What Nigeria is celebrating today at 53 years of age is simply a celebration of a huge national developmental stagnation, decades of the unabated official culture of corruption and the mammoth mismanagement of her state resources by her officials. This celebration is also a celebration of the rule of lawlessness and brutality, the reign of pseudo-democracy in the governance of Nigeria and her party politics as well as a celebration of religious terrorism, religious bigotry and the mediocrity in power. Many questions that are highlighted below remained unanswered from all Nigerians as we celebrate this independence day in the life of this country. These questions demand our immediate responses and practical actions as Nigerian citizens. Today marks a special era in the life of Nigeria which also at the same time calls for a moment of our deepest sober reflection about the present state of our nation.
(i) Is Nigeria truly and presently moving in all reality in the right direction toward her actual greatness and destiny as a nation or not? (ii) Are we exactly where we should be today at 53 years old as a developing nation when we compared our nation with the other similar developing countries around the world in 2013? (iii) Is our oil-wealth a true national blessing to us as a country or a major avenue that directly fuels the reign of the massive official corruption and the huge mismanagement of our state resources by our leaders? (iv) Do our leaders in all honesty truly love this nation that we can call them our genuine patriots or are they not our own traitors that have continued to destroy our nation for the last 53 years? (v) Do we really have any bright future with the present leadership in power, with the present status quo and the business as usual in the governance of this nation? (vi) What are our visible achievements today as a nation that we should all be proud of as Nigerian citizens and should be celebrating?
Nigeria's future for now appears to be very bleak if we continue on the same path that we have towed for the last 53 years as a nation. Time in life marches on despite all the odds in Nigeria. Nigeria can never develop in all reality and be able to address by overcoming all her national challenges and the basic needs or expectations of all Nigerians and still be able to compete globally in all the spheres of human endeavors with the other nations of the world in this 21st century human universe. Nigeria's national affairs and her state resources continue after 53 years of independence to be controlled by the present crops of leaders that can be described simply as mediocre, incompetent fellows, visionless human beings, religious bigots and fanatics, ethnic lords, lawless and selfish public elected officials, treasury looters, traitors and unpatriotic elements to the cores and never our heroes, patriots and nationalists in all ramifications.
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