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Can somebody tell the All Progressives Congress (APC) government that this is not the change Nigerians voted for and that the real change is inevitable?
Recently, the questions that I have been faced with on the various levels of impunity, executive rascality, maladministration, insecurity, judicial lacuna, corruption re-branded and the expectations of Nigerians for a positive change from a government that that has a robust party manifesto, unfortunately have not touched any part of the manifesto but working outside the manifesto calls for response.
And I come to this conclusion that the real change Nigerians clamoured for is inevitable and it will come shortly.
My charge to my fellow Nigerians clamouring for a positive change is to “Employ the power of positive quitting”.
Most of us view quitting as something negative, but it’s not. ‘Winners never quit,’ we’re told, when, in reality, winners quit all the time: choosing to stop doing things that aren’t creating the results they desire.
When you quit all the things that aren’t working for you, when you quit tolerating all the negative things that hold you back, you’ll create a positive ‘charge’ in your life as well as create the space in your life for more positive experiences.
I like thinking of possibilities. At any time, an entirely new possibility is liable to come along and spin you off in an entirely new direction. The trick, I’ve learned, is to be awake to the moment.
Persons and societies do not submit passively to surroundings and events. They make choices as to the places where they live and the activities in which they engage — choices based on what they want to be, to do and to become.
Furthermore, persons and societies often change their goals and ways; they can even retrace their steps and start in a new direction if they believe they are on a wrong course.
Thus, whereas animal life is prisoner of biological evolution which is essentially irreversible, human life has the wonderful freedom of social evolution which is rapidly reversible and creative. Wherever human beings are concerned, trend is not destiny.
– Gideon Ayodele is a writer, publisher and a media consultant in Nigeria.
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