Life and legislation in the time of coronavirus
THE sun still rises and sets over Nigeria’s blinders and ruined stones. Above the rubble, visages of the world we dream diminish and fade, but we have learnt to romp over the corpses we make.
Who do we blame as our fortune hangs askew? Some have fingered the oligarchs. They say the latter do not believe in self-sacrifice for Nigeria and the common good. Of course, they never have and they never will. The imprudence of the latter reasserts in the upward mobility of certain crucial members of the divide across class boundaries. Increasing wealth, higher status and social affiliations often alienate this band of circumstantial leaders from the self-confessed values and politics that stood them out as vanguards of rights of the under-privileged.
To establish and sustain its integrity, PACT suspended itself in ideological voyeurism and fault-finding, a tactic of assault and defence that eventually became its crucifix and tomb. How many Nigerians succeed so in real life? How many definitions of “success” aren’t deductive from “cheating the system” or defrauding it at all cost?
The folly of our ways have dawned on us. The oligarchs we enabled with power have evolved some of the worst tyrannies across the 36 states of the federation. A brilliant tyrant could be trusted to a certain degree of depth and capacity to lead but a dimwitted tyrant is infinitely dangerous; as he cannot be trusted beyond his mental handicaps and the devious plots of his associates and kitchen cabinet.
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