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GOODLUCK JONATHAN EBERE CAME CLOSE TO DIAGNOSING THE ACTUAL PROBLEM OF NIGERIA- DELE FAROTIMI
By Dele Farotimi
Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, a man distinguished by his happiness with simple thoughts, came close when he said that our problem is not corruption, but stealing. He was excoriated without attention being paid to his words, or any critical analysis being undertaken. He was right up to a point.
The single reason for our national malaise is visionlessness. A cliché: “The eyes are useless, when the mind is blind”. We have for too long been blinded as a nation, forgotten who we are, and oblivious to whom we can be. Our blindness is multi-dimensional and total darkness has enveloped our nation for too long.
Òdo tó ń gbé òdo rá, ignorance is breading ignorance, and the blind are leading the blind.
Ambition is not to be confused with vision. Ambition promotes the limited self, and does not see beyond the self. Vision benefits beyond the person because it always transcends the self. Nigeria’s primary problem and, or, disease, is to have been cursed with the leadership of very ambitious men, with little or no vision. If the future of our children, and our nation is to be guaranteed, we must begin to envision what future we see for our children, and our nation; we must move beyond the narrow prism and pursuit of the self to the articulation and pursuit of a national vision built on the promotion of the commonwealth above the interests of the persons, and a subjugation of personal interest beneath identified national interest…
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