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Why Nigeria Doesn’t Need a President
Colonialism is still in session
Four years ago, around this time, Nigeria was immersed in a monumental event that galvanized the harassed population of a nation, that has been on life support ever since the British decided that our wealth could be successfully used to weaponize us into historical defeat.
The election season of 2015 was hailed as the one and only opportunity for traumatized citizens to finally pick the anointed hero, who was well-equipped to finally make Nigeria Great for the first time ever.
There was a lot riding on this, and the mounted pressure was due to the intense gaze of the world, that had suddenly become invested for reasons that had everything to do with the missing Nigerian school girls, who were brutally removed from their dorms by jihadist militant cell — Boko Haram — a year prior.
Before #BringBackOurGirls became the viral sensation of 2014, I had previously expressed the fear of the Islamist terrorists that had begun their reign of terror in 2009, during the leadership of the refreshingly affable but woefully incompetent head of state — President Goodluck Jonathan.
My main concern at that time, was for my parents, who were located in the nation’s capital of Abuja — situated at the very core of Nigeria, and a little too close in…
