The biggest threat to the future of Nigeria’s democracy is the industrialization of the entire political system. It seems like politics and political victories takes more precedence over efficiency and effectiveness in governance. While politicians constantly think of how to win the next elections, hospitals has no enough beds to cater for the sick, schools have no enough teachers and classrooms to cater for the pupils. Inflation became a factor of attacks and counterattacks by the ruling and opposition parties respectively, as opposed to providing a more holistic solution to the problem that affect the whole and not a part of the body polity. Security of lives and property becomes an asset of weight and measures from both sides. Where opposition actively wishes for more insecurity to increase the probability of their electoral victory. Lives are no longer sacred but some scores on the ballot boxes. Even infrastructure investments are perceived from the political rather than strategic lenses. Everything becomes about who gets what not what gets done. The whole thing is not seeming to be working for the common people but more like an egotistical contest. Victory serves the interests of the ego rather than the interests of the general wellbeing of the country. This is not good at all. The best schools in Nigeria are build by foreigners, yet we have trillions of naira budget for the education ministry in addition to huge budget by the states. Best hospitals in Nigeria are mostly by foreigners, yet we have trillions of budget for our health ministry and huge amounts for the states. Someone told me that the whole Nizamiye hospital investment would not cost more than $20 million dollars, yet we are collecting $300 million dollars loan from World Bank to cater for the “resilience of the IDP”, perhaps making IDPs more permanent system, rather than putting them back to normality. Imagine using same amount of money, $300M for hospitals, we could get 10 best hospitals in Nigeria. But everyone with opportunity would rather travel abroad, spent millions for their healthcare, then collect loans only for the IDPs, rather than hospitals in Nigeria. While are struggling to achieve food security and food sufficiency, 44.4% of Nigerians cannot afford the needed calories per day. While farms are drying up, politicians are rather struggling to change their moneys in dollars and invest abroad for the benefit of the foreign nations. The whole system is rigged. It is not about PDP or APC or ADC or LP, the whole system needs a comprehensive overhaul. The next generation of Nigerians need to tell ourselves the brutal truth and begin to work towards a more honest and efficient system. This is not working for our today and would certainly be worst for our future. You and your boss maybe in power today, but I assure you that no matter how much you stole, it won’t last you a generation. The system is replenished with such examples over and over again. Trust me, no one will escape the consequences of inefficiency. No one. Not even YOU. We must either reengineer a working system for the country, or we should accept that we may not have a standing country within few decades to come. Adamu Garba II