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Appreciation of Your Wishes, Messages on My Birthday Anniversary and My Message on Our 19th Democracy Day Celebration
Good morning beloved,
Perhaps, the contrasts are far less obvious than the similarities, but perhaps more consequential than peripheral discernment may reveal.
I woke up meaning to extend my wishes for the Democracy Day to all well-meaning Nigerians but was regularly obstructed by wishes and messages for my birthday anniversary.
Since I’m 28yrs older than Nigerian’s (evolving) Democratic journey, I may be spared if I rail-road destiny into this arrangement. That said, I beg to remind us on this day that we must determine to CREATE our prosperity and develop the requisite capacity to innovate and upgrade our BELIEF (in self, the other person and our ecology).
As Nigeria marks 19yrs of Democratic governance, we must truly hasten the gravitation towards an INCLUSIVE system that ushers the sustainable platform of a SHARED IDENTITY base on our values, culture and merit-driven involvements/engagements.
Rwanda, Tanzania, Kenya and Ghana (to mention a few) are getting it right not only because of visionary leadership but largely because of well-informed and well-involved citizens: a people are deserving of the leadership they get.
Our faults-lines of ETHNICITY and RELIGION must be disparaged and the real THEATRE (our minds and hearts) must be truly circumcised if we must upend the current frenzied drift into diffidence and perhaps, anarchy.
Thank you so much for the birthday prayers, wishes and messages for which I’m so grateful. That said, I can’t imagine a bigger birthday gift than a change of hearts and minds in Favour of the ailing and wailing child: Nigeria.
Happy Democracy Day my brethren.
God bless you immensely.
– Dr Victor Alewo Adoji (VAA)
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