Nigeria at the Brink: A Nation Hijacked, A People Betrayed

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Nigeria today wears the tragic mask of a republic, but in truth behaves like a banana state—lawless, unjust, and hostage to a political elite that has lost all sense of purpose, morality, and national duty. The rule of law has collapsed. Justice has been auctioned. Governance has been reduced to endless power struggles, personal vendettas, and reckless looting of public resources.

Those elected and appointed to serve the people have abandoned development. Instead of building roads, schools, hospitals, and industries, they fight one another like vultures over political appointments, contracts, and access to public funds. Governance has become warfare, and the Nigerian people are the casualties.

The greatest tragedy of this failure is the total collapse of the legislature—both at the national and state levels. The National Assembly and most State Houses of Assembly have surrendered their constitutional responsibilities. Rather than act as watchdogs of democracy, they have become willing hostages of the executive arm, trading oversight for envelopes, silence for survival.

The crisis in Rivers State is a national embarrassment. A state blessed with enormous human and natural resources is bleeding money and peace over political ego and personal bitterness. A former governor’s inability to let go has plunged the state into chaos, using compromised and unserious legislators to sabotage governance. While citizens suffer, public funds are wasted on political distractions that deliver nothing but instability.

Nigeria’s political class is no longer focused on the needs of the people. Hunger, unemployment, insecurity, collapsing infrastructure—these mean nothing to them. The real obsession is 2027. The presidency, the legislature, and governors are already locked in conspiracies for power, while the nation burns.

This raises a painful question: What has happened to us as a people?
Is it poverty? Is it desperation? Or have we simply normalized foolishness and injustice? How did a nation so rich allow itself to be dragged into darkness by a few greedy men?

But the truth is bitter: corruption is not only at the top—it has infected the grassroots. Votes are sold. Lies are rewarded. Dishonesty has become routine. In everyday life, deception thrives. Artisans cheat their customers. Businesses survive by fraud. Institutions meant to educate have turned into marketplaces where grades are bought and integrity is optional.

This moral collapse is as dangerous as political corruption. A nation cannot rise when dishonesty becomes culture.

Nigeria today is not just misgoverned—it is hijacked. The Senate President is tainted. The Attorney General inspires no confidence. Governors behave like emperors. Accountability is dead. Institutions are weak. The system protects the corrupt and punishes the honest.

This is why Nigeria stands at a historic crossroads.

What we need is not cosmetic reform. We need awakening.
We need conscious resistance.
We need a national rebirth.

A people must rise—not with chaos, but with courage; not with mindless destruction, but with fearless unity. Nigerians must reclaim their voices, their votes, and their dignity. We must reject vote-selling, reject ethnic manipulation, reject political worship, and demand accountability at every level.

No nation ever changed by silence.

Nigeria will not be saved by politicians—it will be saved by citizens who refuse to accept decay as destiny. The struggle ahead demands sacrifice, discipline, and truth. But history teaches us this: no failed system survives an awakened people.

Nigeria is wounded—but not dead.
The question is no longer whether the country is failing.
The question is whether Nigerians are ready to rise and rebuild it.

By
Hon Daniel Asekhame

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