A New Nigeria is PO

HE Alex Otti, Governor of Abia State,  epitomising the dawn of a New Nigeria? Truly Peter Obi says a New Nigeria is POssible. But the principles and values must change.

Today, APC/PDP politics has foisted a culture that, like cancer, is destroying, first the fabric and next the soul of the country. Even when the people express their love for Nigeria as in the recent AFCON 2023, its leaders continue to do another. How on earth does a parent steal from its own child to squander on their lusts? This is what the majority APC/PDP politics does, even with their eyes closed. The BAT and his venomous team's agenda is clearly more like a runaway train destined to derail. We see their handiwork in under 12-months in government. While Abia State, in six months, is having roads, hospitals, power, and security improved, the rest of Nigeria is sliding into hunger, penury, and strife.

I recall colonial Nigeria had the Rural Electricity Board. Similarly, there was Water Board, with each region having its Water Corporation and utilities effectively distributed to communities in the various regions. Post civil war Unitary decisions centralising governance with a view to micromanage the states for the benefit of the North and subjugation of the East, literarily, destroyed the country. People were eating where they did not sow. Robbing Peter to pay Paul. Oil from the South developing the North with no commensurate feedback loop. 

Perhaps Aba Geometric PIC is the new currency for sustainable development, returning to the model that was and signalled the birth of a Giant. Today it is electricity. Tomorrow, it will be water supply, and soon, it will be natural resources with each geopolitical zone ably regenerating itself towards sustainable development.

But this would only occur in a country bereft of the lies INEC's Mahmoud Yakubu  imposed and sadly ratified by a so-called judiciary.  

A stolen mandate is like eating stolen bread. It tastes like sand, and it chokes the thief.  BAT and his forty thieves are spiralling in confusion at a loss how to navigate their way out of their 'Joy ride' in government.  They will crash, as typical of such escapades. Perhaps Nigeria could yet be saved from building on sandy foundations, which seem to be the want of the imbeciles engaged in tomfoolery they think is governance.

While change is good, knowing the change you are getting is critical. Unfortunately, Nigerians knew who they wanted, but the thieves within and without were bent on installing a tainted puppet leadership. 

Another roller coaster, in an extended Buhari-like years, though worse. If Nigeria still exists, then perhaps Alex Otti's Abia State could be the model, pending when true Federalism is restored.

 NDAG on TOMORROW 'S NIGERIA