IN THE PURSUIT OF A NEW NIGERIA

He is a fool who did nothing because he could only do a little........ Edmund Burke

Its no longer news about the present painful economic realities facing our dear nation, Nigeria as at today. We have heard, seen and felt it like never before.

The reality has dawned on us all that the blame game of past government administration since after the civil war is not the way forward. We are in desperate times and should be able to muster courage and think of what we can do to save our ailing and dying nation. While the bulk of the matter rests on the table of the government yet the citizens aren't left out.

Its time we take down ethnicity,  pride,  religious supremacism and bigotry in the quest to birth a new great and truly sovereign Nigeria. The spate of hunger and untold hardship is irrespective of tribe and religious affiliations. The Almighty question that may be sounding rhetoric now is, what can we do?

No nation ever develops to enviable heights without the cooperation and mutual trust between the government and its citizens.  Its now a norm that we feel that the battered relationship of trust and confidence between the electorate and the political leaders has come to stay and no one is to be blamed because once bitten twice shy. Leaving us in a circle of hopelessness in the government. But of a truth something can be done. Not all Nigerians are bad, just that the good ones have refused to speak out of fear, cowardice and sentiments. Its not gainsaying that the new Nigeria we want starts from the political leaders who need to lead by example on the tenets of patriotism,  zero nepotism and shunning other such  ills bedevilling our nation evident in corruption,  cabalism, lootocracy, disobedience to the rule of law and zero empathy to the pains of the electorate.

However, we as individuals of the society needs a total reawakening and reorientation, that we need to Foster the rebuilding of broken ties of relationship among our ethnic nationalities. In the face of these present economic challenges all hands must be on deck in stirring the ship of our nation to a safe blissful haven and shore of unity and faith, peace and progress ( Nigeria motto) inspite the pain we may encounter. We need to be the first line of credibility,  integrity, accountability and patriotism. The idea of supporting a looter and one who shortchanged this nation and defending him with ethnic sentiments and bias in order to shield him or attract unnecessary empathy is a whirlwind that blows no one any good. For crying out loud the rule of law must not be bent for anyone,  justice must be served no matter whose ox is gored! Let our judiciary rise up to the tenets of upholding justice and live up to the cliche "hope of the common man".

For the Nigerian youth we must shun bribery, short cuts against due process, stand for the truth, lend helping hands to those we are better off, shun vandalism,  terrorism,  gansterism, cultism and other ills that portray us in bad light.

Join the new Nigeria Vanguard and build alliance with young minds from Nigeria length and breadth whose value is that of integrity,  courage, selflessness,  patriotism, merit,  economic empowerment,  zero corruption in all it's shades and facades  whose vision is SECURING A PEACEFUL, UNITED, PROGRESSIVE,  CORRUPTION-FREE NIGERIA FOR NOW AND POSTERITY.