Every Nigerian Needs Therapy
Years of failed policies have taken its toll on the happiest people on earth.
It is December.
Fuel scarcity has been raging for well over a month.
At times like these, you see long queues in and around petrol stations, with people shouting at the top of their voices at the station attendants and each other to purchase petrol (or gas as Americans would call it) to drive their cars and run their generators.
For the local touts and thugs, known in local parlance as the Agberos, fuel Scarcity is heaven sent; an opportunity for them to put their street wisdom to use in outsmarting a system which has never loved and shafted them at every turn.
They do this by generating large jerry cans out of thin air and buying the scarce commodity at the standard rate, only to sell the same product to those who cannot afford to spend their time waiting in those long, interminable queues.
And right before our very eyes, the serially exploited has become a master at exploiting his fellow citizens.
It is two months to the elections.
There are three major candidates vying to become the next president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
One of them is the former governor of the commercial capital of the nation —…