My Fears: The Choice and Hope for a Better Nigeria

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I am not afraid of the state Nigeria is today, i am more afraid of what will become of my beloved country tomorrow and in the future. We have already got used to the ugly realities of today, we have structurally and functionally re-adapted to living in a failed Nation, a term that already passed to the Nigeria of today. My biggest headache is the Nigeria of tomorrow, the Nigeria we will relinquish to our children and generations yet unborn. My hopes that better days are ahead of us continue to dwindled.


My biggest concern is about we youths of today, we seem to be a more dangerous re-incarnates and breed of those who have brought woes and failures on our Nation. Our actions seems to be more terrible than those of the present and earlier leaders who are/were determined to sink our Nation... Ours is more deadly because we have brought a lot of intelligence, brilliance, sophistication and agility in defending and upholding absurdities and wrong societal and political values and ethics. Ones that in the long run will finish off our country.


We all seem to be discontented with the ugly realities of today, but at the end of the day, we are also the ones being deployed as tools to sustain and uphold the same realities we complain about. This speaks volume about the danger of our misused intelligence, youthful agility, brilliance etc. At the end of the day, our generation of Nigerians is doing more harm and danger than the earlier and present political generation in Nigeria. Hence, my strong fears for the future of my fatherland and the kind of Nigeria our generation will pass to the generation coming after ours...


Despite all these, i still see hope and i continue to believe against all earthly factors, predictions and forecast, that there would be a sudden turn-around from this vicious and perilous path we are towing today... I remain hopeful that no matter what, we will one day rise up and act like a people with a purpose, and we shall fulfill the purpose and build a new and better Nigeria against all odds...


This begins with you, it begins with me, it begins with us all. It begins with the kind of politics we play and the kind of interest that propels us into politics. It begins with all of us beginning to understand that the will for a better society and a developed Nigeria should be the main interest propelling us into politics and not personal and selfish interests predicated on how much millions in money and property we can acquire/accumulate by participating in politics.. Politics should be a means to an end, and that end should be the common good of our society and country and not personal aggrandisement and wealth accumulation for individuals..


The new Nigeria begins with the choice we make and the kind of politics we choose to play.


God bless you!!!!!!!

God bless Nigeria!!!!!!!!!!!!


Olarewaju Precious Olaniyi 


Comments

  1. Anonymous13 October 2014 at 11:48

    You have a beautiful treatise here and I think you are a God sent for your dear nation, Nigeria. Let the youths hearken to your clarion call and stop aping their confuse and disoriented leaders.

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