Niyi Olarewaju

Sometimes, when one writes about the anomalies and failure of leadership in Nigeria, some of my Nigerian friends tell me we should stop talking about our problems and act like all is well with us, they want us to be silent in the face of this unimaginable and incomprehensible decay and decadence. I reflect on their words occasionally, but at the end of the day, i become more convinced that the solution to our problems as a Nation is not keeping quiet at a time when failure of leadership poses the greatest threat to our existence as a Nation. The present charade and absurdity in the country is the biggest threat to us as a Nation since the Civi war.  Yet, some of my friends want us to keep quite and act like all is well. They want us to keep quiet and share the type of blind optimism they share, they demand from us a kind of blind patriotism which gives a false belief that all is well. They want us to believe that bad leadership like we have today is not the primary reason fo...