When we begin to see Nigeria as our major collective when we begin a collective overhaul of our morality in and out of power when service to nation becomes the narrowest permissible margin for leadership when East, West, North and South or if you like our six geo-political zones make dedicated service to the people the governmental minimum when making real the promises of democracy becomes the summum bonum when creed and clan regresses to personal loyalties rather national mantra and when change deals with all Nigerians as equals, then the profound voyage to our Isles of Good Hope shall have commenced.Īs a people we have reached that turn in history where quick-fixes and stop-gap measures at enhancing national cohesion must be jettisoned. With sound education and technological growth comes the realisation of a universe without bounds, and by Jove a nation with fewer dichotomies, bias and variegation, and such is the minimum template. I’m convinced that when we make the development of the human capital the major thrust of governance every other thing will follow. Thankfully with a change driven regime, I’m confident that we shall begin the excavation of the needed pebbles that must unite us as one great people. It is a copious minus for debaters who insist on zoning and power sharing as the path to effective national integration. The defeat of the PDP at the last general polls and the fact that for the first time since the Nigerian Civil War, we saw an ethnically divided and polarised polity is a lucid manifestation of the failure of the zoning, power-sharing cum Federal Character ordinance and normative. The zoning and power-sharing normative are only stop-gap measures, they are values that appear conciliatory and inclusive but in actuality they divide us and deepen our differences. We must sediment values that confer pride in this collective constituency knowing that we have got no other but Nigeria. We must begin a rework of our morals and mores such that all Nigerians will embrace patriotic proclivities and enable a progressive redefinition of citizenship. We must cease to permit and pardon mediocrity on the altar of the federal character normative. Yes we can make the best of this halcyon moment we can like the Phoenix recreate Nigeria.Ī new national orientation paradigm must seek inclusivity and genuine brotherhood predicated on no less a margin than the development of the human capital, excellence must be the watch word. We have shown an unrivalled bond for national affinity and consanguinity than we have of our differences. The truth is that we have more reasons to stay united than the scores that disunite us. The profound euphoria that inundates the public space makes the template for a better Nigeria less tenuous it leaves our nation with great faith in the oneness or so of our people.
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