The Healing Process... Segun Anjorin

"Weeping may last till eventide, but joy commeth in the morning".

So things are hard in our country now, the people are saying in unison. Hmmmm, what a situation to be in!

Why is APC and President Muhammadu Buhari not delivering the quick-fix the people wanted ... but never promised?

Is the coming of President Muhammadu Buhari truly ordained or is it a figment of the imagination of the likes of Rev. Father Mbaka and General Overseer  Enoch Adejare Adeboye? Can God lie just because this is about Nigeria?

I woke up this morning, challenged to challenge Nigerians and all true friends of this nation, to encourage sustaining an interest and faith in this leadership to lay the needed foundation for the emergence of a true Nigeria.

We will get there, if only we have the will and the needed patience to do so.

Do not get me wrong, the people are paying the price, maybe undeservingly, having to go hungry in a land that flows with milk and honey, for acts not committed directly.

I am not writing this to spite, as a diasporan. I am alerting us to a fact and a reminder of a truth, that at the time President Muhammadu Buhari emerged, he offered the only credible option.

We were left with a choice of whether to continue under a regime of impunity, self-centredness, corruption, insincerity, ritual practices, shamelessness, covetousness and many more.

Or opt for a change of not driving into an alley with our eyes closed, awaiting the last sound of a permanent crash!

Out of commonsense and divine ordering of our senses and footsteps, we opted to stand by a new leader. We chose President Muhamnadu Buhari. We have not made a mistake.

All along, we have been clothed in borrowed cloths, just because our leaders of then downgraded from answering humans to receiving the tagging of animals. And even the real and natural animals distanced themselves from these ones!

Starting with the over-valued Naira, we were only helping to boost a foreign currency, the dollar, Naira was long the contents of the dustbin.

A nation that depended on importing everything and anything, from automobiles to toothpicks, cannot expect to be taken seriously. We all lent a hand to destroying the Naira, living a lie, and insisting on foreign goods.

This new leadership cannot be accused of killing the Naira now. It has since been buried in an unmarked graveyard!

 President Buhari will not be acting sanely, looking to dig a dead Naira from an unmarked grave. He needs to birth another one. That takes time.

About the touted clout of our petroleum, who says we deserve to enjoy a life of quality, when all we have been doing for decades, is live the life of the prodigal son? Truth, they say, is bitter.

If only all the loud critics of now were man enough to challenge those pilfering unchallenged then, we will not be where we are today.

Our oil fields have been mortgaged for decades to come. Shame that those "who did not buy, will pay" for goods not delivered. This is our cross to carry!

Another scary fact is the world is daily researching into renewable energy, and may, in years to come, ask us to consider drinking our petroleum! We need to start looking seriously at other options.Of special mention is about going back to farming, if not for export purposes, to reduce our dependence on other nations to feed us.

Opposition to any leadership is good, provided this is about positive and objective criticisms.

President Buhari has been accused about everything and anything, and we know this man is not guilty as charged. Our choice of leaders of the past, coupled with our insincerity, came back to haunt us.

Why are we refusing to learn from our pitfalls of the past, and looking to progress?

Ask impotent Abu, why he has not fathered a baby after 20 years, he will lay the blame at the doorstep of the new leader! Hmmmm, someone should help Abu to look elsewhere at solving his problem.

It takes a while to repair rots, and patience is the key to witnessing a tree bearing fruits. Building the nation is a joint effort.

We, all, must lend hands to nation building.

King Sunny Ade was too impatient releasing his lyrics earlier:

"Nigeria yi ti gbogbo wa ni.
Ko ma gbodo baje.
E je ka sowopo, ka fimo sokan
Gbe kemi gbe".

 Now should have been the right timing. Unfortunately now, the millions of hands surviving the onslaught are weary and tired, but carry, we must carry this ailing nation!

Just that I am not sure if President Buhari can dance to it without holding his favourite Fulani herdsman's stick. But he will try! And we will try too!

Have a nice weekend, all.

May your queues at petrol stations disappear quickly. The pains of now must translate into voting wisely in 2019.