Nigerian leaders have been advised to call for a national prayer and seek divine intervention in the affairs of the country in order to be free from the woes impeding her development.
The advice was given in Lagos by Leonard Umunna, a bishop and general overseer of Bible Life Church Cathedral (BLCC), Olodi-Apapa, during a media briefing on the state of the nation.
Umunna said: “The physical is controlled by the spiritual. They should call for a national prayer. What we’re asking is what brought us to this sorry state; why are we here? The foundation has broken. The solution is to rebuild the foundation.”
The cleric also suggested that President Muhammadu Buhari, should as a matter of urgency, “reshuffle his cabinet; the people he is working with cannot lead us to the Promised Land. There must be round pegs in round holes. Public office holders must prune their huge budgets. They are telling us to change; the change must begin with them. It should begin with Buhari; they must deal with corruption; the culture of lack of maintenance must be changed and last but not the least, the name Nigeria must be changed. It is vibrating a number that does not make it fly.”
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Umunna, who deplored the ostentatious lifestyle of political leaders, lamented that the common man has always been at the receiving end of the wasteful habit of the elite.
“We are talking about recession, does President Muhammadu Buhari feel the recession? Does any of the state governors suffer the effects of recession? The answer is no; it is the common man that suffers and mind you, we are where we are today because of the mistake of a few,” Umunna said.
The cleric likened Nigeria to an aircraft that successfully took off, but crash-landed almost immediately.
“You see, at Independence in 1960, Nigeria exuded high hopes; it had every attribute of a progressive nation and there were high hopes that the country would make a quick progress. We can liken Nigeria to an airplane that took off and crash-landed almost immediately. Since after the civil war, Nigeria has not recovered. It has always been from one problem to the other,” Umunna said.
Explaining the problem with Nigeria, he said: “Over the years, all we see are policy somersault, inconsistency and reversals. A step forward, ten backwards. Today, actually, I don’t think that APC (All Progressives Congress) is better; they are all birds of a feather. Many of those who surround Buhari are corrupt and do not mean well for the people.”
Zebulon Agomuo
