NIGERIANS ARE GULLIBLE

Nigeria is such a nation of people with fairy tale ideology. An average Nigeria easily gets carried away by false hope. Election period is fast approaching and politicians will soon come up with their heart melting manifesto that blows wind of hope to the masses; the wind of hope that tends to make them lose their reasoning faculty.

During the campaign for 2015 elections, President Muhammadu Buhari promised Nigeria everything that President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan could not offer Nigerians. He said that his government will end Bokko Harram terrorism, improve the value of our currency over Dollar, create employment, etc. But till date, his government has done nothing but blame the past administration each time it is faced with criticism. A grounded leader ought not to blame anybody for leadership failure. Buhari knows that Nigerians are so gullible that is why he came up with magical manifesto to buy their votes and he succeeded. Buhari’s administration have since then continued to give false hope like: he inherited a huge debt, soon enough Nigeria will be out of recession and things will be better, Nigeria is out of recession already, etc. They want to continue to cajole Nigerians into believing what does not exist. By now, Nigerians ought to have learnt so many lessons that will teach them to think before acting, but instead, they keep on recycling their mistakes.

Even in the religious sector, we trust everything that comes from the priests without thinking. We don’t seem to understand that we are in democracy and not theocracy. We don’t seem to understand the seasons. We believe that after prayers, manna will fall from heaven for us to feed on, and perhaps God will automatically cause our leaders to turn from their wicked ways and govern us right. Meanwhile, the more we hope and pray, things continue to get worse.

It’s high time we equip our intellectual faculty and fight for our right as Nigerians. Didn’t the word of God say faith without works is dead? Why are we still been deceived by the theologians? We still believe and live in the world of fairy tale despite crashed hopes. It is time for us to accept the fact that so much has gone wrong in Nigeria and we cannot be liberated from the effects of such wrongs without practicing our theories. If we keep saying it is well without working it out to be well, then it will never be well. The man who prays all day without finding what his hands can do to do it, will die of hunger because God Himself said that He will prosper the works of our hands. Nigeria has laws and principles and if they are not put in practice, we will remain where we are; struggling and pretending that it will be alright. If those laws and principles are not good enough, then let them revisited because they were made by man. Nigerians have had enough of jingoistic metaphors, from Nigerian politicians and leaders to confused and tired Nigerians whose minds and brain are confused to the extent that they easily believe everything without reasoning.

Let us for once stop giving God job to do. He has created us and also created everything we need to take care of ourselves. He cannot come down and speak against evil, interpret our laws for us, do the farm work, the pharmaceutical work, building work, carpentry work, fashion and designing work, etc. We need to reason with the brain he has given us and come up with a workable solution. It is a shame that most of our schools, hospitals, etc built by the colonial masters are in bad shape and we find it difficult to renovate them at our age. On daily basis we only hope and pray that it will get better this year and that year but instead it gets worse, yet we are ignorant of the cause.

It is strange to know that at this information age, many Nigerians still find words to justify a government of hate, vengeance and tribalism just because they are getting some peanuts that they will yet vomit in due time. It will take a radical re-organization to enlighten Nigerians and encourage growth and development in Nigeria and this cannot be achieved by mere theories. Ayo Sogunro puts it this way, “radical re-organization and reform will not be achieved just by faith. In fact, it requires a healthy dose of skepticism”.

Written by Olive Chinyere Amajuoyi

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