By Pieray Awele Odor
Every Nigerian who has been in
Nigeria since the first democratic government, 1960 to 1966, would have quest
for a better governance. Every Nigerian who has been in Nigeria since the
second democratic government, 1979 to 1983, would have quest for a better
governance. Every Nigerian who has been in Nigeria since the third democratic
government, 1999 to this day, will have quest for a better governance. Every
Nigerian who has been in Nigeria since the beginning of the second term of the
present government in 2019 would have quest for a better governance.
I
note some of the situations that we have borne so incredibly stoically and have
been credited by foreign people for our “resilience” and given the title of
“the happiest people”. Fela Anikulapo-Kuti called these “suffering and
smiling”. All the situations have been progressively worse from one democratic
government to another and every year of a new democratic government. As my
defence of these assertions, I note the following: Poverty, suffering and agony
have got worse progressively since the first democratic government.