ethnicity and d greed of d "big political parties" are just a distraction & d symptoms of a much larger & complex problem. D problem is that d average Nigerian is politically ignorant (but thinks that he knows), docile& selfish. Let me give u an instance.

Edo state governorship elections are upon us. We can see people trooping to campaign grounds and cramping themselves like sardines. If these same people are called out for protest against d govt, would they come out? Can Nigerians demand for better governance? Can Nigerians demand for their rights? How then will they be able to identify a visionary leader?

I totally agree with you. The problems of Nigeria are multifaceted. I heard someone say, if you push Nigerians to the wall, instead of them to react, they will break the wall for you to continue pushing them. Not until that national consciousness is there for most Nigerians to know that we hired these people and can fire them, the status quo will never change.

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