The year 2014 in Nigeria will all be about politics and the proposed 2015 presidential election. The final battle line is now openly drawn between the incumbent President Jonathan Goodluck who is bent on returning to the Aso Rock villa in 2015 by all means and at all cost on one hand versus the combined political forces of Chief Olusegun Obasanjo and the opposition APC. In any human battle to control power, one side will have to win and the other side will have to lose at the end of the day. The various political developments that have taken place so far in Nigeria in the year 2013 all point to the fact that it will be practically easier for a carmel to pass through the eye of a needle than for President Jonathan Goodluck to return to the Aso Rock in 2015.
On the Nigerian economy, there will be no changes or any visible and tangible improvement in 2014. Politicians in Nigeria will be totally focused like the laser beam on winning those elections and retaining their current political offices. The money that is meant for the recurrent and the capital expenditures will be diverted into winning those elections. The public elected and appointed officials who are not sure of surviving the oncoming political hurdles in 2015 will be busy stock pilling their last loots. The Nigerian government will continue to borrow more money from those international lending agencies in the name of the national development agenda that will never see the light of the day in all reality. The nation's foreign debt will continue to rise, the value of the Nigerian Naira will continue to drop against those major international currencies.
The minimum wage will stay stagnant, the unemployment rate amongst the youths will continue to increase, the prices of goods and services will go up due to the inflation that will be caused by the falling Nigerian Naira, the purchasing power of Nigerians without any access to the government coffers and contracts will drop drastically, the social services will not improve, the health care services will remain the same and the proposed plan to develop our national infrastructures will continue to be a lip service in all reality. I see more social unrests, Boko Haram terrorism, kidnappings for ransom, armed robbery, ritual killings, drug traffickings, prostitution, political uncertainties and workers' strikes due to the unbearable pains of the failing national economy and the national political tension or tussle in the land.
In conclusion, these developments in Nigeria in 2014 could lead to the most turbulent political era that Nigerians have never seen or witnessed in the last 53 years of her nationhood. These massive political tensions may eventually result in the suspension of the 2015 presidential election for a uniform national demand by all Nigerian ethnic nationalities to now converge the long overdue Sovereign National Conference that will determine the future of the troubled Nigerian federating units.
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