Nigeria’s faulty system

THE problem with Nigeria is the absence of a patriotic national establishment. President Olusegun Obasanjo – an establishment player needs to move away from letter writing to help those in power to succeed. The lack of collaboration by major actors to move Nigeria forward is the country’s greatest hindrance. Unlike someplace where statesmen come together to hold think clinics, looking for the way forward, ours are always busy in ego wars.

I think former president Olusegun Obasanjo is green with envy at President Muhammadu Buhari’s popularity especially with his awe-inspiring admiration by the plain folks in the north. No establishment player in our time has that advantage. Not even Obasanjo in his geographical block. This is not a campaign for President Buhari because he has also let me down on a number of issues, considering that I voted for him, having expected so much from him.

The system in Nigeria is the problem of Nigeria and not of personages. We have a system where elected officials rig their ways into offices, it is a system where statesmen don’t keep political undertakings and party pledges. Nigeria is a country with no genuine party structure leading to a real political party system.

This profited president Obasanjo who brazenly did away with his party’s rotational presidency agreement on principle that should have seen us more united than ever. He could afford to do so because politics in Nigeria is not by training and experience but by twist of fate. The reason he wanted to run for office for the third time against the democratic reasoning of Nigeria.

Simon, Abah Abuja