Change is not a destination, it’s a gradual process
Many Nigerians consciously and subconsciously voted Buhari with the expectation of seeing things getting fixed almost automatically within a very short period of time. Over the last 100 days we have understood that the truth is, things can only be fixed gradually and there would be no time when we can claim to have achieved all the achievables, we can only keep improving.
Some folks have often used the word ‘change’ itself in a confusing and misleading way to mean the occurrence of something instant. President Buhari may have started the job but he cannot finish it, what he can only do is to lay a solid foundation for someone to continue.
APC campaigned on the slogan of change over four years and not 4 weeks or 4 months and we want to believe that under Buhari, they are on the process of providing that change. The only problem we have is that APC is now jam-packed with the same PDP people whose ‘misdeeds’ necessitated the clamour for change in the first place.
However, this only becomes a problem when we perceive change as a destination and not a process or when we want it to occur instantly and not gradually. Nigeria have taken the first major step of actualizing the dream of changing a sitting government through the ballot, the next is to start focusing on individuals and not political parties. Gradually, bad politicians would have nowhere to hide, hopefully by 2019.
