Today is Easter Sunday. At Easter, Christians all over the world proclaim and celebrate their faith that Jesus of Nazareth, the one who was humiliated, tortured, crucified, and buried, rose from the dead after three days in the tomb. Easter this year is being celebrated in Nigeria after a long period of insecurity in which citizens were abducted for ransom on the streets and from their homes and murdered on their farms and in their places of worship.
Easter, this year, is coming after a period in which Nigerians had no access to their hard-earned money because of a monetary policy whose implementation terribly disrupted their lives. Easter this year comes after a season of bitterly divisive electioneering engagement and election exercise; a season in which ethnic and religious differences were criminally exploited by politicians who set ethnic and religious communities against each other to win votes.
For those who rightly understand the meaning of Easter as a celebration of the victory of life over death; for those who truly believe that the resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth, unjustly crucified by a powerful establishment, is victory of justice over injustice, of love over hatred, of divine love over human malice, the message of Easter challenges humanity in general, and Nigerians in particular, to bring love of the common good into politics.
Amid the religious festivities of Easter, we cannot afford to ignore the fact that we have a population that has often fallen for dubious religiosity, fake patriotism, and criminally deceitful politics. Here is a land immensely blessed by the Creator but mindlessly battered by the negative attitudes of leaders and those they lead. Here is a land that is greatly endowed yet inhabited by impoverished citizens.
If we are to celebrate the resurrection of Jesus and what it really stands for in our ongoing national circumstance, then we must make a definite resolve to do things differently. We must resolve to work to build a nation where no one is oppressed, a Nigeria where elections are held without acrimony and rancour, without ethnic profiling, without voter intimidation, without vote buying, and without the falsification of results.
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