I'm not surprised. Nigeria under Gej was growing six percent GDP, one of the top 20s in the world. It was a regional economic power. It was well headed. Then Obama and Europeans came fighting. APC rose. I knew somewhat the making of APC and its Islamic bent. It had no agenda except to grab power. I mean how can anyone that meant well have a Buhari as candidate. It was pure hatred of easterners as Gej was seen as Igbo and Biafran who gave him the highest vote and he was recognizing them politically. So, while the West had their economic interest, as was the same during the civil war, the very reason Britain truncated the Aburi accord and fought the civil war for Nigeria, the rest of Nigerians returned to the civil war mode and rose against the Eastern region base of Gej. It was bizarre.
I was shocked. How do you compare Gej with Buhari. It was sinister. Well, we saw the involvement of the US and the UK and the rest is history. The pawns used to scuttle good governance in Nigeria are still in charge and winning through the western powers, through INEC and its server. It cannot get better. Because good governance in Nigeria and Africa doesn't favour the West. Hence the destruction of good governance in Africa, as in Nigeria, using ethnicity, corruption, violence, misinformation, rebels, etc.
It's a cycle that goes on and on. If you don't recognize it, you wouldn't know it. It is be like Fanon's thesis that colonized or oppressed people instead of organizing to fight their oppressors fight themselves.
The best way to tackle Nigeria's problem is to let the ethnic nationalities decide their destinies. That's the truest independence. Or restructure decentering the center and making politics less attractive. If not, we will keep rolling in this theatre of the absurd called Nigeria.
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