| Nigeria for sometime now, especially in the recent | | | | lawmakers and drunken brats. |
| months has witnessed serious constitutional | | | | The situation of Nigeria has complicated into a hydra |
| misplacements. And these have grossly resulted into | | | | headed issue in which one may not know how to |
| a kind of mess that everyone has to be involved in | | | | approach it. For over two months now, the nation |
| its timely cleansing! The current constitutional crisis is | | | | that boasts of over 150 million people has been |
| basically as a result of bad leadership. Politics in Nigeria | | | | without a substantial head. This was due to the fact |
| according to history, had in no time been devoid of | | | | that the ailing president went under the knife with no |
| selfishness, nepotism, malpractices, man know man, | | | | regards for constitution and the fate of over 150 |
| moneybags and tyrants to say the least. No wonder | | | | million people. This illegal act on behalf of the |
| the nation has always been stuck in one political | | | | president has since been condemned by all and |
| quagmire or the other. | | | | sundry. The question that is making wave is why did |
| I actually stopped writing about politics in Nigeria for | | | | it take so long for the needed change to be |
| an internet blog and publications recently, when I | | | | effected as regards a substantial president? Some |
| discovered that the people in question refuse to turn | | | | group of people condemned the resolution of the |
| a new leaf. But the recent happenings in the country | | | | national assembly that recently empowered the vice |
| for over two months now have woken my pen in | | | | president as the acting president that it was illegal |
| this regard. The question is what is the constitution? | | | | and unconstitutional in the sense that two wrongs |
| Why do we have it? Is it that we don't have | | | | cannot make a right that the infringement on the |
| competent hands to handle it anymore? Or we are | | | | constitution still exists. |
| simply playing politics? The worst of the scenario is | | | | I still do not understand why our leaders cannot get |
| that the national assembly is like a paper tiger. I may | | | | things right in the proper manner it should be done. |
| not really place the blame on them because they are | | | | Imagine the attorney general of the federation, the |
| more or less extractions of the "business as usual | | | | number one law person that is supposed to protect |
| mentalities" that would preferred to trade the | | | | the integrity of the constitution even desecrating it in |
| sanctity of our constitution for paltry crap! Most of | | | | his own show of shame! Thanks to the new |
| them I believe are only opportunist, they do not | | | | government for dealing with that in a timely fashion. |
| really understand the essence of the mandate they | | | | It is high time we made a change in our leadership, |
| enjoy even those that can still be vouched for have | | | | even if it is going to be a revolution as it happened in |
| long sacrificed their integrity on the altar of greed. | | | | neighboring African countries. |
| There is really no difference between these so called | | | | |