It is no secret that Nigerians hate their rulers. But when Nigerian "prayer warriors" masses start to curse and pray for the death of their rulers, then there is a problem. In contrast to Nigeria, South Africans of all stripes grieved and wailed over Nelson Mandela's hospitalization just some couple of weeks ago. If you want to infuriate an English man, insult, or speak evil about their WWII leader, Winston Churchill.
On 27th of December 2012 alone, the breaking news from one major Nigerian online news outlet goes: "Teenage gunmen kill business mogul, three security officials, seven others in Maiduguri"; "ABU professor, Hyacinth Mbibu, shot dead in Zaria"; "Nine dead, 11 injured in Osun auto crash"; "JTF kill 5 suspected terrorists, demolish bomb factory in Kaduna". Those headlines tell the story better than what I can express in words.
The ludicrous dimension to all of these is the euphoria and jubilation expressed by Nigerian masses when a member of the Nigerian thiefocratic class (President, Governor, Senator, House of Rep member, Minister, local government chairman, etc) dies.
I did not know how much the average Nigerian psyche has been crushed until the recent events in the last couple of months. In order to know the feeling on the ground when the plane of Governor Danbaba Suntai's of Taraba State crashed, I placed a call to several friends. Needless to say, these are Nigerians I consider somewhat "God-fearing" and decent in many respect. The first response I got from each and every one of them is "make them all die, we are praying for the next one to die". It was as if they were all reading from the same script.
...............Just barely some weeks after that discussion, we heard the ailment rumors of Cross River State Governor Liyel Imoke and Sullivan Chime, Enugu State Governor and Minister of Petroleum Alison-Madueke. As if that was not enough, Governor Idris Wada of Kogi State was involved in a ghastly road accident that may have left one of his legs broken and his aide dead. I cannot help but remember all the curses and death prayers that Nigerian masses shower daily on their rulers.
Many Nigerians in recent times have become accustomed to cursing their rulers. Before you have a five minutes discussion on the state of Nigeria with a Nigerian these days they would have cursed the ruling class more than a hundred times. There is justifiable unprecedented hatred for the ruling class like never before in the history of the country.
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