Seyi Osiyemi, LOL! I stopped short of clicking Like on your post because I am an optimist about Nigeria and you ended your otherwise well-articulated post on a rather pessimistic note. Moreover, Nigeria is not a fraud. Yes, we have very many challenges. But which country on earth does not? Nigeria is actually a stronger nation than most people think. The ties that bind Nigeria and Nigerians are deeper and firmer than what Boko Haram can break. As Simon Kolawole once wrote in his Thisday column on Sunday, there are no clear fault-lines along which one can easily divide Nigeria. Do you know that there are over 1,000,000 (one million) Fulani Christians in Nigeria? Most people assume that all Fulani people are Muslim. My former Vice Chancellor at the University of Benin, Prof. Adamu Baikie, is Fulani and he is a Born-again Christian. Seyi, you have been working at LAGBUS with my friend and classmate, Tunde Disu, long enough now to know the goings-on in Lagos State. I suspect you no longer have any illusions about APC folks being the progressives you thought they were when you were in Australia and Kenya (or was it Uganda?). The only viable revolution in our polity is going to happen gradually. Gradualism is a valid Economic Concept. Change will happen in Nigeria in degrees. Some do not yet see it, but it has started. It has started in the Agricultural Sector, Federal Roads Infrastructure and in the Power Sector. Many will contest that transformation is happening in the Power Sector. But, please, talk to players in that area like my brother, Tonye Cole, whose company owns Ikeja Electricity Distribution Company. Things are slow, but there is true progress in the Power Sector. Nigeria di fure!
Posted on: Sat, 08 Nov 2014 10:53:25 +0000
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