By BEN OGU Nigeria is a country of those who neither understand their problem nor the root cause. Otherwise, it is nauseating that a country of learned and intelligent citizens of over two hundred million, blessed with a superfluity of natural resources and yet held in bondage of penury by a minute percentage of politicians, are, rather, always protesting against hunger, fuel, kidnapping by herdsmen, bandits, and now, abduction of school children in droves. It is most ridiculous that they are naively appealing to the government who benefit from these ailments to voluntarily end bad governance, as if they care. Protesting for hunger, fuel or abduction is typical of the biblical Esau, who condescended to ask for mere food in exchange for his birthright; or the biblical Israelites, who reminisced and nursed nostalgia for the food in the slave land as an alternative to total liberation from the land. In the present harrowing situation, it is ridiculous that Nigerians should be protesting against suffering and kidnapping, instead of liberation from the furnace of the imposed and enslaving 1914 amalgamation and the 1999 cringing unitary constitution that are the root cause of their malady. To ask the government to voluntarily end bad governance or their grip on the unitary entity by themselves is typical of shouting to or hugging the stone, which is clinging to futility. It is like asking a man to personally tear a lucrative business dynasty he enjoys, just because it discomforts you, when you should disband it yourself, if you have the capacity to do so. Therefore, the often sporadic and erratic protest for government to end bad governance crafted to benefit them is as fantasizing and illusory as romancing with the stone. Hunger, fuel price and abduction are only symptoms and not the core problem of Nigeria. The squeezing in a terminally dysfunctional and incongruous structure, orchestrated by internal and external minders, is the architect of all the maladies, and extrication from the structure is the only panacea. There can be no other solution, as no successful good governance can result in a foundationally disabled template as the Nigerian union. Every Nigerian election is externally superintended, and stooge presidents are installed, while their exit is also masterminded and orchestrated by the same external diplomatic disguises, should they fail to do the master’s bidding. This is why Nigerian presidential aspirants always go to external countries for the determination of their candidacy before election. Only freedom from these shackles of external masterminding and control of the sovereignty or restructuring of the incongruous unity is the imperative. The Real Problem The problem of Nigeria transcends leadership ineptitude and regime change and defies them. The 1914 arbitrary amalgamation of components of disparity and the strangulating 1999 constitution are the bedrocks of the Nigerian problem and irredeemably doom it from the foundation. In all justified scepticism and pessimism, no election or living Nigerian, including Peter Obi with all his acclaimed refined character, can successfully bring the country to a civilized human standard and order. This is because the present Nigeria is an internally incongruous bundle, tied to an umbilical cord of internal and external parasites. It is not by accident that any presidential aspirant suspected to hold a prospect for solution to Nigeria’s crippled state would be halted except he agrees to work on the terms of some proxy masters. The country is cancerously and terminally diseased by its unity and the organized conspiracy of internal and external political elite which thwarts whatever tends to work. Not with this entrenched interest at its jugular to harvest the heart of Nigeria will the country ever function, as it makes the country exist for others, and its chemistry of incompatible ethnic components makes the internal ailment terminally incurable. Nigeria is screwed to progressively retrogress, deteriorate and loop in deathly decadence, so as not to compete with her masters. What is needed to end this tied-to-death union is not intermittent feeble hearted and impulsive run around the road protest that avails nothing, but a seismic revolution that interrogates the lethal union and sets the ethnic groups free and autonomous of the paralyzed structure. The continuous protest at the prompt of fuel and food price rises, or abduction, kidnapping of school children or demand of minimum wage, is mere conventional placard display of caricature and absurdity. Population Illusion It is ridiculous that Nigerian citizens still revel and glory in the myth and euphoria of “united”, “populous”, “great” and “oil nation”, which works only in the frenzy World Cup TV view and psychologically instills emotion of identical and collective citizenship and diverts attention from their dehumanization to a false
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