There is no way we can continue like this as a nation. Anybody who is going to rule Nigeria in 2015 must come to Nigerians and tell us his vision, his ideas and where he is taking us to. He should tell us how he is going to achieve those plans for us. This is the time for us to know what our potential leaders have in mind to do for us.
We want to listen to people that have researched the issues, the problems and the challenges of this nation. We want that person that understands Nigeria and Nigerians, as well as the place and context of Nigeria among the nations. We want that person who has a plan, a purpose, a vision, a direction and who has a heart for this nation, someone who will take this nation from where it is to where it should be.
We don’t want business-as-usual anymore in this nation. We have too much at stake and we have too much to lose. Nigeria is one of the most blessed nations in the world and yet because we have consistently had at the helm of affairs people who have neither plans nor thoughts, we are wallowing in abject poverty. Such a situation cannot persist.
This is the time to be spent in the backrooms with a think-tank of people planning, researching and having ideas, consulting and thinking of what they would do once they become president of this nation or governor of a state. Nigerians no longer want to be slaves in their own nation. Nigerians want to have a say in where their country is going.
My question to a lot of people is that when your name is called, what would you leave for posterity? What are you going to leave for the future? What are you going to leave for generations yet unborn? How are you going to say that you came, you saw, you conquered, and that you were part of the force and covenant of Nigeria? This is the question and the issue that is confronting Nigeria.
Therefore I am appealing that the real person that God has chosen to rule this nation should be somewhere and by this time be doing his homework, planning and thinking of where Nigeria is heading for. I am also appealing to the generality of Nigerians that when this fellow shows up, we would receive him because we would know that this is the man that God has mandated to take us to where we are going.
We are tired in Nigeria of struggling for light, water, jobs, food, transport and dying on a daily basis because of lack of medical care and from road accidents, due to bad roads. We are tired of not being able to plan and have a direction and of working so hard and having so little to show for it. We are tired of living in constant fear of armed robbers and fear of even the police with their jungle justice.
Year 2015 will mark a watershed in the life of this nation. It will mark a turning point for good or for bad in the life of this nation. It will mark the permanency of democracy. It will ensure that we don’t go back, that the military won’t come back anymore and that Nigeria is put on a pedestal for growth. We need freshness and a new beginning.
So whoever will become the president of this nation come 2015 must be somebody who will not bring back old memories, somebody who will not be a part of the old school and somebody who will bring fresh ideas and take us into the future. I believe that God will certainly help us.
