President Jonathan Goodluck of Nigeria was reported by the media to have led over 3,000 other Nigerians who were visiting the state of Israel as religious tourists on a prayer the will change Nigeria for better and make her a great nation in the world. Has Jonathan Goodluck forgotten that Nigerians are one of the most religious and prayerful people in the world of today and yet they have nothing to show for their prayers despite all the Churches, Mosques and shrines that are in the every nook and cranny of Nigeria?
Is prayer or lack of prayer the problem of Nigeria for the last 53 years of her independence from Britain or the decades of those heavily corrupt, unpatriotic, inept and mediocre leadership that has ruled Nigeria as a nation to date? Which of the advanced economies and the emerging economies of the world of today in 2013 had successfully used the instrument of national prayer for their own nation-building by becoming the great nations of the moment? Has Jonathan Goodluck forgotten that the Nigerian 1999 constitution that he swore to uphold and to defend as the President of Nigeria has no single legal provision for prayer in the governance of Nigeria and prayer or using prayer to govern Nigeria is not one of the official job responsibilities of the office of the President of Nigeria? Has Jonathan Goodluck forgotten that Nigeria is a secular state where state and religion are separated?
Has Jonathan Goodluck forgotten that the Nigerian 2013 federal budget that he signed into law has no financial provision in it for any holy pilgrimage to Israel with over 800 delegates that were reported by Sahara Reporters to have accompanied this President on this religious tourism trip on the backs of the ailing Nigerian economy and her helpless tax payers? The only nation that has gained economically from this religious tourist of the presidency of Nigeria is the state of Israel who has now received a big financial boost into her religious tourism business with the Nigeria's oil wealth. Has President Jonathan Goodluck of Nigeria forgotten that the true answer to the Nigeria's problems is not in that type of higly hypocritical, attention-seeking and deceptive religious prayers that are not based on any true repentance from his evil ways or the true change of his heart to begin to do good for Nigeria?
Nigeria is truly a nation of religious bigots from its leadership to the disciples in all reality. I weep for my beloved country in 2013. What is happening in Israel today under President Jonathan Goodluck is a direct sign of a man that has failed totally in his official responsibilities as a leader. No great nation of the world today ever succeeded with prayers only without putting the good governance, the rule of law and accountable leadership in place.
The unabated 53 years of the bad, mediocre, corrupt and failed leadership in Nigeria have forced millions of Nigerians to lose their personal faith in the promises of their own government and leaders. This sad experience has now pushed millions of these helpless, hopeless, desperate and vulnerable Nigerians into religious ignorance and bigotry where everything in their personal life is now reduced fully to the realm of miracles and supernatural interventions.
Nigeria as a nation can never see in all reality nor witness any true or meaningful national development in her lifetime if these set of rogues, treasury looters, traitors, rotten eggs, lawless public officials, abusers of public office or power, black sheep, mediocre, religious fanatics or bigots, liars, shady fellows, men and women of easy virtue, unpatriotic elements, bad managers of public funds and trust as well as chronic spendthrifts are fully in charge of the Nigeria's wealth and the national affairs of our beloved country.
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