Thread by @BibiireD

Long Thread Alert.

1/20. I think Nigerians may have taken the best possible decision that could be taken in 2019.

No human being, not even @BarackObama or @NelsonMandela can radically transform Nigeria within four years.

Nobody.

2/20. I work daily around government structure & officials - and the bottlenecks begin from as early as the gateman at government institutions.
Inside the "average" Nigerian, they really do not care about the next person. Nigerians on the average appear to simply want to play, -

3/20. - spend lavishly without planning for tomorrow (for the collective interest of the society) and be generally "better pass their neighbours". That's why they always pray for personal miracles and 'breakthroughs' ...

4/20. -ignoring that essential fact that a rich man in the midst of poor neighbours is but as poor as his average neighbour, in reality.
So where Mr Buhari attempts to push and re-engineer the Nigerian machinery, there are always going to be many people in the civil service and -

5/20. - public institutions who are simply content with whatever makes them individually comfortable. That is the kind of madness that sees Tanker drivers parking irresponsibly on bridges in Lagos, when there are government institutions & staff that should carry out their SOPs &

6/20. ensure that the society and social structures are effectively handled and put in the best shape according to global best practices.
All these things are factors Messrs @MBuhari & @ProfOsinbajo have to deal with - even though they are themselves fairly wealthy people.

7/20. What these men are doing is like what MKO Abiola did. The richest man in Africa deciding to rule the biggest country in the Black World and was even challenging the West and telling them that he would ask for reparative fees for the years of colonialism!

8/20. That Abiola move was bold & almost iconoclastic!
France, for example, actively feeds and enriches her Central Bank statutorily from funds that she demands yearly from countries she colonised. Imagine how such a country would have viewed MKO!

9/20. That's one of the reasons why I respect MKO Abiola - irrespective of all that he is accused of. MKO threw himself under the Nigerian bus, well aware of its implications, but desperate to correct the ills he has grown tired of seeing in Nigeria as against the developed world

10/20. -where he was also a major financial player.
It amounted to part of the reason why the West turned her back on him when he returned on the June 12 anniversary in 1994 & Abacha locked him up in jail. MKO had gone around the world to mobilise support for his mandate: Canada,

11/20. UK, USA, everywhere - before he returned to make the epetedo declaration and smilingly called BBC from his cellular as Abacha's soldiers took him out of his Ikoyi home and took him to jail. He was to receive the shocker he never recovered from. Not only did the West...

12/20. ... World turn their backs on him, they possibly played a 'Condoleezza Rice' role in his eventual checkmate when he refused to 'surrender' his mandate after 4 years in jail. This was despite the UN Sec Gen travelling to Nigeria to appeal to him...

13/20. ...and tell him that so much had changed in Nigeria and the world since his incarceration.
The Egba Chief and the Aare Ona Kakanfo of Yorubaland/Nigeria Democracy that the great man is - stuck to his guns. Knowing fully well how Mandela rose to the top of the World -

14/20. - after 27 years in gaol, he responsibly refused to budge. It was the last mistake Bashorun made. It required that the Western World (and make no mistake about it, they are actively involved in under-developing Africa till tomorrow) ensured that Baba Kola was neutralised.

15/20. It is an unfortunate story till tomorrow.
Let us imagine @AlikoDangote, the 66th richest man in the World, deciding to run Nigeria as a country in the successful way he has run his private business. It would be the same 'rich and high-profile Nigerians' resentment.

16/20. The Western world would also assess him to see if he would do their capitalist bidding and ensure their sustenance of their economic pipeline in Nigeria - or they would simply neuter him politically or sponsor all manners of things against him - using willing Nigerians.

17/20. As a matter of fact, @AlikoDangote never consider Nigerian Presidency, as it is! He would only continue to give tacit support to people who are contesting to become President - and run away from the cesspool in the Nigeria institutional organ that he is himself knows.

18/20. So, I'll cut the Nigerian leadership some slack in 2019 - and look to review them objectively by 2023. When it is said that Buhari 'has a shallow hand' on the economy, I smile. Nigeria had the Executive Vice President of the WORLD BANK and still went into such recession-

19/20. that the @GEJonathan's government was borrowing money to pay the salaries of Federal Civil servants while states were owing salaries of several months - yet someone wouldn't say Iweala had no knowledge of National finances, right?

20/20. I have almost all of @NOIweala's books which she wrote after leaving government office - and I encourage all Nigerians to read them.

Government isn't as easy as all these which is written on social media. It is NEVER that straightforward!