My  Birthday  Gift  To Nigeria  At Forty-Nine

By

Mcbrown A.Adejo

I love Nigeria, not for her oil wealth nor for her football talents but because of her yet to be fulfilled destiny in Africa. The land is good; however the people have sold themselves to wickedness. You cannot effectively fetch water with a leaking bucket. This is the reality of Nigeria at present. However my birthday gift to Nigeria is not a catalogue of criticism. We have heard enough in the past 49 years of our existence as a nation-state. My fellow Nigerians should take their pen and paper and list our problems with corresponding solutions and possibilities. How can Nigeria be saved from becoming a failed state as predicted by the United States of America? Will Nigeria become like Somalia? God forbid!

We should realize that Nigeria’s problem is fundamentally a spiritual one. Ivory tower egg-heads may disagree with my assertion, but their intellectualism has failed to resolve all the Government-ASUU squabbles. The Igbo people said if you did not know where rain started to beat you then you will never know when it will stop. The origin of Nigeria’s problem transcend the coming of Britain. When the different nations that make up Nigeria were each established their founders entered into covenants with the primordial spirits known by theologians as territorial spirits. These spirits in essence are the true rulers of the Niger-Area. They dictate the destiny of Nigeria determining who can become a President, Governor or Councillor.Nigerians should stop blaming Iwu’s INEC and the PDP     for rigging the election. Even if there was no election Yar’adua would still be President. It was his destiny ordained by the territorial spirits and permitted by the Supreme Creator of Heaven and Earth.

In solving Nigeria’s problem we must renounce our secular status. Nigeria is not a secular state but a deeply religious, God –conscious nation. King Solomon of ancient Israel wrote that “righteousness exalts a nation but that sin is a reproach to any people.”We need to acknowledge that the intercourse between our ancestors and these spirits were sinful. Unfortunately many of us their children are still actively servicing these covenants. Even though the Supreme Maker, called God, allows these spirits to run the affairs of our nation, because their time of punishment has not yet come, he still considers any intercourse with them to be sinful.

The root of corruption in the Nigerian society today can be traceably to these primordial spirits who hate the human race with passion. They encourage corruption knowing it is one way to keep us as a nation from attaining our full height. Corruption is like the hole under a water- pot. No matter how zealous Sanusi and Waziri are they will never tame this hydra-headed demon. It is a spirit.It’s root runs deeply into Hell. Why is it that corruption is pervasive in Nigeria even in the so called churches? Look closely at every Nigerian and you will find a cord connecting them to these ancestral demons.

Rebranding will not change the people of Nigeria until we address the relationships our fathers and many of us are presently having with these spirits. Polluted well cannot produce clean water e must turn to The Sovereign LORD in repentance as individuals and as a nation asking for forgiveness.

Innocent bloods have been shed and are still being shed attracting the wrath of God upon the land. These primordial spirits once lived with God in Heaven before they were expelled. They know how much God hates sin and so they encourage those in covenant with them to commit the most heinous crime possible. This is why you find people seeking wealth and political office engaging in sodomy, homosexuality, lesbianism, bestiality, sleeping with mad people and cannibalism all in a bid to appease these territorial spirits who control every arm of government and business. We also find that some of the religious leaders are in deep romance with these powers in order to amass crowds and money to their churches.

The solution to Nigeria’s problem is therefore in the hands of all Nigerians. We can repent for our sins and renounce our allegiance to these malignant spirits. We can change our thinking which are in fact the thought patterns these spirits fed our ancestors in the name of norms and tradition. We must go back to God’s word if we are to begin thinking God’s thought. We must substitute righteousness for corruption as a way of life or risk heading the path of Somalia. Most importantly injustice must be reduced .As long as injustice prevails Nigeria can never truly be united. The entire Niger-Delta issue is tied to injustice and intercourse with these ancestral spirits. Satan cannot cast out satan.The government resorts to injustice while the militants trust in these territorial spirits.

Nigeria is a good land but the people have sold themselves to ancestral spirits. We must realize that this is a great sin in the eyes of the Sovereign Lord, the Possessor of Heaven and Earth. God is a jealous God and he does not tolerate rivalry in worship. He will give a nation who displeases him the type of leaders their iniquity deserves as a punishment. When God allows boys and women to rule and misrule a nation it is assign of his displeasure.