#BabaItIsTime..

#BabaItIsTime..

It has been an impatient and long wait since March 28th to finally heave a sigh of relief that the people's General would be transforming into the people's  President in only a matter of hours.

This seemingly endless wait to sack incompetence only falls short in my opinion of the wait for Clark Kent to fly in the fantasy series Smallville. The underlying necrotizing fascitis caused by uninhibited corruption has finally become apparent, exposing the severity of the wound dealt to Nigeria by reckless and incompetent stewards in the name of economics and solidarity.

Nigeria has been hemorrhaging for years now both internally and externally; she has been continuously forced to dance naked and dragged towards the cliff of irreversible economic ruin by quacks and vandals. Like a chronic toothache, the symptoms of extremely poor management have been manifesting as recurrent pain and some sleepless nights. Nigeria has repeatedly been denied quality treatment; she's been forced to apply "touch 'n' go" or "battery acid" to provide temporary relief for the toothache with the associated complications completely ignored.

It is time to press the reset button of this potentially great nation called Nigeria. The time has come for us to start doing normal and regularly things which prosperous countries do. The things that make a nation great are not necessarily of rocket science proportions. There is absolutely no point seeking to land a man on Saturn when human beings enough to populate some nations are left homeless, jobless, diseased or deranged enough to destroy themselves. Those who still feel persuaded to continue singing the adulterated praise of the outgoing president should visit an average fuel station and observe the tragedy that the Nigerian race has become.

The proliferation of petrol kegs and a few captured scenes of violence at and around fuel pumps indicts the outgoing government and exposes the fraud behind the cosmetic repackaging they have wasted the resources of the country on. Nigerians now practically commute carrying varying sizes of vessels filled with petrol like such contained apple juice. A first-time visitor would be forgiven if he/ she thought that empty jerry cans was part of our repertoire of fashion accessories. This is however just scratching the surface of the surface as revelations from the oil and power sectors of the nation's economy could trigger ventricular tachycardia in most and even more grave complications in the faint hearted.

It is high time we chopped off the second and third heads of those who think and act like they are superior to others based on any perceived economic, intellectual, religious or socio-political advantage. Just like the incoming president has said repeatedly; it is time to liberate the judiciary and truly empower the law enforcement agencies. Nigerians need to learn what contentment means; we need to do away with our toxic arrogance and negative ethno-religious default settings. The hour has come to believe in the viability of the Nigerian project and also to work tirelessly and wholeheartedly towards making this dream a reality. It will be difficult to excise from our hearts and minds the clamour for independent or breakaway nations from this albeit forced union. None of Biafra, Arewa, Odua republic or Lower Niger can halt the persistent clamour for ethnic representation because the struggle would only get broken down to extended and immediate family feuds that will never end. We already have a nation, let us make it work with the same kind of solidarity Nigerians in diaspora exhibit.

Before now, parents have been eating their fill before the children smell the food. It is time to reverse this trend and secure the future of even generations unborn. We are a multitude with sufficient potential to power the entire African continent and the surrounding oceans; the time to harness has come. The days of self pity and running fìlà in hand are over; the solutions to our peculiar problems lie within our human resources. We should and will put our best foot forward; our very best team will always be selected devoid of any infantile considerations and sentiments. As genius as Lionel Messi is; I can wager that he would never take a potentially world cup winning penalty kick with his right foot. This is Nigeria's world cup and grand slam. Our chance to win and reign is here.

Baba got the mandate of a few scores of his military peers just over 30 years ago. He went about the business then rather very aggressively and those who installed decided to hijack the rudder. They could not afford to end his life then because they needed him alive and unscathed to gain some legitimacy from the people they claimed they were saving from his perceived hard and uncomfortable rule. I do not think it is a mere coincidence that General Buhari is still around today when it could have been ended that day in August of '85. Nigeria seems to have remained in a hypnotic state since then, brainwashed of the fundamentals of nationhood and spiraling down into the abyss of self destruction. It is time for the General to preside and show example again but this time empowered by the mandate of the people who have hitherto been held bondage by ineptitude and a culture of waste. The jinx is over, the spell is broken and the jails are beckoning.

Baba put on your agbádá, your cap and that your black rimmed glasses. "Prof" is good to go and so are your people. There is a nation to resuscitate and run effectively beyond the expectation of naysayers. In the interim, the hustle for petrol is very important so that I can watch the inauguration.

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Baba, it is time!!!.