How dare us…the dead and the deprived mourned and look on; and in our failure to act quickly and convincingly have rather chosen to hide behind the rhetoric’s of passivism and cynicism. How dare us…the earth watches from close lenses as we age in our mysteries and despondencies. The continent’s hopes and inspirations from a onetime country they looked upon is quickly fading like the stars of vanishing galaxies and yet we look on as the trial of our resolve have been proven to be overcome by leverages of our permission. The cold and the nervous tremble at the weaknesses of our will to effect change and manage it. The poor and the deprived are disappointed in our ability to defend our resolve to salvage them. We have failed to serve our purpose and have failed to be counted as part of the glories of our history. How dare we precipitously celebrate our fallible forecast of victories where pacific crucible is yet to be proven? The poor weeps bitterly and their number rises after fifty four years of independence. Nigeria still remains a tale of two cities. We have sustained irresponsibly the growth of the pained and the deprived by unequaled margin. The language and the vocabulary of the illiterate and the ignorant continue to rent the air, albeit they are in the majority. That is the present construct and behavior modification of our society and our people. The contributors of the elites in open and secret places have been excoriated because of their compromises. These numbers of retrogressive influence and bad regressive curriculum have further been added to social media. They have been experientially morphed into purposelessness; rather than become useful bridge builders they chose to become interstices of subsystems that has sustained dementia in our national thinking and have suddenly became a greater part of the pitfall of our national consciousness. These actions have left precarious crevices in our political path. How dare us…. Having lost sense of direction of purpose and clarity through the actions of our leaders the Nigerian followers have been turned into a bunch of flattering scribes and their cities turned to market places for sale and buying of political will and consciousness. The travesty of democracy in Nigeria have made it feasible for rogues at all levels to overlook the queries of virtues and guiding morals of leadership and expropriate virtue at the expense of affront of the people and have risen to public offices through canny plots. Even the tumbled mis-leaders overtime are assured by this same method and ends up returning like a phoenix. The expectations of the followers, the culture of the organization and the circumstances that are prevalent and persisting are taken advantage of by these renegades at the expense of our survival as a nation. Ours is a nation that is stymied by the absence of a coherent leadership model – and more often turn to ancient leadership texts for guidance. It is the bias of the Nigerian people that have survived bad governance and bad leadership and they have gradually allowed their will to be comatose. This behavior has allowed their cut-throat rivals to ascend to political offices through maneuvering and makes it rather difficult overtime to effect change or initiate discontinuity. So the leader in the Nigerian context; as historically regarded, have always been an artificial construct, an illusion we created to satisfy our dependency needs. We are witnessing growth and abundance of felonious and toxic leaders, and their cohorts who make bad decisions or betray the confidence of their constituents. Nigerian leaders on both sides of the divide have failed the moral consequences of expedient decisions, to cultivate humility, stay the course with integrity, and resolutely earn the trust of her people. We often looked at our leaders to clarify purpose and values, set direction, build community and manage change. These they have in all recourse failed to do as they all high and low are prepared rather than go into obscurity after 2015 election will rather choose to be incongruent with the dictates of noble expediencies of our national construct. It is not the choice of the Nigerian people that their future leaders choose their own interests above the electorate’s interest and consciously act in ways that serve their own purposes. These leaders and contenders act with weaknesses of will, even when the righteous cause of action is clearly in their sight. It is the hope of the Nigerian people that the country will in future be able to conjure up a charismatic and pragmatic leaders to steer the country between Scylla and Charybdis and into a greater future; in tranquil or halcyon times, we demand only that our leaders maintain stability and maximize returns. It is our belief that one day we will have leaders who will be able to survive the battle between emotion and reason and conquer senselessness and inanity.
Posted on: Sun, 05 Oct 2014 09:57:22 +0000
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