BECAUSE good governance over the years has been largely in abeyance, Nigerians have tended to look up to the wrong people as role models. Left in the lurch by their own government, Nigerians look towards religious leaders, often of dubious piety, for comfort over the vagaries of life, and to moneybags and socialites who are actually hardened criminals covering their tracks with philanthropy, for emotional and mental support. Nigerians, citizens of an abundantly blessed but criminally managed country, have never hidden their admiration for heroes whose lives effectively mirror what they would have loved to be if life hadn’t been such a terrible ordeal. The pestilential cast of party…
Source: Nigerian Tribune