With the flurry of politicians indicating interest to run for the high office of President come 2027, and the incumbency of the Bola Ahmed Tinubu Presidency, one would expect Politicians to prioritize the call to put Country before individual politics and ambition.
If we agree that the present watch has done badly, and continues to lower all known leadership bars. If we agree that Nigerians are poorer and hungrier today than before. If we agree that the present government is spending far more resources with far less impact than previous administrations. If we agree that corruption under the present administration has become intractable and Olympic. If we agree that BAT and his Team are largely uneventful, underwhelming and underperforming. If we agree that Nigeria needs urgent redemptive surgical attention. If we agree that except something drastic and urgent is done to save Nigeria now, we are all in trouble. And if we agree that Statesmen must be concerned about the next generation and not just the next election, then we must rise above individualistic politics and ambition, and put Country First.
In one week I have been inundated with calls and messages about the way forward for our nation. I understand that I should attend to my health for which I’m about 10,712 Kilometres far away, but my Country is also of great importance, and our politics ditto our leadership recruiting protocol equally important. What must we therefore do to salvage Nigeria?
Where are the Patriots, where are the Statesmen, where is the league of well-meaning and public spirited citizens, and where are those who truly want a Nigeria that works for all? Yes, this is a clarion call to Countrymen and women, we must rise up and challenge for the soul of our Country. We must ask politicians to stop trading with our destiny as a people and as a nation. We must decide now to hew out of the present stone of despair a nation that cares for her citizenry. We must call out those seeking the high office of President come 2027, we must insist that they come together, that they work together, and that they all elect to support and work with the most formidable ‘candidate’ that can trounce Bola Ahmed Tinubu at the Polls come 2027. We must berth a Ballot Based People’s Revolution NOT a Bullet Based one which the underperformers are almost making plausible.
The present challenge is more than individual politics and ambition, it is about Nigeria. The challenge is more than ethnicity, geography and or religion, it is about our collective well-being. The challenge calls for strategic engagement, it demands that we cease henceforth to agonize and proceed to organize, for only through concerted deliberateness can we save Nigeria from the rampaging buccaneers and soulless Power-mongers that prey on our collective patrimony.
Do not allow those who prey on our fault lines to determine what happens in 2027. Do not allow those whose god is money play with the future of our Country. Do not side with men and women of ambition whose conscience is dead to our collective humanity to determine our morrow. And do not believe that WE, THE PEOPLE cannot break the chains of wickedness that they have woven over our Dear Nation. Do not forget that the Power of the People is stronger and mightier than the power of those in power.
Folks, because I must have you follow, enjoy, internalize and critique this series, I must make it short and reader friendly, I pray that I am able to do so.
I shall duel on the potential aspirants, their politics, their passion, their ambition, ‘the persona’ and their humanity, and hope that together we can decide on the best person for the high office of President. And this promises to be a long series surely.
God Bless Nigeria.
Prof Chris Mustapha Nwaokobia Jnr
Convener COUNTRYFIRST MOVEMENT. A Good Governance Advocacy Group.
