●…Cabals Playing With Nigeria’s Youthful Strength
●Good morning Nigeria. Let’s Re-think & Act
By Amb. Gospel Edoho John -GEJ. :
As laxative apparatus, advancement in age should provide a catharsis for the dreg of youths and infantile immaturity. For Nigeria, reverse is the case. Our history has never had it this worse, the cruel advent of threats to human lives and property – unknown gunmen “ungun knownmen” killing and kidnapping every week in the southern pole, and the northern boko-haram and banditry insurgencies coupled with the ubiquitous Fulani Killer-herdsmen phenomenon which have exacerbated social insecurity. This has threatened our existence as a holistic entity.
Really, as facing the cabals, Nigeria may not be seen as 61 but 19 years old at its independence, indicative in the restiveness signalling the preamble of the civil war emerging in a more definite configuration. The #ENDSARS nationwide protest over police brutality and issues of bad governance arising from gross misconduct in leadership and development hardly has taught our politicians any lesson.
Chairman Mao Zedong, founding father of China opined that if the people no longer fear your power, it is because another power is on its ways. This is where we stand today. Youths have woken up; Youths have risen to resuscitate the moribund kindred spirit of the Nigerian brotherhood.
Another power is in the youthful strength of Nigerians. Elders should stand up for the youths – this time, a reversal of the tide. The old should serve as advisers and guide and no longer rulers with brute force, galvanize the relentless cry of posterity, and listen to the Nigerian youths, no matter how discordant their voices may be. It is time to pass the teenage line. It is now an appeal to cabals playing with our youthful strength to uproot the seed of ethnicity which they planted, shun religious and political sentiments, and the polarization of heightened class distinction in our society.
Nigeria can truly be great again. 1960 in history is the “Age of Africa” the fruit of the Pan-African struggles of our heroes past. Our leaders should be reminded that not only Nigeria got her independence that year but a bulk of 16 others, including: Cameroon, Togo, Mali & Senegal, Madagascar, Dahomey (Benin), Niger, Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Chad, Central African Republic, Congo, Gabon, Mauritania, Somalia, Cyprus. So, Nigeria on October 1st was neither the first nor last to achieve self-governance, yet, how many of this countries today are faced with existential threat? Sad!
Let’s rescue Nigeria. It’s our time for exodus in leadership and governance, let a new Nigeria reborn. This is time to demonstrate love for our nation. Youths must understand love is coterminous with sacrifice. We must be found charting the course for a renewed Nigeria, in our different states of origin and at the grassroots communal structure. No one should stand in apathy at this time. Elders should let compassion – paternal love – to mitigate the sterner resolutions of their political oversight, as posterity calls for our voluntary capitulations for the love for our dear country.
Let love leads, let peace reigns, and lets’ keep hope alive as we grow in grace and favour.
God bless Nigeria and ALL her citizens.
Multidimensionally Yours,
Amb. Gospel Edoho John -GEJ.
Chairman, YPP Eket, Akwa Ibom State
Public Affairs Analyst & Researcher
talkback2gej@gmail.com
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