NAIJA HAS A SAY! United we stand, divided we fall! Naij reader Abdul MT reminds us. One people! One Nation! Hello, the good people of Nigeria. I believe it is high time for us to stand tall and unite against injustice irrespective of our religious, ethnic or regional affiliation. I do believe the way out of the rampant injustice and bad leadership in Nigeria is to choose unity over division, love over hate. We should believe in a change, a hope in a better future. Never again shall we entrust our destinies and the destiny of this our great country to the hands of those who are willing to trade our peace and stability for mere political power. Our unity today is the biggest threat against injustice and bad leadership. There is nothing that our political traducers dread more than a peaceful change, a change that denies them the pretext to fight insecurity through tenure elongation. There are those who are subjective parochial in their political culture, and subsequently they argue and do believe that change is not possible because of the powerful forces that benefit from the status quo. But I say NO! The forces of unity, the strength of our ideals and the sincerity of our intentions are formidable enough to defeat any counterrevolutionary mischief. Some also argue that Nigeria does not deserve a change because our citizens allow themselves to be divided and ruled along primordial sentiments instead of forging a common bulwark against the clique that is holding our collective destiny to ransom. But it is ordinary Nigerians that, though divided along false allegiances, are always united in grief, misery and collective suffering imposed on them by the elite few who wantonly pillage and plunder our commonwealth. Today, an average Nigerian, whether Christian or Muslim, atheist or traditionalist, Northerner or Southerner, is the one suffering in all tribes and grieving in all religions. The poor in Enugu is no less Nigerian than the poor in Kano. Nor is the encroaching desertification in the far North East any less threatening than the oil spillage of the Niger Delta, or the slums of Lagos. The problems everywhere are similar. If more are dying in the North East due to Boko Haram insurgency, more are dying in the South East due to poor roads. The choice before us is never this clearer. Either we unite to pull Nigeria back from this state of injustice, or we stay divided and watch the PDP perfects its betrayal of our collective destiny and incur the eternal wrath of generations to come.
Posted on: Thu, 16 Oct 2014 13:06:22 +0000
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