Our #Democracy Day - Nigeria will Become Powerful & Prestigious!

There is an evil in our nation today that’s more than corruption; it is the mindset of negative expectations.

When are we going to start speaking well of our beloved country? While we might have been impoverished by a few privileged elite political class for so long a time, it’s important to remember the torchlight of achievement and good stories that have also come out of our country and continent.

It’s high time we made deliberate efforts to generate new attitudes, beliefs and assumptions. We can change overarching beliefs and assumptions that have supported the undesirable experiences we have had to live with and which continues eat deep into the very core of our nation’s being like a cancer. These range from complacency, apathy, economic mismanagement, huge sense of entitlement, lack of discipline, preoccupation with self, manipulation, moral decay, corruption in high places, promotion & celebration of wrong people, personal irresponsibility, unbridled desire for luxury, urge for extravagant spending, skepticism, superstition, to policies designed by sentiment rather than sound moral judgment and much more. We have to intentionally change the stories will tell ourselves and as we continue to tell new stories over & over again, our nation's citizens will begin to see a new Nigeria emerge.

Our national prosperity is largely a function of sufficient number of good private character. The evil in our nation will not continue to grind down our economy if the good people are courageously, selflessly and persistently applying their economic and political capabilities in the most competent way to build our communities.

This Democracy Day, I see:

+ A Nigeria whose citizens wouldn't want to live anywhere else in the world.

+A prestigious Nigeria that will become a new standard against which the greatness of other Nations on our planet will be measured.

+ A powerful Nigeria on its way to take over as the perceived 'world leader’.

+ A Nigeria leading the world in innovation and economic sustainability.

+ A Nigeria with a strong diplomatic influence in the international community.

+ A Nigeria whose resource endowment are efficiently utilized for global competitiveness.

+ A new Nigeria where every citizen would have opportunity to become successful and do great things no matter the State, City or Town they come from.

+ A proud, independent, economic powerhouse called Nigeria emerge from the blues.

+ A Nigeria where it is possible to succeed no matter who you are – a Plumber, Banker, Doctor or Cleaner; Hausa, Igbo, Yoruba, Efik, Urhobo or Ibiobio; Oil industry worker or Civil servant.

+ A Nigeria full of men & women with great spiritual faith.

+ A Nigeria whose political leaders and representatives are selflessly protecting our collective liberty and unity.

+ Nigeria’s huge population and territory being used for our nation’s economic advantage.

+ A well industrialized and technologically advanced country with efficient & modern infrastructure.

+ Mature institutions – Schools, Hospitals, Police Force, Law Courts, Public & Private Sector Organizations and affordable Housing for all.

+ Nigeria’s economic capability, political stability, competence and military might rising among the comity of Nations.

+ A new spirit that lives out our national anthem & pledge daily in public offices.

+ A Nigeria whose citizens have been cured from the illness of indifference and dependence upon the government for its survival.

What Should Happen?

+ Citizens should pay their taxes.

+ Government should continue to work to make it easier to acquire land (C of O) in good time. This way economic transactions can happen faster for the good of our economy.

+ Government should stop borrowing from the future of its citizens to finance white elephant projects.

+ The Local Governments should be empowered so that the menace of rural-urban drifts that’s putting undue pressure on our few working cities will be reduced. When you have tons of people in the cities without jobs to do, crime rate will go up.

+ The Nigerian justice system should become ‘deliberately’ just. Court cases shouldn’t go on forever!

Nigeria’s democracy will not fail! #Happy Democracy Day.