WAKE UP: Get it clear, the Nigeria we celebrate at 60

By BASHIR ADEFAKA

Sometimes, one cannot just sit complacently in the comfort of his room and allow some sadists who claim to own Nigeria like we do to continue to wreck the havoc of hates, fakeness and misinformation on the public sensibility of the rest of us. That necessitates this article in response to claims that Nigeria is so much divided – even at 60?!

It is sad that where many Nigerians have seen lives, few but loud ones like Femi Fani-Kayode among others have continued to see ghosts.  In the wake of many glamorous evidences of five-year based achievements that have been on the showcase which save the face of Nigeria at 60, this self-elated former minister could only see pictures of sadist Biafra and Oduduwa Republic agitators to parade and even still, in addition, cried over same saying the country has seriously dismembered at diamond independence anniversary. So sad for “a lawyer, a pastor, a former minister who has never been poor or has never taken even Nigerian money but has been giving to even Nigeria”. Sad!

That is by the way. The Federal Government of Nigeria know how to handle his case for promoting treasonous activities against the nation especially on its National Day. If truly this man is a lawyer, he should know that the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria says the country that his forefathers collected from colonialists on October 1, 1960 is one that is indivisible. If he is truly a former minister by heart, he should know that he has since lost its respect as one because a man that Nigeria has so much benefited from his earlier generation to the current should not betray the country. So highly indisciplined!

Even Omoyele Sowore seized the opportunity of support of sadists like this Fani-Kayode to breach the bail conditions upon which he is out of custody till now still using his #RevolutionNow to stage Oduduwa Republic protests in parts of Yoruba Land on Nigeria’s independence anniversary. He even made a tweet publicly insulting the Commissioner of Police in Lagos State. I won’t tell the DSS how to do its job. Funny also, the long silenced Amnesty International could talk again, against arrest of such protesters. What a people! We have a good, great country. These people represent themselves and they will soon see how history of Nigeria will treat them.

If you are reeling out your vituperations, frustrations saying Nigeria has not been giving you three square meals daily and so that the country is bad at 60, the West and Europe you approve, apart from the fact that the mindset of their citizens is far patriotic unlike yours, do you know that it took them century to get to what you celebrate of them to the denigration of your own country? Now tell me, who is a fool? The colonialists, who did not trust your race enough with power at independence, the sitting government, which has done more national unification projects that no mouth could have uttered dispute against and yet you want to hear bad news about or yourself?

It is high time people of Nigeria got to realise that they are more the problem than the government, leadership they blame. Currently the country has got the leadership factor addressed with President Muhammadu Buhari on the throne in Villa. What is now next in focus is attitudinal change. The mindset of Nigerians towards themselves and their country is bad.

That brings me to one Facebook guy, I won’t use his name here to avoid making him feel great doing himself the evil that he does. This sadist did a post praying as follows:

“THOSE CLAIMING THEY ARE CELEBRATING NIGERIA TODAY, MAY YOUR FAMILY/ GENERATION BE LIKE NIGERIA IJN. AMEN !!”

Some fellow sadists said Amen in affirmation of their sadism.

Now in my reaction for the general benefits, I say AMIIN SUMMA AMIIN!

And I am so saying because:

1. The Nigeria that we have is Nation founded by God with so many promising opportunities, economic resources coming from abundant minerals capable of making us real giant.

2. The Nigeria that we have is Nation with strong immunity against diseases of the heart, ability to detect and neutralise the plots of mischief makers.

3. The Nigeria that we have is Nation where enemies within and without get so much frustrated that when they predict its collapse, they are the ones whose lives get scattered.

4. The Nigeria that we have is Nation that has been blessed with ability to restore a leadership that has brought paradigm shift in its way of doing things and what some biggest powers failed to do in 16 years, it has been able to start and begin to do in 5 years and is still doing because Nation Building is a continuous project.

5. The Nigeria that we have is one where efforts by sadists among citizens in form of causing confusion, teaming up with foreign collaborators have always hit brick walls and, instead for the building process to weaken, it keeps going and going higher and higher to the deepening sadness of the enemies of the country.

6. The Nigeria that we have is Nation that has finally found the cause of its seeming, hitherto complex problems (ethnic, religious and self sentiments) and now, unbelievable are happening: people killing their own tribe’s people and screaming the names of other tribe’s people as the killers but they keep getting exposed and as they get exposed agitations dying down. So their shameless self embarrassment thinking they were staying national disgrace for Nigeria at 60 in the colours of Biafra Republic and Oduduwa Republic is also dead on arrival.

7. The Nigeria that we have is Nation that has now been so much blessed and fortified that those who wanted to make it their private estate and use the resources in it to continue to enslave the conscience and oppress the people but have been blocked are now crying to secceed as if secession is like eating bread and akara.

8. The Nigeria that we have is Nation that has now been reset on the threshold of citizens’ character reconstruction and economic restructuring and, so, which has given us full hope that the process of attaining the Nigeria of our dream has been kick-started with the current government of President Muhammadu Buhari. Yes, and that won’t stop because we now have a formidable military, police and intelligence strength to protect the process to the point that we can all say UHURU.

9. YES! This is the Nigeria we say Amiin to and it is the Nigeria we believe in. Nigeria where thieves are the ones coming out to confess to authorities. The Nigeria we say Amiin to and it is the Nigeria that has shamed hypocritical Nigerians who had employed super powers to help collapse their own country upon them but failed.

10. It is the Nigeria that we celebrate at 60!

My only pity as I celebrate Nigeria at 60

I have been trying to see how to congratulate Nigeria my father land at 60 until this morning I stumbled over a cartoon posted by my elder, Cartoon Editor of Vanguard and Chairman Vanguard Muslim Community, Alhaji Dada Adekola illustrating a conversational congratulatory message between a portrait standing for “President Buhari” and a sick man believed to be the Nigeria. Where the “President” congratulates him saying, “Congrats We’re Sixty”, he replied, “Yeah We’re Sickty”.

I can’t agree less, I commented. I can’t agree less because we are in a country where at sixty we are still sick in our hearts and senses of reasoning and judgement. We are in a country where at sixty many citizens still hate neighbours and won’t love their country because their tribe or religion’s man is not the person in power.

We are in a country where at sixty citizens want law but don’t want law to be applied on them. Where at sixty citizens still prefer to import even food they can produce locally through a neighbouring country, pay all the legal dues and tariffs to that country but love to use hard-earned money to buy weapons to force their way smuggling those goods into their own country’s economy they don’t pay one kobo, killing, maiming and still blaming the customs officers and men at borders of the country.

I can’t agree less that Nigeria is sick when, at sixty, citizens hate to be told good but bad news about their country, their President or governor, their fellow citizens. Where citizens take fake and slanted news as authentic and let it go viral while they try hard not to hear true and good news about their country.

What I cannot do is to blame Allah for making me a Nigerian, particularly from my part of the country because He knows what I do not know.

THAT IS WHY I SEE MYSELF AS THE ONLY NIGERIAN WHO IS COMMITTED TO NIGERIA’S UNITY, GREATNESS AND DEVELOPMENT@60!

What about you?

HAPPY 60TH ANNIVERSARY!

What is the noise about Buhari’s broadcast?

President Muhammadu Buhari’s national broadcast at independence, much commended as it it has been, the Nigerian Press decided to pick their area of interest, which is comparison between price of fuel in Nigeria and Saudi Arabia and they hyped it their usual way with many follow-ups in less than 24 hours.

The noise thus ensued with opposition and proponents of secession raining disgusting condemnations on the President in a bid not to let the majority of Nigerians see the good things that came with the day. Somebody described it as media’s way of showing capacity to destroy the government at the last minute. The NTA, hooked on to, has days before the October 1 broadcast been making great impacts opening the eyes and hearts of Nigerians home and abroad to the reality that the nation has done great at 60 and that the people are not as disunited as impressed. Within the blink of an eye, the spoiler occured by the other media.

But what is the noise about Buhari’s broadcast? Nothing but just one reason, that the President did not make his comparison with Saudi Arabia, a no-country?

Unfortunately, what was supposed to be joyous celebration suddenly turned sour because if the President’s comparison.

He should have compared the oil price in Nigeria with that of US, UK, instead of Saudi Arabia. I laugh. Seriously sick people @60.

WHAT THEY CRY OVER IS NOT THE COMPARISON BUT THE “SAUDI ARABIA” NOT ABOUT GOVERNMENT’S ACCLAIMED DISCONNECTION WITH REALITY ON GROUND. HOW CAN A GOVERNMENT THAT HAS PERFORMED FAR BETTER THAN ANY IN FIVE YEARS OF 21 YEARS  OF FOURTH REPUBLIC BE SAID TO DISCONNECT WITH REALITY ON GROUND?

THOSE ARE ELITES AND MEDIA OPINIONS AT NIGERIA @60!

WAKE UP is opinion article column of Lagos Journalist, Prince Bashir Adefaka. Reach him is his email: omope72@gmail.com.