SANMI ADEKOLA BLOG

Dear reader, it is quite a long time I  have commented on global, national and local issues. It is a along time because so many things have happened, and yet it seems nothing is happening. The time we are in are really not the best of time in our national life, and at the global level though ours seems to have reached a boiling point. Sometimes, it becomes hard to choose what to comment on, and what not to comment. It is particularly appalling at the rate at which lives of people have been lose daily in the global world arising from man in inhumanity to humanity. Indeed, from psychopathic shooting by adolescent in a High School in Florida, USA to the mindless killing by Fulani Herdsmen militia; this is indeed is not a pleasant moment in the global community. The Boko Haram menace is a source of concern and worry equally. As if this is not enough, about 50 Yobe school students have been kidnapped, when we are yet to recover about kidnapped 100 plus Chibok girls. How about the number

From the tip top of Kilimanjaro  To the deepest part of River Nile, Across the   Suez Canal in Egypt  To the  Cape Agulhas in  South Africa, Along the West   and East of Africa Crying a voice for justice and equity, Freedom from oppression and servitude.  Men and women bereaved of basic needs, Starved of livelihood and liberty, By their siblings and kinsmen, All for greed and ignorance, Goats in sheep clothing, Soldiers of war appearing as shepherds of faith With swords as Cross, hanging rope as  Subha. Sliced and menaced daily, Slaughter like cows, Strangled like hens, Survived by luck, Silence by poverty, Sedated by ignorance. Amidst the pangs of sorrow and slavery, Arise the moon like palm's hand, Asymmetrical  and symmetrical, Across the breathe and width of the Golden pot, Align with forces of same similitude  Aggregating with spiritual and intellectual prowess Neither seen in history, Nor foretold of the future,

So much has been said and nothing has been said about the present state of affairs of our dear country Nigeria. Particularly, I am not envious of President Buhari job at this material time. It is the best and the worst job in the world. Running and governing over the affairs of multi-ethnic and ethnoreligious state like Nigeria is not a child play considering the diverse centripetal and centrifugal forces that the President has to contend with.  It is easy to sit down in the comfort of our homes, offices and public spaces to cast aspersion on the person and office of the President for his deeds and misdeeds. The fact as it has always been is that uneasy lies the head that wear the crown. The Nigeria state is a very peculiar State that requires a lot of hard work, due diligence, and divine grace to govern; and it is in this regard, one who have expected that those who desire the number one seat must be people of competence and character.  It is on this basis, that the seeming c