Nigerians needs to think deep and dig hard to redress this repressing and anaemic conundrum that is requiring nothing but an elixir and complete divine intervention to annihilate through this short intermittent phases of our national existence and empathically mediate on our wobble solidarity as a nation.
This economic dispair have somehow come to stay. It's a bargain unmeritable of a warm reception or rousy ovation. It's completely unacceptable. A balance needs no deserving compromise at this bleak and uncertain juncture, a mediation or striking a hard bargain is a plausible perception.
Exactly as Adegoke Adelabu Penkelemesi once posited that "it is derogatory to the dignity of the human personality to ameliorate his condition by almsgiving". He called the common Nigerian man " The Silent Millions". He was a staunch proponent for the set up of a crusade for redemption which is long merited and in fact overdue.
The populace deserves better, in fact Nigerians deserve the best, we've been through thick and thin. Pre-colonial era bred the imperialist as a converging foe who have come to impoverish and obliterate our culture. But at the moment after over 60 years, we are our worst enemies.
Our executive arms of government should set a good moral standard, they need to exemplify and transform their oratory prowess and writing dexterity into a realm of reality. The possibilities are unmeasurable. We simply need to get it right this time, with a spiceful blend of past and present day euphoria to achieving a realizable dream and objective.
It's no gainsaying that we do not ordinarily deserve competent hands at the helm, but individuals who are sympathetic to the believe of a great Nigeria. People who stand for our national unity, people who can neither be categorized as an imperialist, a tribalist nor an isolationist (this individual groups are rather pitied than fought). Men of honour whose believe of a one Nigeria knows no bound. Men who adorn the garb and illuminate the vision that the crux of the problem of a united Nigeria is sacrifice.
Sacrifice of a one and unified Nigeria, albeit the abundance of multi-ethnicity and diverse culture, courteously marshalled to earmark and actualize a vision of a greater nation.
Nigeria can be great again, if we exercise our full potential and capacity as one sovereignty devoid of paranoid and insecurity amid our variable ethnic, culture and belief.
And like the Great Nigerian Nationalist, Adegoke Adelabu Penkelemesi would assert: "- any pretty human conspiracy to tear our Grand Country into dwarfed, impotent and watering compartment will die naturally in its due season".
May God help this once noble country.
Tribute to the Great Adegoke Adelabu Penkelemesi, who had a vision even far greater than a one Nigeria. May your stack of achievable yet unattained dreams come to reality in your descendants and sundry.
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