For years now, one has wondered if the sleeping giant will ever be awoken. Will this hornet ever be quickened. It once seemed that no matter the level of provocation, these people were doomed to be quiet. Very understanding and never driven to act. Even when in other climes the horizon was replict with the push for change, this land stayed faithful to itself - 'the happiest people on earth', a people who smile even while suffering. Yet like the Biblical saying that upon Mount Zion there shall be deliverance, this same docile people have arisen from a deep sleep. They have chosen to take their destiny in their own hands. Though condemned to silence, they roar in unison, seeking a new meaning, pursuing the very reason that has kept them down. The green fields of Nigeria has arisen from the long wait for freedom, the freedom drum rings loud from the sahara fields in the North to the arable lands of the south. That Nigerians can stay this long united on a purpose that all has predicted to fail is kuddles to the Nigerian spirit. The resilence of this people has found voice in the call for a better deal in a land where many cry for food whilst there is plenty. The sad story of the Nigerian nation lies in the fact that though the signs over the place shows a nation richly endowned, the land has failed to see progress. The crux of the matter has remained that those that have elected to govern over this country has made themselves lord of the manor, whose intent and content must never be questioned. Using a multiple of tactics that bothers on impoverishing the mass, the Nigerian child has come to know that all that leadership represents is deceit founded on ineptitude. The sort of happenings in the land has often left one to wonder how and where our people find the capacity to excel in their various endeavours, because they have no where to draw inspiration from. The nation has stayed on a bleak and dangerous divide that has suited the powers in the land such that rather than question the rot that pervades every part of our nationhood, we have often chosen to stay aloft. Yet, today, the land is green.
The fertile lands of Nigeria is today home to a stirring that has never being known to be attainable in these climes. The rugged resolve of the folks in Kano, who despite being cowed have refused to submit to the dictates of the oppressor and their subject remains a new vista in progressive engagement. The emergence of an Abuja people who no longer find comfort in the confines of their beautiful homes is so beautiful to watch. Going down to the City of Ilorin, one wonders where this people found their voice again, even when their land witnessed the first matyr of this struggle of emancipation, trully this wariors have chosen to be counted. Is it the Edo people, or the Priest led invasion in Ekiti and Enugu or the resolute stand of the Kaduna, sokoto and Bauchi people? Is it the campers in Lagos that has given vent to the lives of the Gani's, Beko, anf Fela of our land. Nigeria has never had it this good. For everywhere in Nigeria, we see a new thing, a new thinking, a new dawn - for indeed the Niger area is risen. Yes, like the rising sun, we have all chosen to be counted.
The stirring has began, we have chosen this path to win our nation back. We has elected to ask the right questions. There is no turning back, there is no other course to take. this stirring is will be furnished by our desire for change, a change we believe in, a change whose time has come
- A story we will write with the last of our blood. This is our story, the song of a people risen from slumber. We are on a mission, and our fatherland is the target. No more shall we ask 'How Long?' No need shall we retort 'not long' for today in the midst of the Niger, our life is being re-written by the blood that has been felled by the weapon of those who are supposed to lead us.
Yes by the impossibility of the sacrifice we alone are called to make while they live in splendour, hmmm, the land is green, fertile for a new beginning. The soil is moist, wetted by the resolve of a people who have chosen the path of honour. We are hungry - and the only food we want is good and responsible governance.
The Niger is stirred!!!!
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