"The best place to solve a problem is on paper"
- Jim Rohn
My dear President Goodluck Jonathan,
I am writing this comment because I am concerned about our collective investment in the Nigerian project and the overwhelming feeling I have that we, the common citizens would all go to the bank to cash the cheque of our collective patrimony and it will be marked "insufficient funds, drawers attention required". I also have a predisposition to view issues and challenges from a project management mode and in this mode sentiments are cast aside and resolution plans documented to ensure full understanding of a problem, clarity of thought and action and that no stones are left unturned in the processes of action planning and solution implementation.
A lot of people are cheering you on in the pretext that all is well but I beg to differ, on the grounds that it shall take more than an uncanny believe in providence and, or indulgence in piety to steer our beloved country, this giant with feet of clay out the doldrums back into greatness. Making Nigeria great again will take clear, concise, creative action planning and focused wilful implementation to say the least.
I am so deeply pained that the Nigerian electorate has been so serially deranged that the mere thought of having the seeming best of several bad prospects as a ruler sends them into frenzied ecstasy like schizophrenics dancing to drumbeats from yonder worlds; like moth being attracted to the fire.
I recognize that you are a nice guy, who definitely has good, even great intentions for Nigeria but I write with every sense of responsibility that leading Nigeria out of the plethora of challenges facing it is not a job for "nice guys" and "the road to hell, they say... is paved with good intentions". All intentions are latent until they are concretized by documentation and followed through by self application towards the goal. Your taciturnity at critical moments of national unease, times when the nation is incontinent with confusion neither emboldens us to support your political aspirations nor epitomizes the firmness we expect in our leader in the unfolding dispensation; it portrays you as not having a firm handle on the depths to which this country has sunk or the fact that moving it forward will entail a complete departure from the current way of doing government business.
In the case that I am wrong, that you do know what measures to take to revive our irretrievably decaying socio-economic and infrastructural life as a nation, where have you documented your action plan? Where is your manifesto on how you plan to get Nigeria out of the guillotine? You were an academic; are marks awarded to students in a subject if they come into the exam hall and proclaim they know the answers to set questions but that the answers are cocooned in their memory? No way! You give them an answer script and ask them to put pen on paper. In all sincerity, we will rest assured in trusting you with our votes and defend that mandate with our lives if you would document your action plan and let it serve as a contract between you and us, the electorate.
The strive for a free and fair election is, and will remain a mantra until we can be able to read the action plan of aspirants to elective positions and debate with them on ways and means of implementing these action plans. Such a document would serve in deepening their understanding of situations, clarify their thoughts and in the course of fine-tuning the contents with the electorate, engender buy-in to their programs.
It is my humble believe that the contract for leadership in Nigeria can no more be between our leaders and their God or their conscience; it would and must be between them and Nigerians.
Thank you for finding time to read my comments.
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