Nigeria Without Nation Builders At 58
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’ . *pix: ThisDay 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. No matter the owner of the assess that bray at this anniversary time, we should still be able to say like Baker that there are certain times when the entire country, regardless of po...