By Richard Odusanya
SIR: Nigeria, on May 29, will usher in a new wind, our beloved country is on the threshold of history, this time around, a wind of change in the most populated black nation and Africa’s largest economy is about to witness a new dawn.
Nigeria was long overdue for a change in all realms and ramifications. How badly you want something, your determination to succeed is what differentiates you from others. Life is a performance, made up of the things we do and what we don’t do. As a nation destined for greatness, we are on a voyage with a new sheriff who doubles as the navigator.
Regrettably, it became a national outcry from the citizenry, the economy, educational institutions, the infrastructural assets, our healthcare facilities took a state of decay at all levels, stimulating a high rate of death and agitation amongst the general workforce across the board. When a living thing is deprived of air, death elements set in.
Despite the unpleasant situations and near hopelessness, there is a ‘Renewed Hope‘ in the making. Our beloved country Nigeria will rise again – from despondency and shortchanged feelings to vibrancy in all regions.
It is instructive, to note that leadership-cum-politics are phenomenal realities – let it be clearly stated that the Nigerian people who are united in subjugation, and deprivation, and bear the brunt of our leaders’ inept leadership have risen to make a clean, compassionate, decent, sensitive, upright yet radical and revolutionary entreaty to the incoming President, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, who is saddled with the unenviable responsibility of kick-starting the healing process which should begin with the bonding of the three major tribes: our vibrant Hausa, Igbo and the Yoruba great people. The new President should consider such responsibility for unity of purpose in governance, which must be guarded jealously – ‘Unity-Trinity.’
For clarification, it can no longer be business as usual. Thankfully, in the words of the President-elect: “I am coming with a private sector mindset. “This means that the days of indolence and unproductive civil service and rogue public office holders are over and never to be witnessed again. A new dawn and a new sheriff have been born. Therefore, the issues of Unity and Progress, Mind Restructuring and the 4th Industrial Revolution should be the topmost priority.