By Martins Oloja
But for the way we are
– as a country without leaders who are afraid of the people, I would have
borrowed the title of an artful writer, Brett Baker who had on August 18, 2017
said of his country, ‘Don’t look now, but we are a country with no leader’. I
mean, I would have liked the title of the anniversary essay on my country at 58
to be: ‘Nigeria
@ 58: A Country Without A Leader’.
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Despite the prevailing situation, I
am still persuaded as we celebrate Nigeria at 58 that we are a nation
with an absentee leader. There is a sense in which we can also look at the 36
states of the federation, 774 local governments and the three arms of
government in this convoluted federation and claim too that we are indeed a
country without nation builders (leaders) at all levels.
