So much of the political and economical instabilities and neglect of duties we see in Nigeria today is caused by the blame game being played by our leaders.
This unprogressive game has come to be the custom of our leaders whereby the government of the day inveigh the previous government instead of making right the wrong deeds and policies of their predecessors.
They so much criticize the past government that they neglect their constitutional duties to the nation and her citizens.
After spending so much time dwelling on the past and polarising the polity, they promise heaven and earth at the end of the day.
So much of what they inveigh so severely in their predecessors’ government and which they promised to avoid do they graciously belabor, deceitfully claiming it is constitutionally right and okay to do while it is wrong of their predecessors and oppositions.
What this country needs is not just vain promises but positive dividends of democracy.
We need leaders who are as approachable as they were before being elected, we need lawmakers/legislature that will make laws that will felicitate the progress of the country and not lawbreakers as we have it now, we want a judiciary that will be just in her judgements and steadfast in enforcing laws and not this galling institution we have as of today, we need a visionary executive that will make the people her priority and bedrock, a government that will consider her citizen’s strengths, weaknesses, needs and standpoints in order to build a progressive Nigeria and not the clueless government of today.
When we harness to the strengths of one another, we are better off for it as we all cannot be poor and everyone cannot be rich (even in the advanced and rich nations of the world.) even our fingers are not equal.
– Adeyemi Babarinde Sunday writes from Odo Ere.
