SIR: Injustice is a major factor militating against peace and unity in Nigeria. Justice is often understood as being the fair application of rules of law. As it is connected with law, obligation, rights and duties, it measures out its awards according to equality or merit.
Nigeria is a country where what is good for the goose is not good for the gander. We desire and deserve a president without primordial ethnic sentiments. Nigerians should not succumb to self-deception. We should not be deluded or carried away by stipends offered to buy our consciences by wicked politicians who enjoyed and benefited from the abject poverty Nigerians are wallowing in. We should be tired of pretenders who will come over to tell us what we want to hear- sweet words.
We need a president or governor who will be responsive and sensitive, not a charlatan. It is unfortunate that successive governments always concealed their plan of widening the gap between the rich and the poor. Since we have been practising democracy, no government has ever reduced the gap even by 1%.
This is why kidnapping, banditry, armed robbery and incessant violence have become orders of the day. To get over these problems, we need an honest person without false sincerity or honesty. We are all creatures of habit; the impression our leaders exhibited before they came into power always negate what they profess as we could see today. They successfully manoeuvred our intelligence with their deceitful reputation for honesty.
Whenever a mediocre like a chameleon changes their nomenclature of political party, they are celebrated. It is only in this part of the world that those in authority distribute wealth among their family members, in-laws and friends who knew nothing on how they got there.
They lie in their declaration of properties before coming to power and falsify their account status to actualise their pre-planned fraud. Nigerians desire and deserve a person without deceptive desires but with the right dominant mental attitude.
In our march of looking for credible leadership, we should subject the aspirants to the character and mental diagnosis, which is a function of their outstanding records on official behaviour and performances. It took only four years for Senator Bola Tinubu to put on track the developmental train of Lagos to become the indisputable commercial capital of Nigeria.
Chief Obasanjo kept Nigeria as one indivisible, multi-ethnic nation as president; Umaru Yar’Adua and Dr Goodluck Jonathan followed his steps. Sir Ahmadu Bello’s belief that we should manage our tribal and religious differences and tolerate one another; Nasir El-Rufai’s belief in calling spade a spade; Seyi Makinde’s belief that workers and retirees deserve their wages and Nyesom Wike’s position that the poor deserve good health care; Senator Agboola Halleluyah’s belief that we can have a new Nigeria with liberal mind and large heart.
These are issues that should determine ultimately the president and governors Nigeria should have in 2023.
- Kofo Adeagbo,
Ilaji-Ile, Oyo State.