Do all patient dog ever get the fattest bone?

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Patience!!! Patience!!! Patience!!!

This has been the ringtone in the ears of every Nigerian for almost 2 years amidst the hardship we are passing through. Policies that was supposed to make life better has only made things worse each passing day, yet our president continues to stand before us, declaring, “With the progress made so far in his administration, we are on the threshold of a brighter future. Please be patient."

And I wonder— does this man watch the news at all or he tune in to Cartoon Network??? Because I don’t think he sees the daily struggles of the citizens he's asking to be patient?

You removed the only buffer we had—the fuel subsidy. The one thing stopping the economy from diving headfirst into an abyss and promised to get one out of the four abandoned refineries working in a space of six months. It’s been over a year, and what do we keep hearing? Be patient. Yet you can afford to spend 21 billion to renovate your vice president’s house. For renovation? How is that even possible with such amount?

Even as we tried to adjust to the new lifestyle without the subsidy, you introduced another crippling policy of pegging the naira to the US dollar instead of allowing the market to determine the price of the currency. This caused the naira to plunge in value, hitting an all time low.

These set of disastrous policies have put our country in jeopardy and have set off a chain reaction of poverty and inflation. Inflation rate has gone up from 22% to 32% in a space of one year. People are dying in their numbers because they can’t feed well and insecurity is the order of the day. Farmers are scared of going their farm because their farmland has now turned into a playground for evil Fulani herdsmen and boko haram terrorist who kill innocent civilians indiscriminately.

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When we took to the streets in protest, You told us, once again, with your usual slogan, “that Rome wasn’t built in a day, That we should be patient!!”

For how long, do we continue to be patient while your policies stifle the economy?

How long do we sacrifice, when you keep making plans of buying another presidential yacht , jet and also go on vacations when your country is on fire.

Do you need the streets to be soaked with our blood before you realize we have been patient enough?

Enough is enough. We are tired and our voice must be heard. We cannot be endlessly patient while our future and that of our unborn children is ripped from us. If as nation, we don’t rise, fight and demand our rights, our voices will never be heard.