It is surprising to me that Nigerians, discerning ones inclusive, nurse expectations of our Federal Government as presently constituted. In so much as I would be exceedingly glad for the President Goodluck Jonathan-led government to surprise me(us) and turn things around for the benefit and betterment of the many impoverished Nigerians, I don't nurse expectations of the government, great or small.
My religion is the management sciences where the role God plays is mostly geographical, then, how a nation and its peoples harness their resources towards attaining their goals as a nation is entirely their call. With the advent of tsunamis and earthquakes, that role has become increasingly precarious.
Many patriotic Nigerians have been called names because of their vehemence in denouncing the unsustainable levels of ineptitude and profligacy in government business and insistence in a general change of attitude and approach to governance. They have been called pessimists, cynics, unpatriotic, etc, etc but I'm glad they have never been described as vain or foolish. In my "religion", if you must achieve a different outcome regarding a particular subject matter, you must change ur approach to that subject matter, you must apply different sets of variables and values in dealing with it; different inputs to achieve different outcomes. I don't subscribe to the kind of blind, unfounded hope that abound in Nigeria today, the hope that is built on empty promises and religious sentiments, on indoctrination, mediocrity and crass ineptitude. I subserve myself wholly to the hope that is built on work, hard work.
This regime has not done anything differently from what has sustained the status quo that has asphyxiated Nigeria's growth and development and there is no indication it will find the gumption to do so. I've always suspected the next four years of our democratic sojourn will be wasted chasing shadows, the only thing I'm unsure about is the quantum of the waste but I predict it will be monumental. However, patriotism moves me to work and hope and pray fervently that I'm proved wrong.
Unless this regime changes it's approach to governance and adopts new variables, we should never expect a different outcome from the last 12 years of PDP profligacy.
Finally, someone should tell our president that international recognition, peace, security and socioeconomic development will not accrue to Nigeria, and by extension himself by the number of handshakes or photographs he takes with President Barrack Obama.
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