Vote.

You know the fable about the crabs in the pit? 🦀⤵️

So, a bunch of crabs are stuck in a pit. Everytime one crab tries to climb out the others drag it back down. If it climbs out, it might be able to help the others, but they’re too scared and suspicious to even try. So they choose to die together rather than to give one a chance to survive.
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Lesson #1: Fear is not a good excuse.
We say politics is dirty. We say "someone" needs to go in & change it. But then someone tries and we pull them down:
"They can't handle it!"
"They'll become corrupt, too!"
"They can never win!"
They can only "never win" because we choose to keep them from winning.
I don't care how many area-boys the Dominating Parties can pay off, there are still more free-thinking Nigerians than them. So what, they bribe 10 million agberos. There are a hundred million of us.
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Lesson #2: The numbers don’t lie.
Did you know that in 2015, almost 69 million people registered, and only about 28 million actually voted? 🤔🤔🤔 I think this means there were at least 40 MILLION un-bribable Nigerians in the country that year – but they chose to stay at home.
Maybe the line was too long.
They were already sweating.
It was too rowdy.
There was no point, anyway.
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I was one of those who chose to stay in bed in 2015, engaging in pseudo-intellectual debates about how there was no one to vote for.
That was the wrong choice.
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Listen: forget godfather this, godfather that. Is it not because someone voted them in that they became godfathers in the first place? They were not born there, and they don't have to die there. There's a lot we can do if FORTY (40) MILLION people who can't be bribed actually choose to stand up and be counted.
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I hate standing in the sun for long hours, too, but come on, guys. Let's do this.

"If you're neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor."
-Desmond Tutu

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