The Yorubas in their wisdom have aptly defined it. How? That the ultimate goal of an adventure should overshadow whatever means that may have been employed in the process of achieving it. In their parlance, it is ‘’Ti a o ba ti tori isu je epo, a o ti tori epo je isu’’, meaning if you cannot devour a yam piece because of its complementary delicacy ingredient like palm oil, you should employ doing it reverse.

The aim here, according to them, is to quench hunger. The 2023 presidential elections which would be held in February that will produce the successor of the current administration (a tragedy in all ramifications) must be the one that must be preempted and predetermined. In other words, its aftermath must be known, even before its processes are kick-started. That is what our dire need for good leadership has offered us. The gimmicks. The strategy. The methodology. Moral or perhaps immoral. Whatever we are using collectively as a People must be geared towards bringing in a responsible and responsive Nigerian president for Nigeria in 2023.
There is something lovers of modern football understand. It is c alled TACTICS. Simply put, it means the collection of a team manager’s game style, formation, players’ removal and substitution plan, positioning and usage of certain players during the two halves of a football match. All of these plans are implemented for the accomplishment of just one goal ---- to get a win or at worst, a draw. While some coaches do not detach themselves from their established philosophy of playing beautifully in every match, others do not have the luxury of time to do so. Jose Mourhino, the Portuguese-born coach readily comes to mind here. The result-oriented manager is one whose age-long philosophy supports the axiom of ‘’an end justifying its means’’ is one that appropriately explains the point I would be analyzing for my beloved country shortly.

We are not new to change of administrations in Nigeria. The independence and republic years of 1960 and 1963 respectively gifted us an opportunity to experience how the parliamentary system of government was practised. Federalism crept in along the way and all the four regions namely Western, Eastern, Northern and Mid-western that made up the federation competed against one another to ensure there was development in each region. Then soldiers came from nowhere. The akotiletas. Pretending to be better options to the problem of insecurity that was ravaging the entire country, that had begun in Western region, the military recommended itself. In those dark years of their reign, Nigeria’s only inter-ethnic war (even though those who have been killed and maimed since 2015 outnumber the civil war victims) also happened. They eventually returned to their barracks in 1979 after handing power to Alhaji Shagari, a grade 2 teacher and another un-prepared manager of our national affairs. It is a taboo to expect any magic to happen in a business that is run by lack of planning and preparation. It is better to just declare loss before even starting, and Nigerians were not surprised by the scorecards of that regime. The military got tired of their staying put in the barracks again as they had once known the taste of power. They toppled the civilian regime of Shehu Shagari, deceiving the Nigerian people again that they were better.

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