OpEd: Should Now Be The Emergence Of A New Order? By Sydney Usman Godwin | Sahara Reporters The sustainability of Nigeria lies and rests on our shoulders as we should never again allow those whose future were yesterday design our tomorrow. READ MORE:
Considering the current trends in the Nigerian political space; disrespect for rule of law, contempt for courts, dilapidated healthcare centers , insecurity, hunger, poor housing scheme, poor educational funding, bad roads, poor electricity supply, degenerating infrastructure, systemic corruption and being the world capital for extreme, multidimensional poverty, I can only wonder the catastrophic effect of post COVID-19 virus on our economy.
The old order have hijacked the instrumentality of power for the aggrandizement of their cohorts and self. All we need do is to resist just as in the words of Frederic Douglas."If there is no struggle, then, there won't be progress". Those who profess to favour freedom and depreciate agitation are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning and they want ocean without the awful roar of it's many waters.
The common way people give up power is by thinking they don't have any. We've been fed with lies that our votes don't matter, but they come from behind to buy them. The resistance and rebuttal should begin. The Nigerian youth have the potency and capacity to elect whosoever they want from among the plethora of exceptional young Nigerians who are so much in touch with contemporary realities to lead them, as seen in the 2018 and 2019 Big Brother Nigeria show, where in the latter, a whopping 240 million votes were recorded and over 50 million of those votes coming in the final week of the show, racking an outrageous N7.2B in revenue generated from SMS alone.
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