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Letter to Mr President

• By Olufemi Fasanya

• Published 5/09/2009

• Practical Parenting

• Unrated

Dear Mr. President,

It is an honour for me to write to the father of our dear nation, children may have the right to make

choices, but God decides who will father them. Contrary to many opinions of your children that you

got to the position not by popular demand, I hold a strong opinion that you’re the one privileged to

lead because of the purpose of God for this nation. So, he that is privileged to hold a position, should

use it to please who orchestrated his choice.

While your ailing health is one that brings pain to the heart of some of us, I, amongst others, are

praying that you’ll live long enough to see a successor take over your position amongst your

children in a free and fair election.

While death is inevitable, the impact that is left behind by the actions of the dead is important if 

generations to come will celebrate or curse him. You are among the privileged few given the

opportunity to know they are dying so that they can make amends before going to the world of the

dead.

 Two things are common with sensible people who know they are dying: they ruminate on the past -

the mistakes they have made; and they seek for ways to make amends before departing. Some

fathers in the course of dying have said sorry to their children but are not given the privilege to

correct the harm that is done. Your case, however, seems different from this lot. You have the

opportunity of ruminating on the past blunders of fathers who have ruled this nation and find

solution to as many of them as possible before your ailing health eventually fails you.

With all the problems you inherited, it’s definitely a miracle that you are still alive - Niger/Delta

issues, ASUU strike, no light, etc, are some of the depressing challenges that you have been left to

saddle by those you succeeded. The weight of years of challenges that was swept under the carpet

has in your own time in office become breath-sapping. It’s unfortunate that this has happened, it

shows that when a successor inherits things from fathers who haven’t been all

responsible, it’s a burden in disguise that he has. He can only be happy for a short while in

the victory he has, except he’s cold-hearted and blinded to the plight of the people that he has

come to govern.

Sir, it’s a common saying that, it’s the children that are deprived that become the pain in

the neck of those who enjoyed the privileges of the love and care of their fathers. Such is

the case of the Niger/Delta challenges that you have inherited. The approach you’re taking in

offering amnesty is good, gunning them down may sound good.

History has, however, shown that you can’t resolve a long time issue in any of these ways. Rather, it

can be better resolved through dialogue and implementation of the agreements reached so that

peace may be restored to the troubled region. The more they are killed or left with the feeling of 

being deprived, the more their agitation will continue.

ASUU strike is a good example which confirms this assrtion. The agitators may be bullied with ‘no

work, no pay’ threat, but a people deprived of the agreements amicably reached will, at a point,

damn the consequences thrown at them until the demands are made.

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I appreciate the fact that during your tenure, the political killings seem to be a thing of the past, the

aviation industry seems far safer. Yet, something should be done about the religious problem that

has led to the death of lives and loss of billions naira worth of properties. The extra judicial killing of 

the Boko Haram leader should be investigated and the culprits be allowed to face the law.

Remember that as the father to the nation, you’re not allowed to show favouritism to any religion.

It’s important that you look critically into religious killings in the northern part of the country to find

solutions to it.

 The reality is that even if you live to enjoy the second term, you can’t solve all of the problems of 

this nation. However, you can start a constructive process, not by solving all the enormous

challenges but by solving a problem at a time until you hand over the baton. If it’s the electricity

issue that you want to handle, start it and end it, so that posterity may celebrate you when they see

light. Let ‘up and down NEPA’ be a thing of the past in this country. I feel that you should take care

of ASUU issue once and for all for the sake of our children. The private universities are having undue

advantage over the public ones because of years of neglect and strikes. This country will not be safe

if the intellectuals become criminals because they can’t get jobs when their age is far more than

what employers require, thanks to ASUU strike and poor funding of the tertiary institutions.

I will end this write-up by quoting this wise saying; ‘The king that rules and makes the people

he governs to prosper and be at peace will never be forgotten while same goes fot the

tyrant."

What will you like to be remembered for?

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