NIGERIA AT 62: ISSUES FOR CHRISTIAN CITIZENS AHEAD OF THE 2023 GENERAL ELECTIONS
NIGERIA AT 62: ISSUES FOR CHRISTIAN CITIZENS AHEAD OF THE 2023 GENERAL ELECTIONS [A personal and reflective speech initially presented during Nigeria’s Independence Day Celebration, 1st October 2022 now edited for the Eve of Nigeria’s National Elections, 24 February 2023] by Zwandien Bobai The nomenclature, “Nigeria” today resonates with so much mixed-feeling! Sometimes it does not sound again as a country but merely a bunch of jokes. Some people hear it and are proud but others hear it and have a feeling of disdain and shame. Those who hear or bear the name and are proud are obviously those who do not know from where the country emanates. This is true to a very large extent. The patriots of old, Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, Obafemi Awolowo or even Sir Ahmadu Bello, the Sardauna of Sokoto would have been crying today if they had survived to see us the way we are presently. The country for which they died is now in great shambles! It is no longer what they envisaged it to be! When t...