What Truly Should Be Our Priority Now as Leaders of a Nation?
This question has become necessary, given where we are today as a nation and where we are supposed to be.
While completing my INEC nomination form yesterday, Section E, Question 1 caught my attention. It asks: “Have you ever been adjudged a lunatic or been declared a person of unsound mind?” The answer is either Yes or No. That question got me thinking: Can we, as the political leaders of today’s Nigeria, truly say we are exhibiting the characteristics of a sound mind?
When Nigerians, including children and security personnel, are being abducted into the bushes, citizens cannot travel safely on our highways, several million Nigerians are uncertain where their next meal will come from, and several billions are being siphoned frivolously through non-existent agencies and projects, should politics really be our primary preoccupation?
A sound-minded leadership would have declared these existential challenges a national emergency and immediately mobilised all relevant institutions, security agencies, experts, community leaders, and other critical stakeholders to confront them with urgency and resolve. At a moment like this, the survival, security, and stability of Nigeria must take precedence over every other consideration. This is a time for decisive action, not political calculation or the pursuit of partisan advantage.
Further in the same Section E, Question 6, was: “Have you ever presented a forged certificate to INEC?” Again, the answer is either Yes or No. This raises another important question: Why shouldn’t INEC, in the interest of ensuring that our leaders are exemplary in following the rules and to strengthen public confidence in our electoral process, publish the academic certificates and credentials submitted by every candidate seeking elective office?
Transparency strengthens democracy and builds public trust. Nigeria’s problems are too serious for politics as usual. It is time for leadership defined by competence, character, capacity, compassion, and commitment to service.
A New Nigeria is POssible. -PO
The chief of staff to the president is taking monetary bribes to hand out positions in faux government ministries but news circles are filled with jokes and memes about trivial issues when treasonous actions like this continue to affect and decimate the lives of millions.
Imagine this 600million scandal was about someone close to Peter Obi. Every newspaper and media in the country would have made it their key headline.
Look at all of them avoiding the story like a dangerous plague. Free media my sorry black ass
At least in Lagos, AD/AC/APC can’t blame 16 years of PDP rule. They have been in charge of the state since 1999, so that’s 27 years of uninterrupted control.
Awolowo said he doesn't want the children of his cooks or drivers to turn out to be cooks and drivers themselves, reason he made sure free and qualitative education was available to all in the Western region.
People dey defend frying Akara as economic empowerment in 2026
We went from "must you eat rice?" to "must you run all your equipments all the time?" to “apart from Ice block, what do we need 24/7 electricity for?” to “must an airport have 24/7 electricity?” & now to “To start Akara business doesn't take a lot of money”
Take 2027 elections like your life depends on it because your life actually depends on it.
Nigeria forcing everyone to be an entrepreneur is a sign of a failing nation. A child finishes NYSC and starts selling wigs and perfumes; boys start selling clothes and shoes. It's a sign of a failed nation. In 2026, people shouldn't be selling Akara by the roadside anymore, talk less of the first lady encouraging it. The country is failing rapidly; she was also planting vegetables at a point.
Dear children of perdition, if your mother sold akara to send you to school, it is so you won’t end up slaves to the Tinubus. But look at you now.
You’ve become everything she prayed against.
All of those from abroad loudly supporting Bola Tinubu wouldn’t last a full month living in Nigeria under the same conditions they defend from a distance.