“When I look at Nigeria, I find that my countrymen and women tend to suffer certain common ailments. We suffer from ‘selective amnesia’—we conveniently forget unpleasant facts about our journey through life as a polity. When we look at the landscape of our journey into nationhood we discover that, by and large, we suffer from ‘selective myopia’ . . . our vision skips areas we find unpleasant no matter how recent. When we look at the distant past, then we find that we are afflicted by the same degree of ‘selective myopia’—we perceive and draw lessons only from convenient happenings in our history . . . We must all accept the fact that no individual Nigerian has a monopoly of wisdom or a monopoly of the right to leadership. A Nigerian is and must be a Nigerian, as a Nigerian as any Nigerian in the context of Nigeria” - (Odumegwu-Ojukwu C.: 1989).
Posted on: Fri, 04 Oct 2013 16:46:56 +0000