An Epitome of failure

Mxq
3 min readSep 21, 2022

… a Nation without a head of State.

… a former military general, and one-time dictator, has been Nigeria’s president since 2015, with promises of restoring an already shrinking economy to a state of well-being. But prior to his second term election, this figurehead of a president has been showing dwindling signs of grave illness, a condition not suitable for the office which he occupies. As the no.1 citizen of a growing economy, and one who is believed to have the interest of the state at hand, it could be argued that the right thing to do would be to abdicate the office to a better, healthier, well-qualified, and befitting successor, right!.

No, contrary to that, it’ll be later known that this one time dictator would lead this collapsing nation to its demise, carving his legacy in the history book as one of the greatest failures, (if not the epitome of it) in modern day democracy. As a matter of fact this president is on his way to the urban dictionary as a synonym indicating the noun “Failure”.

A country with over 206 million people, 30% of which live in abject and extreme poverty, is being ruled for the past 7 years by what the citizens would describe as “the most unfit President in the history of time to head a single village, let alone lead a country”.

I could tell what your assumptions are, “this must be one of those African countries, right”.

No!

This is not just any African country, this country is the Federal republic of Nigeria, the so called “Giant of Africa”, and I mean no offence to Burna boy, and his silver platinum Album “African Giant”. So yes(it’s an African country of course), this is the most populated country in Africa and 6th most populated in the world, home to greatest names that has ever walked this earth, and also the number one leading country when it comes to Afro music (Afropop).

This nation has been under siege by a set of terrorist group by the name “Boko Haram” for over a decade, with consistent attacks and destabilizations in its northern regions. This shadow of a Nation has been bleeding since it’s amalgamation, and the worse; it’s current head of state is off no use as he has proven time overtime to be more handicap than a physically disabled person.

It’s been over 7 months now and both the country’s federal and state Universities have been on strike, leaving over 1.8 million of it’s undergrads unattended to. With the hiking inflation, “what do you expect from 3rd world country, HUh!”

Cost of living is now over the edges, expenses are skyrocketing, unemployment rate is now off the chart, and while all this unfortunate events are occurring, the President’s wife disclosed on a Facebook post on Tuesday, 19 September 2022 her Daughter’s Graduation From United Kingdom Varsity Amid 7 Months Strike By Nigerian University.

Such incompetency and audacity!.

“Mocking the intelligence of over 200 million people” … this should go down as the greatest mockery of all time.

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Mxq

Just an Amateur writer. A 21st century Sociologist, Anthropologist, Poet and a good lover.