1. My fellow Nigerian youths, its election season again. 2019 election preps are getting started gradually. As Tuface said in one of his songs, they are coming to tell us another story again oooo. So get ready for the jamboree of failed political and economic policies. Please ensure you have fun all through the processes, but expect no miracle worker to occupy these offices. The simple reality is this country is grounded. There’ s an emergency need for a holistic revamp of our systems and institutions, else Nigeria will be dead finally before we wake up from our slumber. Our parents and leaders have failed us terribly. They inherited a functioning country but they are about to pass over to us a grounded country.
2. Using an analogy of a car, the leadership is the driver and the citizens are the passengers. The combustion and transmission components are the systems and institutions of the country. The panel body is the country outlook while the policies are the wheels. A car with a well inflated wheels and good-looking panel body with an efficient engine and transmission will definitely yields a comfortable journey for all the occupants. But a car with faulty engine or transmission component will always result to an unpleasant journey to both the drivers and the passengers regardless of whether the wheels and panel body are in good condition. Such a car will need a major overhaul else, it will turn to a scrap at the soonest time. My brethren, our country needs a major overhaul and it must happen soonest time.
3. Just like any major car repair, a major system overhaul will be expensive, frustrating and takes a very long period of time. In fact, just like the auto technician may not get the car running proper after the first run of repair, we as the patriots too may experience few hiccups at the first few times. It certain that the end will surely justify the means, as we’ll be victorious and better off. But, let’s all remember that it’s never an ending task. Our new constitution should make provision for processes that can always revalidate our national unity. No system of government last forever, there’s a continuous need for re-evaluation of whatever we’ve built.
4. Unfortunately, most of us Nigerians are unpatriotic. Its personal interest first before country/society.
5. NO Presidential candidate can transform Nigeria in this current political arrangement, as it is a known phenomenon that no crop can blossom on an infertile soil.
6. Politicians will always want to remain in power. Power corrupts, absolute power corrupt absolutely. Does this explain why the military wanted a centralized government? Only those who current benefit from the system want the status quo unchanged.
7. Centralized government has been tested and hasn’t work for Nigerians. Isn’t time for a constitution amendment? The current ruling party says no to restructuring. It’s obvious that they don’t have the keys to our liberation.
8. Bad governance isn’t just in government; it’s strong and wide in the country’s private corporations. Beware of what the so called technocrats who claim to be advocates for good governance in government. (Nobody holy pass as Tuface talk am). Let them show us examples of what they’ve done in their private corporations, before we give them any attention.
9. Soldier come soldier go, the barrack will remain immovable. Likewise, there will be a continuous change in government but the institutions and system should remain intact. But the unfortunate thing is, the civil services (at all levels) who are meant to build and uphold the institution intact, have turn themselves to manipulated tools for politicians to squander the public funds. The reason there’s no continuum of our government policies is the failure of the civil services and other governmental agencies.
10. As a matter of fact, the highest occurrence of corrupt practises is in the civil services and the other parastatals.
11. Some weeks ago, many of us were clamouring for the end or total revamp of SARS. The sad truth is that, the atrocities of some of these black sheep SARS agents are just some of the symptoms of the systemic failure of one our institutions.
12. Other institutions are in similar state as the NPF, both in the public and private sector. Let’s talk of immigration-Passport application is unbelievably difficult; Banking system-Atm usage is so inconvenient, Telcom- stealing of customers’ airtime etc.
13. The society is morally deficient. The corrupted/those who embezzled the public funds are still the “honourables” in our societies today.
14. The 4 pillars of our democracy are dysfunctional.
The Executive wants absolute power and has become less tolerant to the public criticism.
The Legislature always wants to be compensated to perform their responsibilities. They’ll tell you it something for something.
The Judiciary are always the master planners. They have the full understand of the constitution and laws. They claim to be the holy one without blemishes but what’s happening is no longer secret. They’ve turned everyone to chess pieces so they could cash out big.
The press/media has always be the ocular of the citizens. But since the press has been commercialised, the corporate owners of the media outlet are mostly interested in maximising profits. The funding for investigative journalism diminishes annually, closer to zero than ever. This is an international trend anyway.
15. In all honesty, I don’t have the answers to how we’re going to make this happen. This is just a wake up call to our realities.

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Sadly the youth who own the future rarely read and comment on posts like this. At least, ideas should flow on the way forward. Today's leaders started out when they were young. They're still in charge 40-50 years down the line.

Whosoever removed history from the school curriculum did us great diservice. There's a lot to learn from the stories of the old leaders.

Great pity!

the most painful part is that the youths don't care about the country anymore, the government has taken all hopes we have for this country. now it is "forget Nigeria and make your money" that's why almost every youth is into internet fraud, prostitution e.t.c.

I just read about some councils of elites forming a coalition called Nigeria Intervention Movement (NIM). And the first thought that comes to my mind was of the "Napoleon and council of pigs" in the book called Animal farm. I'm sure they are seeking to captivate the mind of the Nigeria youths, please don't be too cheap to their cajores. Tell them Nigeria needs Restructure now and not another political party/coalition.