Nigeria Is ‘seriously’ Broke – Lai mohammed

True talk....
the position of presidency is the only thing that has changed about the government, every other thing is the same. 

If I said there was anything surprising in this news, it would be the biggest lie of the year. Events are unfolding precisely as I predicted months ago, with Buhari's nonsensical economic policies pushing the country ever closer to disaster. All we have to do to see the future under the current course is to look at Venezuela right now, another country whose leader thinks he can cap prices and command the forex rate, but then acts surprised when there are shortages everywhere, smuggling is rampant, and businesses are folding up left, right and center.

Nigerians were right to throw out GEJ and company with their massive corruption; unfortunately the replacement has more than made up for any improvement in corruption by outright economic stupidity.

The harsh truth about Nigerian politics is that most of the masses are simply too uneducated, uninformed and blinded by hunger to make worthwhile choices - this is especially true in the north, where illiteracy and religious fanaticism are rampant, and in the south-east, where everything seems to come down to primitive "na my person" tribalism (even when these tribalistic biafraudian morons are themselves the primary victims of the crooks they worship). A parliamentary system which gave the power to select the leadership to MPs, and was based on voters needing a certain minimum level of education and/or income, would be a vast improvement on the current setup, especially if the country were split back up (or at least decentralized) into regions. A south-western APC led by the likes of Tinubu, Fashola and Ambode - business-minded leaders who have international corporate experience - would then be free to run a sensible, growth-oriented policy program, without an ignoramus like Buhari (and his millions of ignorant northern worshipers) to hold them back.

The bottom line is that it's too easy to say "They are all the same". There is a difference, but for that difference to manifest itself at a national level, it would have to be either someone from the south-west APC running the show, or at the very a minimum a like-minded person from the north (not that there are many of those). The real problem is that such people will never rise to the top as long as the vote of every malam and almajiri counts as much as those of white-collar professionals in Lagos, Akure or Ibadan.