Nigeria: A Nation of Evil Genius

Nigerians will not cease to amaze me. From the political melodrama at the Seat of Power, to the 'comedious' jesters at the corridors of power, and not less the comic relief of the citizens in the nooks and crannies of cities, towns and villages. Indeed, the things that matter hardly matter.

In the last couple of weeks, what has been at the central burner of our national affair is the issue of the health of the President. No doubt it is important because the President is expected to coordinate the activities of the government and the nation as a whole, and he needs all the strength he can muzzle, nonetheless is not a sine qua non for  us all to dissipate all our energy on it.

For instance, have we wonder while no medical facilities is sufficient enough to take care of the health of the President such that he has to travel to London for treatment? No we won't, our concern is whether the President used 'acting President' or 'coordinating President' in the letter to the National Assembly.

Some have even argued on the situating of the Office of Vice President and Acting President together in a situation we now find ourselves. The more I ponder about our lives, the more shameful I feel.

Unfortunately, the youths whose generation is being wasted are either standing akimbo, and or taking a side in a political bloc which has little or no utility to their lives and generations to come.

A 39 years old has just become President of one of the greatest country in the world, and no one is talking about 2019 here. Asides the fact that the Constitution has caged out anybody less than 45 years old from becoming President of Nigeria, the political economy is equally skewed against us, and yet, this is not the issue to discuss. Why? Because we easily buy-in into the political narratives of the elites.

Today, nobody is speaking of the inflated budget by the National Assembly, not for national interest,

but for selfish purpose. What a nation! Our concern is whether the Chibok girls are real or not?

On Saturday, about 2 million students will sit for UTME popularly called JAMB despite the anomalies that pervade the registration process, and we can be sure more than half of the students will not be admitted. What does that mean? It means about one million youths will be wasting one year of their lives because of a faulty system of no fault of theirs. 

Our roads are nothing to write about, yet what we discuss on social media is triviality. The energy Nigerian youths dissipated on the recently concluded Big Brother Naija in campaigning for votes for Efe or T-Boss and or Bisola, would have made a lot of difference in our political landscape if the same energy was expended in previous elections, and or future elections. Our case is a sorry case.