Nigeria is in very serious crises. Very very serious crises staring us in the face. Handlers of the State who have annexed power are working against the Nigerian State from within.
The State is committing treason against itself. Working with non-state actors to advance the attempt to subvert the State. Our country’s very existence is threatened in very unusual manner.
Those who want the State to survive are oppressed and imprisoned by agents of the State and those who want to subvert and destroy the State are compensated and protected. The State has become a merchandize.
But it appears like with all these incongruities, what will still decide the next election in 2023 will not be how to solve the problems but what religion is more popular between Christianity and Islam. Two foreign beliefs from one loin, struggling for superiority in our homeland and now elevated far and above our existentialism.
But a dispassionate appraisal of the avouchment of these same religions will expose the hypocrisy of the proponents of religious tickets who only always use their religious prebendalism to hoodwink us.
Both Christianity and Islam claim to be religions of peace. Apart from the fact that the duo are from the same loins, development has come to many nations in their name.
Even in their characteristic naked exploitation and subjugation, Islam and Christianity still provided education and social services to our communities one way or the other.
The intrepid missionaries built infrastructure; at least to enable them penetrate and seize our souls, resources and lands. They built hospitals to keep their slave workforce fit for labor. They built roads to transport our mineral resources offshore, the built schools to assimilate us into their culture, etc.
But those who have run Nigeria since independence have not been traditionalists. They have not been Buddhists or Zoroastrianists. They have been Christians and Muslims.
There has never been a time any leader took an oath of office in Nigeria without bearing a Bible or Qur’an in their hands. Yet the two are counter accusing each other of being the problem of Nigeria.
The two are telling us yet again that it is one of them that must run Nigeria come 2023 but none is saying how the challenges bestriding our country will be solved.
When vain, vile, filthy and wicked men seek power to control the people and our resources and resort to the opium of the poor people which is religion and convince the hoi polloi to join in that frenzy, it only depicts us as a people still languishing in pedestrian manipulation and incapable of measuring our dilemma with exactitude.
Not as a nation of God fearing people because we don’t fear God. But I wish above all things that those who are the town and village criers today were actually Christians and Muslims who love their God.
May be we will comfortably expect the development we see in Israel and Saudi Arabia right here in Nigeria after the next elections.
On the contrary, those who use religion today to ask for your votes or use it to tell you how or who to vote, are not doing so because they love God or love those religions.
It’s only a convenient tool at a convenient time for convenient ballots. Most of them are neither Christians nor Muslims. They all have alternative alters in their closets and they tarry there. It’s not as if that matters to me anyway.
I only want to remind you that the 2023 election is not to elect the President of CAN or the President MURIC. It is the election of the Nigerian President. Keep that in mind as you get your PVC.
Yours sincerely,
Citizen Agba Jalingo
