THE DEVELOPMENT OF AFRICA REQUIRES PLANNING NOT PRAYERS BECAUSE CHINA AND AMERICA DIDN'T PRAY THEIR WAY TO SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT BUT BLUEPRINT

Abraham Lincoln once said " the best way to predict the future is to create it".

The leading nations in terms of development in the 21st century were planned through practical design and execution, China and America are ahead today not because of miracle but long term planning across different sectors.

If we can visualize it, definitely we should be able to manifest it into reality through the right people in government and leadership positions. Human beings have been blessed with mindset and thinking abilities above other animals on this planet, but many humans don't think because we've substituted the role of thinking and creating with praying alone and waiting for the gods to do the work of mankind.

Chinese are leading in manufacturing, engineering, technology and military advancement through emphasis on STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics) and imprinting these ideologies in the minds of children in early schools through creation of adaptable and practical driven academic curriculum to solve complex real-world problems, rather than waiting for holy father Buddha to design their future and determining the future of their next generation.

Despite their spirituality and beliefs system, they created a people oriented government system designed to planned their economy and regulate the activities of government officials to checkmate corruption and mismanagement because power can intoxicate.

Great nations are not born but designed, but most Africans will not elect visionary and creative leaders into position of power, they will not support creators but hailing, voting dumb and unintelligent money sprayers into elective government positions, and later wondering how the country is retrogressing where other nations are progressing.

We sell the inherited resources of our ancestors to foreigners for immediate monetary gratification for showoff and oppression of fellow citizens. An African will sell his ancestral lands to relocate to another man's land, forgetting that Land is the primary factor of production that other factors depend upon for production, building and industrialization.

The government is the reflection of the people, political parties in Nigeria are already presenting candidates to the electoral body in preparation for the 2027 election, and entertainers are been presented to represent some parties, and we are asking why our country is now perceived as a joke in the committee of other nations.

A group of people who can install a fraudster instead of a scholar to become a Traditional ruler and Governor not only betray the sacrifice of their ancestors, but set a precedent of unending corrupt cycle for the next generation and beyond.