President Bola Ahmed Tinubu of Nigeria.
Timidity, carelessness, deliberate silence and helpless ignorance are some of the main factors causing failures in healing Nigeria's injuries, Lawrence Egede writes.
Terrible things have been happening in Nigeria and it looks flimsy in the eyes of those who don't know it, feel it care, or understand the ball game.
In an economic blackout time bedevilling a nation, many things contribute to the failures of healing a sick and injured nation.
Nigeria is an injured nation from head to toe and from person to person and also from house to house and from regime to regime from time to time, making people keep silent, enduring all things, whether good or bad.
Nigerians endure all things painfully. Nigerians endure all things doing it ignorantly. Nigerians endure all things deliberately. They endure all things decisively. They endure all things silently and endure all things helplessly.
Some people are silent for the fact that they can't talk about what is going on in society, while some are silent because their hands and hearts are tied, and some are silent because of being part of what is going on.
Some are silent because they are helpless, some are silent because they are afraid to talk and some are silent because they care no hoot about all the troubles the society has been facing.
Some are silent because they are careless, and some deliberately keep silent because of joining the bandwagon of those they cannot avoid.
Some are just there moping in the air and just praying to survive a situation they cannot escape being part of the sufferings going on, no matter how it is happening or the experiences they have.
Some have chosen to be silent because they neither belong to this nor belong to the other side, with nothing to say or contribute effectively.
Those are the main points of characteristics that many Nigerians possess about the perils and woes facing the country from time to time, with all the problems people generated for themselves and cumulated for others.
In the spiritual realm, Nigeria is down flat on its stomach, facing the grass lawn tightly, kissing the dust of the earth, inhaling harmful air into the nostrils and stifling the bad situation of death by choke.
In the human realm, Nigeria is no longer having a secret case with all the troubles, not hiding from anybody's view.
Today the troubles have grown so big in many sizes uncontrollably at every side or corner, with all the injuries of failures which can't heal.
There is a stalemate facing NNigeriaso so much that those in positions of authority don't even know what to do.
All the talk about the hope that the injuries will heal soon is a story of hopeless assurance nobody is sure of.
Each time you look at luxury and comfort in the face of adversities, those enjoying the sufferings of other people hardly tell a true story of acute pains.
The personal or collective advantage, the privilege, the opportunity, the luxury, comfort and any other thing they enjoy are just generally material and only temporal.
The whole bulk of the problems emanated from how our leaders were living and swimming in opulence, possessing assets home and abroad and caring no hoot about what happens to the fingers of a nation that fed them fat, rich and boastful.
Those feeling no plaintive in much opulence and still want to castrate a nation they skinned dry to drip red blood continually for them.
I have not recorded any news of the opulent ones, if at all, there are any abroad who came and truly planted personal assets permanently in Nigeria, apart from group business houses and spots.
That's why the outside world sees Nigeria as a nation of personality waste. That is the reason Nigeria is injured and turned to borrow tiny limbs from abroad to walk.
If Nigeria had been healthy all around her body, soul and spirit, I do not think anybody would want to secede from her.
Can't we see that the country is finished and that everybody is living by force, apart from those who are so comfortable with the nation's condition in the blues world?
The new generation should think about healing Nigeria of her injuries, rebuild their country and be proud of her not looking outside without anything internal to boast of.
