The Real Trouble with Nigeria

Yesterday, I was fortunate to read a fine piece by a Nigerian blogger, Adeola Aderounmu living in Sweden. Vexed by the current situation in Nigeria he wrote this article titled A disastrous Illegitimate Government in reference to the jamboree team preying on Nigeria’s resources in the name of government. I, sharing his opinion, promptly responded below:
The real trouble with Nigeria, I have always maintained and I stand to be corrected, is that it’s largely an assembly of dishonourable people. This, of course, does not mean there are no honourable or honest people at all. What I mean is that almost everyone is easily corruptible. If Adeola says the government is illegitimate, I don’t blame him. Nor do I fault him, outrightly. But I think he’s only being simplistic. The question of apportioning blames really goes beyond that AGF Aondoakaa, who’s actually doing the bidding of his bosses. By the way why are we running away from the fact that there were no elections in the country this year at all? Were the elections not dismissed by all credible observers, from within and outside the country, as a ruse? But didn’t we go ahead to accept those characters imposed on us in ‘good faith’? And that ‘good faith’ has always been our undoing. So from Day One the entire government was (and still is) illegitimate. What we need to think of is how do we right these wrongs. There’s an illegitimate government that robbed its way to power, very much like a ‘coupist’ junta, which we have chosen to accept, all in the interest of peace. Yet officers of the regime take fancy in, without being provoked, declaring war on us via absurd, ruthless, excessive and narcissistic policies. OBJ, the man behind this entire ungodly plot, fired the first salvo a couple of days before he handed power to his stooge, Umaru Yar’Adua. Then there’s a Patricia Etteh whose thieving brain is so dumb that the she expects us to cheer her while she raids our treasury and gets away with everything in a swoop. Now Aondoakaa is on the offensive again. Won’t they let us alone? No, they won’t. That’s why we must take the battle to their doorstep.