By Adejoro Samson B.
We are sons and daughters of love, let love lead---- Prophet T.B Joshua, Lead Pastor, Synagogue Church of all Nations.
When Lai Mohammed the Honorable minister of information and culture launched the campaign "Change begins with me" sometimes last year, lot of views spurred out, whether it should truly began with the citizens or from the people who are custodians of our common patrimony, observers carefully observed, public affairs analyst analysed the initiative, some welcomed it with disdain, some with an open heart,adverts on the television, social media were organized, celebrities like King Sunny Ade got endorsement to champion the campaign, the most fascinating was the skit that appeared on TV stations across the country titled "Not in my country". After you might have finished reading this op-ed, I leave you to judge.
What prompted this treatise was as a result of a little chat I had with a friend and a course mate. It was time for lectures, the lecture we were about to have was a faculty course and as such we have to walk down from our department (which is were we receive every lectures apart from this particular faculty course) to the faculty to attend the lectures and my friend looked around when the set time for the lecture had come and he said to me " There is no love in our country " and I asked him the reason for his submission, his reply was "Imagine, everybody are going for lectures one by one, nobody even considered calling others."
He further lamented, "Some would have resourses and course materials that will be of immense help to the class as a whole and the person would decide to cling unto it as if having "A" in a course guarantees life success." and as a result of that, others won't be privileged to that resources the other fellow had. It is advisable that when you have what can be beneficial to others, don't hold it to yourself alone, let every other people around you be successful as you are, it's not a crime if millionaires come out of you rather it should be a sense of joy and that of a fulfilment, be like the lepers in the Bible whom during the time of famine in the land of Samaria had by accident bumped into the tent of the Syrians and they saw a lot of goodies and suddenly they started packing and one out of them said "We won't be doing any good by keeping all this to our selves let's reach out to the city and tell the king about this great news." That was how famine ended in the city of Samaria.
We are our problem, Wahab AR Olalekan surmised, the problem beffudling us as a nation is caused partly by our leaders but what accounts mostly for the non workability of our nation is the selfishness and hatred amongst every citizens of this nation.
The fact is underdevelopment and retrogression won't leave the borders and shores of our nations if hate takes the drivers seat in the ways and manner in which we treat our fellow citizens, love trumps hate. In this country everybody thinks of only how to feather his own nest, he thinks less of his fellow citizens, little wonder why politicians milk us blue and black. There is no love in every strata of our society, no one is for the country everyone is for himself. Nations who had made significant progress were able to achieve that, just because they shelved behind hate and embraced magnanimity.
Some would say there is no love because we are of diverse extractions, I strongly object to that view, take as a case study Tanzania, Tanzania is a country that consists of diverse ethnic groups as ours and they spoke different language and then came Julius Nyerere who sensitized them on the need for love as love is a recipe for development and since then, they began to speak only one language which is Swahili even though they have their individual ethnic language they have suppressed it, a Tanzanian will never tell you he is from a part of Tanzania, they all belong to one nation called the "REPUBLIC OF TANZANIA".
Owing to the unifying power of love, American president, President Donald Trump had during his victory speech called on all Republicans, Democrats and the independents to come as one all in the spirit of sportsmanship so as to " Make America Great Again". President Trump during the electioneering period ran a campaign full of divisiveness and hate but one would have thought he would continued in that clime even after he came in, but instead he called for love and now the American dream under his regime is getting fulfilled, unemployment rate is plumetting and veterans are enjoying.
Samson Adejoro is a public affair analyst and a writer and he tweets from @Samsss_A, you can reach him on 09031827815.
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