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Flowing from Just A Little Prophecy that we served last week, imperative compels us this week to build on the momentum. You must be ready before engaging, because this demands personal action. If you are, stop reading this for now; pick up your Bible and with great attention read all of 2 Chronicles Chapter 20. There are just 37 verses, 37 short verses, so it is not too much trouble.
After the read, free your mind. Then, meditate for a while. Then, think about Nigeria at length, consider everything you know about the country and what Nigerians have been through. Then, pull the trigger: apart from some of us, the people, who and who and who have been fighting against the peace and progress of Nigeria and Nigerians?
Do not answer in haste. Switch your mind again to 2 Chronicles chapter 20, all 37 verses. Who and who and who came to war against Judah? Were they people Judah had accommodated; people Judah had been good to; people Judah thought allies all along?
This is almost like the Nigerian situation. Only that in Judah’s case, the aggressors were extraneous. In ours, the oppressors are within. People we elected to colour our lives elect to rather discolour them, in the process disfiguring us complete with the very land that groomed and trusted them.
Judah had three enemy countries. Ditto, Nigeria: federal government, state governments and local governments. Or away from the tiers, look at the arms which are also three in all. Among the executive, the legislature and the judiciary, which arm is wholly fighting for this country and its people?
Leave what you think: concentrate on the day-to-day situation reports that tumble in locally, and nationally, and sub-nationally. Does any tier or arm of our government give you any semblance of hope? Take any three examples of federal and state and local governments or their arms and tell Nigerians what one thing has been done in nearly three years to show that these so-called big men and big women and big children of power love this country and our people. No, instead, what is true is that compatriots empowered in the name of Nigeria have cornered our commonwealth to transmogrify into “the children of Ammon and Moab and mount Seir” and oppress God’s latter-day children.
You see the shameless greed that walks on all fours all over what were supposed to be the high places of honour and leadership and love in this country and you shed a tear in helplessness. The very people elected to creatively deploy our commonwealth for common good have instead grabbed too much which leaves too little to benefit the same people who voted them in. It is such a sad commentary that all you can muster is groaning. Man has been animalistic to man.
Think about the artificial hardship they have brought upon our people. Think about the tip of the iceberg that Alhaji Aliko Dangote -who by the way is part of them- tantalised us with the other day. Think about the stupendous foolery, the mindless hypocrisy, the wicked craftiness that these pseudo-leaders put us through every day. And, think about their egoistic insistence on what at this critical point of our history is only economic suicide.
You watch the business of government and wonder how we got here. Policy speeches are full of rhetoric; full of empty air or drama or both. 25 hours daily, they take us for a ride, a very long ride -you get my drift. They have thought us fools for too long; fools who can do nothing, who shall do nothing.
They are like the Ammonites, the Moabites and the Seirites in 2 Chronicles chapter 20: shortsighted. They are too myopic to see and understand whose children Nigerians are. We are a praying people, a royal nation; called and kept by God. Help comes to us when even we believe that it is finished.
Dear Nigerians, rest assured that nothing is finished nor will finish except we win. “Thus saith the Lord unto you, Be not afraid nor dismayed by reason of this great multitude; for the battle is not yours, but God’s. Ye shall not need to fight in this battle: set yourselves, stand ye still, and see the salvation of the Lord with you. For the Lord will be with you.”
In the first quarter of next year, all of man’s calculations (miscalculations, really) against Nigeria and Nigerians will -no, shall- start crumbling. Those who thought they had it all planned out shall suddenly realise that their plan was only a waiting mishap. Those who thought 26 flight tickets to El Dorado were in their back pocket shall miss flight 2027 because even their own one ticket had vamoosed. Those who thought 27/28 over 36 meant cloud-nine double-assurance shall see that man only proposes; that only God disposes.
The rot occasioned by crass deceit and gross incompetence in Nigeria is too much, the stench overwhelming. An alarming majority of these guys are in it, across all strata, for what they can amass (for themselves and in many cases, as well as for their family and cronies). They do not care a hoot about nor for the people: for instance, a governor whose state has received tens of trillions of Naira in revenue, nearly three years on, has the satanic temerity of raising a billboard at the very centre of the state capital to announce, without shame, that he is doing empowerment to the tune of 10 billion Naira. Which reminds me, he -on one hand- backed by his online army and I -on the other- with all men and women and children of good conscience are going to have an interesting season two: please stay tuned, on air and online.
But, seriously, Nigeria is in dire straits. Agreed, it is not that the brunt of this blame should be borne by incumbent president, governors and local government chairmen. No, they are not responsible up to even 10% for the monumental calamity that has befallen Nigeria and Nigerians. But, yes, they are currently in charge -a burden they knowingly brought upon themselves when they stepped forward to seek their current office.
And our problem is neither about, nor in, the past. Our problem as a country and as a people is how to prepare a future today. Current power holders must therefore not provide only the roadmap but also make the sacrifice inherent in leading by example in addition to showing readiness needed for this nation-building voyage. Surely, this is not too much to demand.
Help must come to Nigeria. Effective 2026, Nigerians shall stand still and see the salvation of the Lord with us. Oppressors shall lose their place. Crosstitution shall happen in another direction: that is, the hitherto political Mecca in Nigeria shall suddenly become like a godforsaken place.
The influx recorded from last year or so shall seem as a distant memory. De-influx is coming. It shall be an organic indictment of the evil smartness we are now applauding. Nigeria is not and never shall be a one-party enclave.
Intra-party crises shall sprout up as if on cue. They shall not be sponsored from within or without, as we see with the breeze challenging People’s Democratic Party. No, they shall be natural; they shall be nature’s reaction to the criminal injustice, to the oppressive pretentiousness and to the selfish workings of our governmental class. Help must come to Nigeria and Nigerians.
Evil shall fight evil to a standstill, and kill and die, with good strolling into the battlefield shortly after to gather the spoils of war. Take a moment to ruminate on that. The wicked in spite of being the mightiest shall fail, big time. Only God’s children shall stand still and see the salvation of the Lord with us.
Nigeria and Nigerians are about to experience 2 Chronicles chapter 20 real time. The only real Power who should stop this from happening has given it the all-clear. It is a done deal, fellow Nigerians. What remains is for us to learn to continue staying alive and in Christ, which is the only way to wait to witness the fulfillment of this beautiful promise.
A beautiful promise that shall at once heal us and console us and reassure us. Rest assured, People of God, man-made pains that have tormented us forever shall be cured, and permanently. In place of all the bitter betrayal and all the haughty hate and all the ignominious ingratitude, a memory in the manner of a well of sweetness shall spring up and subsist. Again, I say rest assured, it is all coming together: soon, very soon; very, very soon.
God bless Nigeria!
