Nigerians are worse off today under this democratically elected government than anytime that I knew in the recent history of the governance of this country and in my own personal judgement. Nigerians are poorer today than anytime that I knew in the history of that country. Nigerians are more jobless, helpless and hopeless today than anytime that I knew in the past in that country. Nigerians earn lower wages today than anytime in the past.
The Nigerian Naira is weaker today than in the past. The standard of living of most Nigerians and their purchasing power are lower today than in the past years or decades. There is more unemployment today in Nigeria than in the past decades. There is more insecurity to the life and properties of Nigerians today than under any administration that I knew. The health care delivery in Nigeria today is worse than anytime that I knew. The quality of public education today in Nigeria is lower than in the years or decades that have gone by.
Nigerians have less access to the basic social services today than in the past. The national inflation rate on goods and services is higher today than under any government of the past. The unabated official corruption, resource mismanagement, oil bunkering, tax evasion, smuggling, dubious import duty waivers and money laundering are more rampant today than anytime in the past that I have personally witnessed or known growing up in that country.
The age-long Nigerian Dream of good paying job, car and home ownership, decent living and retirement is eluding more Nigerians today than anytime in the life of that country. The only beneficiaries from the Nigeria's democracy of the last 15 years are the 17,500 (0.01% of all Nigerians) public elected and appointed state officials at all levels and their cronies who are milking the nation's resources dry in the name of democracy, public service, the privatization of those lucrative public corporations and the oil blocs #DemocracyForTheNigerianPoliticalElite
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