About 70% failed WAEC in 2014. I was trying to tell a friend that this shows that the government has failed but his view was that our young ones have become very unserious.
We fail to see that the failure of our government (especially since when the PDP took over in 1999) has degenerated so many things directly and indirectly.
When I was growing up the economy of the country Nigeria was not this bad, my parents had time to look at my home work and made sure they were up to date with my progress in school, this made me and my peers do well in school. In those days a man and a wife could live a comfortable life being civil servants. Today, it is not so, there is no job security, parents double up their jobs with other businesses just to try and make ends meet and most of the time the ends never meet.
Parents spend long hours at work and traffic neglecting their kids in the hands of teachers that can't even read an affidavit (just like the teacher in Edo), population between now and the eighties has exploded but infrastructure have remained the same (in most cases, worse) but our income as a country has increased.
The band wagon effects are more students failing exams, broken homes, high crime rates, disrespecting Nigerians abroad and so on.
We have degenerated to a country that have no national carrier because of the PDP, we lose four hundred thousand barrels of oil everyday through oil bunkering and this has led to oil companies to reduce their stake in Nigeria, because they can not cope. Also under the PDP, we can not refine our oil again and this makes me laugh. It is like my father has a farm of yam, sells it to my neighbour and I go to my neighbours house to buy pounded yam, this is so ridiculous.
Six months after Yar'dua died, our subsidy money rose from 200 Billion Naira to 1.7 trillion Naira, some governors kicked against it and Jonathan promised to block the leakage, two months later it rose to 1.9 trillion Naira. This was in 2011, up to date no one has been convicted in connection to this.
The former CBN governor (the government's banker) said $20 Billion was missing, our president fired him, the Minister of Finance hired an auditing firm to audit this claim but the government has refused to release the report
We are now a country that can not equip our soldiers legitimately, we now have to use a pastor's jet to ferry money illegally to South Africa to buy arms for our military.
All these got worse under the PDP led government. After all these failures, some people still feel we don't need a change that the other party isn't better but in my opinion I feel only a fool will want something that has continuously failed for 15/16 years when there is an alternative (even though the alternative is still "untested").
The first step to change is voting out PDP, this might not necessarily mean the solution, but it is better to take this gamble than to deliberately continue to support the disaster being caused by PDP