Showbiz mogul, Charlyboy, also known as
AreaFada, on Saturday shared his thoughts on
the current state of the nation as it marked its
Independence Day celebration.
He expressed disappointment in Nigerians, not
the leadership of the country, categorically
noting that there was nothing presently worth
celebrating in the country, except the gift of life
which is God’s doing.
The outspoken media personality in a chat with
the Punch said, “What are we celebrating? The
only thing a Nigerian can be thankful for at this
time is the gift of life. All that is happening to
us is our fault.
“Every time we put the blame on the leaders,
what about the followers? These leaders are not
from Ghana or Togo; they are from among us.
If we don’t look like them, we should have
resisted the policies that put us in this kind of
hopelessness and frustration.
“But it is because we look like them, somehow
we have the same mindset and we are waiting
for our own turn to embezzle when the
opportunity comes, that is why this situation is
never going to change.
“Mark my words; it is going to get worse before
it gets better. If the masses have become
sheep, why are you blaming the leaders for
being wolves?
“The president keeps saying he is fighting
corruption; maybe it is true that he is fighting
corruption but he is the only one shouting the
propaganda. I don’t see his ministers and
cabinet members say the same thing.
“Do they believe in that? They are fighting
corruption; are they saying that they have not
been able to prosecute and imprison one corrupt
person so far? After one year?
“Do we want to be deceived all our lives? It is
not about Buhari or Goodluck, what about us?
We are very bad people and until we change,
things would not get better. The change is not
going to come from above or from Buhari, it
would come when we change the way we think
and hold our leaders accountable for all the
wrongs they have done.
“Until we are ready for that, then nothing would
change because these people know that poverty
has messed up the way we think. There is
nothing to celebrate except for us being alive
and for that, say thank God. But for how long
would we do this?” he asked.