The Slump Of Sense And Accretion Of Nonsense In Nigeria

Hardly a week ever goes by without fresh outrageous conduct emanating from the vestibules of executive, legislative, and judicial authority in Nigeria.

The latest is the ludicrous judgement given by the Federal High Court in Lokoja, Nigeria, reversing its earlier judgement delivered in December 2025, compelling the misnamed “Independent” National Electoral Commission to register the Nigeria Democratic Congress political party in Nigeria.

The registration reversal judgement handed down on Friday, June 26, 2026 is so manifestly intended to either curry or repay favors that discerning observers can draw a clear nexus to the cost centers consuming the proceeds from the humongous foreign loans procured in the name of Nigeria, ostensibly for the purposes of capital project development with nothing at all on the ground to show for those foreign loans.

We will not grant the ludicrous reversal judgement any further credence or risk besmirching this commentary with its putrid murkiness other than to label it as a veritable clown show.

Sense has long since decamped from Nigeria leaving outlawry, banditry, crookery, and nonsense in high places, in its wake. More worrisomely, besieged by criminal enticements and undeserved inducements from a corrupt Executive, and assaulted by greed for their share of looted public funds, the Nigerian Judiciary has collapsed irretrievably into a moral abyss.

It will be disingenuous and downright dishonest for I n I to feign surprise by the corrupt antics of the present Maladministration, which in its decadence dwarfs the much-derided Abacha, Babangida, and Buhari dictatorships combined, both in its embrace of corruption, and in its restriction of the democratic space.

Afterall, what do you expect when you hand over extremely high public office to internationally acclaimed fraudster and unscrupulous “drugster” without a mandate, who was insinuated into office by an inept predecessor that claimed to be fighting corruption?

Jah Jah Jesus Christus did warn us severely, “Do not give what is holy to dogs, or throw your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under foot and turn and tear you to pieces.” Mathew 7:6 (USCCB).

Today, that warning stands fulfilled, as some of yesterday’s powerful people who facilitated these fraudsters assumption of power, find themselves locked in jail and fighting to no avail for their personal liberty.

What is frightening and what genuinely surprised I n I is the facility with which sophisticated Nigerians, and I am referring here to members of Nigeria’s educated elite cutting across all ethnicities, threw decency to the wind, succumbed to, and rallied around the present decadence.

Indeed, “sophisticated” Nigerians have long since fallen off the moral cliff, ceding their sense of outrage over criminal conduct in public office to their insecure egos, and proudly wearing their glorified rags of ethical decrepitude as achievements in the process.

If only we knew when we held these sophisticated scoundrels, some of whom were friends, colleagues, schoolmates, etc. as people worthy of a modicum of respect not knowing that they are prisoners of self-serving egos.

I n I spit in revulsion at all these sophisticatedly dumb people who are propping up Bonafide criminals who arising from the recession of sense and accretion of nonsense in Nigeria, today find themselves as the "fathers" of Nigeria.

In a sense, they are the true face of Nigeria, fully reflective of the precise state of moral collapse in Nigeria.

In that respect, the undisputed Fathers and Grandfathers of Nigerian criminality do not deserve Nigeria, but owing to their moral depravity, Nigerians fully deserve them.

Will Nigerians of the younger generations born around the turn of this century and thereafter, who to be sincere have pushed Nigeria forwards more than all previous generations combined, cede their receding future to worthless, shameless criminals and their sophisticated allies and enablers, or will they rally around sense and insist that enough is enough of all this nonsense?

Nigeria’s golden Generation

The most patriotic generation in Nigeria's history, incidentally, are the generation upon which Nigeria's future rests. They constitute the generation most abandoned by the failed Nigerian state. They are the generation with the most to lose from the bad governance currently prevalent in Nigeria, noting that the preceding generations are currently winding down their miserable lives of collaboration with dictatorship, accommodation of bad governance, flirtation with under-achievement, and tolerance of backwardness.

I n I am referring specifically to:
a) the Millennials (born 1981 - 1996),
b) the Gen Zs (b. 1997 - 2012), and
c) the Gen Alphas (b. 2010 - 2024).
They, as well as their remorseful parents, if any, have a patriotic duty to mobilize, organize, protest, and demonstrate in a non-partisan, peaceful manner, against critical institutions being criminalized, weaponized, and deployed against true democracy and ipso facto against their very future.

We note that the future the current Administration envisages for Nigeria’s youths, as clearly outlined by the “First Lady” herself, is as bean-cake, a.k.a. "akara" producers, and roasted corn hawkers, while taxing them savagely as fully employed workers.

The Administration’s intent for savage taxation is to meet recurring interest payments for foreign loans incurred in the names of all Nigerians, the proceeds of which are deployed to bribe the unscrupulously partisan INEC, the harlot judges of the Nigerian Judiciary, and the criminalized Nigerian Police.

The overriding intention is to guarantee the failed Administration’s unmerited return to power without credible opposition in the 2027 presidential elections.

Mechanics of effective restoration of true democracy in Nigeria

To effectively restore true democracy in Nigeria, Nigeria’s golden generation should mobilize and demonstrate specifically and distinctly against INEC, specifically and distinctly against the Judiciary, specifically and distinctly against the Police etc. with each targeted protest or demonstration held on its own specific days and dates.

That is specific days of non-Partisan protests and demonstrations should target the INEC, the Judiciary, and the Police, separately and independently for high impact.

Do not lump anti-INEC, anti-Judiciary, and anti-Police protests and demonstrations together.

Name, shame, and carry effigies and images of proven corrupt INEC officials, corrupt Justices, corrupt Police officers etc. during their respective days of specific protest, for greater effect and higher impact.

For maximum effect against the destroyers of Nigeria, the strategy moving forwards should be: "split, isolate, target, mobilize, turnout, and peacefully protest," in carnival-like atmosphere.

The grand finale and the culmination of the peaceful protests should be reserved for the 2027 presidential election day when your voter’s card will be your placard, and you will be ready to physically monitor proceedings from voting to election results declaration.

I n I do not need to spell out for you who the target of your protests will be on that day.

We are 👁 👁.
Anthony Chuka Konwea, Ph.D., P.E., M.ASCE