Today We Vote🇳🇬

For most Nigerians, today is a game changer.

We get to decide who will either move us a couple of steps forward to become a greater a Nation, or take us further into the helplessness and unproductiveness that we are drowning in.

I'm sixteen, and I cannot vote, so I honestly did not take my time to think about who I want to be my next president and who I think should never even see the primaries of a presidential election. But as citizen of this ever degraded country, I want things to get better.

I want people to stop taking the country God chose for me to be birthed in, as a joke for other countries to laugh at.

I want to be proud of my origins and not be ashamed of them.

And how this country will progress is in the hands of my elders. I hope they make the right decisions.

I have wondered countless of times, how we got to this point we are in today.

I mean, did we do something to offend God?

Did our ancestors displease their gods?

We have gone through so many hardships, many of our leaders being murdered because their successors feel that they will rule better than their predecessors.

So much bloodshed in our history.

So many tears.

And you'd think that will all we've gone through, the people who come forward to represent our people will think of our developed first, before their personal needs.

That is not the case however, and people like me have been forced to settle for a president who won't embarrass us abroad 🙏

Left for me, I will simply give up on this country and it's wasted politics, it's terrible decision making, and it's horrible tribalistic struggles.

But I figured that one day, I will give birth to children who will still call Nigeria their country, and have to face ridicule from great nations like the United States of America and the United Kingdom, not because they are inadequate, but because they are citizens of a  country most people look down on.

I want Nigeria to be a better place for the people who are yet to come into the fold.

I do not want to disappoint the next generation the same way my elders have disappointed me.

And so I pray and I hope, that today, the people of this generation decide to make their decisions not for their personal gain, but because it will help us move forward.

I hope that each vote cast today by Nigerians, no matter who the vote supports, is in the hope of a better country, and a better Nation.

And I pray especially for those who do not realize that voting is our duty to our nation.

Because being apathetic, is the same thing as supporting all the wrongs that go on this country.

I hope I'm making a lot of sense...

Hell, I'm not even using emoji's because this is something that should be taken seriously.

I put this election into the hands of God 🙏

And may the best man to serve win✨