The State of the Union: A Measure of Honesty

I rise today in condemnation of the Sovereign
State Nigeria. I stand today as a witness
recognizing the total and complete corruption
of her material representation, and the evidential
spiritual decay of those who propose to be the
root of her constitutional volition.

Growing up in Nigeria, every Christmas a "Santa
Claus" or "Baba Keresimesi" with cotton wool tethered
upon his face would publicly endow my middle class
family with Christmas gifts as the poorer people,
with whom we played football later, watched jealously.
Evidently, in the future, Keresimesi would be an
odun, season, for ALL people. Instead, today,
Nigeria is one big funeral, one after the other
after the other. What shall happen, for example,
when Wole Soyinka dies? Or when Enahoro rests?
Nothing. Nothing, that is, positive. Therefore,
it is critical that if anything happen it happen
while Wole Soyinka and Enahoro, for example,
are alive.

The charge is that, by and large, the "Nigerian adult"
is unable to produce consensus, a prerequisite for
representative governance. The reason for this,
we are told, is that consensus implies agreement,
and agreement is impossible due to the dark spaces
in the history of our conscience. Those who propound
this theory have worked as hard as they can to have
me believe it, to the greatest detriment of my life
and liberty, but by any honest measure, Abike,
the Federation of Nigeria is a colossal comedy of
tragic recurrences, repeating a mantra of dishonesty
that is finally demonstrating to Prince Albert,
my colleague from Belgium, that though they can never
be considered worthy of praise, the deeds of his
Fathers in the Congo, according to the evident ability
of one man to dominate another the Negro, from Africa,
seems destined by the nature of his actions in the
presence of just and candid witnesses... to spend
a long time paying for the moral deficits in the character,
Abike, the CHARACTER of his father. WOW.


Therefore, the implications of condemnation are
resolution. Should the Nigerian adult continue to
ignore, when such cannot be done by the honest,
where the light of truth, value and talent reside
relative to the sovereignty of the people of Nigeria,
then shall the reputation then recognition of the Nigerian man as
patently dishonest in all his ways gain traction,
then credibility, amongst those who, and only while
they make a determination about the bilateral
consequence of association with Nigeria, can see
the rot because of which I today rise.

Then shall the spirit of Cortez rule Nigeria.

Then shall justice, Cecelia, be served.