Well, APC/ Buhari made it. And with over 3 million votes to spare
—pending a bit of the customary horse-trading with aggrieved losers.
No reports yet on outgoing Federal incumbent losers hurrying to depart/ or already
vanished. No word of instructions given EFCC. Better hunting perhaps after 9th March,
State Elections, and voting verdicts on State Governors seeking re-election?
So?
Another four years of bonanza for Buhari associates and supporters. Another four years
of economic stagnation/ stalled development. Another four years of profound distress for the
many skilled folk still—after nearly 60 years—trying to take Nigeria and its 195+million
peoples forward. Basic matters—Housing/ Health/ Education/ Employment/ Infrastructure/
Industrial Power/ Economy/ Environment/ Law & Order.
So?
Continue to Export Crude.
Do not Industrialise.
Do not provide reliable Electrical Power.
Do not Diversify.
Maintain an Import Economy.
Including high dependence on staple foods.
All oligarchs happy—African/ UK/ US/ Euro, et al.
For the rest? Continued Kleptocracy and ever deeper stagnation.
No help from UK/ or US, to sort it out.
" …Nigeria is a Democracy. With free and fair elections.
They are our good friends."
And no sign of OIL drying up.
But the Nigeria people?
…Who?
And the sustained crippling corruption?
…What?
"We repeat. Nigeria is our great and respected friend."
So?
When government fails? And friends prove false?
Then Nigeria folk resort to what they have worked hard at long years before,
In centuries past; and with increasing application since Independence; and that is
Self-reliance.
Igbo folk are not the only people who have applied this
Principle in a great many areas of practical activity. Nigeria folk now have
A massive resource bank of skills; many taken forward to high competence.
These skill banks are cross-cultural/ cross-ethnic/ cross-regional/ multi-state.
Cyber-contact/ communication enables issues/ planning/ activity in
All areas of business and many professions to be started up/ built/ sustained.
As younger Nigeria folk particularly will know, a great many have already
Forged difficult but often successful paths. External as well as internal support and
Resources have been attracted. Many with roots deep in Tradition. Most have
been pleased with results.
When I first came to Nigeria in the 1960s, I was a cold, tight-buttoned, whiteman.
Nigeria folk immediately brought amazing Light into my life. In fact what Nigeria
Folk did was to ignite the Light I had within. And that Light has remained at the
core of my being to the present day. It has enabled me to achieve much, and
To contribute more than I ever thought possible.
I say nothing more. I seek merely to remind Nigeria folk of
That resource within, that if treated respectfully, will provide the ignition key to
Great new achievements and contributions.
As Prof Falola has recently noted, "Nigeria's Elections Won't Change Anything."
What WILL change things, and in the direction of a positive and resourceful Nigeria,
is deployment of what Nigeria folk—though few will be aware of it—possess and in
great abundance. And that is what I have sought to emphasise in words and thoughts
above—and what in more powerful and appropriate language my late and Great Friend,
Prof Okon Uya referred to as, the "rocket fuel" of that root resource within—Great Light.
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