Sir: Pessimism is a negative emotion of the mind – if not checked and controlled, could lead to many negative things that adversely affect the individual holding and radiating it in the community. Covert and overt activities of a pessimist result to bitterness, anger that poisons the adrenalin gland. A pessimist fantasizes hopelessness in (the place full of hope) and opportunities, such that he can knowingly or unknowingly bring chaos, which may provoke break down of law and order.
It is on this note, I advise Nigerians to keep hope alive and be patient to see how the eight-point’s agenda of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu GCFR unfolds.
We have a listening president that listens with a view of joining forces with us to proffer solution. Campaign of calumny on persons of leaders and the government is not a solution to matters – it can only trigger off violent protests and vandalism. What do we gain to instigate street urchins, motor park boys, innocent youth to run amock and vandalize government building buildings, installations and property? Bring in your ideas and let government collate them for action. My own suggestion to the government led by President Ahmed Bola Tinubu is – prioritise food infrastructure/welfare over road infrastructure and other infrastructural development, for now.
I consider food infrastructural provision and that of welfare to be the panacea that will bring calm to the raging storm. Funding of agriculture that the government is currently doing is good – for long term solution. The atmosphere and homes of ordinary Nigerians are charged with bitterness, hunger, inflation and disease while government appointees, politicians and elites are merry making and ready to dance macabre dance on top of the graves of poor Nigerians.
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We are not in famine but in the season ravaged by inflation. Inflation is a global economic phenonmeon; no country in the world of man is immuned to the scourge of inflation. The United States of America, United Kingdom etc, have experienced inflation. The youth should not allow disgruntled politicians, misguided and mischievous persons to instigate them to act of rioting and vandalism. Remember, those who allowed their heads to be used in breaking coco-nut, do not stay alive to eat of it.
Use of creative ideas remaains the best way of going about revolutionary change. Martin Luther King brought radical change with idea, Confucius through his Confucianism brought revolutionary change in China, late Pa Obafemi Awolowo brought democratic socialism – as a radical political idea in Nigeria. Bring out your own ideas, and stop violent extremism.