14/06/2022
Note: I don't believe any elected president can do well operating the codswallop called 'Nigerian constitution'. Don't get your hopes too high. Without restructuring, we may still end up with a better predecessor to the successor, and it will keep going on like that.
The system is the problem and not personnel changing.
Overhauling our Constitution is one of the keys to building a sustainable system of government. When a law is designed to punish offenders within a system, then you won't need a Twitter-influenced candidate to come save your country. Rather the system will create a platform for the merit candidates to only show interest.
In Nigeria, the system permits dummies to show interest (such you have had in the likes of Obj, Jonathan, Buhari, and now maybe some Atiku, Tinubu & Others, while the Intelligent fellows are perceived as noise makers.
The system goes after preachers of good governance and ends up charging them with felony offenses (Kalu & Sowore are here).
The system knows and has the list of 'b/haram sponsors' and has refused to persecute or make them public. The system empowers insecurity and expects even more in the coming government if measures are not taken to pan them.
During GEJ, we needed GMB to come and end insecurity we didn't know being a former army is the crudest path to more insecurities in the land.
And now in the same pattern, we want another candidate.
In 2014, Elder statesmen/women chaired a national conference and dialogued on the common issues affecting the nation.
In a church meeting in 2015, a member of the Confab in person of Pst Tunde Bakare said that, what was dialogued at the confab would have been the projector of the nigeria we all desire, as issues of constitutional reforms and equality among regions, were also talked about.
But both the outcome and implementation of the Confab are nowhere to be found. Those who benefit from the wreck system would fight to keep it thus. Think about this! If Buhari as a war General could not solve Nigeria's insecurity problem. Don't be deceived, no one can solve it under the present system of govt.
With a restructured system, governors take responsibility for what happens in their states, Chairman gives answers to what happens in the LG.
Without a restructured method, it is just going to be another roller-coaster journey from 4yrs to 8yrs.