When the Western World need a leader, they choose the best among them no matter the age or tribe. Just the best and nothing more. No corruption or criminal baggage - just pure, clean, educated, civil and sound.
When it's time for Nigeria to choose their leader, same people supports and funds the worst among us; they use their media and our own media to make such bad choice popular - all targeted to keep Nigeria on a rocking chair, busy going nowhere. Nigeria has to be humble and a dependent member of the loyal stooges of countries - so, they need no good leader.
Locally, we wilfully make victims of ourselves by voting for Money personified, and later go back to Church to disturb God to get us a leader, - a leader that we willingly failed to produce by ourselves. We concentrate on tribe, ethnicity, partisanship, religion and instant monetary benefits while good leadership keeps eluding us.
Most of this current British PM's mates in Nigerian politics are hardly allowed to come close to power. We, the Youths are only reduced to jostling to be media Aids to the old de facto politicians, insulting their political enemies on social media on their behalf to collect peanuts. Our beautiful and energetic women reduced to glory singers group.
Those that have sane society did not pray for it, they worked for it. We keep asking God for good leaders in our prayers, when it is time to vote, we choose the bad ones with sugar cane in their hands. After election, the sugar disappears and the cane appears to flog everyone mercilessly.
We can't keep pretending that all is well while falling deep into the well. Dollar to Naira is trying to hit the sky already, that is why you no longer afford things you used to afford before. Trust that the market will embarrass that money you have in your hand. That's where we've kept ourselves. I blame no one, except us. Not God, not Satan is responsible for our suffering; we are.
I pray we all find solace in a good leader come 2023 as suffering and poverty knows no ethnicity, political party, religion or tribe.
HON. SOLOMON CHIMEZIE AMAEZECHI.
(Orutere Onyeukwu, Orutere Onyenta)
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