EXCUSE ME: Shall we tell the president?

Shall we tell the president that there is something rotten in the state of the nation? And we are tired of holding our noses and looking the other way, while this rottenness stinks to high heavens. I mean he probably is not aware of all the things that make the people on the street walk like hunchbacks.

Who do you think will tell him, the lying lawmakers or the sick sycophants? Nobody close to the president will tell him that everything is going haywire and there is serious cause to start tolling the alarm bell and every voice in the land should rise raucously. There is a bedlam in the land.

Shall we tell the president that his seven point agenda has gone under the rocks? And each agenda is fighting to see which will outdo the other in failure.

Shall we tell the president that these days, the National Assembly is thrown into perpetual darkness just like the rest of the nation? A law cooked in darkness will never bring light to a nation. One would think there are untouchables in this power failure business, that our legislators will be wise enough to order more generators from China.

Shall we tell the president only those with mega bucks have a semblance of security now? That a police man is probably more dangerous than an armed robber and that there is restlessness in every part of the country because of incessant kidnappings of both the rich and poor?

Shall we tell the president that the oil price per barrel has risen and though we make enough money to run the country, the country is poorer than when he left us in the dark? Shall we tell the president that the scent of oil money is the root of all evil in Abuja?

Shall we tell the president that politicians misunderstood what he meant by "wealth creation"? That they thought he meant they should create wealth by looting public funds and manipulating figures in financial institutions to enrich themselves.

Shall we tell the president that our university students spend more time at home now than on campus? That the educational system has gone comatose and underpaid and undervalued professors would rather protest than teach? That tertiary institutions are now tattered institutions. Even primary and secondary schools are nothing to write anywhere about.

Shall we tell the president that we are still waiting for the rail system that will lighten the travelling burden of the people? That most major roads that link the nation are death traps. That we still rely on bole kaja to haul goods to the market and the all-metal-molue is the ride of choice for many in our major cities.

Shall we tell the president that Niger Delta is what it has always been and they are still waiting for the master plan?

Shall we tell the president that his country is listed as a nation of ‘interest', also known as, a terrorist nation and America treats us with more disdain than it used to?

Shall we tell the president that Jos is burning and Nigerians are referred to as "settlers" and "residents" in their own country?

Shall we tell the president that life is not worth a pinch of snuff nowadays in that rocky city that keeps erupting in violence like an overripe volcano? Shall we tell the president that cars, houses, and people are burnt to ashes because of unabated anger and frustration?

Shall we tell the president that his signature is mysteriously appearing in documents even when he is thousands of miles away from people and budgets?

Shall we tell the president that even his accented-voice from heaven via our old colonial masters' mouthpiece doesn't register well with the people and they don't believe that the voice is his? And the people want to see him on NTA or AIT and his Abuja handlers promised to perform this impossible feat but chickened out?

Shall we tell president that our senators and assembly men don't care about our country and they are currently in a feeding frenzy while the country burns in anxiety?

Shall we tell the president that to keep his true condition in Saudi Arabia under wraps now carries a price of N5billion or more of bribe money?

Shall we tell the president that people are claiming to have spoken with him but have no proof? That the loudest call in the country now from sycophants is for people to pray for him, and many citizens no longer think he needs their prayer and have taken to the streets?

Shall we tell the president the vacuum he left behind when he went for a short leave in another country's hospital is about to tip the country over to open confrontation?

Shall we tell the president that Nigeria has no president?

Shall we?